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 | 99 | 3 | 139 | |
C | 6 | 18 | 89 | 440 | 8 | 561 | |
Start | 3 | 7 | 147 | 1,760 | 21 | 1,938 | |
Stub | 1 | 7 | 1,644 | 15 | 1,667 | ||
List | 4 | 25 | 67 | 96 | |||
Category | 1 | 9 | 234 | 421 | 665 | ||
Disambig | 1 | 3 | 12 | 16 | |||
File | 1 | 7 | 9 | 17 | |||
Portal | 1 | 1 | |||||
Project | 1 | 3 | 4 | ||||
Template | 26 | 22 | 48 | ||||
NA | 2 | 72 | 103 | 177 | |||
Other | 5 | 5 | |||||
Assessed | 14 | 48 | 320 | 4,382 | 572 | 47 | 5,383 |
Unassessed | 3 | 64 | 67 | ||||
Total | 14 | 48 | 320 | 4,385 | 572 | 111 | 5,450 |
WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 22,427 | Ω = 5.16 |
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]
Redirects for discussion
- 28 May 2024 – First f Great Western (talk · edit · hist) →Great Western Railway (train operating company) was RfDed by JuniperChill (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 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: 2024-06-26 20:12 (UTC)
Note: The list display can now be customized by each user. See List display personalization for details.
- Worcestershire Militia (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Rickfive (talk · contribs · new pages (27)) started on 2024-06-26, score: 70
- Category:Writers about Devon (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) by Throughthemind (talk · contribs · new pages (10)) started on 2024-06-26, score: 60
- Gerald Kasaato (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by SiniyaEdita (talk · contribs · new pages (8)) started on 2024-06-23, score: 40
- Draft:Devon Conversions (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) by Flamingopinkbathroom (talk · contribs · new pages (1)) started on 2024-06-23, score: 60
- Results of the 2024 United Kingdom general election by constituency (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Chessrat (talk · contribs · new pages (3)) started on 2024-06-19, score: 100
- St Philip's Church, Weston Mill (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Ajsmith141 (talk · contribs · new pages (2)) started on 2024-06-18, score: 70
- Thomas Salthouse (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by WikiOriginal-9 (talk · contribs · new pages (658)) started on 2024-06-17, score: 40
- Armada Way (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Encoded (talk · contribs · new pages (10)) started on 2024-06-16, score: 50
- Draft:South Devon Alliance (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) by 141.195.162.159 (talk · contribs · new pages (1)) started on 2024-06-17, score: 60
- Template:City of Plymouth (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) by Encoded (talk · contribs · new pages (10)) started on 2024-06-16, score: 30
- Cyber-SHIP Lab (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Encoded (talk · contribs · new pages (10)) started on 2024-06-15, score: 40
- Draft:Armada Way (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) by Encoded (talk · contribs · new pages (10)) started on 2024-06-16, score: 50
- William Jones Thomas (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by LiamGM (talk · contribs · new pages (2)) started on 2024-06-13, score: 40
- List of performances by Felice Lascelles (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Pdebee (talk · contribs · new pages (2)) started on 2024-06-13, score: 50
- Felice Lascelles (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Pdebee (talk · contribs · new pages (2)) started on 2024-06-12, score: 70
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
26 June 2024
- diffhist m Rosie Huntington-Whiteley 13:52 −77 Yamla talk contribs (Reverted edit by Mirkomil Qodirov (talk) to last version by Loriendrew) Tag: Rollback
- diffhist m Rosie Huntington-Whiteley 12:14 +77 Mirkomil Qodirov talk contribs (→Career) Tag: Reverted
- diffhist Seaton Tramway 11:11 +60 Rcsprinter123 talk contribs (add map)
- diffhist m Ben Green (cricketer) 10:39 +1 Follyshipment talk contribs
- diffhist Talk:Gubbins band 10:07 −6 Cameron Dewe talk contribs (Remove defunct WikiProject British crime banner as no longer used. See Wikipedia:WikiProject British crime. - Already included in WikiProject Crime and Criminal Biography and WikiProject United Kingdom.)
- diffhist Newton Abbot (UK Parliament constituency) 08:49 +73 Troyificus talk contribs
- diffhist Wistman's Wood 08:28 +22 Belbury talk contribs (restore original shortdesc, move unused reference that accidentally replaced it)
- diffhist Wistman's Wood 08:27 +54 Belbury talk contribs (Adding local short description: "Oakwood on Dartmoor, in England", overriding Wikidata description "oakwood on Dartmoor, Devon, England") Tag: Shortdesc helper
- diffhist Wistman's Wood 08:26 −26 Belbury talk contribs (move Conan Doyle paragraph to literature section)
- diffhist Wistman's Wood 08:20 +2,754 KronosAlight talk contribs Tags: Visual edit Disambiguation links added
- diffhist Bristol Channel 07:24 −42 Murgatroyd49 talk contribs (→Geography: cvt templates)
- diffhist Fawlty Towers 07:01 +4 JAGHfdUK talk contribs (→Series 1 (1975))
- diffhist m Bristol Channel 05:38 −48 Preslethe talk contribs (→Geography: minor linguistic edits)
25 June 2024
- diffhist Rachel Ray (novel) 21:39 +6 Kyleinu2007 talk contribs (Updated short description) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile app edit Android app edit
- diffhist m Francis Fulford (landowner) 17:27 +74 JohnFromPinckney talk contribs (Rearrange pre-content templates per MOS:ORDER. Quotation marks, italics. Update HHA, other cites.)
- diffhist A303 road 16:47 +104 Ritchie333 talk contribs (→External links: add)
- diffhist Tiverton Town F.C. 15:57 −56 2a0a:5586:253c:0:78d3:f0ac:b61d:a6a6 talk (→Current squad) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- diffhist Lynton 15:06 +121 BrayLockBoy talk contribs
- diffhist Lynmouth 15:04 +34 BrayLockBoy talk contribs
- diffhist Westward Ho! 15:02 +89 BrayLockBoy talk contribs (→Bus services)
- diffhist m Robert Falcon Scott 14:57 −13 RobertG talk contribs (no pipe needed)
- diffhist Robert Falcon Scott 14:52 +664 JackBurden1 talk contribs (Added his final quote) Tag: Visual edit
- diffhist Dead Man's Folly (film) 13:51 0 51.6.69.51 talk (→Sequels)
- diffhist Steven J Fowler 13:12 +49 2a00:23c6:aba7:2e01:c466:8fc1:4f9f:e5b5 talk (→Poetry) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- diffhist Elburton Villa F.C. 12:55 +2 82.14.154.23 talk (→Ground)
- diffhist Elburton Villa F.C. 12:54 +4 82.14.154.23 talk (→Ground)
- diffhist John Prideaux (British Army officer) 12:54 +41 Berserker276 talk contribs (→References)
- diffhist Elburton Villa F.C. 12:53 +211 82.14.154.23 talk (→Ground)
- diffhist HM Prison Dartmoor 10:47 +65 82.41.164.60 talk
- diffhist m Kingsley School, Bideford 08:54 +23 Martpol talk contribs (Link edits / other minor edits) Tag: Visual edit
- diffhist Bideford, Westward Ho! and Appledore Railway 07:16 +1 Peter Galvani talk contribs (→Decline, closure and disposal) Tag: Visual edit
- diffhist Abbotskerswell 06:37 +2 92.19.247.92 talk (→top: Update out-of-date parliamentary constituency) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile app edit Android app edit
- diffhist m Torquay United F.C. 04:06 0 Shonebrooks talk contribs (→A new era and the Bateson years (1988–2008): I corrected the spelling of "football." WP:TYPO)
- diffhist m Agatha Christie 01:42 +32 Smasongarrison talk contribs (Copying from Category:Female nurses in World War I to Category:World War I nurses Diffusing per WP:DIFFUSE and/or WP:ALLINCLUDED using Cat-a-lot)
- diffhist Charles Church, Plymouth 01:25 −7 DuncanHill talk contribs (→Clergy: wls)
- diffhist Charles Church, Plymouth 01:18 +1 2603:8000:d300:3650:2810:ca2f:bb22:d291 talk (sp)
- diffhist Prayer Book Rebellion 00:44 +58 K1ngstowngalway1 talk contribs Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
- diffhist The Boyhood of Raleigh 00:17 +5 Diddy-sama6 talk contribs (→Literary and satirical use)
24 June 2024
- diffhist Francis Fulford (landowner) 23:21 +326 RedWall2020 talk contribs (Source is relevant to the life and career section of the article)
- diffhist Central Devon (UK Parliament constituency) 22:25 −2,212 Rcsprinter123 talk contribs (update)
- diffhist Bideford, Westward Ho! and Appledore Railway 21:41 −76 Peter Galvani talk contribs Tag: Visual edit
- diffhist Trinity School, Teignmouth 21:08 +7 Hjamesberglen talk contribs (urn)
- diffhist Plymouth 21:04 +48 DragonofBatley talk contribs (Added new photo of Plymouth Guildhall to include the Minster Church since it is the original parish church of the city and a Grade I listed building) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
- diffhist Exmoor 20:27 −1 2603:8000:d300:3650:2810:ca2f:bb22:d291 talk (*sp)
- diffhist Geoffrey Cox (British politician) 19:34 −2 DeFacto talk contribs (Restored revision 1229797623 by AusLondonder (talk): Correctly spelt) Tags: Twinkle Undo
- diffhist m Torquay United F.C. 19:26 0 LizardJr8 talk contribs (Reverted 1 edit by 82.28.150.231 (talk) to last revision by 2A00:23C8:E35:8701:CDE6:EFDB:102F:CE8A) Tags: Twinkle Undo
- diffhist Torquay United F.C. 19:22 0 82.28.150.231 talk (Fixed typo) Tags: Reverted Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- diffhist Dartmouth and Torbay Railway 18:27 +74 Mauls talk contribs (#article-section-source-editor) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile app edit iOS app 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.
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{{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!