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Welcome to the WikiProject England!, some Wikipedians have formed a Project to improve articles and organise them 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!

Contents 1 Goals 2 Announcements and Open tasks 3 Scope and Motivation 4 Featured Content 4.1 Articles 4.2 Lists 4.3 Pictures 5 Templates 5.1 Portals 5.2 Candidates 5.3 New articles 6 Structure 6.1 Divisions 7 Categories 8 Resources 9 Associated projects 10 Urgent help needed! 10.1 Importance 11 Article Alerts 12 See also 13 Resources

[edit] Goals

• Improve the coverage of English parishes to more than just one line by added 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
• Get the main England article up to GA status at least
• Ensure that sub articles like Education in England, History of England, Geography of England are to a high standard, whilst not using too much from the similar articles at History of the United Kingdom etc
• English city and town articles such as London to a high standard.
• Fulfill requests for photos in Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in England

[edit] Announcements and Open tasks

• <feel free to add tasks here>
• Anglophobia: needs input on whether what I have added ([[1]]) 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).
• England - trim down as per UK below, up level of inline references, reference anywhere with {{fact}} tags. See (a few) concerns at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/England
• United Kingdom - Split off parts in sub articles - see concerns at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/United Kingdom
• 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)

[edit] Scope and Motivation

[edit] Featured Content

[edit] Articles

Albert Bridge, London Altrincham Anna Laetitia Barbauld Arsenal F.C. Ashton-under-Lyne Baden-Powell House Bath, Somerset Battersea Bridge Battle of Barnet Battle of Bosworth Field Belton House Birchington-on-Sea Blyth, Northumberland Matthew Brettingham Brownhills Brownsea Island Scout camp Bruce Castle Buckingham Palace Buildings and architecture of Bristol Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway Charles II of England Chat Moss Cheadle Hulme Chelsea Bridge Chew Stoke Chew Valley Chew Valley Lake City and South London Railway Doctor Who missing episodes Dorset East End of London

Edward III of England Edward VIII of the United Kingdom Edward VI of England Elizabeth I of England Exmoor George Fox George I of Great Britain George III of the United Kingdom George IV of the United Kingdom George VI of the United Kingdom Gilwell Park Great Fire of London Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway Greater Manchester Gropecunt Lane Hellingly Hospital Railway Damon Hill Isle of Portland James I of England Local Government Commission for England (1992) London congestion charge M62 motorway Maiden Castle, Dorset Manchester Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal Mary II of England Mendip Hills Modernist poetry in English Herne Bay, Kent Henry Moore Benjamin Mountfort Navenby

Oldham Only Fools and Horses Order of the Bath Peterborough Radcliffe, Greater Manchester Restoration spectacular Richmond Bridge, London Sale, Greater Manchester Scout Moor Wind Farm Shaw and Crompton Sheerness Sheffield Sheffield Wednesday F.C. Somerset Stretford Theatre Royal, Drury Lane J. R. R. Tolkien Trafford Tunnel Railway John Vanbrugh Vauxhall Bridge Warwick Castle West Wycombe Park Westgate-on-Sea Weymouth Jonathan Wild William III of England William IV of the United Kingdom Mary Wollstonecraft Wormshill

[edit] Lists

Chief Justice of the Common Pleas Grade I listed buildings in Bristol Grade I listed buildings in Greater Manchester Grade I listed buildings in Mendip Grade I listed buildings in North Somerset Grade I listed buildings in Sedgemoor Grade I listed buildings in South Somerset Grade I listed buildings in Taunton Deane Grade I listed buildings in West Somerset List of castles in Cheshire List of castles in Greater Manchester List of London Underground stations

List of places of worship in Brighton and Hove List of places of worship in Crawley List of railway stations in Greater Manchester List of railway stations in the West Midlands List of Scheduled Monuments in Greater Manchester List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Avon List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Cleveland List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in East Sussex List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Greater London List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Greater Manchester List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Hertfordshire List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest on the Isle of Wight

List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Merseyside List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Somerset List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in the West Midlands List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire List of tallest buildings and structures in Manchester List of tallest buildings and structures in Salford Listed buildings in the rural area of Runcorn Listed buildings in the urban area of Runcorn New churches by John Douglas Locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal Timeline of the London Underground

[edit] Pictures

See Featured Pictures List

[edit] Templates

What to type	What it produces	Uses
{{WPE}}	WikiProject England   EnglandWikipedia:WikiProject EnglandTemplate:WikiProject EnglandEngland-related articles England portal v • d • 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.  ???  This article has not yet received a rating on the project's quality scale.  ???  This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.	To be placed on article talk pages, designates that an article is within the scope of the Project, articles can also be rated to find their overall quality and importance.
{{WPE-Member}}	This user is a member of WikiProject England, a WikiProject which aims to create, edit and expand articles relating to England. Please feel free to join us.	Optional large banner in which users can display on their Userpage telling viewers that they are a member of the Project, can replace the Userbox or be an addition to it,
{{WPE-Invite}}	Hello! I thought you may be interested in joining WikiProject England. We work on creating, expanding and making general changes to England related articles. If you would be interested in joining feel free to visit the Project Page!. Thank You.	To be placed on User talk pages of users who you have noticed contribute regularly to England related articles, if they decide to join they will list themselves on the list of participants
{{User WPEngland}}	This user is a member of WikiProject England	Designates that a User is a member of this Wikiproject. This can be used instead or as well as the above banner.
{{English Barnstar}}	The English Barnstar of National Merit {{{1}}} this WikiAward was given to {{subst:PAGENAME}} by ~~~ on ~~~~~	To be awarded to users who are greatly involved in the project

[edit] Portals

• Portal:London
• Portal:South East England
• Portal:North East England

[edit] Candidates

• Anything applicable to the project that's already listed at Featured article candidates, Featured picture candidates, or Featured list candidates
• Buildings of Jesus College, Oxford is now a featured article candidate. You can add comments here.
• Grade I listed buildings in Bath and North East Somerset is now a featured list candidate. You can add comments here.
• Listed buildings in Widnes is now a featured list candidate. You can add comments here.

[edit] New articles

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.

1. Selina Davenport - English Romantic period author. Currently start class and appeared on the main page as a DYK on October 7, 2009. –Katerenka (talk) 06:44, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
2. St Lawrence Church, Ipswich, a DYK and needs an assessment. OrangeDog (talk • edits) 01:01, 27 September 2009 (UTC)
3. Gyles v Wilcox, will be nominated for DYK soon, and I would love to get it to GA. Cheers! Scapler (talk) 21:08, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
4. Buildings and architecture of Bath, current nom for DYK. I would like to get it to GA (& maybe FA) --— Rod ^talk 20:28, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
5. Sheldon Manor, current nom for DYK --Rodhullandemu 18:06, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
6. Walter Potter, already a GA and a DYK. --Rodhullandemu 18:06, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Structure

[edit] Divisions

• Categorization (talk) – Categorization of England-related articles
• Cities (talk) – Cities, towns, villages and districts
• Physical geography (talk) – Regions, parks, climate, physical features, bodies of water
• Transportation (talk) – Roads, rails, tunnels, and other methods of transportation.
• Culture (talk) – Music, art, icons, mass communication
• People (talk) – (includes but not limited to):residents, England-related, its predecessors, and all who have resided in any of England's colonies, important people to England.
• Government (talk) – Government and Politics.
• History (talk) – History of England
• Photo requests (talk) – List of requested photos.

[edit] Categories

• Category:England
• Category:Listed buildings in England

[edit] Resources

• 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

[edit] Associated projects

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 King George's Fields

Related Taskforces

• WP:British Isles Terminology task force

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: England

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Category:England

[edit] Urgent help needed!

Your help is needed here! Literally 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 ect.
• Stub - The article is very short yet explains the title and gives enough information but more information could be added.

[edit] Importance

• 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).

[edit] Article Alerts

Article alerts

Proposed deletion 23 Nov 2009 – Elvet Hill (talk) has been deleted. 20 Nov 2009 – PROD tag removed from Alan Smith (physio) (talk). 17 Nov 2009 – Danny Nicholls (talk) proposed for deletion by Struway2. Articles for deletion 19 Nov 2009 – X Is Loaded (talk) nominated for deletion by AndrewHowse; see discussion. 17 Nov 2009 – Engine (boogie-rock band) (talk) nominated for deletion by The ed17; see discussion. 9 Nov 2009 – Chelmswood (talk) has been deleted; see discussion. Featured article candidates 21 Nov 2009 – Gunpowder Plot (talk) is nominated by Parrot of Doom. Featured article reviews 26 Oct 2009 – George III of the United Kingdom (talk) is nominated by Marskell. 20 Oct 2009 – Arsenal F.C. (talk) is nominated by Giants2008. Featured list candidates 15 Nov 2009 – Premier League Manager of the Month (talk) is promoted to FL status. Featured topic candidates 22 Nov 2009 – Topic Lists of Grade I listed buildings in Somerset with main article Grade I listed buildings in Somerset (talk) is promoted. Good article nominations 22 Nov 2009 – Liverpool Town Hall (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by Peter I. Vardy. 12 Nov 2009 – Buildings and architecture of Bath (talk) is promoted to GA status; see discussion. 10 Nov 2009 – Grade I listed buildings in Somerset (talk) is promoted to GA status; see discussion. 7 Nov 2009 – East Riding of Yorkshire (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by Harkey Lodger. 21 Oct 2009 – 2005 Hertfordshire Oil Storage Terminal fire (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by LouriePieterse (on hold); see discussion. Good article reassessment 12 Nov 2009 – Kevin Shepherd (talk) has been demoted; see discussion. Peer review 19 Nov 2009 – Peer review for Leeds (talk) closed. 19 Nov 2009 – Peer review for East Riding of Yorkshire (talk) closed. 18 Nov 2009 – Peer review for Blackburn (talk) closed. 12 Nov 2009 – Peer review opened for Everyman (play) (talk) by JMax555. 8 Nov 2009 – Peer review opened for History of Hertfordshire (talk) by S Marshall. Requested moves 21 Nov 2009 – Move requested from Catherine Ashton (talk) to Catherine Ashton, Baroness Ashton of Upholland by Pfainuk; see discussion. 18 Nov 2009 – Move requested from Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (talk) to Alfred, Lord Tennyson by LtPowers; see discussion. 18 Nov 2009 – Move requested from Belle de Jour (writer) (talk) to Brooke Magnanti by PatGallacher; see discussion. 13 Nov 2009 – Move requested from 2005 Hertfordshire Oil Storage Terminal fire (talk) to Buncefield fire by MickMacNee; see discussion. Today's featured article 14 Nov 2009 – William III of England (talk) was featured on the main page. In the news 20 Nov 2009 – A news event involving Catherine Ashton (talk) appeared on the main page. Did you know 22 Nov 2009 – A fact from The Digby Conversion of Saint Paul (talk) appeared on the main page. 20 Nov 2009 – A fact from St Peter ad Vincula, South Newington (talk) appeared on the main page. Other news 16 Nov 2009 – A new edition of the Wikipedia Signpost is out. 19 Oct 2009 – The cleanup listings from WolterBot have updated. 17 Oct 2009 – A new database dump is available.

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[edit] Resources