Wikipedia:WikiProject Devon
Welcome to WikiProject Devon
This is a collaboration area and group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of the English county of Devon.
Located in the south west of the United Kingdom, Devon's county town is Exeter and its largest city is Plymouth.
- Scope
- Articles about all subjects related to Devon, with special emphasis on geography (settlements, landmarks, etc.)
- People are included, but not those whose only connection with the county is that they were born or died here.
- Goals
- On a day-to-day basis, keep articles on Devon free from vandalism and ensure that they are not degraded by sub-standard edits. The list of recent changes below shows the edits that have been made recently to articles under this project.
- Improve existing articles by editing them. This includes the addition of new referenced content, copyediting (improvements to style, grammar, layout, spelling, etc.), and dealing with problem tags – see the list here (warning: there are a lot!).
- Identify omissions in the coverage of Devon. Suggestions for new articles can be made on this project's Talk page, but the bold way is to write a new article yourself.
- Identify existing or newly-created articles that should be included in this project and assess them, as described below.
- The ultimate aim is to improve all Devon-related articles towards Featured Article status. This will take a long time, but we work towards it by a gradual process of improvement through these stages: Stub > Start > Class C > Class B > Good Article > Featured Article. Only 5 steps from the most basic entry!
Devon articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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Quality | Importance | ||||||
Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
FA | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 | |||
FL | 4 | 4 | |||||
GA | 1 | 3 | 13 | 20 | 37 | ||
B | 4 | 12 | 21 | 102 | 3 | 142 | |
C | 6 | 18 | 89 | 441 | 8 | 562 | |
Start | 3 | 7 | 147 | 1,761 | 21 | 1,939 | |
Stub | 1 | 7 | 1,644 | 17 | 1,669 | ||
List | 4 | 25 | 67 | 96 | |||
Category | 1 | 9 | 234 | 422 | 666 | ||
Disambig | 1 | 3 | 12 | 16 | |||
File | 1 | 7 | 9 | 17 | |||
Portal | 1 | 1 | |||||
Project | 1 | 3 | 4 | ||||
Template | 26 | 22 | 48 | ||||
NA | 2 | 73 | 103 | 178 | |||
Other | 5 | 5 | |||||
Assessed | 14 | 48 | 320 | 4,388 | 573 | 49 | 5,392 |
Unassessed | 2 | 70 | 72 | ||||
Total | 14 | 48 | 320 | 4,390 | 573 | 119 | 5,464 |
WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 22,457 | Ω = 5.15 |
New to Wikipedia?
[edit]If you're new to Wikipedia and thinking of becoming an editor – welcome! Here are a few resources that will help get you up to speed on how things work around here.
- "Editing Wikipedia" is a downloadable PDF brochure that gives you a basic introduction to how to edit Wikipedia. You will learn what Wikipedia is and how it works, how to navigate Wikipedia, how and why you should contribute to Wikipedia, important rules that keep Wikipedia reliable, how to edit with VisualEditor and using wiki markup, how to add content, and etiquette for interacting with other contributors.
- Wikipedia:Tutorial is a web-based introduction.
- Help:Getting started provides links to several other resources that are useful to new editors.
- When it all seems too complex, The Teahouse is a friendly place to help new editors become accustomed to Wikipedia culture, ask questions, and develop community relationships.
- The Talk page of this project is the place to ask any questions about editing Devon articles.
- When you've created a user account (see WP:REGISTER for why this is a good idea), feel free to sign our informal list of participants.
Assessment
[edit]- In common with many other WikiProjects, we use a quality assessment of Stub to FA and an importance scale of Low to Top.
- See the table to the right and WikiProject Devon/Assessment for more information.
Guidelines
[edit]This project broadly follows the guidelines of its parent, the UK Geography WikiProject, on how to write about settlements.
Article alerts
[edit]Did you know
- 06 Jul 2024 – Fred Thomas (British politician) (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Sahaib (t · c); see discussion
Good article nominees
- 09 Jul 2024 – Ollie Watkins (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by 82.38.214.91 (t · c); start discussion
Requested moves
- 12 Jul 2024 – Ben Aldridge (actor) (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Ben Aldridge by FishLoveHam (t · c); see discussion
- 06 Jul 2024 – Blackdown Hills National Landscape (talk · edit · hist) move request to Blackdown Hills by Steinsky (t · c) was closed to Blackdown Hills (talk · edit · hist); see discussion
Articles to be merged
- 02 Feb 2024 – Deanery of Christianity (Exeter) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Archdeaconry of Exeter by Moriwen (t · c); see discussion
- 02 Feb 2024 – Deanery of Cadbury (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Archdeaconry of Exeter by Moriwen (t · c); see discussion
Articles to be split
- 28 Jun 2024 – Murders of Kate Bushell and Lyn Bryant (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Icaldonta (t · c); see discussion
Articles for creation
- 16 May 2024 – Draft:Crediton Rural District (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Qwerfjkl (bot) (t · c)
- 12 Apr 2024 – Draft:Plymouth Chronicle (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by LouisCSV (t · c)
To do
[edit]A long list of articles with clean-up tags that need fixing is available on Toolforge at clean-up listing for Devon.
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Here are some tasks awaiting attention:
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(Edit the tasklist here)
- Check out wanted images, where your photographs may come in handy!
Also browse the following categories for a list of Devon articles with specific requirements. Please deactivate the relevent parameter in {{WPDevon}} banner on the article's talk page upon resolution:
- Category:Devon articles needing attention for articles in need of a general cleanup such as copy editing or finding sources.
- Category:Devon articles needing expert attention for articles that require specific knowledge for its improvement in which WikiProject Devon members will be more qualified to help.
- Category:Devon articles needing infoboxes: check out Wikipedia:List of infoboxes and use Ctrl+F to find a suitable infobox or copy one from a similar article.
- Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Devon: the category contains instructions on how to help. Please remove {{Image requested}} from the talk page once an image has been added to the article.
New articles
[edit]This list was generated from these rules. Questions and feedback are always welcome! The search is being run daily with the most recent ~14 days of results. Note: Some articles may not be relevant to this project.
Rules | Match log | Results page (for watching) | Last updated: 2024-07-18 20:24 (UTC)
Note: The list display can now be customized by each user. See List display personalization for details.
- Museum of Policing in Devon and Cornwall (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Boddah (talk · contribs · new pages (1)) started on 2024-07-18, score: 80
- 2024 British baseball season (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Primefac (talk · contribs · new pages (8)) started on 2024-07-17, score: 40
- List of MPs for constituencies in England (2024–present) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Ytfc23 (talk · contribs · new pages (1)) started on 2024-07-17, score: 100
- Draft:Donald Fox (darts player) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) by 213.233.155.183 (talk · contribs · new pages (4)) started on 2024-07-17, score: 40
- Harry Symonds (cricketer) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Tassedethe (talk · contribs · new pages (617)) started on 2024-07-15, score: 40
- Daniel Chester French: American Sculptor (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Sultankakhatia (talk · contribs · new pages (1)) started on 2024-07-11, score: 30
- 1994–95 WOAA Senior League season (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Frontsfan2005 (talk · contribs · new pages (7)) started on 2024-07-15, score: 30
- The Case of the Abominable Snowman (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Lord Cornwallis (talk · contribs · new pages (36)) started on 2024-07-14, score: 30
- Chichester baronets of Arlington Court (1840) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Charles Matthews (talk · contribs · new pages (67)) started on 2024-07-13, score: 40
- Chichester baronets of Raleigh (1641) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Charles Matthews (talk · contribs · new pages (67)) started on 2024-07-13, score: 30
- 2024–25 FA Vase (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by LBLM9253 (talk · contribs · new pages (6)) started on 2024-07-11, score: 30
- John Henry Bostwick (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Cheney123 (talk · contribs · new pages (26)) started on 2024-07-11, score: 40
- Results breakdown of the 2024 United Kingdom general election (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Moondragon21 (talk · contribs · new pages (125)) started on 2024-07-08, score: 30
- Calvin Bailey (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Gaia Octavia Agrippa (talk · contribs · new pages (41)) started on 2024-07-05, score: 30
- Results of the 2024 United Kingdom general election (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Chessrat (talk · contribs · new pages (10)) started on 2024-07-07, score: 100
- 2024–25 FA Trophy (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by LBLM9253 (talk · contribs · new pages (6)) started on 2024-07-09, score: 30
- W. P. Watkins (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by LittleDwangs (talk · contribs · new pages (18)) started on 2024-07-08, score: 40
- William Snell Morrish (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Waghewett (talk · contribs · new pages (1)) started on 2024-07-08, score: 60
- List of United Kingdom Conservative MPs (2024–present) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Moondragon21 (talk · contribs · new pages (125)) started on 2024-07-08, score: 40
- Acland baronets of Columb John (1644) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Charles Matthews (talk · contribs · new pages (67)) started on 2024-07-08, score: 70
- Noah Law (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by No Swan So Fine (talk · contribs · new pages (68)) started on 2024-07-05, score: 40
- List of United Kingdom Liberal Democrat MPs (2024–present) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Moondragon21 (talk · contribs · new pages (125)) started on 2024-07-06, score: 60
- List of United Kingdom MPs by seniority (2024–present) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Goap23 (talk · contribs · new pages (1)) started on 2024-07-05, score: 70
- Rachel Gilmour (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Moondragon21 (talk · contribs · new pages (125)) started on 2024-07-05, score: 50
- Rebecca Smith (politician) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Moondragon21 (talk · contribs · new pages (125)) started on 2024-07-05, score: 60
- David Reed (Conservative politician) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Moondragon21 (talk · contribs · new pages (125)) started on 2024-07-05, score: 70
- Ian Roome (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Moondragon21 (talk · contribs · new pages (125)) started on 2024-07-05, score: 40
- Martin Wrigley (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Moondragon21 (talk · contribs · new pages (125)) started on 2024-07-05, score: 50
- Steve Race (British politician) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Moondragon21 (talk · contribs · new pages (125)) started on 2024-07-05, score: 40
- Steve Darling (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Fluffy89502 (talk · contribs · new pages (4)) started on 2024-07-05, score: 50
- Danny Chambers (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Stanley Gordon (talk · contribs · new pages (17)) started on 2024-07-05, score: 40
- Fred Thomas (British politician) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Gaia Octavia Agrippa (talk · contribs · new pages (41)) started on 2024-07-05, score: 50
- List of MPs who lost their seat in the 2024 United Kingdom general election (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Yoshi876 (talk · contribs · new pages (1)) started on 2024-07-04, score: 140
Recent changes
[edit]List of abbreviations (help):
- D
- Edit made at Wikidata
- r
- Edit flagged by ORES
- N
- New page
- m
- Minor edit
- b
- Bot edit
- (±123)
- Page byte size change
19 July 2024
- diffhist m Plymouth Moor View (UK Parliament constituency) 09:41 +42 WOSlinker talk contribs (tidy color)
- diffhist m South West Devon (UK Parliament constituency) 09:36 +28 WOSlinker talk contribs (tidy color)
- diffhist m Plymouth Sutton and Devonport (UK Parliament constituency) 09:34 +28 WOSlinker talk contribs (tidy color)
- diffhist Open Brethren 08:27 +132 Kiwi128 talk contribs (→Oceania: + photo of a Gospel Hall in New Zealand)
- diffhist Ben Green (cricketer) 07:40 0 Ytfc23 talk contribs
- diffhist m River Plym 01:46 −21 Alisperic talk contribs (→Nomenclature: template formatting)
18 July 2024
- diffhist Bertram Fletcher Robinson 22:55 −7 Entmaiden talk contribs (Ce removing double pounds) Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- diffhist Dartmouth, Devon 21:44 +10 77.101.76.199 talk
- diffhist m Talk:Squab pie 21:22 −24 Zinnober9 talk contribs (Wiki-link in external-link syntax error, missing/stripped tags addressed)
- diffhist m East Devon 20:50 −3 Vexald talk contribs (Fix typo)
- diffhist East Devon 20:48 +47 Vexald talk contribs (Council coat of arms)
- diffhist m Henry Francis Lyte 19:56 −9 GünniX talk contribs (unbalanced curley brackets) Tag: AWB
- diffhist Death at the Bar 17:10 −3 Per$1$tenceofv1$1on talk contribs (removing empty brackets)
- diffhist Instow 16:02 +174 Derek R Bullamore talk contribs (Filled in 2 bare reference(s) with reFill 2)
- diffhist Exeter City F.C. 14:56 +386 LBLM9253 talk contribs (→Current squad)
- diffhist Exeter City F.C. 14:21 0 2a00:23c8:2781:f701:51d:d476:71c2:1f22 talk (→Current squad)
- diffhist Exeter City F.C. 14:21 0 2a00:23c8:2781:f701:51d:d476:71c2:1f22 talk (→Current squad)
- diffhist Exeter City F.C. 14:20 −44 2a00:23c8:2781:f701:51d:d476:71c2:1f22 talk (→Current squad)
- diffhist Countess Wear 13:43 0 31.111.100.96 talk
- diffhist Countess Wear 13:42 0 31.111.100.96 talk (Place name is spelt 'Wear' not 'Weir') Tag: missing file added
- diffhist MS Oldenburg 12:50 +184 Davidships talk contribs (cats, copy edit; infobox)
- diffhist m Silverton, Devon 08:58 −2 Rchard2scout talk contribs (Fix lint errors)
- diffhist m Newton Abbot (UK Parliament constituency) 07:55 +84 WOSlinker talk contribs (tidy color)
- diffhist m North Devon (UK Parliament constituency) 07:44 +252 WOSlinker talk contribs (tidy color)
- diffhist m South Devon (UK Parliament constituency) 07:39 +84 WOSlinker talk contribs (tidy color)
- diffhist High Sheriff of Devon 07:30 −47 10mmsocket talk contribs (→2000–present: honorifics and awards per MOS)
17 July 2024
- diffhist Torquay United F.C. 23:58 −1 TQY LEE talk contribs (→Current squad) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- diffhist m Plymouth Albion R.F.C. 22:59 +26 Tassedethe talk contribs (Disambiguate Henry Slade to Henry Slade (rugby union) using popups)
- diffhist m Michael Morpurgo 22:37 +93 Antlersantlers talk contribs (→Literary awards and prizes)
- diffhist Dartmouth A.F.C. 22:36 −10 2a00:23c6:ac19:5900:864c:6495:f6a6:dd97 talk Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- diffhist Hartley, Plymouth 22:29 −10 CFA talk contribs (Reverted 1 edit by 2A00:23C8:7392:4601:D5A3:42C2:B368:EDB0 (talk): Npov) Tags: Twinkle Undo
- diffhist m Great Torrington 22:29 −1 Tenneseoy talk contribs (Grammar)
- diffhist Hartley, Plymouth 22:28 +10 2a00:23c8:7392:4601:d5a3:42c2:b368:edb0 talk Tags: Reverted Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- diffhist Tom Daley 21:39 −39 Seasider53 talk contribs (Reverted 2 edits by Blueskyandsunnyday (talk): Unsourced) Tags: Twinkle Undo Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
- diffhist Devon and Exeter Football League 21:18 +52 Bretonbanquet talk contribs (→Recent champions: update)
- diffhist Devon and Exeter Football League 21:14 +241 Bretonbanquet talk contribs (→2023–24 members list by division: update)
- diffhist Tom Daley 20:53 +47 Blueskyandsunnyday talk contribs (Added information) Tags: Reverted Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- diffhist Tom Daley 20:38 −8 Blueskyandsunnyday talk contribs (added clarity) Tags: Reverted Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- diffhist Lynton and Barnstaple Railway 20:24 +29 Mauls talk contribs (→Notes)
- diffhist Lynton and Barnstaple Railway 20:24 −14 Mauls talk contribs (→Route)
- diffhist Lynton and Barnstaple Railway 20:24 −14 Mauls talk contribs (→Route)
- diffhist Lynton and Barnstaple Railway 20:22 +1,039 Mauls talk contribs (→History)
- diffhist Anne Marie Morris 20:12 −20 ThingsCanOnlyGetWetter talk contribs Tag: Visual edit
- diffhist Saunton Golf Club 19:49 +9 Bcp67 talk contribs (→top: update)
- diffhist m 2014–15 Exeter City F.C. season 19:42 −8 Davemck talk contribs (Clean up duplicate template arguments using findargdups)
- diffhist 2014–15 Exeter City F.C. season 19:15 +303 Matthew Salisbury talk contribs (→Matches)
- diffhist Brixham trawler 19:03 +141 RAL1028 talk contribs
- diffhist Circular linhay 16:29 −2 Κρύσταλλο17 talk contribs Tag: Visual edit
- diffhist m Plymouth Naval Memorial 15:48 +87 TriodeFollower talk contribs (Added reference to Martyns.)
- diffhist m Down to Earth (2000 TV series) 15:46 +27 OldBlackAndWhiteDog talk contribs (Add Rowena Cooper as recurring cast member for first 3 series)
Featured content
[edit]See the Featured Content page for some of our content (articles and photos) that has gained recognition within Wikipedia.
Resources
[edit]- A list of relevant books and internet resources. (under construction)
Templates
[edit]This section contains templates used by or applicable to the project. Note that new stub templates should be proposed before creation at WP:WSS/P
Talk page template
[edit]Devon Unassessed | |||||||
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All entries of Devon towns and villages should have the above template placed on their talk pages. A list of categories whose articles should be tagged is available at Wikipedia:WikiProject Devon/Categories. Sometimes, you will see a UK geography WikiProject template already there; in these cases, add our template after theirs. You can add the template using the following code:
{{WPDevon|class=|importance=}}
Additional parameters can be added for articles in need of help and when activated will populate the article in its relevant category.
{{WPDevon|class=|importance=|needs-infobox=yes||attention=yes||needs-photo=yes}}
See WPDevon for further examples and details of the suggestions parameter.
Project userbox
[edit]This user participates in WikiProject Devon. |
To add this userbox to your user page use {{User WPDevon}}.
Barnstar
[edit]The WikiProject Devon Barnstar of Merit | ||
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this WikiAward was given to {{subst:PAGENAME}} by ~~~ on ~~~~~ |
To use this barnstar, simply add {{subst:Devon Barnstar|message ~~~~}} to the talk page of the user you wish to reward. Make sure you include a message which indicates why they are receiving the award.
Navigation
[edit]{{Devon}} is placed at the bottom of all the articles linked in the template to help readers "navigate" between the most important articles of Devon.
Categories
[edit]- Category:Devon and numerous sub-categories
Interested in Devon?
[edit]We maintain an informal list of editors interested in Devon. Please feel free to add yourself to the list and to indicate any areas of particular interest. You're not committing yourself to anything!