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 | 26 | 165 | |
C | 6 | 18 | 89 | 442 | 22 | 577 | |
Start | 3 | 7 | 148 | 1,762 | 32 | 1,952 | |
Stub | 1 | 7 | 1,644 | 26 | 1,678 | ||
List | 4 | 25 | 67 | 96 | |||
Category | 1 | 9 | 234 | 423 | 667 | ||
Disambig | 1 | 3 | 12 | 16 | |||
File | 1 | 7 | 9 | 17 | |||
Portal | 1 | 1 | |||||
Project | 1 | 3 | 4 | ||||
Template | 26 | 24 | 50 | ||||
NA | 2 | 77 | 106 | 185 | |||
Other | 5 | 5 | |||||
Assessed | 14 | 48 | 321 | 4,394 | 579 | 106 | 5,462 |
Unassessed | 17 | 17 | |||||
Total | 14 | 48 | 321 | 4,394 | 579 | 123 | 5,479 |
WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 22,705 | Ω = 5.14 |
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
- 12 Sep 2024 – Passmore Edwards Centre (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Dumelow (t · c); see discussion
Requests for comments
- 25 Aug 2024 – And Then There Were None (talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by MichaelMaggs (t · c); 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) submitted for AfC by Qwerfjkl (bot) (t · c) was accepted to Crediton Rural District (talk · edit · hist) by Kvng (t · c) on 10 Sep 2024
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: 2024-09-15 20:16 (UTC)
Note: The list display can now be customized by each user. See List display personalization for details.
- SeaRaser (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Drnoble (talk · contribs · new pages (3)) started on 2024-09-15, score: 30
- Boer War Memorial, New Plymouth (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Itineris55 (talk · contribs · new pages (1)) started on 2024-09-14, score: 30
- Roselan Daud (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Pangalau (talk · contribs · new pages (10)) started on 2024-09-13, score: 40
- Category:Conybeare family (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) by Kaliforniyka (talk · contribs · new pages (79)) started on 2024-09-12, score: 60
- Passmore Edwards Centre (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Dumelow (talk · contribs · new pages (9)) started on 2024-09-10, score: 60
- Crediton Rural District (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Kvng (talk · contribs · new pages (24)) started on 2024-09-10, score: 60
- Margaret Jackson (physician) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Pjbj96r (talk · contribs · new pages (2)) started on 2024-09-08, score: 50
- 2024–25 FA Women's National League Cup (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by FocusedOnFootball (talk · contribs · new pages (6)) started on 2024-09-09, score: 30
- Daniel McClellan (biblical scholar) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by BD2412 (talk · contribs · new pages (553)) started on 2024-09-09, score: 40
- Draft:Margaret Jackson (doctor) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) by Pjbj96r (talk · contribs · new pages (2)) started on 2024-09-08, score: 50
- Sticklepath Fault (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Geopersona (talk · contribs · new pages (3)) started on 2024-09-01, score: 100
- Amani Richards (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by GiantSnowman (talk · contribs · new pages (18)) started on 2024-08-31, score: 30
- Category:And Then There Were None (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) by Dimadick (talk · contribs · new pages (84)) started on 2024-09-01, score: 60
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
16 September 2024
- diffhist Manaton 19:26 +14 2a0a:ef40:5:3d01:d11a:e2f4:deb8:e7e4 talk (2024-09-16: Updated broken URLs for (a) the Kitty Jay web page of the Legendary Dartmoor web site; (b) the St Winifred's church web page of the George Fellowes Prynne web site.)
- diffhist Plymouth 18:09 −4 Agnesrain17 talk contribs (page said Plymouth was the most populous city south of London)
- diffhist Nectan of Hartland 18:07 +25 104.201.124.82 talk
- diffhist Mid Devon 17:58 −11 2a00:23ee:1600:948c:621d:89a6:71f8:2a95 talk (→Rivers) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- diffhist Jeremy Thorpe 17:51 +28 Minturn talk contribs (for background)
- diffhist m North Devon (UK Parliament constituency) 17:40 −18 ClueBot NG talk contribs (Reverting possible vandalism by 196.96.19.248 to version by 92.40.194.118. Report False Positive? Thanks, ClueBot NG. (4345273) (Bot)) Tag: Rollback
- diffhist North Devon (UK Parliament constituency) 17:39 +18 196.96.19.248 talk Tags: Reverted Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- diffhist Diocese of Exeter 17:02 −547 Hildeoc talk contribs (→List of churches: formal copy-editing)
- diffhist m Appledore, Torridge 16:58 +44 Tim Ivorson talk contribs (Added some more internal links)
- diffhist Jeremy Thorpe 16:54 −1 DervotNum4 talk contribs (Removed extra space) Tag: Visual edit
- diffhist m Cosmo Jarvis 16:43 −14 Geraldo Perez talk contribs (Reverted 1 edit by Zword97 (talk): Unnecessary) Tags: Twinkle Undo
- diffhist Cosmo Jarvis 16:23 +14 Zword97 talk contribs Tags: Reverted Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- diffhist And Then There Were None 15:48 +23 183.89.250.246 talk (→Plot)
- diffhist m Tavistock Canal 15:47 +4 Bob1960evens talk contribs (→Points of interest: kml template renamed to GeoGroup)
- diffhist m Stover Canal 15:45 +4 Bob1960evens talk contribs (→Points of interest: kml template renamed to GeoGroup)
- diffhist Talk:And Then There Were None 14:15 +399 Khajidha talk contribs (→Cover artist: new section) Tag: New topic
- diffhist Appledore, Torridge 14:14 −1 Kowtoo talk contribs (→Transport: Fixed typo) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- diffhist Michael Heseltine 13:40 +75 Iostn talk contribs (→President of the Board of Trade: 1992-1995: image)
- diffhist Bishop of Crediton 12:18 +449 DBD talk contribs (Searle retirement announced)
- diffhist m Jeremy Thorpe 12:09 +40 RobertG talk contribs (more rounding, to avoid false impression of exactness; add ref for calculations)
- diffhist m Hackney Canal 11:43 +5 Bob1960evens talk contribs (→Points of interest: kml template renamed to GeoGroup)
- diffhist Charles Harward 11:17 +59 2.24.139.176 talk
- diffhist Agatha Christie 11:15 +1 Para Clark talk contribs (Undid revision 1245991551 by 2A02:C7C:BF3B:EB00:2186:180B:884B:C183 (talk)) Tag: Undo
- diffhist And Then There Were None 10:39 +47 Unnamed anon talk contribs
- diffhist And Then There Were None 10:38 −41 Unnamed anon talk contribs (Switched per closing of RfC by MichaelMaggs)
- diffhist Jeremy Thorpe 10:18 +8 Martinevans123 talk contribs (→Relationship with Norman Scott: his article says 13 May 1969)
- diffhist Jeremy Thorpe 10:01 +100 No Swan So Fine talk contribs (+ inflationary values)
- diffhist Bertram Fletcher Robinson 09:27 −2 5.255.52.130 talk (Re-ordered paragraph for better flow.)
- diffhist Jeremy Thorpe 08:38 +1 Astraeides talk contribs (Fixed grammar) Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- diffhist Talk:And Then There Were None 08:30 +1,218 MichaelMaggs talk contribs (Closing, per requests by Prairieplant and Schazjmd)
- diffhist Agatha Christie 08:24 −1 2a02:c7c:bf3b:eb00:2186:180b:884b:c183 talk Tags: Manual revert Reverted
- diffhist m Cann Quarry Canal 07:13 +4 Bob1960evens talk contribs (→Points of interest: kml template renamed to GeoGroup)
- diffhist m Braunton Canal 07:05 +4 Bob1960evens talk contribs (→Points of interest: kml template renamed to GeoGroup)
- diffhist Talk:Jeremy Thorpe 06:59 +125 Martinevans123 talk contribs (→Semi-protected edit request on 16 September 2024: thanks)
- diffhist Jeremy Thorpe 06:58 −1 Martinevans123 talk contribs (→Relationship with Norman Scott: see Talk page)
- diffhist Jeremy Thorpe 05:56 0 A bit iffy talk contribs (→1970–1974: unnecessary capitalisation)
- diffhist Talk:Jeremy Thorpe 05:23 +283 Eltaninn talk contribs (→Semi-protected edit request on 16 September 2024: new section)
- diffhist m Cosmo Jarvis 04:58 −11 Geraldo Perez talk contribs (Reverted 1 edit by 2601:182:881:13E0:40C6:16C4:F613:9E7 (talk): MOS:USA) Tags: Twinkle Undo
- diffhist Cosmo Jarvis 03:39 +11 2601:182:881:13e0:40c6:16c4:f613:9e7 talk (→Early life) Tags: Reverted Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- diffhist Jeremy Thorpe 02:24 0 JennyOz talk contribs (→Relationship with Norman Scott: swap full stop to comma)
- diffhist Exeter City F.C. 02:23 −9 Matt7504 talk contribs (→Out on loan: Changed naming convention of Poole Town and Bradford City) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Disambiguation links added
- diffhist Jeremy Thorpe 00:57 −5 GoodDay talk contribs
- diffhist Jeremy Thorpe 00:00 +27 HirowoWiki talk contribs (Added page protection template (protected))
15 September 2024
- diffhist m Great Torrington 23:52 +5 Kaltenmeyer talk contribs (clean up) Tag: AWB
- diffhist m Watersmeet House 23:48 −3 MPF talk contribs (format)
- diffhist Squab pie 23:03 +25 TheTastyWord talk contribs (→Origins: Added a link)
- diffhist Talk:And Then There Were None 22:42 +382 Schazjmd talk contribs (→Opinions: suggest close)
- diffhist John Seymour, 19th Duke of Somerset 21:48 −9 Jonesey95 talk contribs (Fix Linter errors.)
- diffhist Squab pie 21:45 +34 TheTastyWord talk contribs (→Origins: Added links)
- diffhist And Then There Were None 21:31 −7 MichaelMaggs talk contribs (→Plot: Avoid starting two paragraphs with a very similar initial phrase) Tag: Visual edit
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!