As of May 2005 there are only three UK subdivision articles that are featured:
There are a lot of county articles that are stubs with an infobox and a list of settlements (just look at what we had for Wiltshire this morning!), which doesn't seem right to me. If I set up a collaboration of the month for this WikiProject and pick a county each month, would people help try and turn them into the great articles they should be? I'm willing to do quite a bit of work on them and have some experience having done Dorset up to featured, but hopefully we can get more involved. Joe D (t) 17:07, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
We already have a policy about traditional/administrative counties etc Here. G-Man 20:36, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
OK, I've started a new Wikiproject at Wikipedia:WikiProject UK geography for all this. Joe D (t) 11:21, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
Currently, there are separate geography stub categories for Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. A separate category for England has been mooted in the past, but it would contain some 3800 stub articles, considerably more than is regarded as optimum according to Wikipedia: WikiProject Stub sorting guidelines (which roughly state that stub categories should have between 100 and 600 items to be of best use to editors).
In order to remedy this situation, all 3860 current unsubcategorised UK geography stubs have just been tallied to see whereabouts they refer to. Discussions are now underway with regard to splitting off regions or individual counties that have over 100 stub articles.
Understandably, given the confusion between traditional counties, ceremonial counties, and the split of city areas over the last few decades, this is a thorny issue. We at WP:WSS would welcome any input that this WikiProject's members may have, at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Stub_sorting/Criteria#Further_split_of_UK-geo-stub. Grutness... wha? 03:19, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
Any editors who were involved in this project may be interested in recently created list of rural and urban districts in England, list of rural and urban districts in Wales and list of hundreds of England and Wales. Warofdreams talk 14:36, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
Hello. I'm a member of the Version 1.0 Editorial Team, which is looking to identify quality articles in Wikipedia for future publication on CD or paper. We recently began assessing articles using these criteria, and we are are asking for your help. As you are most aware of the issues surrounding your focus area, we are wondering if you could provide us with a list of the articles that fall within the scope of your WikiProject, and that are either featured, A-class, B-class, or Good articles, with no POV or copyright problems. Do you have any recommendations? If you do, please post your suggestions at the listing of all active Places WikiProjects, and if you have any questions, ask me in the Work Via WikiProjects talk page or directly in my talk page. Thanks a lot! Tito xd( ?!? - help us) 18:41, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
Would it be possible to create a box which is placed on the talk page like AirportProject box and for a set layout to be decided? Flymeoutofhere 14:58, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
The French Wikipedia has an article, English metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties, which lists as counties:
giving a total of 82 English counties. If, like me, you find this approach confusing, can you point me to a better description of England's administrative geography on the English Wikipedia that I could translate and offer as an alternative to our francophone colleagues? I've tried to find what I'm looking for on the English Wikipedia, without success. Kahuzi 14:12, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
Not getting into the issue of whether these articles should be split at all, but someone moved City of Winchester to Winchester district without changing anything else. Shall we just give up on this and have Winchester (district) and Metropolitan Borough of Wakefield? What about the existing (borough) disambiguator? Get rid of that too and have Charnwood (district) ? Morwen - Talk 13:55, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
I've been trying to solve a very similar issue - see #Unnatural disambiguation names below. My issue is Milton Keynes (the town)/ Borough of Milton Keynes (the Borough). Some pedant created the Borough article as Milton Keynes (borough), a style that is completely unknown and unnatural. The same is true for the unnatural Wikipedia artefaxct " Swindon (borough)" except in that case an editor was able to move it to the more sensible Borough of Swindon. There is a perfectly good disambiguation in popular usage: I don't know why it is so difficult to persuade Wiki Admins to accept it without insisting that it can only be changed if all such articles are changed - and then it will be another (different) case of one size doesn't fit all! Any ideas on how to break the deadlock?-- Concrete Cowboy 22:21, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
There is a discussion taking place on Talk:Cornwall about the use of the England place infobox on Cornwall articles. Alan Pascoe 20:30, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
So, the convention we established, when we did this originally, was not to split articles where the borough was smaller than the urban area : thus we have Leicester, Kingston upon Hull, etc. I've noticed people seem to be creating splits and should like to get others' opinions on this.
In the cases of Reading and Ipswich the current boundaries are not new ; Reading's boundaries date from 1911. I can't speak for Middlesbrough: certainly at one point the article falsely claimed the original, pre-1968 borough extended larger than when I researched the matter, it turned out to. If we split articles about places enlarged in 1974; there's a clear split: one article is about the place, the other article is about the local government district. However, if we split articles about places which last saw a boundary extension in 1911; then it is unclear what information should be on the latter article - Reading (district) can't really be fleshed out with any information at all which isn't also relevant on the Reading, Berkshire page. So ultimately this seems to be a way for people to remove infoboxes from town articles, or up the population figures.
Someone has argued with my re-merge in Talk:Ipswich, and has cited the fact we have separate City of Bradford vs Bradford articles, as if that has anything to do with this particular case. Particularly troublesome is the use of ONS figures to identify what is considered the "town": as far as I can tell, the ONS make no use at all of local opinion surveys in deciding what is and isn't in their urban sub-areas; and these are not declared by the ONS to be definitive. Morwen - Talk 22:57, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
Also, I've just noticed that someone added a lot of nonsense to the Reading article which may have influenced people regarding this. As a result of this edit, the article was falsely claiming Reading's boundaries were artificially reduced in 1998. Morwen - Talk 13:45, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
Regarding Middlesbrough. It is how you define a 'Town'. I thought the correct definition was of a continual built up area or large urban area of substantial size (such as over a certain population and land area). The Middlesbrough article for Town uses the definition for Urban area rather than based on wether it has a town charter. The article shows that Middlesbrough Urabn area spills out over the boundaries of the borough. As we know a borough is not a town and is simply a district for administration and local government. The area in question is Greater Eston which is coterminus with Middlesbrough Urban area (using the 200 metre rule) and that houses and residential areas are literally split down the middle with an invisible boundary. The Eston area is counted as Middlesbrough and not Redcar as the distance between is too different. The edge of Redcar town (as in the last bit of Urban/built up area) to the edge of Middlesbrough area is approx 2 miles, where the distnace between Middlesbrough & Eston is less than 200 metres at its furthest point. A lot of people outside of the Middlesbrough council area do consider themselves middlesbrough so it would be unfair to say they are wrong. Council areas dont mean anything really in trems of towns/yrban area. I think the borough article should be merged with the Town but state both figures (182,000 urban + 137,000 for Middlesbrough council area). I myself have family whole live in Eston (redcar & cleveland council area) who deem themselves Middlesbrough and council area just means where they have to pay there council tax to. dj_paul84 21:25 26 October 2006 (UTC)
i can go on. there's also all sorts of stuff about the supposed signifiance of parliamentary borough boundaries from 1867-1918, the old Middlesbrough Rural District - the name rural would kind of give it away, i would have thought, and a Middlesbrough area code (what on earth does that have to do with definining the differece between a town and country? everywhere in the damn country has an area code associated with a town)
when I get time i shall have at these with an axe. Morwen - Talk 21:41, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
Greater Eston is on the Redcar & Cleveland council website. It basically refers to that portion of the borough which was under the Eston Urban district. 'Eston' refers to the village of Eston as well as the townships that made up the Eston districts. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.11.17.113 ( talk • contribs)
Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 17:33, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
Watchers of this project may be interested at the debate currently on Talk:Metropolitan Borough of Wigan on whether Wigan should be a redirect to that article. This has broader implications for effectively all boroughs where we have a split. Morwen - Talk 23:18, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
I stumbled on this page when I saw that Swindon (borough) had parentheses, which always invite me to find a more natural alternative. I moved that to Borough of Swindon before I came here, and I tend to agree with Oliver; and that is also how I interpret the current guideline at Wikipedia:Naming conventions (places). I think pipes almost always lead to extra typing, especially when a district has the same name as a town (or river or whatever.) As an example, it would be a mistake to type
South Marston is a village in the [[Districts of England|Borough]] of [[Swindon (borough)|Swindon]]
It is more natural to type this, and the user knows before clicking a link what article they are likely to see:
South Marston is a village in the [[Borough of Swindon]], just outside [[Swindon]] itself.
For Braintree, I see only two correct and natural alternatives Braintree district (lowercase 'd', no parentheses) and District of Braintree (uppercase 'd').
However, you (Morwen) have worked on the whole country - I only moved one district, so I am open to be persuaded otherwise. -- Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) ( Talk) 10:17, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
oh, and everyone does know about the wikipedia:pipe trick, right? with brackets in a name you can type [[Hello (greeting)|]] and then this gets expanded out in the article text as [[Hello (greeting)|Hello]] Morwen - Talk 15:53, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
I wonder if we are getting bogged down in excessive legalisms. I really don't see that we can have a one-size-fits-all rule. Clearly we need West Midlands (region)/ West Midlands (county). Avon is more problematic, so is a disambig article with many variations (including Avon (county), River Avon but no Avon (river)). The terms "West Midlands" and "Avon" are used widely without qualification and you have to work out from context which one is meant. Conversely, "Milton Keynes" and "Swindon" are always the town and never the Borough (except in a list of Boroughs). So for e.g., we don't need Swindon (town) and Swindon (borough). So I propose that we accept the term that is most widely used - but I accept that there will certainly be cases of dispute, as in the City of Carlisle district council! -- Concrete Cowboy 18:18, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
Is this the correct place to ask for tips on how to improve the article above (Penmon) and how to get it rated (FA to Stub standard)? If it isn't please can you tell me where the request should go, and if it is then please could you rate it. -- Casmith 789 14:13, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
Interested editors may like to look at Category Talk:Merseyside, where there is a discussion ongoing about how to name categories for local government districts. Regan123 14:36, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 21:12, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
(This section up to the end of copy comment is copied from Wikipedia: WikiProject Uk geography talk page, to enable people to comment on it here, if required.)
I hope I haven't trodden on any toes by doing this, but I took as a precedent the project about Cornwall. I've listed a proposed project concerning Cheshire on Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals. I think it can easily co-exist with this project, which I would not want to diminish or withdraw from myself at all. If you are interested in contributing to this, please add your name to list at the appropriate place. If you think it might be better placed as a sub-project of this project, please say so, and let us discuss it. Many thanks. DDStretch talk 17:39, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
End of Copy DDStretch (talk) 22:13, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
A new infobox has been developed for use on UK places articles. If you have any concerns or appraisals, please make them at Template talk:Infobox UK place. Regards, Jhamez84 02:09, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
Hello fellow editors. A straw poll has opened today (27th March 2007) regarding the use of flags on the United Kingdom place infoboxes. There are several potential options to use, and would like as many contrubutors to vote on which we should decide upon. The straw poll is found here. If joining the debate, please keep a cool head and remain civil. We look forward to seeing you there. Jhamez84 11:45, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
I propose disbanding this WikiProject because:
IMO, with other WikiProjects doing the job of guiding writing about subdivisions far better than this one, we should streamline the WikiProjects, and use those projects to coordinate the modernisation of the infoboxes. Any objections? Joe D (t) 02:28, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
A poll is talking place on Subdivisions of the United Kingdom and Countries of the United Kingdom. The Merger proposal is here, and is where all the options (merge, redirect to or from etc) can be voted for. -- Matt Lewis ( talk) 18:57, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej ( talk) 22:48, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
Hello everyone!
You may have received a message from me earlier asking you to comment on my WikiProject X proposal. The good news is that WikiProject X is now live! In our first phase, we are focusing on research. At this time, we are looking for people to share their experiences with WikiProjects: good, bad, or neutral. We are also looking for WikiProjects that may be interested in trying out new tools and layouts that will make participating easier and projects easier to maintain. If you or your WikiProject are interested, check us out! Note that this is an opt-in program; no WikiProject will be required to change anything against its wishes. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you!
Note: To receive additional notifications about WikiProject X on this talk page, please add this page to Wikipedia:WikiProject X/Newsletter. Otherwise, this will be the last notification sent about WikiProject X.
As of May 2005 there are only three UK subdivision articles that are featured:
There are a lot of county articles that are stubs with an infobox and a list of settlements (just look at what we had for Wiltshire this morning!), which doesn't seem right to me. If I set up a collaboration of the month for this WikiProject and pick a county each month, would people help try and turn them into the great articles they should be? I'm willing to do quite a bit of work on them and have some experience having done Dorset up to featured, but hopefully we can get more involved. Joe D (t) 17:07, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
We already have a policy about traditional/administrative counties etc Here. G-Man 20:36, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
OK, I've started a new Wikiproject at Wikipedia:WikiProject UK geography for all this. Joe D (t) 11:21, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
Currently, there are separate geography stub categories for Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. A separate category for England has been mooted in the past, but it would contain some 3800 stub articles, considerably more than is regarded as optimum according to Wikipedia: WikiProject Stub sorting guidelines (which roughly state that stub categories should have between 100 and 600 items to be of best use to editors).
In order to remedy this situation, all 3860 current unsubcategorised UK geography stubs have just been tallied to see whereabouts they refer to. Discussions are now underway with regard to splitting off regions or individual counties that have over 100 stub articles.
Understandably, given the confusion between traditional counties, ceremonial counties, and the split of city areas over the last few decades, this is a thorny issue. We at WP:WSS would welcome any input that this WikiProject's members may have, at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Stub_sorting/Criteria#Further_split_of_UK-geo-stub. Grutness... wha? 03:19, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
Any editors who were involved in this project may be interested in recently created list of rural and urban districts in England, list of rural and urban districts in Wales and list of hundreds of England and Wales. Warofdreams talk 14:36, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
Hello. I'm a member of the Version 1.0 Editorial Team, which is looking to identify quality articles in Wikipedia for future publication on CD or paper. We recently began assessing articles using these criteria, and we are are asking for your help. As you are most aware of the issues surrounding your focus area, we are wondering if you could provide us with a list of the articles that fall within the scope of your WikiProject, and that are either featured, A-class, B-class, or Good articles, with no POV or copyright problems. Do you have any recommendations? If you do, please post your suggestions at the listing of all active Places WikiProjects, and if you have any questions, ask me in the Work Via WikiProjects talk page or directly in my talk page. Thanks a lot! Tito xd( ?!? - help us) 18:41, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
Would it be possible to create a box which is placed on the talk page like AirportProject box and for a set layout to be decided? Flymeoutofhere 14:58, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
The French Wikipedia has an article, English metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties, which lists as counties:
giving a total of 82 English counties. If, like me, you find this approach confusing, can you point me to a better description of England's administrative geography on the English Wikipedia that I could translate and offer as an alternative to our francophone colleagues? I've tried to find what I'm looking for on the English Wikipedia, without success. Kahuzi 14:12, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
Not getting into the issue of whether these articles should be split at all, but someone moved City of Winchester to Winchester district without changing anything else. Shall we just give up on this and have Winchester (district) and Metropolitan Borough of Wakefield? What about the existing (borough) disambiguator? Get rid of that too and have Charnwood (district) ? Morwen - Talk 13:55, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
I've been trying to solve a very similar issue - see #Unnatural disambiguation names below. My issue is Milton Keynes (the town)/ Borough of Milton Keynes (the Borough). Some pedant created the Borough article as Milton Keynes (borough), a style that is completely unknown and unnatural. The same is true for the unnatural Wikipedia artefaxct " Swindon (borough)" except in that case an editor was able to move it to the more sensible Borough of Swindon. There is a perfectly good disambiguation in popular usage: I don't know why it is so difficult to persuade Wiki Admins to accept it without insisting that it can only be changed if all such articles are changed - and then it will be another (different) case of one size doesn't fit all! Any ideas on how to break the deadlock?-- Concrete Cowboy 22:21, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
There is a discussion taking place on Talk:Cornwall about the use of the England place infobox on Cornwall articles. Alan Pascoe 20:30, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
So, the convention we established, when we did this originally, was not to split articles where the borough was smaller than the urban area : thus we have Leicester, Kingston upon Hull, etc. I've noticed people seem to be creating splits and should like to get others' opinions on this.
In the cases of Reading and Ipswich the current boundaries are not new ; Reading's boundaries date from 1911. I can't speak for Middlesbrough: certainly at one point the article falsely claimed the original, pre-1968 borough extended larger than when I researched the matter, it turned out to. If we split articles about places enlarged in 1974; there's a clear split: one article is about the place, the other article is about the local government district. However, if we split articles about places which last saw a boundary extension in 1911; then it is unclear what information should be on the latter article - Reading (district) can't really be fleshed out with any information at all which isn't also relevant on the Reading, Berkshire page. So ultimately this seems to be a way for people to remove infoboxes from town articles, or up the population figures.
Someone has argued with my re-merge in Talk:Ipswich, and has cited the fact we have separate City of Bradford vs Bradford articles, as if that has anything to do with this particular case. Particularly troublesome is the use of ONS figures to identify what is considered the "town": as far as I can tell, the ONS make no use at all of local opinion surveys in deciding what is and isn't in their urban sub-areas; and these are not declared by the ONS to be definitive. Morwen - Talk 22:57, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
Also, I've just noticed that someone added a lot of nonsense to the Reading article which may have influenced people regarding this. As a result of this edit, the article was falsely claiming Reading's boundaries were artificially reduced in 1998. Morwen - Talk 13:45, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
Regarding Middlesbrough. It is how you define a 'Town'. I thought the correct definition was of a continual built up area or large urban area of substantial size (such as over a certain population and land area). The Middlesbrough article for Town uses the definition for Urban area rather than based on wether it has a town charter. The article shows that Middlesbrough Urabn area spills out over the boundaries of the borough. As we know a borough is not a town and is simply a district for administration and local government. The area in question is Greater Eston which is coterminus with Middlesbrough Urban area (using the 200 metre rule) and that houses and residential areas are literally split down the middle with an invisible boundary. The Eston area is counted as Middlesbrough and not Redcar as the distance between is too different. The edge of Redcar town (as in the last bit of Urban/built up area) to the edge of Middlesbrough area is approx 2 miles, where the distnace between Middlesbrough & Eston is less than 200 metres at its furthest point. A lot of people outside of the Middlesbrough council area do consider themselves middlesbrough so it would be unfair to say they are wrong. Council areas dont mean anything really in trems of towns/yrban area. I think the borough article should be merged with the Town but state both figures (182,000 urban + 137,000 for Middlesbrough council area). I myself have family whole live in Eston (redcar & cleveland council area) who deem themselves Middlesbrough and council area just means where they have to pay there council tax to. dj_paul84 21:25 26 October 2006 (UTC)
i can go on. there's also all sorts of stuff about the supposed signifiance of parliamentary borough boundaries from 1867-1918, the old Middlesbrough Rural District - the name rural would kind of give it away, i would have thought, and a Middlesbrough area code (what on earth does that have to do with definining the differece between a town and country? everywhere in the damn country has an area code associated with a town)
when I get time i shall have at these with an axe. Morwen - Talk 21:41, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
Greater Eston is on the Redcar & Cleveland council website. It basically refers to that portion of the borough which was under the Eston Urban district. 'Eston' refers to the village of Eston as well as the townships that made up the Eston districts. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.11.17.113 ( talk • contribs)
Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 17:33, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
Watchers of this project may be interested at the debate currently on Talk:Metropolitan Borough of Wigan on whether Wigan should be a redirect to that article. This has broader implications for effectively all boroughs where we have a split. Morwen - Talk 23:18, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
I stumbled on this page when I saw that Swindon (borough) had parentheses, which always invite me to find a more natural alternative. I moved that to Borough of Swindon before I came here, and I tend to agree with Oliver; and that is also how I interpret the current guideline at Wikipedia:Naming conventions (places). I think pipes almost always lead to extra typing, especially when a district has the same name as a town (or river or whatever.) As an example, it would be a mistake to type
South Marston is a village in the [[Districts of England|Borough]] of [[Swindon (borough)|Swindon]]
It is more natural to type this, and the user knows before clicking a link what article they are likely to see:
South Marston is a village in the [[Borough of Swindon]], just outside [[Swindon]] itself.
For Braintree, I see only two correct and natural alternatives Braintree district (lowercase 'd', no parentheses) and District of Braintree (uppercase 'd').
However, you (Morwen) have worked on the whole country - I only moved one district, so I am open to be persuaded otherwise. -- Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) ( Talk) 10:17, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
oh, and everyone does know about the wikipedia:pipe trick, right? with brackets in a name you can type [[Hello (greeting)|]] and then this gets expanded out in the article text as [[Hello (greeting)|Hello]] Morwen - Talk 15:53, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
I wonder if we are getting bogged down in excessive legalisms. I really don't see that we can have a one-size-fits-all rule. Clearly we need West Midlands (region)/ West Midlands (county). Avon is more problematic, so is a disambig article with many variations (including Avon (county), River Avon but no Avon (river)). The terms "West Midlands" and "Avon" are used widely without qualification and you have to work out from context which one is meant. Conversely, "Milton Keynes" and "Swindon" are always the town and never the Borough (except in a list of Boroughs). So for e.g., we don't need Swindon (town) and Swindon (borough). So I propose that we accept the term that is most widely used - but I accept that there will certainly be cases of dispute, as in the City of Carlisle district council! -- Concrete Cowboy 18:18, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
Is this the correct place to ask for tips on how to improve the article above (Penmon) and how to get it rated (FA to Stub standard)? If it isn't please can you tell me where the request should go, and if it is then please could you rate it. -- Casmith 789 14:13, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
Interested editors may like to look at Category Talk:Merseyside, where there is a discussion ongoing about how to name categories for local government districts. Regan123 14:36, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 21:12, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
(This section up to the end of copy comment is copied from Wikipedia: WikiProject Uk geography talk page, to enable people to comment on it here, if required.)
I hope I haven't trodden on any toes by doing this, but I took as a precedent the project about Cornwall. I've listed a proposed project concerning Cheshire on Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals. I think it can easily co-exist with this project, which I would not want to diminish or withdraw from myself at all. If you are interested in contributing to this, please add your name to list at the appropriate place. If you think it might be better placed as a sub-project of this project, please say so, and let us discuss it. Many thanks. DDStretch talk 17:39, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
End of Copy DDStretch (talk) 22:13, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
A new infobox has been developed for use on UK places articles. If you have any concerns or appraisals, please make them at Template talk:Infobox UK place. Regards, Jhamez84 02:09, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
Hello fellow editors. A straw poll has opened today (27th March 2007) regarding the use of flags on the United Kingdom place infoboxes. There are several potential options to use, and would like as many contrubutors to vote on which we should decide upon. The straw poll is found here. If joining the debate, please keep a cool head and remain civil. We look forward to seeing you there. Jhamez84 11:45, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
I propose disbanding this WikiProject because:
IMO, with other WikiProjects doing the job of guiding writing about subdivisions far better than this one, we should streamline the WikiProjects, and use those projects to coordinate the modernisation of the infoboxes. Any objections? Joe D (t) 02:28, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
A poll is talking place on Subdivisions of the United Kingdom and Countries of the United Kingdom. The Merger proposal is here, and is where all the options (merge, redirect to or from etc) can be voted for. -- Matt Lewis ( talk) 18:57, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej ( talk) 22:48, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
Hello everyone!
You may have received a message from me earlier asking you to comment on my WikiProject X proposal. The good news is that WikiProject X is now live! In our first phase, we are focusing on research. At this time, we are looking for people to share their experiences with WikiProjects: good, bad, or neutral. We are also looking for WikiProjects that may be interested in trying out new tools and layouts that will make participating easier and projects easier to maintain. If you or your WikiProject are interested, check us out! Note that this is an opt-in program; no WikiProject will be required to change anything against its wishes. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you!
Note: To receive additional notifications about WikiProject X on this talk page, please add this page to Wikipedia:WikiProject X/Newsletter. Otherwise, this will be the last notification sent about WikiProject X.