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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 | |
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2 | 3 | 3 | 8 | |||
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4 | 4 | |||||
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1 | 3 | 13 | 20 | 37 | ||
B | 4 | 12 | 21 | 101 | 3 | 141 | |
C | 6 | 18 | 89 | 440 | 8 | 561 | |
Start | 3 | 7 | 147 | 1,760 | 21 | 1,938 | |
Stub | 1 | 7 | 1,643 | 16 | 1,667 | ||
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 | 4,384 | 573 | 48 | 5,387 |
Unassessed | 3 | 66 | 69 | ||||
Total | 14 | 48 | 320 | 4,387 | 573 | 114 | 5,456 |
WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 22,433 | Ω = 5.15 |
New to Wikipedia?
editIf 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
editThis project broadly follows the guidelines of its parent, the UK Geography WikiProject, on how to write about settlements.
Article alerts
editDid you know
- 06 Jul 2024 – Fred Thomas (British politician) (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Sahaib (t · c); see discussion
Requested moves
- 06 Jul 2024 – Blackdown Hills National Landscape (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Blackdown Hills by Steinsky (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) 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
editA 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
editThis 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: 2024-07-06 20:04 (UTC)
Note: The list display can now be customized by each user. See List display personalization for details.
- List of United Kingdom Liberal Democrat MPs (2024–present) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Moondragon21 (talk · contribs · new pages (85)) 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 (85)) started on 2024-07-05, score: 50
- Rebecca Smith (politician) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Moondragon21 (talk · contribs · new pages (85)) started on 2024-07-05, score: 60
- David Reed (Conservative politician) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Moondragon21 (talk · contribs · new pages (85)) started on 2024-07-05, score: 70
- Ian Roome (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Moondragon21 (talk · contribs · new pages (85)) started on 2024-07-05, score: 40
- Martin Wrigley (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Moondragon21 (talk · contribs · new pages (85)) started on 2024-07-05, score: 50
- Steve Race (British politician) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Moondragon21 (talk · contribs · new pages (85)) 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 (18)) 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 (27)) 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
- List of MPs elected in the 2024 United Kingdom general election (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by ThingsCanOnlyGetWetter (talk · contribs · new pages (54)) started on 2024-07-03, score: 100
- 1958–59 Queens Park Rangers F.C. season (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Nescaff (talk · contribs · new pages (7)) started on 2024-06-22, score: 25
- 1953–54 Queens Park Rangers F.C. season (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Nescaff (talk · contribs · new pages (7)) started on 2024-07-02, score: 25
- Stephen Mitchell (historian) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Furius (talk · contribs · new pages (2)) started on 2024-07-02, score: 40
- East Norfolk Militia (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Rickfive (talk · contribs · new pages (69)) started on 2024-07-01, score: 30
- List of acts of the Parliament of England from 1531 (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Mauls (talk · contribs · new pages (134)) started on 2024-06-30, score: 30
- St Boniface's Church, St Budeaux (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Ajsmith141 (talk · contribs · new pages (2)) started on 2024-06-29, score: 70
- Category:Organisations based in Exeter (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) by DinosaursLoveExistence (talk · contribs · new pages (62)) started on 2024-06-29, score: 80
- Neville Morley (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Furius (talk · contribs · new pages (2)) started on 2024-06-27, score: 40
- Ed Middleton (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Goodknowme (talk · contribs · new pages (14)) started on 2024-06-27, score: 60
- 1957–58 Queens Park Rangers F.C. season (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Nescaff (talk · contribs · new pages (7)) started on 2024-06-27, score: 30
- Worcestershire Militia (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Rickfive (talk · contribs · new pages (69)) started on 2024-06-26, score: 70
- Category:Writers about Devon (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) by Throughthemind (talk · contribs · new pages (34)) started on 2024-06-26, score: 60
- Gerald Kasaato (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by SiniyaEdita (talk · contribs · new pages (5)) 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
Recent changes
editList of abbreviations (help):
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8 July 2024
- diffhist m Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 12th Baronet 08:37 +73 Atremari talk contribs (Added short description #article-add-desc) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile app edit iOS app edit
- diffhist Exeter (UK Parliament constituency) 08:24 +44 92.40.201.135 talk (→Elections in the 2020s)
- diffhist And Then There Were None 04:09 +1 Hydronium Hydroxide talk contribs (Swap images and captions so that the infobox image matches the current title (noting that that image is more likely to be used in search previews, etc) and the historical image is shown against Publication History)
- diffhist The Hound of the Baskervilles 03:05 +1 EEBuchanan talk contribs (→Plot)
- diffhist The Hound of the Baskervilles 03:03 −1 EEBuchanan talk contribs (→Plot: lots of extraneous verbiage at the cost of more direct/important details being cut out. some events out of order. Also some inaccurate sentences (Hugo never mentions the devil in his evil oath, for one), and a lot of poor grammar, especially sentences constructed as run-ons or with unclear subject-action connections.)
- diffhist And Then There Were None 01:29 +76 HiLo48 talk contribs (Reverted. It's real. Wikipedia is not censored. That's what the book was called!) Tag: Undo
- diffhist And Then There Were None 01:22 −76 2600:6c56:7f00:223d:b02a:4486:a55a:ce75 talk (→top: inappropriate image) Tags: Reverted Mobile edit Mobile app edit Android app edit
7 July 2024
- diffhist Exeter City F.C. 23:57 +21 JonasBR talk contribs
- diffhist m Isca Dumnoniorum 22:02 0 TKOIII talk contribs (→Roman: typo) Tag: Visual edit
- diffhist m South Devon (UK Parliament constituency) 21:06 −1 Rwpardey01 talk contribs
- diffhist m North Devon (UK Parliament constituency) 20:14 0 ScottishEmu talk contribs Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- diffhist m Fawlty Towers 20:02 +5 Hogyn Lleol talk contribs (→Remakes, adaptations and reunions: Missing word 'play') Tags: Mobile edit Mobile app edit Android app edit
- diffhist Fawlty Towers 19:59 +1 Hogyn Lleol talk contribs (→Remakes, adaptations and reunions: Ce: were unmade > were not made) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile app edit Android app edit
- diffhist Fawlty Towers 19:56 +6 Hogyn Lleol talk contribs (→Remakes, adaptations and reunions: Punct.) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile app edit Android app edit
- diffhist St James School, Exeter 19:12 −3 2a00:23c5:8f05:ad01:fdc2:df0:c1d:6e77 talk Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- diffhist Ben Green (cricketer) 18:46 −11 Ytfc23 talk contribs
- diffhist m John Babbacombe Lee 18:31 +45 Asdasdasdff talk contribs (→External links)
- diffhist Robert Falcon Scott 17:46 +36 216.36.129.181 talk
- diffhist Devon and Cornwall Police 17:10 +475 2a00:23ee:2940:819b:c07a:22af:2c3c:6a58 talk (→Roads policing Team: Added up to date content) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- Move log 15:35 Tassedethe talk contribs moved page Talk:The Witch Hunter (novel) to Talk:The Witch Hunter (mv to basename)
- Move log 15:35 Tassedethe talk contribs moved page The Witch Hunter (novel) to The Witch Hunter (mv to basename)
- diffhist Central Devon (UK Parliament constituency) 15:25 0 92.6.213.244 talk (→Elections in the 2020s)
- diffhist Central Devon (UK Parliament constituency) 15:24 +6 92.6.213.244 talk (→Elections in the 2020s)
- diffhist Lorna Doone (1990 film) 12:59 +400 Dom Kaos talk contribs (Copyedited refs)
- diffhist Robert Falcon Scott 11:19 −43 Bearcat talk contribs (no redlinked categories; only categories that actually exist are permitted) Tag: Manual revert
- diffhist Plymouth Moor View (UK Parliament constituency) 10:04 +5 Giuliotf talk contribs (→Elections in the 2020s: Calculated swing)
- diffhist South West England 08:39 +3 Footy updates talk contribs (→Politics) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- diffhist South West England 08:37 −8,499 Footy updates talk contribs (→Politics) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- diffhist m Exeter (UK Parliament constituency) 07:14 +2 Rwpardey01 talk contribs (→Elections in the 2020s)
- diffhist m Exeter (UK Parliament constituency) 07:14 +57 Rwpardey01 talk contribs (→Elections in the 2020s)
- diffhist m Exeter (UK Parliament constituency) 07:07 +16 Rwpardey01 talk contribs (→Elections in the 2020s)
- diffhist m Exeter (UK Parliament constituency) 07:06 +18 Rwpardey01 talk contribs (→Elections in the 2020s)
- diffhist 2008 Exeter attempted bombing 04:49 +1 TheGreatSG'rean talk contribs Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- diffhist m Floella Benjamin 02:55 +35 Smasongarrison talk contribs (Copying from Category:Black British women writers to Category:Black British writers Diffusing per WP:DIFFUSE and/or WP:ALLINCLUDED using Cat-a-lot)
6 July 2024
- diffhist Geoffrey Cox (British politician) 23:25 +35 Icairns 2 talk contribs (→External links: +categ)
- diffhist Fairmile, Devon 23:13 +22 ForsythiaJo talk contribs (removed Category:Anti-road protests; added Category:Anti-road protests in the United Kingdom using HotCat)
- diffhist A30 road 23:11 +22 ForsythiaJo talk contribs (removed Category:Anti-road protests; added Category:Anti-road protests in the United Kingdom using HotCat)
- diffhist Haldon Hills 22:08 +313 2.28.199.73 talk (→Roads: Added content) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- diffhist Ideford 22:02 +114 2.28.199.73 talk (Added content) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- diffhist Furse (surname) 21:05 +61 David Eppstein talk contribs (→Some notable people named Furse: *Cynthia Furse (born 1963), American electrical engineer)
- diffhist Exeter 20:55 −2 2a00:23c4:e1a5:1901:8109:482e:365c:3c3c talk (New MP) Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- diffhist Totnes (UK Parliament constituency) 19:33 +153 Ytfc23 talk contribs (→MPs 1997-2024)
- diffhist South Devon (UK Parliament constituency) 19:30 +61 Ytfc23 talk contribs
- diffhist South Devon (UK Parliament constituency) 19:29 +288 Ytfc23 talk contribs (→Members of Parliament)
- diffhist Carew Raleigh 19:01 +75 DuncanHill talk contribs (added Category:Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) for Wiltshire using HotCat)
- diffhist Miranda Hart 18:52 −24 Theroadislong talk contribs (→Family: name not required)
- diffhist Carew Raleigh 18:31 +3 Ingratis talk contribs (removed Category:Members of the Parliament of England for constituencies in Dorset; added Category:Members of the Parliament of England for constituencies in Wiltshire using HotCat)
- diffhist Exeter (UK Parliament constituency) 18:28 +51 ThomasHallNotUnawesomeAtAll talk contribs (Added results) Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- diffhist Gary Streeter 17:12 −37 2601:249:9301:d570:f833:c3af:f37d:5715 talk (→External links)
- diffhist m Blackdown Hills 16:59 +25 Steinsky talk contribs (redirect to the only article listed in that dab page that actually matches this page name) Tags: Redirect target changed Manual revert
Featured content
editSee 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
editThis 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
editDevon 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
editThis user participates in WikiProject Devon. |
To add this userbox to your user page use {{User WPDevon}}.
Barnstar
editThe WikiProject Devon Barnstar of Merit | ||
{{{1}}} | ||
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?
editWe 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!