Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Isle of Wight

Aims

Hello fellow Project members! I thought it was about time we had a better way of organising our efforts at improving the Isle of Wight articles than this, so that's why this project exists. As to its actual aims, I would suggest

• Assess the importance and quality of IW articles (for inclusion in any future release version)
• Improve the quality of IW articles.

I've put up what I think is a fairly modest target of assessing 100 articles - if you have a better idea then please add it below. Let's get talking and keep editing! --Peeky44 (talk) 13:04, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Schools

I know that in many ways its a controversial issue, and leads to endless debates on AFD, but do we need articles for any or all schools? The article Education on the Isle of Wight already exists, and probably covers many of the encyclopaedic details already. My opinion upon churches is the same; unless a church is independently notable (for instance being the site of the Marriage of King William V), it merits at best a paragraph in the page of the town/village itself. --Neil (talk) 17:54, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

I think that if a school or church (or anything else for that matter) has a certain level of information about it available on its page, or the potential for a critical amount to be added, it should stand as an article - beyond a certain point, information about a particular school should not be on a general education article. For example, Medina High School, Newport has a good amount of information and more could be added (history for example) if appropriate sources can be found. The other high schools are probably in a similar situation, but it has to be done on an individual basis. Carisbrooke High School seems to be an article in need of major revision before we can declare it neutral, but if advertising-style language can be restructured and the article properly sourced, it should be quite useful. --Peeky44 (talk) 12:57, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

Wonders

Does anyone know of any sources of information i can use to write an artcle on the Wonders? Simply south (talk) 18:25, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

Yes, try this [1] Naturenet | Talk 10:51, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. Actually, do you also know how to introduce the article? User:Simply south/Wonders of the Isle of Wight.

Simply south (talk) 21:04, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

Project Banner

I've just added the banner to a load of page, including a number (all) of the former MPs of the Island, so when a load of random people show up on the list of articles this is why. It is cool to add the banner to pages we consider relevant, isn't it? --Neil (talk) 13:55, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

Of course it is! Remember one of the core guidelines of Wikipedia:Be bold. If there's something controversial, there'll be a discussion but in the meantime, keep adding those headers, preferably with the class and importance fields filled in. We're starting to get a really good picture of what needs to be done (see table below and assessment table on main project page). Keep going! --Peeky44 (talk) 10:08, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

Marginally classified articles

I'm currently assessing many IoW articles that are virtually on the boundary of two quality classes. I'm going to list them here for now (excluding stubs), but perhaps we should have a section on the Project page for things like this. Feel free to edit this table when any of the articles is upgraded or you spot another that should go in! --Peeky44 (talk) 02:05, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

OK, so I listed a few stubs as well. There's probably quite a lot that are on the borderline of Start-class, so take those listed below with a pinch of salt and maybe look at Category:Stub-Class Isle of Wight-related articles if you're feeling adventurous... --Peeky44 (talk) 10:12, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

Article	Class	Notes
Puckaster	C	only needs some form of diagram or photo to go up to B-class.
Osborne House	C	minor grammar corrections and expansion of lead would get this to B-class.
Carisbrooke Castle	Start	A few references would easily make this a C-class article, if not better.
Binstead	Start	A little more content would get this up to C-class, although the addition of enough and it could go straight to B-class.
Brook, Isle of Wight	Stub	One single reference is all that's provided - a couple more and this would be Start-class.
Newport (Isle of Wight) bus station	C	Referencing again - a little work on references would make this B-class. More general expansion needed to get beyond B-class though.
Southern Vectis route 6	C	Usual problem, not quite enough references and not all referenced in the main text where they need to be.
Isle of Wight Festival	Stub	This article is a bit of a mess. There's some good info there, but its almost completely unsourced. Just a few more references would get this to at least Start, and C- or even B- shouldn't be impossible for long. Given the event's importance to the island, it's a bit of a disgrace.
Isle of Wight (UK Parliament constituency)	Stub	Same as the Festival, it's got plenty of information but no references to back it up.

Isle of Wight County Cricket Ground

I notice the IWCB website implies the first matches took place on open days at the beginning of the month. Can anyone verify these actually happened? I wasn't on the island at the time and web sources don't seem to have any more info than previews. I've updated the article based on the available information, but if anyone has an old county press or something that might be a good place to check... Cheers! --Peeky44 (talk) 10:30, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Isle of Wight Party

Isle of Wight Party has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Isle of Wight Party. Thank you. Naturenet | Talk 11:47, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

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Isle of Wight as a county

It looks like there's about to be a major discussion/argument about the IW's status as a county (again).
Please have a look at the article talk page.

Coordinates for Isle of Wight articles

At Wikipedia:WikiProject Geographical coordinates, we are currently working on finishing geocoding several classes of articles where nearly all of the articles have now been geocoded. We would really appreciate any help you could give us with geocoding the articles in Category:Isle of Wight articles missing geocoordinate data. See this diff for an example of how to geocode an article: there's also a quick how-to guide at the top of the WikiProject's home page.

Regards, -- The Anome (talk) 17:18, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

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Isle of Wight Central Railway/Freshwater, Yarmouth and Newport Railway

I'm trying to expand the articles on the island's historical railway companies, and have done quite a bit with Isle of Wight Railway (Ryde-Ventnor/Brading-Bembridge) and a little to Isle of Wight Central Railway (Ryde-Newport-Cowes/Newport-Sandown). I've found in the IWCR article a claim that they took over the Freshwater, Yarmouth and Newport Railway in 1913, yet I have a book that claims the FYN still existed in 1923 and weren't even absorbed into the Southern Railway for 8 months as they

...disputed the proposed terms of the amalgamation...

The text in the article claims a source, I have an opposing source - Tube Trains on the Isle of Wight, Brian Hardy, 2003. Now that source is not primarily concerned with rail services before about 1960, so it could be in error. Anyone got anything else? --Peeky44 (talk) 19:35, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

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You can't milk

Proposed split of Cowes to Cowes and East Cowes. See Talk:Cowes. Simply south (talk) 14:52, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

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Island villages

While looking through I have noticed a number of island village have article titles that include ',Isle of Wight' after them when no other article of that title exists, for example: Niton, Isle of Wight. Niton redirects there. So I propose these articles be moved to avoid longer titles. Here is what I have found that could be moved:

• Chale, Isle of Wight --> Chale
• Chillerton, Isle of Wight --> Chillerton
• Niton, Isle of Wight --> Niton
• Bouldnor, Isle of Wight --> Bouldnor
• Hulverstone, Isle of Wight --> Hulverstone
• Norton Green, Isle of Wight --> Norton Green

If anyone else has any views feel free to join the discussion. Editor5807^speak 18:37, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

I don't think this needs discussion, its unnecessary disambiguation. I have already done the same for several Worcestershire articles recently. I'll make the move shortly. Jeni ^(talk) 19:04, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

All moved :) I doubt it will be controversial. Jeni ^(talk) 19:13, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

Thank you :) Editor5807^speak 20:05, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

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New Member- New Edits

Hello i have edited a few pages that i had more information for a created one (Back of the Wight) I thought was needed please help by checking it and articles, Mottistone Manor, Brookgreen and Brighstone Many thanks Xhavnak (talk) 16:34, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

Also i have created some bad pages that got deleted, ver sorry, quite agree with the deletions I shall try to make any new articles better and more referenced. Many apologies. Xhavnak (talk) 18:38, 10 July 2011 (UTC)

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Undercliff (Isle of Wight)

If anyone's interested, I just started a main article Undercliff (Isle of Wight), as I think the IoW Undercliff deserves a lot more space than a subsection in The Undercliff.

I'm a little cautious about doing it myself, but The Undercliff#Isle of Wight needs a little work per Wikipedia:Avoid peacock terms for "a semi-tropical environment, covered by lush vegetation". The Undercliff is lovely, but it's not some kind of steaming jungle. Gordonofcartoon (talk) 00:18, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

Please help get the Isle of Wight ready for the start of the Wiki Loves Monuments competition on 1st September

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Some of the lists have been semi-automatically generated from data provided by English Heritage. These use pre formatted templates (eg EH header) which will make it much easier for competition participants to upload their photographs to Commons as an automated process. Please don't change the template structure, as we need to ensure that the templates are properly compatible with the WLM standards that are in use worldwide. The format will allow a bot automatically to collect the information and to put it into the international Monuments Database.

The data still needs the attention of local editors:

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Does The Tide Cross The Railway At Yarbridge ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarbridge

states:

"... accessible only at low tide. It also crosses the railway ..."

Can anyone clarify what is meant?

Megapod (talk) 03:00, 6 October 2013 (UTC)

I have clarified the ambiguous wording. Naturenet | Talk 23:44, 7 October 2013 (UTC)

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Old maps and views of the South-East

As you might have seen in the Signpost last week, there's currently a drive to go through the million 19th century images released by the British Library last year, and identify all the maps, with a view to their being georeferenced by BL volunteers, and then uploaded to Commons early next year. After the first week, over eight thousand new maps have been identified, with 40% of the target books looked at -- see the status page for the latest figures, and more information.

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which currently shows pink templated links for 309 Flickr book pages still to be looked at. (Though there are lots of other parts of England, and indeed of the world, still to be looked through as well).

Any help looking through these would be very much appreciated -- as well as the maps (and ground plans) for tagging, you may well also find other interesting or useful non-map views that may be worth considering or uploading for articles on the Isle of Wight and elsewhere in the South-East. (If uploading, please use the ingestion template described here, which sets up some appropriate image templates and categories).

Thanks, Jheald (talk) 21:32, 8 November 2014 (UTC)

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Requested move 16 March 2019

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The result of the move request was: moved (closed by non-admin page mover) SITH (talk) 16:26, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Wight → Wikipedia:WikiProject Isle of Wight – Per main article Isle of Wight, this is the name of the island and its county[2]. See also this discussion. Crouch, Swale (talk) 20:15, 16 March 2019 (UTC) --Relisting.   samee  converse  06:18, 25 March 2019 (UTC)

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The Great Britain/Ireland Destubathon

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Railways on the Isle of Wight

This article was nominated for GA and has been reviewed (see comments here), but there has been no response by the nominator since it was put on hold on 13 June 2020. The article will fail on 21 June unless the issues I raised are fully addressed. Can anyone help here? if I know someone is willing to pick this up, I'm willing to extend by a week. Amitchell125 (talk) 08:07, 20 June 2020 (UTC)

Parishes project

I have started a project for missing civil parishes at User:Crouch, Swale/Missing parishes. The missing parishes on the Isle of Wight are:

• Calbourne, Newtown and Porchfield, draft exists at Draft:Calbourne, Newtown and Porchfield
• Chillerton and Gatcombe
• Havenstreet and Ashey

And these exists as a redirect only but should have separate articles:

• Niton and Whitwell

A total of 4, see User:Crouch, Swale/Missing parishes (2)#Isle of Wight. Crouch, Swale (talk) 19:46, 9 November 2021 (UTC)

• Pinging participants to get more input @Peeky44, Naturenet, NeilTarrant, Editor5807, Streona, Simply south, Robwebb, Debnigo, Greengolf17, Dainamo, Xhavnak, Gcman105, Gordonofcartoon, BrayLockBoy, Raggz, MapReader, Corkedwine, and AmethystTalon:. I've struct those that have been created. Crouch, Swale (talk) 16:34, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

"In" or "On"? Guideline needed

I've just created Chillerton and Gatcombe (see above) but it led me to ask: "In or On"? Looking at the two constituent villages, one is described as "in the Isle of Wight" and one as "on the Isle of Wight". Chillerton and Gatcombe.

I thought your project page might have a guideline - but there's a Guidelines section which doesn't mention this. Could you advise, please, for occasional IoW editors? Thanks. PamD 10:31, 20 January 2022 (UTC)

@PamD: The standard for settlements and most other things seems to be "on" as indicated by the title of Category:Villages on the Isle of Wight. The standard for civil parishes seems to be "in" as indicated by Category:Civil parishes in the Isle of Wight. When writing about a village you could say "X is a village in the civil parish of X, on the Isle of Wight, in the county of the Isle of Wight, England" and for parishes "X is a civil parish on the Isle of Wight, in the county of the Isle of Wight, England" but most articles don't appear to mention both county and island. Note that the unitary authority area and ceremonial county are the same and the difference between the island and county is only The Needles, that is to say The Needles are in the county but not part of the island. Crouch, Swale (talk) 17:14, 20 January 2022 (UTC)

User script to detect unreliable sources

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Photo request

Hello all. I wonder if any project members live on the island? If so, would any of you be able to get some photos of the following cricket grounds: J. Samuel White's Ground in Cowes and the Victoria Recreation Ground in Newport. General pictures of the playing area and any buildings and facilities, such as pavilions or scorers huts, or cricket nets, would be fantastic. Thanks in advance. StickyWicket (talk) 23:03, 28 July 2022 (UTC)

Proposed county infobox template change

A discussion is ongoing at Template talk:Infobox English county#Proposal: remove the ethnicity section which is likely of interest to this project. The original proposal is for straight removal of the ethnicity field from the template; the population field would remain. This and a modified proposal would have the same effect on Isle of Wight. A result of the change, if consented to, is the restriction of demographics, other than population to the local authority administrative sections of the county infoboxes. It has no effect on editors placing reliably sourced statistics in the body of the article. 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 16:10, 15 December 2023 (UTC)