Wikipedia talk:WikiProject UK geography/Archive/WikiProject UK subdivisions

message: As of May 2005 there are only three UK subdivision articles that are featured:
* Traditional counties of England
* Dorset
* Bath, Somerset
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)
replies: text: As long as you make sure it doesn't turn into a bun fight between traditional counties and administrative counties, then I'm certainly willing to help! :) Owain 17:26, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, I suggest we go for the articles whose page name is the common name of each county, that way if the county is administrative and ceremonial and traditional we'd have to mention everything.
We already have a policy about traditional/administrative counties etc Here. G-Man 20:36, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

text: I've produced a list of English counties roughly ordered by quality of their Wikipedia entry to help get an idea of what needs to be done. Joe D (t) 17:44, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposal for collaboration?

message: 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)
thread_title:  UK-geo-stub split 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Lists of former districts 

message: 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! Titoxd(?!? - help us) 18:41, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team|Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team]] cooperation 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Talk page message 

message: The French Wikipedia has an article, English metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties, which lists as counties:
*metropolitan counties (including Greater London)
*administrative (shire) counties, and
*unitary authorities
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)
replies: text: It is confusing, but that is the administrative geography. The legislation is in such a mess that most unitary authorities are classed as "counties", except those in the metropolitan counties and non-metropolitan Berkshire. Owain (talk) 14:07, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  English counties on French Wikipedia 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Use of the England place infobox in Cornwall articles 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Project directory 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Wigan 

message: 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)
thread_title:  [[Penmon (place)]] 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Category Naming 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Wikipedia Day Awards 

message: (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)
replies: text: Given the support shown, I thought it useful to create an initial project page for Cheshire. It can be seen here. Obviously, I think it will be necessary for any project to continue to liase with this and other related projects, and so I was wondering what to do about the templates currently created by this project which are specific to Cheshire? Could someone just move them over to the Cheshire project? Once again, I do not want to cause any disagreement between this project and the Cheshire project at all.  DDStretch  (talk) 22:04, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed Project (or sub-project) for Cheshire 

message: 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)
thread_title:  New infoboxes 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Infobox flag straw poll 

message: I propose disbanding this WikiProject because:
* Wikipedia:WikiProject UK Parliamentary Constituencies deals with constituencies fine
* Wikipedia:WikiProject UK geography is dealing with most (all?) other geographical areas
* Those wikiprojects are more active -- actively developing standards, editing articles, rating articles, etc -- the UK geography wikiproject has far more guidelines on writing about subdivisions than this article.
* No serious activity has occured here in a long time.
* The main content on this page is infobox standards, with little (if any) guidelines on actually writing about subdivisions, but:
** These infoboxes are way out of date, ignoring the advanced template code we now have
** The new infobox used for settlements appears to have been developed outside the confines of a WikiProject.  With multiple WikiProjects, there was no coordinated redevelopment of the templates.  
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)
replies: text: Agree - shut it down and use the Geography wikiproject for all that doesn't come under Parliamentary constituencies. Regan123 13:39, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

text: I think we should consider reconstituting this project just for UK admin divisions and get the tagging/assessment working. It would be handy to have all the UK admin division articles linked in this way as they are somewhat neglected. This will then become a sub-project of Wikipedia:WikiProject UK geography. MRSC • Talk 09:35, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: A lot of the subdivisions are already tagged by WP:UK geo.  I was considering suggesting "working groups" for the project, as a way to tackle areas which don't have/need their own project.  An extra field could be added to  to specify the WG, and narrow down categories as required.  I was thinking specifically of roads to begin win.  Perhaps this could be one though?  Joe D (t) 09:49, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disbanding this WikiProject 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Poll on merging [[Subdivisions of the United Kingdom]] to [[Countries of the United Kingdom]] 

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thread_title:  Comment on the WikiProject X proposal 

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