Wikipedia:WikiProject Kent

Introduction

This WikiProject was formed to foster better articles on the English county of Kent and the Kent Portal.

This page and its subpages contain suggestions on formatting and layout of articles, which can be discussed at the project's talk page. Anyone who is interested in contributing, please sign up.

Announcements

• 20 January 2008 - Wormshill is promoted to Featured Article class
• 31 March 2007 - After the first assessment of Kent-related articles, there are 953 in total
• 25 February 2007 - The WikiProject finished its first collaboration on the "Kent" article
• 3 February 2007 - WikiProject Kent started
• 8 December 2006 - Kent Portal created

Participants

Please feel free to add yourself here, in alphabetic order, and to indicate any areas of particular interest, if user boxes are of interest to you, try adding {{User Wikiprojectkent}}

• John Gibbard - Helped promote Wormshill to FA class, born Isle of Sheppey, schooled in Sittingbourne, lived on North Downs, now live in Surbiton. Can help with whatever's required. Unless uber-academic or railway based...
• chewett - very eager to help
• Canterberry - Born and bred. Currently living in Hertfordshire, but hoping to move to Maidstone before Xmas.
• Cheveny - Born in Chatham, raised in Yalding. Interested in History of Kent and mining in kent.
• Cig1705 - Born in Canterbury, bred in Ashford. Esp. interested in railways, aviation and shipping in and around Kent.
• Clem Rutter- keen that Medway is fairly represented, former City Councillor in Rochester with a camera, and too many local history books.
• ColinBoylett - Almost an outsider living just over the border, Etchingham East Sussex, but the westetrn parts of Kent, Hawkhurst, Cranbrook and adjacent areas are of interest to me, and I may be able to contribute to these locations. ColinBoylett 19:30, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
• Cunningham Kent hack. Sign me up --Cunningham 16:15, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
• Danfolkestone Folkestone resident, keen to help improve the Folkestone page.
• Dick G - Grew up on North Downs, now 12,000 miles away but drop in and out expanding histories of Mid-Kent settlements among other things.
• Epbr123 - I've lived in Herne Bay all my life and am currently trying to get Herne Bay, Kent, Whitstable & Birchington-on-Sea to featured article status.
• GkgAlf - Grew up on the North Downs in the east of the county. Interested in wildlife sites in Kent.
• JackyR From Cliffe, now in Canterbury. Used to do a fair bit on Wikimedia Commons, so can probably advise on uploading pictures and describing them (very important!).
• KevinCarmody - Though I currently live in Oxford I am here as a representative of Thanet
• Lynbarn: Born over the river in Essex, I've spent most of my life in Kent, and now live in Aylesford I'm particularly interested in Railways and Education in the county.
• McKDandy - A Kent Local
• Mjroots Kent born & bred, now living in Norfolk. Specialist knowledge is windmills, watermills etc. Have been working on pages for tributaries of the River Medway. Mjroots (talk) 17:55, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
• MortimerCat - An outsider! I live in Eastbourne^{See sample of my work}, East Sussex, although Dungeness is just down the road. I have an interest in local histories, photography. I have specialist knowledge in local government and national government.
• Neddyseagoon - Have lived in Walmer/Deal all my life, hence I represent Dover and East Kent generally. Specialist subject - history, especially Roman, Medieval and Tudor.Neddyseagoon - talk 16:05, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
• nogbad Living in Loose again after a few years in Bishopsbourne - I've worked on both pages. I must admit to being an incomer though - I've only been in Kent since 1985, I was born and brought up in Manchester.
• Oakcat Hedge-e-me-kated in the fields around Sandwich...! Happy to help with east Kent villages and Thanet. Former British Rail Station Manager currently updating various East Kent Railway Station Village entries, e.g. Woodnesborough. A bit of a newbie on wiki - could do with some practical assistance in understanding upload and formatting issues. Owner of the House at Plucks Gutter.
• Olive Oil 09:01, 10 February 2007 (UTC) Ashford and surrounds, but generally involved in the county of Kent on a short break
• Peter Shearan Live locally; particularly interested in local history. Currently setting out to differentiate village/hamlet status in Kent articles; am now (2008) working on editing East Sussex parish articles. I have just completed a rewrite of the Gravesend article (May 2008)
• Pgr94 Currently living in Belgium, but born and bred in Thanet.
• Pickle - "Home" is Walderslade, and the surounding Medway area. Been over large parts of Kent - specailism is transport and military realted stuff. I'm also au fait with infoboxes, if we want to make some up (or modify).
• Pratj - Have lived in Medway all of my life.
• Richtom80 - Resident of Gravesend, Kent
• RyanLupin - Resident of Herne Bay, went to school in Ramsgate and currently attend the University of Kent, in Canterbury. I monitor mainly the Herne Bay and Canterbury articles but am eager to help in the project,
• Stealthorpe - Resident of Sittingbourne, Kent. Very interested in making a positive impact on the wikipedian community.
• Timrollpickering Alumni of the University of Kent.
• TotTWriter Currently living near Sittingbourne, Freelance Writer, happy to be of service, although new to Wiki and how it works!
• Whitstable 22:34, 23 March 2007 (UTC) Based in Whitstable, happy to help.

Guidelines

Main article: WP:UKCITIES

Pending tasks

• Create objectives for this project
• Agree Major tasks
  • Improve the quality of the "town" pages
    • as per Towns in Kent chart
  • Edit the Top and High importance articles, see the suggestions on the To Do page

Things you can do

Projects

Article ratings

The project categorizes articles according to the WP 1.0 criteria:

• Featured Articles: need little or no work.
• 'A' class: need a very small amount of work, followed by FA nomination.
• Good Articles: a little more work required.
• 'B' class: a lot of work done, but a lot of work left to do.
• Start class: short, lacks details, key facts, illustration, etc.
• Stub class: very short, lacking important details.

Please place the {{WP:Kent}} template on the Talk page of all Kent related articles using the syntax

{{WikiProject Kent|class=|importance=}}

• class can be (FA, A, GA, Articles have to be nominated and assessed to achieve GA status or higher) B, Start, Stub, (NA for Non-articles such as Templates or Disambiguation pages) or left unused for Unassessed
• importance can be Top, High, Mid, Low, No or left unused for Unknown

This template will place articles within the Category:WikiProject Kent articles and also within the relevant categorys relating to quality and importance.

Note Please use the WP 1.0 criteria as shown on the instructions page and the importance grade relates to Kent and how useful the page is to an outsider researching the county, for example the Kent article could be rated "Top" for our grading, "Mid" for Englands grading and "No" for Scotlands.

After the template has been graded and then saved use the template and add comments as to how the article could be improved, even if it is only a few lines relating to expansion or additional photos, trying to be specific for each article.

Requests for assessment

Requests for reassessment

As per the discussion on the talk page, Stubs for reassessment (strike once reassessed):-

Statistics

Kent articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA		2	7	3		12
	GA	1	1	1		1	4
	B		8	16	39		63
	Start		27	84	425	3	539
	Stub		4	38	733	3	778
	Assessed	1	42	146	1200	7	1396
	Unassessed				3	33	36
	Total	1	42	146	1203	40	1432

Archived statistics

Cities & Towns in Kent

The following table is a list of Towns in Kent (please add any that have been missed) giving details on how you may help.

Featured items

Participate by adding your favourite Kent based articles, pictures or people to the list.

On this day (in Kent)

Edit the relevant page (linked from the Master Page) for anniversaries of births or notable events etc.

It will appear, in the Kent/Did you know section of the Portal, automatically each year.