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Welcome back to the UK geography WikiProject.
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Welcome to the United Kingdom Geography WikiProject. We are a user group dedicated to improving and expanding Misplaced Pages's coverage of articles related to the Geography of the United Kingdom.

Although our remit is broad, extending from the climate to infrastructure through to the geology and local government in the United Kingdom, we are most closely involved with facilitating the development of Britain's settlements and divisions of land, and ensuring a consistent approach is taken across the United Kingdom's geography class articles.

WikiProject UK Geography is the mother WikiProject of many British local Wikiprojects, and thus is here to co-ordinate and centralise the sharing of ideas and guidelines, developing writing standards, infoboxes, and other data presentation formats, and for setting up collaborations with the goal of reaching featured status for important UK places and geographical articles. Don't be put off by the word "geography", it just means writing about your local area!

Aims

Many of WikiProject UK Geography's daughter projects have identified their own objectives and key articles to develop towards the featured article standard, which this project wholly supports and encourages. However, this project also aims to facilitate the development of a number of key articles related to the overall geography of the United Kingdom:

Short term

Our aims in the short term, are to achieve the following:

Mid term

Our mid-term aims for the project are:

Long term

Our long term aims for the project are:
  • Improving all wikipedia articles that are concerned with the geography of the United Kingdom, including its history, geography, people, constructions and buildings, etc etc.
  • All relevant articles should be included in the Category:United Kingdom or one of its subcategories.
  • Articles on all UK subdivisions, settlements, and other notable geographical features.

See /tasks for more UK geography tasks.

Sub-Project hierarchy

What's new

Good article nominees

Featured article reviews

Requested moves

Articles to be merged

Articles to be split

Did you know? articles

Wellesbourne, Brighton (2024-07-01) • Rosal, Sutherland (2024-05-25) • Newlyn Tidal Observatory (2023-11-20) • Godalming (2023-09-20) • Reigate (2023-09-10)

Reached maximum of 5 out of 308

Featured pictures
  • A591 road, Lake District - June 2009 Edit 1 A591 road, Lake District - June 2009 Edit 1
  • Aerial View of Edinburgh, by Alfred Buckham, from about 1920 Aerial View of Edinburgh, by Alfred Buckham, from about 1920
  • Canary Wharf from Limehouse London June 2016 HDR Canary Wharf from Limehouse London June 2016 HDR
  • City of London skyline from London City Hall - Oct 2008 City of London skyline from London City Hall - Oct 2008
  • Lancashire 1610 Speed Hondius - Restoration Lancashire 1610 Speed Hondius - Restoration
In the News articles

Liverpool Maritime Mercantile City (2021-07-22) • 2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods (2009-11-21) • February 2009 British Isles snowfall (2009-02-06)

Main page featured articles

Coventry ring road (2023-07-23) • Combe Hill, East Sussex (2023-01-11) • Brownhills (2022-03-03) • Abberton Reservoir (2021-09-05) • Shaw and Crompton (2021-08-15)

Reached maximum of 5 out of 71

Main page featured lists

List of scheduled monuments in South Somerset (2023-12-22) • List of castles in Greater Manchester (2023-04-07) • List of Shetland islands (2022-05-20) • List of freshwater islands in Scotland (2020-04-24) • List of scheduled monuments in Taunton Deane (2018-10-26)

Reached maximum of 5 out of 7

This is a list of recognized content, updated weekly by JL-Bot (talk · contribs) (typically on Saturdays). There is no need to edit the list yourself. If an article is missing from the list, make sure it is tagged (e.g. {{WikiProject UK geography}}) or categorized correctly and wait for the next update. See WP:RECOG for configuration options.
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Participants

Following a period of low-activity, WikiProject UK Geography is re-recruiting members. If you feel you can contribute to the project, please add your name.

You don't need to be British to help with this WikiProject. We welcome all registered editors good with layout and prose, and non-British editors who can point out when we've wrongly assumed we don't need to explain or define something for the reader, or failed to properly establish the context of an article.

To add a UK geography userbox to your user page, please add {{User WP UK geo}} to your talk page to generate...
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WikiProject UK geography
To add your name to the table, please visit the participants page.

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Guidelines

Guidelines at WikiProject UK Geography are a key element of how the project operates; they ensure that the UK's articles have a consistent House Style and provide a lasting consistency for our readers to benefit from. Working in partnership with "international" WikiProjects, UK Geography has developed the following Project guidelines which indicate standardised, consensual recommended approaches when writing about certain aspects of Britain's geography. They each include tips on obtaining the highest of awards for articles:

Embedded Audio Pronunciations

A new sub-project has been set up to complement the work done within WP:UKGEO. Misplaced Pages:WikiProject UK geography/Embedded Audio Pronunciations seeks to provide a comprehensive, high-quality range of audio files consisting of native British English pronunciations of relevant words and names: counties, settlements, rivers, mountains and so on. Ideally, both "Received Pronunciation" and local accent variations would be provided, and a repository of public-domain or GFDL-licensed files built up for the benefit of anybody interested in the UK and the English language. In particular, every file provided would ideally be linked to the relevant Misplaced Pages article. More information and guidelines are provided at this page.

Successes and examples

These articles are featured articles and can serve as an idea of what should go in a good article:

Template:GAicon Additionally these are "good articles" that fulfill many but not all featured requirements:

Assessment and progress of articles

Main page: Misplaced Pages:WikiProject UK geography/Assessment

Below is a bot generated table of the assessment process of WikiProject UK geography supported articles. The stats are generated automatically every 2-3 days, but they can be updated manually by entering UK geography (and replacing Foobar) into the Category box here.


UK geography articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total
FA 5 21 23 49
FL 1 13 15 29
GA 3 27 127 118 1 276
B 12 100 280 454 69 915
C 5 109 528 1,719 135 2,496
Start 1 81 1,014 8,700 139 9,935
Stub 52 11,080 155 11,287
List 2 28 144 512 11 697
Category 3,658 3,658
Disambig 31 31
File 65 65
Portal 1 1
Project 3 3
Template 222 222
NA 4 22 480 913 1,419
Other 2 2
Assessed 23 355 2,201 23,101 4,895 510 31,085
Unassessed 3 4 7
Total 23 355 2,201 23,104 4,895 514 31,092
WikiWork factors (?) ω = 130,708 Ω = 5.24


Misplaced Pages:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/UK geography articles by quality log

The project has categorised articles according to the WP 1.0 criteria:

  • There is a list of very short articles here.

Requests for:

To-do

To add the todo list to your userpage use:

{{Misplaced Pages:WikiProject_UK_geography/todo}}
UK geography to do list
Bring to featured quality

More in A-class and GA-class.

Articles needing: Requested articles

More: requested articles

Other tasks
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Templates

For templates used for the administration and organisation of the Project and its remit, see Misplaced Pages:WikiProject UK geography/Templates.

Online resources

England
Bedfordshire Bedfordshire facts & figures
· Luton
Berkshire West Berkshire 2001 Census data
Bristol Ward finder
Buckinghamshire
· Milton Keynes
Cambridgeshire
· Peterborough 2001 Census Profile of Peterborough Cambridgeshire County Council, June 2003
Cheshire *George Ormerod, The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, Vol. 1 2 3, (1819) (Historical & census)
· Halton
· Warrington
Cornwall Parish population data
· Isles of Scilly
Cumbria Census 2001
Derbyshire
· Derby
Devon See the Devon WikiProject list of resources.
· Plymouth
· Torbay
Dorset Parish population data (import should be complete)
· Bournemouth
· Poole
County Durham Durham County Council 2001 Census data
· Darlington
· Hartlepool
· Stockton-on-Tees
East Riding of Yorkshire
· Kingston-upon-Hull
East Sussex
· Brighton and Hove
Essex Epping Forest census data (includes 1961-2001)
· Southend-on-Sea
· Thurrock
Gloucestershire
· South Gloucestershire
Greater London
Greater Manchester
Hampshire 2001 census
· Southampton
· Portsmouth
Herefordshire 2001 census Population and demographics Excel sheet of Parish population histories
Hertfordshire Population and census data
Isle of Wight
Kent 2001 Census Area Profiles
· Medway
Lancashire
· Blackburn with Darwen
· Blackpool
Leicestershire Census 2001
· Leicester
Lincolnshire Parish population profiles
· North Lincolnshire
· North East Lincolnshire
Merseyside
Norfolk Census population (Excel speadsheet) South Norfolk: parish data and ward data Links to parish websites in Breckland Breckland further data
North Yorkshire
· York
· Middlesbrough
· Redcar and Cleveland
· Stockton-on-Tees
· Northamptonshire
Northumberland Tynedale population data (PDF)
Nottinghamshire
· Nottingham
Oxfordshire
Rutland
Shropshire
· Telford and Wrekin
Somerset Parish population data
· Bath and North East Somerset Census Data
· North Somerset Census Information
South Yorkshire
Staffordshire Local government history
· Stoke-on-Trent
Suffolk
Surrey
Tyne and Wear
Warwickshire
West Midlands
West Sussex Ward profiles
West Yorkshire
Wiltshire Wiltshire Community History from Wiltshire County Council giving brief historical information and references for settlements including old maps and Population by community 1801–2001 census data
· Swindon Population by community 1801–2001 census data at Wiltshire Community History from Wiltshire County Council
Worcestershire

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