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Welcome to the Politics of the United Kingdom wikiproject, which is a group of editors with an interest in improving articles related to politics and government in the United Kingdom. You are welcome to join us or assist us with our outstanding tasks.

Contents 1 Overview 2 Related WikiProjects 3 Sub-pages 3.1 Article guidelines 4 Article Alerts 5 Tasks 6 Getting involved 6.1 Wikipedians

[edit] Overview

See also project scope.

This project is intended to cover all aspects of Politics and Government within the United Kingdom. Given the broad range of topics that fall within this scope, there are several areas of overlap with similar projects (such as WikiProject UK Parliament constituencies).

Where a subject is already supported by a more focussed project or work group, the more focussed project should take the lead. This project will act in a support role for the more focussed projects and attempt to provide co-ordination between projects when necessary.

If a more focussed project does not exist for a subject (or where the focussed project becomes inactive), this project will take direct responsibility for that subject.

Timeline scope

The project should cover the period from the creation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707, through the formal integration of Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in 1801, to the modern day. Articles relating to politics or government in England, Scotland or Wales before 1707 should only be adopted by the project if there was a continued effect on politics or government after the union. Likewise, articles relating to politics or government in Ireland before 1801 should only be adopted by the project if there was a continued effect on politics or government after the union.

Articles relating to the Republic of Ireland should not be adopted by this project unless they have a direct bearing on UK politics or government. Special care should be taken in adopting articles about Ireland around the 1920s; the Irish Free State was set up in 1922 but the UK's name wasn't changed to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland until 1927. If you are in doubt on whether an article should be adopted please discuss it on the talk page of this project first.

[edit] Related WikiProjects Wikipedia:WikiProject Politics (see also Portal:Politics) WikiProject British Government (inactive) WikiProject Elections and Referendums WikiProject European Union WikiProject Political parties WikiProject UK Parliament constituencies WikiProject Unionism in Ireland WikiProject Biography WikiProject Biography/Politics and government WikiProject Biography/Royalty WikiProject British Royalty WikiProject Peerage and Baronetage Wikipedia:WikiProject Law

[edit] Sub-pages /Assessment - a guide to assessing the quality and importance of articles within the WikiProject /Categories - a list of categories within our scope. Used by bots for auto tagging articles with our banner. /Cleanup listing - a list of articles requiring attention. /Newsletter - project newsletters /Popular pages - a list of the most popular articles within our scope. See also: /Top 25 articles /Templates - a list of templates related to UK politics. See also: Category:Template-Class Politics of the United Kingdom articles) [edit] Article guidelines /Constituencies - a guide to dealing with consituency articles (draft) /Parties - a guide to dealing with UK political party articles (draft) /Politicians - a guide to dealing with UK politician articles (draft)

[edit] Article Alerts

Article alerts

Proposed deletion 6 Jan 2010 – James Easton (talk) has been deleted. 4 Jan 2010 – Elaine Boyes (talk) has been deleted. 1 Jan 2010 – PROD tag removed from Scottish Labour Party (Democratic Wing) (talk). 1 Jan 2010 – PROD tag removed from Young Independence (talk). Articles for deletion 8 Jan 2010 – Peter John (talk) has been deleted; see discussion. 1 Jan 2010 – Young Independence (talk) nominated for deletion by Jclemens; see discussion. 26 Dec 2009 – Mike Farrar (talk) was kept; see discussion. Featured article candidates 29 Dec 2009 – William Garrow (talk) is nominated by Ironholds. Featured article reviews 6 Jan 2010 – Liberal Democrats leadership election, 2006 (talk) is demoted. 26 Oct 2009 – George III of the United Kingdom (talk) is nominated by Marskell. Featured list candidates 6 Dec 2009 – List of civil parishes in Somerset (talk) is nominated by Rodw. Good article nominations 4 Jan 2010 – Charles Stewart Parnell (talk) is not promoted; see discussion. 30 Dec 2009 – William Garrow (talk) is promoted to GA status. 26 Dec 2009 – Sir Gabriel Goldney, 1st Baronet (talk) is not promoted. 25 Dec 2009 – Sir James Shaw, 1st Baronet (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by Rodhullandemu. 21 Dec 2009 – Occupiers' Liability Act 1957 (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by Ironholds. 21 Dec 2009 – Parliamentary constituencies in Hertfordshire (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by WFCforLife. 14 Dec 2009 – United Kingdom Election Results (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by Cirt. 10 Dec 2009 – Defective Premises Act 1972 (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by Ironholds. 28 Nov 2009 – Trustee Act 2000 (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by Ironholds. 24 Nov 2009 – David Icke (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by Sir Richardson; see discussion. (1 more...) Peer review 4 Jan 2010 – Peer review for Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 (talk) closed. Requested moves 3 Jan 2010 – Move requested from Treasonable Practices Act 1795 (talk) to Treason Act 1795 by Richard75; see discussion. 28 Dec 2009 – William Evelyn (Conservative politician) (talk) was not moved; see discussion. 28 Dec 2009 – Republic of Ireland – United Kingdom border (talk) was not moved; see discussion. In the news 29 Dec 2009 – A news event involving Akmal Shaikh (talk) appeared on the main page. Did you know 7 Jan 2010 – A fact from Hugh Norman-Walker (talk) appeared on the main page. 7 Jan 2010 – A fact from William Garrow (talk) appeared on the main page. Other news 30 Dec 2009 – WikiProjects and Portals who want to have automatically-updated "Walls of Recognized Content" (see WikiProject Physics' WoRC) can go here and follow instructions. For details, contact JLaTondre. 28 Dec 2009 – A new edition of the Wikipedia Signpost is out 10 Dec 2009 – The cleanup listings from WolterBot have updated. 7 Dec 2009 – A new edition of the Wikipedia Signpost is out. 30 Nov 2009 – The new book-class is released. See the Signpost article and the setup guide for details. Contact Headbomb for questions and help. 28 Nov 2009 – A new database dump is available. Archives (3 more...)

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[edit] Tasks

edit · history · watch · refresh  To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Politics of the United Kingdom:

Here are some tasks you can do: Cleanup: Cleanup articles recorded in our Cleanup listing Stubs: Expand any of our stub articles. Infobox: Identify pages that need infoboxes by adding |needs-infobox=yes to the project banner. Add infoboxes to any articles appearing in this category. Other: Check this category for any articles requiring urgent attention. Add {{WP UK Politics}} to all talk pages within the project scope. Assess the quality of all our unassessed articles Identify pages that need images by adding |needs-picture=yes to the project banner. Find images for any articles listed in this category. Note: only free images are allowed for living people unless an argument can be made that their appearance has changed significantly since the time in which they were notable (see WP:NFC#Unacceptable use).

• Improve the Premiership of Gordon Brown article.

[edit] Getting involved

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[edit] Wikipedians

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