Wikipedia:WikiProject England

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England-related articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	16	56	72	118			262
FL		1	9	70			80
A		1					1
GA	15	39	157	606			817
B	28	147	272	863		8	1,318
C	33	149	590	4,196		90	5,058
Start	25	156	1,386	19,601		320	21,488
Stub	1	35	411	19,030	4	316	19,797
List	1	19	90	1,703		1	1,814
Category				3	15,422		15,425
Disambig					85		85
File					259		259
Portal					170		170
Project					22		22
Template			2		1,448		1,450
NA			2	10	819		831
Other				2	33		35
Assessed	119	603	2,991	46,202	18,262	735	68,912
Unassessed						52	52
Total	119	603	2,991	46,202	18,262	787	68,964
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 252,035			Ω = 5.17

Welcome to WikiProject England! Some Wikipedians have formed a Project to improve and organise articles which relate to England. We are dedicated to improving these articles and if you would like to help, please add your name to the participants!

GoalsEdit

Improve the coverage of English parishes to more than just one line by adding photos and infoboxes where appropriate
To better organise and link together England related articles throughout Wikipedia (festivals, customs etc.) so that they can be more easily explored by interested laymen
Increase the detail of articles about English including illustrations and photos where appropriate
Set a common style for English related articles
Improve the article England to featured status.
Ensure that sub articles like Education in England and Geography of England are to a high standard, whilst not using too much from the similar articles at History of the United Kingdom.
English city and town articles such as London to a high standard.
Fulfill requests for photos in Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in England

Announcements and open tasksEdit

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Sherborne_School: One of the classic British public schools. Much of the article is a copyvio from an old brochure. (See Talk:Sherborne_School#Copyvio) There are some conflict of interest problems. (See Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest/Noticeboard#User:SherborneArchives_reported). And, amusingly, there seems to be a slow-motion edit war between the school management, which wants to join the 21st century, and the old boys' association (their website: [1]), which wants to focus on the Good Old Days (of cold showers and hazing, perhaps[2]). This needs some good edits by an interested but neutral party. --John Nagle (talk) 17:48, 18 April 2014 (UTC)
Anglophobia: needs input on whether what I have added ([[3]]) should remain in this article, or needs to be changed in some way. I'd also appreciate it if someone could add material about Anglophobia outside the United Kingdom.
The Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell article was promoted to Featured article. Read the argumentation in the comments. Wim van Dorst (Talk) 20:13, 21 April 2007 (UTC).
United Kingdom - Split off parts in sub articles.
Downing Street memo - need some tidying up, fleshing out of lead and trim of ext links but has 60 references
Victorian architecture - article extremely biased towards architecture in the USA. See Talk:Victorian architecture for details. --Kudpung (talk) 12:15, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
Joan Pujol Garcia - The Spanish WWII double-agent better known as GARBO. Awarded both an MBE from George VI and the Iron Cross by Hitler. Convinced Germans that Normandy was a diversion. Submitted for Good Article status, trying to get featured in time for D-Day anniversary. K8 fan (talk) 00:44, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

Re-rated to B Class. Thanks! How can we get it to GA class in the opinion of those more knowledgeable about the subject's importance to the history of England? K8 fan (talk) 02:17, 1 April 2012 (UTC)

Scunthorpe could be nominated for GA if the long-tagged refs problems were sorted.--Robert EA Harvey (talk) 07:48, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
House of Commons of England needs to be expanded. I was surprised that it is such a short article. Much more history needs to be added, and things like when did the election of its members started, what were the requirements to be a voter, and how these changed through time. Thinker78 (talk) 07:35, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

Special requestEdit

Thousands and thousands of articles are located in Category:England and all of its sub-categories and they all need tagging using {{WPE}} and rating for class and importance, for example to rate an article as top importance and class A, you would type {{WPE|class=A|importance=Top}}, for the class there is a range of different types, the following is a list of them:
A - An excellent article - above Good article status (The article does not have to have been given GA status to be classed as A)
GA - The article has been officially reviewed by a non-editor to the article and has been given the official good article status
B - A well written article but lacking certain information, however still of a high standard, with references.
C - The article is better than a start, gives a reasonable coverage of subject but is incomplete, is wikified, has some refs, but lacking in style & layout.
Start - The article is more than just a stub but needs a lot of work doing to it, possible work includes wikifying etc.
Stub - The article is very short yet explains the title and gives enough information but more information could be added.

ImportanceEdit

Top - This is for very high importance articles (e.g. London) which are widely recognised.
High - High importance articles which are recognised but not as well known as - for example the capital of a country.
Mid - Articles and people/places etc. in which are recognised nationally but not internationally.
Low - Articles about places just within the local community and not internationally known, (e.g. A local school).

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England portal v t e This article is within the scope of WikiProject England, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of England on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.
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To be awarded to users who are greatly involved in the project

PortalsEdit

CandidatesEdit

Anything applicable to the project that's already listed at Featured article candidates, Featured picture candidates, or Featured list candidates
River Parrett
List of civil parishes in Somerset

New articlesEdit

Please feel free to list your new England-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 the Main Page.

Todenham User:Acabashi new article
Belsar's Hill User:Wasechun tashunka As per request
Crowfield, Suffolk User:JonS1950 Improving a stub-article. 21:03 15 October 2012 (UTC)
Industrial novel Rwood128 (talk) 13:10, 14 October 2012 (UTC)
British regional literature Rwood128 (talk) 13:10, 14 October 2012 (UTC)
List of English Electoral Wards by Constituency - just thought it might fit in. 07bargem (talk) 14:34, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
Belmont Castle, England – current DYK nomination. Voceditenore (talk) 14:59, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
Jack Barnes - Current DYK nom (my first). WFCforLife (talk) 00:53, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

CategoriesEdit

ResourcesEdit

List of United Kingdom locations contains many coordinates for UK locations, in lat/long or OSGB format.
Geograph British Isles project contains many Creative Commons Share-alike v2.0 images which are usable by wikipedia.
Commons:Category:England Wikimedia Commons England category.
Images of England details of listed buildings from English Heritage

Project space portalsEdit

Portals that have been put up for deletion, but are of sufficient utility to be used by project editors to expand and improve topic coverage and quality are listed here:

Portal:Peak District

Associated projectsEdit

Parent	Neighbouring areas	Overlapping	Similar	Daughter
WikiProject European Union WikiProject United Kingdom WikiProject UK geography	WikiProject Scotland WikiProject Wales WikiProject Northern Ireland	WikiProject Cities WikiProject UK Parliament constituencies WikiProject UK Railways	WikiProject UK subdivisions WikiProject France WikiProject Spain WikiProject Italy WikiProject Germany	Regional and local projects WikiProject English Royalty WikiProject English Language WikiProject Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms WikiProject Channel Islands

Related Taskforces

WP:British Isles Terminology task force

Article alertsEdit

Article alerts

Did you know

02 Mar 2021 – Eva Clarke (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by TJMSmith (t · c); see discussion
28 Feb 2021 – Dennis Howard Green (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Krakkos (t · c); see discussion
08 Feb 2021 – Allen Mawer (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Krakkos (t · c); see discussion
31 Jan 2021 – Calendar (New Style) Act 1750 (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by John Maynard Friedman (t · c); see discussion

Articles for deletion

04 Mar 2021 – Mavis Amankwah (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Juniperesque (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
04 Mar 2021 – Itch (EP) (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Lennart97 (t · c); see discussion (0 participants)
04 Mar 2021 – Colchester and East Essex Football League (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Spiderone (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
04 Mar 2021 – 2008–09 Cambridge United F.C. season (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by REDMAN 2019 (t · c); see discussion (5 participants)
04 Mar 2021 – 2009–10 Luton Town F.C. season (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by REDMAN 2019 (t · c); see discussion (6 participants)
04 Mar 2021 – 2010–11 Luton Town F.C. season (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by REDMAN 2019 (t · c); see discussion (7 participants)
04 Mar 2021 – 2010–11 Cambridge United F.C. season (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by REDMAN 2019 (t · c); see discussion (7 participants)
03 Mar 2021 – Kelvedon Hatch F.C. (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Spiderone (t · c); see discussion (8 participants)
03 Mar 2021 – SeaPeeKay (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Govvy (t · c); see discussion (6 participants)
03 Mar 2021 – Darwen North West (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by NHPluto (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)

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Proposed deletions

25 Feb 2021 – Derek Latham (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by DoubleDan1 (t · c) was deproded by Vaticidalprophet (t · c) on 03 Mar 2021

Categories for discussion

03 Mar 2021 – Category:10¼ in gauge railways in England (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Beland (t · c); see discussion
02 Mar 2021 – Category:Engish Anglican priests (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Rathfelder (t · c); see discussion
01 Mar 2021 – Category:Children of George VI (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by *Treker (t · c); see discussion
27 Feb 2021 – Category:Roman legionary fortresses in the United Kingdom (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion
21 Feb 2021 – Category:English typographers (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Paul 012 (t · c); see discussion
10 Feb 2021 – Category:Wikipedia categories named after regions of England (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by William Allen Simpson (t · c); see discussion
10 Feb 2021 – Category:Wikipedia categories named after subdivisions of England (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by William Allen Simpson (t · c); see discussion
10 Feb 2021 – Category:Wikipedia categories named after districts of England (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by William Allen Simpson (t · c); see discussion
10 Feb 2021 – Category:Wikipedia categories named after counties of England (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by William Allen Simpson (t · c); see discussion
07 Feb 2021 – Category:Subdivisions of England (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by William Allen Simpson (t · c); see discussion

Miscellany for deletion

24 Feb 2021 – Draft:Miniminter (talk · edit · hist) MfDed by AngusWOOF (t · c) was closed as delete by Premeditated Chaos (t · c) on 04 Mar 2021; see discussion