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This project has been formed in order to direct the better organisation and improvement of articles related to British royalty. This page and its relatives are intended to contain suggestions, discussions and collaborations which will lead to the improvement of its articles; it is hoped that this project will provide an amicable atmosphere in which the efforts of interested Wikipedians can be focussed. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

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[edit] Title

WikiProject on British Royalty

[edit] Scope

This WikiProject aims primarily to improve and organise articles pertaining to the British royal family, in an attempt to establish a standard for making good articles, and a uniform style and structure between them. This is, primarily, an endeavour to produce a complete, uniform set of encyclopaedic reference that has value as an authority on British royalty, is easy to read, and has a consistent style.

The project covers full members of the royal family (i.e. those having, at some point in their lives, bore the style Highness, Royal Highness, or Majesty) since the ascension of George I.

[edit] Style guide

British royalty
articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 1 10 3 1 15
Good article GA 1 1
B 4 10 27 13 1 55
Start 1 3 25 53 3 85
Stub 1 4 30 3 38
Assessed 6 24 60 97 7 194
Unassessed 2 2
Total 8 24 60 97 7 196

To keep a consistent style and structure to our articles, it would be useful to establish clear guidelines, to be followed in all articles in our scope. Establishing said guidelines should be the first order of business. Discuss.

[edit] General

  • Article names must abide by Wikipedia's naming conventions
  • Colours: established colours are:
    • British: #CCBBFF
    • English: #FFBBBB
    • Scottish: #BBBBFF
    • Irish: #BBFFBB

[edit] Suggestions

Discuss these here

  • Should more subcategories of be created?
    • Do all articles need to be listed in the main category if we later subcategorise them all?

[edit] What to include?

As noted above, it is suggested that the project limit itself to the royal family since George I.

[edit] What is royalty?

It should be noted that there is not always consensus on who would be included in the term British royal family. Discuss

[edit] Topic pages

There are bound to be some articles which discuss ranks, titles, positions, etc., rather than royals themselves - these would require separate attentions. Discuss.

[edit] Parentage

This project is a child project of Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Royalty.

[edit] Descendant WikiProjects

No descendant WikiProjects have been defined. Possibilities:

  • English royalty
  • Scottish royalty

[edit] Related WikiProjects

[edit] Participants

  1. Danbarnesdavies (talk · contribs) (Le Founder)
  2. Hedwig0407 (talk · contribs) - making family tree/ancestor tree, to make it consistent. See my userpage to see all the articles (royal people and the like) that I've already added ancestor tree
  3. LynnMarie (talk · contribs)
  4. EgbertW (talk · contribs)
  5. Terence_Ong (talk · contribs) - Will try to help
  6. Philip Stevens (talk · contribs)
  7. Ibagli (talk · contribs) - as much as I can
  8. Cowarth (talk · contribs)
  9. Laserbeamcrossfire (talk · contribs) - Early British monarchs, plus copy-editing
  10. Lethiere (talk · contribs)
  11. Brian New Zealand (talk · contribs)
  12. Morhange (talk · contribs)
  13. Dowew (talk · contribs) - interested in the subject, especially as it relates to Canada
  14. Peterwill (talk · contribs)
  15. Dinosaur puppy (talk · contribs)
  16. Majorly (talk · contribs)
  17. Casiraghitrio (talk · contribs)
  18. Lord Charlton (talk · contribs)
  19. Iriseyes (talk · contribs)
  20. Penrithguy (talk · contribs)
  21. Deb (talk · contribs)
  22. Walton_monarchist89 (talk · contribs)
  23. brakbudy (talk · contribs) - mostly Tudor and Stuart, early Stuart court
  24. Koolone (talk · contribs) soooo sweet
  25. Mdieke (talk · contribs) - Queen Victoria's time to the present.
  26. sotakeit (talk · contribs)
  27. proberton (talk · contribs) General interest in the topic, Copy editing, substantive editing, old fashioned "book time"
  28. coolhawks88 (talk · contribs)
  29. Rhyddfrydol (talk · contribs)
  30. Barliner (talk · contribs) QV to date and the German connections regardless of the century.
  31. Lec CRP1 (talk · contribs)
  32. PeterSymonds (talk · contribs) Queen Victoria's children to FA status
  33. Strothra (talk · contribs) User gone
  34. Ipankonin (talk · contribs) Ambassador from WP:HV
  35. Drawdennep (talk · contribs)
  36. Jannizz (talk · contribs) I translate articles about british royal and nobel persons to norwegian wikipedia.
  37. Naut2b (talk · contribs)
  38. PrinceOfCanada (talk · contribs)

Hit edit, to the top-right of this section to join us, and then add our userbox, {{User:Danbarnesdavies/Userboxes/WikiProjects/User BRoy}}, to your userpage!

[edit] Goals

  1. To create a consensus on what should be included and how to distinguish between the various media sources.
  2. To create a consistent look and style for each type of page: royals of each 'rank'; topic pages

[edit] General strategy and discussion forums

[edit] To-do list

[edit] Sample articles

Sample articles to be agreed by project discussion...

[edit] Templates

These, also, should be agreed by discussion.

Templates from/related to this WikiProject can be found here: Wikipedia:WikiProject British Royalty/Templates

[edit] Sandbox

You can experiment with edits and put them up on discussion prior to them going "live" at the Project Sandbox.