Wikipedia:WikiProject Wales

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Welcome to the Wales WikiProject. We are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of articles related to Wales.

Goals

• The goal of this WikiProject is to provide complete coverage on subjects related to Wales, by creating, expanding, and maintaining articles on people, places, and things resident or native to Wales.

Scope

• This project proposes to work with all pages related to Wales, its history, geography, and people. These should all be included in the Category:Wales or one of its subcategories.

Contents 1 Guidelines 2 Open tasks 3 Members 4 Articles 4.1 Featured articles 4.1.1 Culture and society 4.1.2 Education 4.1.3 Geography 4.1.4 History 4.1.5 Landmarks 4.1.6 Notable Welsh people 4.2 Peer review/Featured article candidates (FAC) 4.3 Good articles (GA) 4.4 New articles 4.5 Did you know (DYK?) 5 Formerly recognized content 6 Departments 6.1 Collaboration and review 7 Templates 7.1 Stubs 7.2 Other templates 8 Categories 9 Resources 9.1 Related projects

[edit] Guidelines

We shall try to follow the Wikipedia:Manual of Style for our articles.

[edit] Open tasks

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Wales:	edit · history · watch · refresh
Here are some tasks you can do: Requests: An article like Gaelic road signs in Scotland for bilingual signs in Wales Merge: Coleg Harlech Workers Educational Association (North Wales) <=> Coleg Harlech Workers' Educational Association (North Wales) Other: Add the {{WikiProject Wales}} banner to all articles which fall within the scope of this project. Also, assess the article if possible.

All members should always feel free to patrol the recent changes list to note improvements, other changes, or vandalism of articles within the scope of this project.

[edit] Members

Please feel free to add yourself to this page and to indicate any areas of particular interest.

All members should feel free to add {{User WikiProject Wales}} to their userpages to identify themselves as members of the project.

[edit] Articles

[edit] Featured articles

Articles on Wales-related subjects, not necessarily improved to Featured Status by this WikiProject.

[edit] Culture and society

Wales national rugby union team · List of county courts in England and Wales · List of former county courts in Wales

[edit] Education

[edit] Geography

[edit] History

Slate industry in Wales

[edit] Landmarks

[edit] Notable Welsh people

Alfred Russel Wallace · Asser · John Dee · Llywelyn the Great · Rhys ap Gruffydd · Sasha (DJ) · Tom Pryce

[edit] Peer review/Featured article candidates (FAC)

The following articles are in review as Featured article candidates:

Talyllyn Railway

The following articles are currently undergoing a Peer Review:

Cardiff

[edit] Good articles (GA)

The following articles have either been recognized as good articles or are currently under review for good article status:

Art, architecture and archaeology

Economics and business

Culture and society

Welsh law · Y Gododdin

Engineering and technology

Ffestiniog Railway · A4232 road · Talyllyn Railway · Cardiff Arms Park · Anglesey Central Railway

Food and drink

Geography

Penmon, Anglesey

History

King Arthur

Language

Mathematics

Music

Guto Puw

Politics and government

Religion

War and military

[edit] New articles

Please feel free to list your new Wales-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Page. Please also make sure that each new article created is put into one of the categories for Wales, so that the articles will appear there. Also, if possible, add each new article to the page Wikipedia:WikiProject Wales/Articles (still under construction) so that they can be viewed for recent changes.

• Genod Droog
• John Edward Daniel
• Daniel Evans (Daniel Ddu o Geredigion)
• Betsan Powys
• Tinopolis,
• Glasbury putting a previously deleted Welsh town back on the map
• Welsh placenames
• Cardiff International Pool
• Dewi Morgan, ‘Dewi Teifi’ (1877–1971), bard, scholar and journalist.
• Tom Macdonald (1900-1980), journalist and novelist
• Frederick Charles Davies, ‘Tenby Davies’ (1884-1932), half-mile world champion runner.
• List of former county courts in Wales
• Pentrecwrt - somewhat transwikied from cy
• Thomas Evan Nicholas (Niclas y Glais) a 'work-in-progress'
• Geraint Benney - actor, entertainer, comedian... The only bald Welsh speaking, burger cooking, Elvis impersonator in the world
• Gwyn Morgan (writer)
• Mostyn Colliery
• Mihangel Morgan - leading Welsh language writer; there was a Welsh article, and now there's an English one.
• Point of Ayr - not a new article, but i've added a fair bit of info on colliery, and lighthouse
• St. George, Conwy - village near Abergele
• Lowther College - a girls school based at Bodelwyddan Castle 1920-1982
• Kinmel Camp
• Bodelwyddan Castle
• Kinmel Hall
• Talacre railway station
• BARN magazine
• Welsh Gentry Family Seats
• Welsh Peers
• History of Plaid Cymru
• Politics of Wales - not new, but revised "Establishing National Institutions" needs reviewed since I edited it.
• Institute of Welsh Affairs
• Geraint Talfan Davies
• John Osmond
• Pwllheli - not new, but very much in need of assessment and attention. An immense amount of information is absent. Worthy of a collaboration?
• Llanddaniel Fab
• Guto Puw
• Albert Gubay
• National Woollen Museum
• Frank Hennessy
• Sir David Llewellyn, 4th Baronet
• Penwyllt
• James Szlumper‎
• Pontypridd Caerphilly and Newport Railway
• Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway
• Neath and Brecon Railway
• Cefn Coed Colliery Museum
• Jason Mohammad
• Gwyneth Lewis
• Claire Summers
• Gwyn Thomas
• Nathaniel Wells
• Academi - not a new article, but one I got moved from a very poor English translation of its real Welsh name. Still a very poor article, perhaps a colaboration of the week in future?

[edit] Did you know (DYK?)

• ... that the parish church of St. Mary in Chepstow, Wales, was founded as a Benedictine priory in 1072 and retains its original Norman doorway (pictured)?
• ...that Stereo Type, by the Welsh composer Guto Puw, was written for the combination of amplified typewriters and tape and was premiered in a shopping centre in Bangor, Gwynedd?
• ...that the military theories of the 18th-century Welsh soldier Henry Lloyd were studied by George Washington and George S. Patton?
• ...that William Thomas Havard, who was bishop of two Welsh dioceses (St Asaph, then St David's), once represented Wales in an international rugby union match?
• ...that the endowment by Edmund Meyrick, a Welsh cleric and philanthropist who died in 1713, is still awarding scholarships to students at Jesus College, Oxford in England after nearly three centuries?
• ... that Welsh lawyer Edward Wynne was, in 1714, the first landowner to grow turnips on Anglesey?
• ... that attempts to merge Cardiff Rugby Football Club and Cardiff Cricket Club to form Cardiff Athletic Club began as early as 1892, but were unsuccessful until 1922?
• ... that the Welsh Tractarian priest John David Jenkins, known as the "Rail men's Apostle", became President of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants?
• ... that legend has it that anyone who spends a night at Tinkinswood on the evenings before May Day, St John's Day (23 June), or Midwinter Day would either die, go mad, or become a poet?
• ... that the Welshmen Edward Edwards, Griffith Griffith, Owen Owen, Richard Richards, Robert Roberts and Thomas Thomas (and his son Thomas Thomas) were all educated at Jesus College, Oxford?

[edit] Formerly recognized content

Former featured articles

Delisted Good Articles

Chepstow Bridge

[edit] Departments

[edit] Collaboration and review

Assessment - rates articles for both quality and importance to this project.

Collaboration of the week

• I'd like to nominate Silyn Roberts - a notable person, with lots left to say about him. Deb 12:40, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Peer review

[edit] Templates

[edit] Stubs

• {{Wales-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to Wales; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
  • {{Wales-struct-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to buildings and structures in Wales; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
  • {{Wales-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to the geography of Wales; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
    • {{Anglesey-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to the geography of Anglesey; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
    • {{Gwynedd-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to the geography of Gwynedd; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
      • {{Conwy-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to the geography of Conwy; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
      • {{Denbighshire-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to the geography of Denbighshire; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
      • {{Flintshire-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to the geography of Flintshire; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
      • {{Wrexham-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to the geography of Wrexham; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
    • {{Powys-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to the geography of Powys; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
    • {{Ceredigion-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to the geography of Ceredigion; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
    • {{Carmarthenshire-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles related to the geography of Carmarthenshire; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
    • {{Pembrokeshire-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles related to the geography of Pembrokeshire; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
      • {{NeathPortTalbot-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles related to the geography of Neath Port Talbot; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
      • {{Bridgend-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles related to the geography of Bridgend; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
      • {{RhonddaCynonTaff-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles related to the geography of Rhondda Cynon Taff; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
      • {{ValeofGlamorgan-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles related to the geography of the Vale of Glamorgan; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
      • {{Merthyr-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles related to the geography of Merthyr Tydfil; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
      • {{Cardiff-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles related to the geography of Cardiff; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
      • {{Swansea-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles related to the geography of Swansea; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
      • {{Torfaen-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles related to the geography of Torfaen; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
      • {{Monmouthshire-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles related to the geography of Monmouthshire; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
      • {{Caerphilly-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles related to the geography of Caerphilly; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
      • {{Newport-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles related to the geography of Newport; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
  • {{Wales-bio-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to Welsh people; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
    • {{Wales-AM-stub}} - Stub notice for articles members of the National Assembly of Wales; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
    • {{England-cricket-bio-stub}} - Stub notice for articles people from England and Wales involved in the sport of cricket; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
      • {{England-international-cricket-bio-stub}} - Stub notice for articles related to English cricketers who have played in Test crickete, One-day Internationals, or international Twenty20 matches; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
    • {{Wales-footybio-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to Welsh football (soccer) people; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
      • {{Wales-footy-defender-stub}} - Stub notice for articles related to Welsh football (soccer) defenders; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.

NOTE: Stubs are managed by the Stub-sorting WikiProject. Before creating a new stub, you should propose it at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals. See Wikipedia:Stub for general guidelines on proposing stub templates and categories. DO NOT simply create new stub templates, as these will be deleted.

[edit] Other templates

{{WikiProject Wales}} should be placed on the talk pages of relevant articles to put them under the project's radar.

{{WikiProject Wales}} looks like this:

	This page is within the scope of WikiProject Wales, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to articles on Wales on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.
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[edit] Categories

• Category:Wales

[edit] Resources

[edit] Related projects