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Welcome to WikiProject Northamptonshire (or Northants)! This is a collection of editors helping to expand coverage and make pages better in the county. If you would like to help or join the Project you do not have to live in Northamptonshire to join, so feel free to do so!
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editNorthants Assessment
Northamptonshire articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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Quality | Importance | ||||||
Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
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3 | 3 | |||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
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1 | 2 | 12 | 15 | |||
B | 1 | 7 | 3 | 13 | 24 | ||
C | 1 | 8 | 7 | 63 | 4 | 83 | |
Start | 10 | 56 | 421 | 45 | 532 | ||
Stub | 1 | 7 | 468 | 42 | 518 | ||
List | 1 | 2 | 31 | 9 | 43 | ||
Category | 3 | 1 | 326 | 330 | |||
Disambig | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
File | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | ||
Project | 3 | 3 | |||||
Template | 8 | 15 | 23 | ||||
NA | 1 | 10 | 36 | 47 | |||
Other | 3 | 3 | |||||
Assessed | 4 | 30 | 81 | 1,033 | 388 | 100 | 1,636 |
Total | 4 | 30 | 81 | 1,033 | 388 | 100 | 1,636 |
WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 6,202 | Ω = 5.28 |
- Uses an importance scale of Low to Top.
- See WikiProject Northamptonshire/Assessment for more information.
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Northants Alerts are here: Wikipedia:WikiProject Northamptonshire/Article alerts
Aims
editThe main point of this project is to make coverage on Northamptonshire pages the best possible, not have pages with just a few lines, but have enough information without cluttering the page.
- To have a page on all villages in Northamptonshire.
- To have all pages with at least ten lines and expand pages with barely any information.
- Create guidelines for articles about Northamptonshire.
- Add suitable images by making or finding
- Bring the Northamptonshire page to 'Good Article' quality
- Add suitable maps by making or finding
- To Improve all articles relating to Northamptonshire
- To tag all Northants articles.
- Complete the incomplete infoboxes (add coordinates)
- Add some references
- Add categories
- Our biggest aim is to get Northampton, Wellingborough, Kettering, Corby and Rushden to 'Good Article' quality
Participants, Members
editFeel free to add yourself here; please indicate your particular interest.
- 2006toyotacorrola (talk · contribs) born and live here, a transport enthusiast but also might contribute in other places.
- Naray14 (talk · contribs) Born and raised in East Northamptonshire. Have moved away but I'm still interested in the area and hope to contribute to some of our pages.
- Likelife (talk · contribs)-From Wellingborough, want to make Wellingborough and other information on transport better, but I will edit other pages any way.
- Jeni (talk · contribs) - Generally working on village articles. Jeni (talk) 13:20, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
- Kudpung (talk · contribs) - Lived in Corby for a couple of years. Work on articles for schools, and towns.--Kudpung (talk) 12:42, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
- Jolly Ω Janner, help out here especially with setting up the assessment department. 13:03, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
- Grev02 (talk · contribs) - Come from Kettering, live in Brighton. I've been adding to Kettering's history section as it appeared no one else in Kettering had bothered!
- TheSmuel (talk · contribs) - Non-native, living and working Kettering.
- ReformatMe (talk · contribs) - Wellingburian living in both Wellingborough and Twywell. Will be working on geographical information and expanding information on some of villages.
- Bogbumper (talk · contribs) - grew up in the county; will try to help out where I can
- Fortnum (talk · contribs) - Born and brought up in North Northamptonshire: will be working on villages in North and East Northamptonshire
- Majabl (talk · contribs) - Northamptonian by birth and by residence. Spent most of my growing up in in Daventry district.
- Buchebroc (talk · contribs) - Resident in Bugbrooke for more than 30 years. Would like to enhance Bugbrooke entry as there is a lot of relevant material still absent.
- Thanks, DotComCairney 21:07, 19 October 2009 (UTC) - I've lived in Corby all my life, I'm currently studying at The Kingswood School, i'm an all round nerd and i'm in love with the word Huzzah.
- [[ACEOREVIVED (talk) 22:15, 22 March 2012 (UTC)]]. I have lived in Northamptonshire since 1993, although my roots are actually in Hertfordshire. I have lived in both Far Cotton and Kingsthorpe in Northampton, and I know Northampton itself quite well, so feel able to join this WikiProject group.
- Noddyt (talk · contribs) - Lifelong Northamptonshire resident. Particular interests are Early Medieval Nene Valley, the Hamfordshoe (Anduedeshoe) and Huxloe (Suþnaveslund) Hundreds, pre-Christian evidence and Christian conversion period.
- StanwickRes (talk · contribs) - My interests are photography and history, especially heritage.
- Leeds01 used to live at The Rectory, Milton Malsor, Northants and, feeling very much attached, wants to upgrade the page to the utmost.
- User: Vorbee - I have lived in Northamptonshire since 1993. Vorbee (talk) 17:43, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
- G-13114 (talk · contribs) - I'm not native to the county, but I've worked on a number of Northants related articles such as Daventry. G-13114 (talk) 01:26, 9 February 2021 (UTC)
- Beetricks (talk · contribs) - a Northampton native. I live there. –beetricks ~ talk · email 19:34, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Bearas (talk · contribs) - working in Northamptonshire since 2020 and fully moved to Northampton in 2023 - Bearas (talk) 05:34, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
- DimensionalFusion (talk · contribs) - Transport enthusiast DimensionalFusion (talk) 12:22, 10 August 2024 (UTC)
Templates
editYou can add this template {{User Wikipedia:WikiProject Northamptonshire}} to your user page if you have joined the Project which produces this:
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Other templates
- {{WikiProject Northamptonshire}}
- {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Northamptonshire/nav}}
- {{Northamptonshire-geo-stub}}
To do list
editThere is lots to do but the most important things are:
- List of places in Northamptonshire - make a page on villages with broken links.
- Oundle, Higham F, Raunds, Rothwell, Towcester all need quite a few references.
- Start working on Corby like we did on Wellingborough.
- History of Northamptonshire Urgently need references.
Talk Page
editThe talk page is the place to talk about this project, and to centralise discussions that involve two or more articles.
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- All Villages have been tagged, class and have importance
- All towns have been tagged and have importance Likelife (talk) 10:22, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
- Active contributors to the Northampton article informed of this project creation.--Kudpung (talk) 13:56, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
- Active contributors to the Corby article informed of this project creation.--Kudpung (talk) 13:56, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
- Active contributors to the Wellingborough article informed of this project creation.--Kudpung (talk) 13:56, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
- All borough Councils have tags and importance scales but don't have Class as yet. Likelife (talk) 15:54, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
- Active contributors to the Kettering article informed of this project creation. --Kudpung (talk) 16:57, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
- Hardwick, Northamptonshire has been created with infobox and tags
- All towns have been classed Wellingborough, Kettering, Corby, Rushden, Brackley, Thrapston, Oundle, Desborough, Rothwell, Burton Latimer and Higham Ferrers.Likelife (talk) 10:05, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
- Wellingborough is getting a lot of structural edits and is on-going. Likelife (talk) 09:47, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
- Category:Wellingborough has been created. Likelife (talk) 12:02, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
- Portal:Northamptonshire has been created. Likelife (talk) 13:39, 19 September 2009 (UTC)
- Kettering General Hospital article has now been created. Likelife (talk) 14:16, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
- Northampton General Hospital article has been created. Likelife (talk) 15:05, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
- Kettering has been promoted to C class. Likelife (talk)
- Wellingborough has been suggested for GA class. Likelife (talk)
- Template:BC Wellingborough has been created. Likelife (talk) 11:02, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
- Wellingborough is now GA! Likelife (talk) 18:20, 27 June 2010 (UTC)
- Work on Northamptonshire and Kettering has started Likelife (talk) 16:15, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
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