Wikipedia:WikiProject UK geography

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Welcome back to the UK geography WikiProject.
...on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.

Mother projects: WikiProject United Kingdom • WikiProject Countries
Sister project: WikiProject Cities
Related projects: WikiProject England • WikiProject Scotland • WikiProject Wales • WikiProject Northern Ireland
Portal: Portal:United Kingdom

Welcome to the United Kingdom Geography WikiProject. We are a user group dedicated to improving and expanding Wikipedia's coverage of articles related to the Geography of the United Kingdom.

Although our remit is broad, extending from the climate to infrastructure through to the geology and local government in the United Kingdom, we are most closely involved with facilitating the development of Britain's settlements and divisions of land, and ensuring a consistent approach is taken across the United Kingdom's geography class articles.

WikiProject UK Geography is the mother WikiProject of many British local Wikiprojects, and thus is here to co-ordinate and centralise the sharing of ideas and guidelines, developing writing standards, infoboxes, and other data presentation formats, and for setting up collaborations with the goal of reaching featured status for important UK places and geographical articles. Don't be put off by the word "geography", it just means writing about your local area!

1 Aims
2 Sub-Project hierarchy
3 Participants
4 Guidelines
5 Embedded Audio Pronunciations
6 Successes and examples
7 Assessment and progress of articles
- 7.1 To-do
8 Templates
9 Online resources
10 Useful tools

[edit] Aims

Many of WikiProject UK Geography's daughter projects have identified their own objectives and key articles to develop towards the featured article standard, which this project wholly supports and encourages. However, this project also aims to facilitate the development of a number of key articles related to the overall geography of the United Kingdom:

[edit] Short term

Our aims in the short term, are to achieve the following:

Bring United Kingdom up to featured article standard.
Bring each of the cities of the United Kingdom up to good article standard.
Improve upon systems of communication between this project and its daughter projects.

[edit] Mid term

Our mid-term aims for the project are:

Bring each of the British capitals of London, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast upto featured article standard.
Have ten articles at a county or district level upto featured article standard.
Develop a series of professional, inclusive and wide-ranging guidelines related to the writing and presentation of articles related to Britain's geography.

[edit] Long term

Our long term aims for the project are:

Improving all wikipedia articles that are concerned with the geography of the United Kingdom, including its history, geography, people, constructions and buildings, etc etc.
All relevant articles should be included in the Category:United Kingdom or one of its subcategories.
Articles on all UK subdivisions, settlements, and other notable geographical features.

See /tasks for more UK geography tasks.

[edit] Sub-Project hierarchy

WikiProject UK geography announcements
02 Jun	Flat Holm at GAC
02 Jun	M54 motorway promoted to GA
31 May	Skye at GAC
30 May	Canterbury promoted to GA
05 May	City of Salford at GAC
03 May	Milnrow at GAC
01 May	Lealholm at GAC
28 Apr	Kingston-upon-Hull at GAC
25 Apr	Ivybridge at GAC
18 Apr	Navenby promoted to FA
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[edit] Participants

Following a period of low-activity, WikiProject UK Geography is re-recruiting members. If you feel you can contribute to the project, please add your name.

You don't need to be British to help with this WikiProject. We welcome all registered editors good with layout and prose, and non-British editors who can point out when we've wrongly assumed we don't need to explain or define something for the reader, or failed to properly establish the context of an article.

To add a UK geography userbox to your user page, please add {{User WP UK geo}} to your talk page to generate...

This user is a member of
WikiProject UK geography

To add your name to the table, please visit the participants page.

User	Location	Interests and specialist knowledge	Any daughter WikiProjects

Jza84* (talk)	Shaw and Crompton & Oldham	In addition to the Greater Manchester Wikiproject, I'm interested in guidelines.	WikiProject Greater Manchester
Ddstretch (talk)	Stoke on Trent and Crewe and Nantwich	Cheshire and all related articles. Also matters concerning parishes (civil and ecclesiastical) in the UK.	WikiProject Cheshire and The Cheshire Portal.
Traveler100 (talk)	-	Photographs and images	-
Rodw (talk)	Chew Valley	Bristol and Somerset, Rivers & hills, industrial & architectural heritage	WikiProject Somerset and WikiProject Bristol
Epbr123 (talk)	Kent	Kent towns and villages	WikiProject Kent
Dbam (talk)	Yorkshire	North East England settlements, particularly around southeast Northumberland, North Tyneside and Newcastle upon Tyne.
Hassocks5489 (talk)	West Sussex	Places in Sussex, especially Crawley, Brighton & Hove and the towns and villages of Mid Sussex; photographs; transport information; spoken versions of articles within this WikiProject.	WikiProject Brighton and WikiProject Sussex
Rudget (talk)	Greater Manchester	Northern England related articles, i.e Greater Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds etc.	WikiProject Greater Manchester & WikiProject Cities. More shown here
Bluegoblin7 (talk)	Derbyshire	Trams, Trains, Derbyshire	WikiProject Derbyshire
Twinney12 (talk)	Chester	Chester Cheshire and all related articles.	WikiProject Cheshire and The Cheshire Portal.
Yozzer66 (Talk)	Stoke-on-Trent	South-West Lancashire, Merseyside, North Staffordshire
Harkey Lodger (talk)	Yorkshire	Yorkshire and Natural Areas of England	WikiProject Yorkshire
Tmol42 (talk)	Buckinghamshire	Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire specifically Chiltern Hills local and natural history and landscape
Malleus Fatuarum (talk)	Greater Manchester	Greater Manchester and Cheshire	WikiProject Greater Manchester
Seaserpent85 (talk)		Berkshire	WikiProject Berkshire
thedewster (talk)	Barton Stacey, England	To many	Barton Stacey and other surounding villages including South Wonston.\|
Orinoco999 (talk)	Cornwall, England	Local history, the GWR, politics, law and the UK constitution.	WikiProject Cornwall and WikiProject England.
Peter Shearan* (talk)	<Kent, England	Kent, East Sussex and West Sussex civil parishes; history and geography; railways; rivers	WikiProject Kent and others
Codwar (talk)	Cleethorpes, England	Grimsby and Cleethorpes. Prose, style grammar. History.
Aberdeen fc* (talk)	Aberdeen, Scotland	Roads in and around Aberdeen; areas and districts of Aberdeen	Not involved in any but may join Transport in Scotland
TicketMan (talk)		Midlands, Wales, Railways and Industrial history
Simply south* (talk)		Various stuff	Transport in Scotland and Hertfordshire. Involved in plenty of others
Charliedeacon* (talk)	East Sussex	East Sussex, the Barcombe and Lewes area and the countryside surrounding it. Public transport in this area. General knowledge of places around the UK as well.
Fifaworld07* (talk)	Kettering	Rothwell, Kettering and Northamptonshire in general.I can get some infomation of places around the UK from the internet FW07 (talk) .
Pterre* (talk)	Winchester	Mainly London and Hampshire, especially industrial history and geology.	WikiProject London (also WikiProject Geology, though that's not a daughter)
ghmyrtle* (talk)	Chepstow	Monmouthshire, Welsh Marches, South West England (esp. Devon, Greater Bristol and Gloucestershire), Wirral and Liverpool - mainly interested (but not professionally) in history and archaeology
Snowy_1973* (talk)	Surrey	Mainly Wirral and Cheshire (particularly north west Cheshire), possibly also Liverpool, south-west Lancashire	Wikipedia:WikiProject Cheshire
Asdfasdf1231234* (talk)	Shrewsbury	Shropshire and the wider West Midlands region.	-
Bsrboy* (talk)	Devon	None.	WikiProject Schools and WikiProject Devon
Crac4543* (talk)	Greater Manchester	Lancashire
TR001* (talk)	Cardiff and Wales	Special interest in rivers and beaches good for kayaking	WikiProject Wales
Snigbrook* (talk)	Lancashire	Lancashire (particularly Blackburn, Ribble Valley, South Ribble districts)
Jellyman* (talk)	Derby	Derbyshire and various parts of Scotland, particularly East Renfrewshire	WikiProject Derbyshire

[edit] Guidelines

Guidelines at WikiProject UK Geography are a key element of how the project operates; they ensure that the UK's articles have a consistent House Style and provide a lasting consistency for our readers to benefit from. Working in partnership with "international" WikiProjects, UK Geography has developed the following Project guidelines which indicate standardised, consensual recommended approaches when writing about certain aspects of Britain's geography. They each include tips on obtaining the highest of awards for articles:

[edit] Embedded Audio Pronunciations

A new sub-project has been set up to complement the work done within WP:UKGEO. Wikipedia:WikiProject UK geography/Embedded Audio Pronunciations seeks to provide a comprehensive, high-quality range of audio files consisting of native British English pronunciations of relevant words and names: counties, settlements, rivers, mountains and so on. Ideally, both "Received Pronunciation" and local accent variations would be provided, and a repository of public-domain or GFDL-licensed files built up for the benefit of anybody interested in the UK and the English language. In particular, every file provided would ideally be linked to the relevant Wikipedia article. More information and guidelines are provided at this page.

[edit] Successes and examples

These articles are featured articles and can serve as an idea of what should go in a good article:

General: Geography of Ireland
Counties: Dorset, Somerset
Settlements: Altrincham, Bath, Birchington-on-Sea, Blyth, Brownhills, Chew Stoke, Dundee, Herne Bay, Manchester, Navenby, Neilston, Oldham, Peterborough, Shaw and Crompton, Sheerness, Sheffield, Stretford, Westgate-on-Sea, Weymouth, Whitstable, Wormshill
Neighbourhoods: East End of London
Landforms: Chat Moss, Chew Valley Lake, Exmoor, Mendip Hills
Small areas: Chew Valley, Isle of Portland
Architecture: Buildings and architecture of Bristol
Transport: M62 motorway

Additionally these are "good articles" that fulfill many but not all featured requirements:

General: Geology of Dorset, History of Somerset, Scotland, United Kingdom,
Counties: Greater Manchester, Hampshire, Kent
Boroughs: Trafford
Settlements: Askam and Ireleth, Basingstoke, Belfast, Birmingham, Canterbury, Chew Magna, Crawley, Eastbourne, Evanton, Hale Barns, London, Middlewich, Penmon, Runcorn, Sale, Shrewsbury, Urmston, Widnes
Landforms: Avon Gorge, Ben Nevis, Bristol Harbour, Cheddar Gorge and Caves, Flannan Isles, Quantock Hills, Lundy, Somerset Levels
Transport: A1 road (London), A500 road, Grand Western Canal, Kennet and Avon Canal, M54 motorway, Somerset Coal Canal, South West Coast Path

[edit] Assessment and progress of articles

Main article: Wikipedia:WikiProject UK geography/Assessment

Below is a bot generated table of the assessment process of WikiProject UK geography supported articles. The stats are generated automatically every 2-3 days, but they can be updated manually by entering UK geography (and replacing Foobar) into the Category box here.

UK geography articles		Importance
UK geography articles		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA		11	19	10		40
	A	2	2		2		6
	GA	2	7	20	8		37
	B	8	114	214	108	3	447
	Start	1	123	1089	2236	102	3551
	Stub	1	14	134	6661	87	6897
	List	1	3	5	25	4	38
	Assessed	15	274	1481	9050	196	11016
	Unassessed		2	4	125	619	750
	Total	15	276	1485	9175	815	11766

Assessment log
Assessment archive

The project has categorised 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.

There is a list of very short articles here.

Requests for:

[edit] To-do

To add the todo list to your userpage use:

UK geography to do list
Bring to featured quality England Scotland Wales Northern Ireland London Belfast Cardiff Edinburgh Bristol Hampshire Lake District Kent Warwickshire More: A, GA class.	Stubs Arrochar Alps Axminster Broughton, Milton Keynes Burntwood Carrick Forest Cleveland Hills Devenish Island Downham Market Giggleswick Glanamman Highgate Hill Highworth Midlands Plateau West Brompton More: stub class.	Requested articles Darby Green Geography of Northern Ireland Geology of Northern Ireland Lulsgate Mile Elm Stonebarrow Hill Carmunock River Add Swinton, Berwickshire St George Wharf River Font More: requested articles
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[edit] Templates

For templates used for the administration and organisation of the Project and its remit, see Wikipedia:WikiProject UK geography/Templates.

[edit] Online resources

Wikimedia Commons has media related to:

United Kingdom

Statistics: Office for National Statistics, Census related resources, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA), Neighbourhood statistics (Parish data etc.)
- Population data (see below for England): Ayrshire, East (PDF), Falkirk, Moray, Lanarkshire, North
Maps:
- Multimap
- OS Get a map
- Ordnance Survey for Northern Ireland
- OpenStreetMap is starting to get good coverage of some parts of the UK (eg Isle of Wight, North London, NW Surrey, Birmingham, Bedford).
- Ordnance Survey® Election Maps–boundaries of civil parishes, wards, boroughs etc., up to street map scale. The draconian terms and conditions don't seem to prevent GFDL licensing of research by Wikipedia editors, as long as the editors themselves don't use the information for financial gain, and no-one copies actual extracts, mapping data or layers from the maps.
Books: There is a list of UK geography books and the Wikipedians who own them at Wikipedia:Library/Places#UK. You can request info from the owners of the relevant books.
Websites: 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica [1]
Photos : Geograph British Isles project
Distance : GENUK&I distance gazetteer, Postcode distance calculator

England
Bedfordshire	Bedfordshire facts & figures
· Luton
Berkshire	West Berkshire 2001 Census data
Bristol	Ward finder
Buckinghamshire
· Milton Keynes
Cambridgeshire
· Peterborough
Cheshire
· Halton
· Warrington
Cornwall	Parish population data
· Isles of Scilly
Cumbria	Census 2001
Derbyshire
· Derby
Devon	East Devon parish population data (PDF)
· Plymouth
· Torbay
Dorset	Parish population data (import should be complete)
· Bournemouth
· Poole
County Durham	Durham County Council 2001 Census data
· Darlington
· Hartlepool
· Stockton-on-Tees
East Riding of Yorkshire
· Kingston-upon-Hull
East Sussex
· Brighton and Hove
Essex
· Southend-on-Sea
· Thurrock
Gloucestershire
· South Gloucestershire
Greater London
Greater Manchester
Hampshire	2001 census
· Southampton
· Portsmouth
Herefordshire	2001 census
Hertfordshire	Population and census data
Isle of Wight
Kent	2001 Census Area Profiles
· Medway
Lancashire
· Blackburn with Darwen
· Blackpool
Leicestershire	Census 2001
· Leicester
Lincolnshire	Parish population profiles
· North Lincolnshire
· North East Lincolnshire
Merseyside
Norfolk
North Yorkshire
· York
· Middlesbrough
· Redcar and Cleveland
· Stockton-on-Tees
· Northamptonshire
Northumberland	Tynedale population data (PDF)
Nottinghamshire
· Nottingham
Oxfordshire
Rutland
Shropshire
· Telford and Wrekin
Somerset	Parish population data
· Bath and North East Somerset	Census Data
· North Somerset	Census Information
South Yorkshire
Staffordshire
· Stoke-on-Trent
Suffolk
Surrey
Tyne and Wear
Warwickshire
West Midlands
West Sussex	Ward profiles
West Yorkshire
Wiltshire	Wiltshire Community History from Wiltshire County Council giving brief historical information and references for settlements including old maps and Population by community 1801–2001 census data
· Swindon	Population by community 1801–2001 census data at Wiltshire Community History from Wiltshire County Council
Worcestershire