Wikipedia:WikiProject Lancashire and Cumbria

Welcome to WikiProject Lancashire and Cumbria Established 13 September 2009 Mother projects: WikiProject UK geography • WikiProject England Sister projects: WikiProject Cheshire • WikiProject Greater Manchester • WikiProject Merseyside This is a WikiProject, an area for focused collaboration among Wikipedians. New participants are welcome; please feel free to participate! Guide to WikiProjects Directory of WikiProjects

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Welcome to WikiProject Lancashire and Cumbria. We are a user group dedicated to improving and expanding Wikipedia's coverage of articles related to the counties of Lancashire and Cumbria, in North West England.

From Lancashire, we cover the cities of Preston and Lancaster and the boroughs and districts of Blackpool, Blackburn with Darwen, Burnley, Chorley, Fylde, Hyndburn, Lancaster, Pendle, Ribble Valley, Rossendale, South Ribble, West Lancashire, and Wyre, as well as all articles relevant and important to the area, such as Lancashire County Cricket Club and Blackpool Airport.

From Cumbria, we cover the City of Carlisle and the districts and boroughs of Allerdale, Barrow-in-Furness, Copeland, Eden and South Lakeland, as well as all articles relevant and important to the area, such as the Lake District and Hadrian's Wall.

If you plan to be active in editing the articles above, or articles related to them, please add your name to the participants list below. We discuss the project on our talk page and you are most welcome to join in the discussion there.

Parent	Neighbouring areas	Overlapping	Similar	Daughter
WikiProject Cities WikiProject UK geography WikiProject England	WikiProject Cheshire WikiProject Greater Manchester WikiProject North East England WikiProject Yorkshire	WikiProject UK Railways WikiProject UK Roads WikiProject UK Waterways WikiProject UK Trams

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

• Get an infobox for every article relating to our WikiProject.
• Get a lead image in every infobox of every article relating to our WikiProject.

Our aims in the mid-term, are to achieve the following:

• Develop all of our "Top-importance" articles towards GA/FA.
• Increase the number of members of the project to ensure we can cover a wide range of topics.
• Assess and review all relevant articles for quality, importance and progress.

Our long term aims for the project are:

• Improving all Wikipedia articles that are concerned with Lancashire and Cumbria, including its history, geography, people, constructions and buildings etc.

Please refer to these guidelines when writing about anything to do with Lancashire or Cumbria. This will ensure that all of our articles are at their best.

• How to write about settlements
• How to write about counties
• How to write about districts
• How to write about rivers
• How to write about people

• 93gregsonl2 (talk) 17:26, 13 September 2009 (UTC) Location: Banks, West Lancashire[reply]
• Nev1 (talk) 00:43, 15 September 2009 (UTC) interested in settlements across both counties and Roman history of the area[reply]
• Peter I. Vardy (talk) 07:40, 15 September 2009 (UTC) mainly heritage[reply]
• Penrithguy (talk) 17:40, 15 September 2009 (UTC) mostly Cumbrian towns and villages[reply]
• Margymarge (talk) 22:30,15 September 2009, mainly interested in early history of West Lancashire coastal plain.
• Small-town hero (talk) 23:00, 15 September 2009 (UTC), mainly in and around West Lancs, can help with photos and may even do requests![reply]
•  Dr Greg  talk  18:36, 16 September 2009 (UTC), interested in railway history throughout Lancashire (and nearby), and geography of Lancashire from Preston northwards.[reply]
• --Jza84 |  Talk  20:45, 16 September 2009 (UTC) Based in Greater Manchester, but will have the project watchlisted and will be glad to help out on GAs and FAs about settlements. Have a few Lancs places that are dear to me too-Cockerham, Edenfield, Pilling and Blackpool.[reply]
• ♦Tangerines♦·Talk 23:35, 19 September 2009 (UTC) Location: Bispham[reply]
• Bankhallbretherton 12:54, 21 September 2009 (UTC) Location: Southport, Banks, Tarleton, Bretherton, Croston, Mere Brow, Sollom, Hesketh Bank, West Lancashire. I also have an interest in Listed Buildings in Lancashire past and present.[reply]
• Cj1340 (talk) 23.56 17 June 2011 Expanding article on Padiham, my home town to show the wealth of history of the immediate and surrounding area and the people
• NtheP (talk) 14:17, 2 October 2009 (UTC) Being half Lancastrian and now living (dare I say it) in Yorkshire. My interests are the Forest of Bowland and those areas that have been in both Lancashire & Yorkshire.[reply]
• Galloglass 08:32, 3 October 2009 (UTC) Creator and editor of a number of Lancashire historical and political articles.[reply]
• Lozleader (talk) 10:46, 13 October 2009 (UTC) have worked on/created a number of articles on local government, historic constituencies, MPs etc.[reply]
• Bobyllib (talk) 20:34, 7 December 2009 (UTC) I'm on the cusp - technically I live in Merseyside, but I'll join in. I'm primarily interested in West Lancs.[reply]
• Al.Glitch (talk) 18:34, 31 January 2010 (UTC) Originally from the west coast of Cumbria and have worked on most of the articles for that region.[reply]
• J Milburn (talk) 22:22, 3 February 2010 (UTC) I'm from Cumbria, but spend around half of the year in Lancashire at university. Currently working on portals for both Cumbria and Lancashire (Portal:Cumbria/Portal:Lancashire)[reply]
• MJLRGS (talk) 17:24, 18 April 2010 (UTC) I'm from Preston, but spend 9 hours of my weekdays that aren't holidays in Lancaster. I've created the page Transport in Preston and have edited many pages linked to transport, education, ethnicity, rivers etc. in North West England.[reply]
• Jim Killock (talk) 21:13, 26 February 2011 (UTC) I've been doing a bit of work on cotton such as Cotton Board (United Kingdom) and think some things are missing. I'm hoping to get some help and encouragement![reply]
• BigDom (talk) 23:01, 20 April 2011 (UTC) From Nelson, Lancashire. Mostly interested in adding articles about football in Lancashire, particularly the Nelson and Burnley clubs. Would do more related to East Lancashire, especially Pendle, if only I had the sources.[reply]
• Preston North End Dan talk  13:30, 30 September 2011 (UTC) I lived in Longton most my life, then moved to Canada, now I'm back, near Leyland and I wish to make all the village and town pages similar in layout, mainly for the South Ribble and Wyre areas.[reply]
• Tom (talk) 20:10, 13 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• JMRH6 (talk) 21:08, 05 February 2012 (UTC) Love anything to do with Lancashire or the West Lancashire area, from Southport area - Lancaster to Colne and Darwen areas anywhere in between call it 'my patch'. History, Geography, Architecture, I have created many articles and have been part of this project under a different username but had to change it.[reply]
• PamD 15:33, 18 May 2012 (UTC) - temporarily resident in Lancs very near Cumbria border, and have just done a major project on the Outlying fells, so I might as well sign up![reply]
• Pigsonthewing (talk · contribs) - Wikipedian in Residence at Queen Street Mill Museum.
• Laplacemat (talk · contribs) - History of Cumbria, Cumbrian literature.
• Retroplum (talk) 12:03, 27 May 2014 (UTC) Anything and everything, but in particular places I know well in the Allerdale area.[reply]
• Thoughtfortheday (talk) 15:29, 7 January 2015 (UTC) Am interested in history, wildlife etc[reply]
• aricooperdavis (talk) 19:07, 21 April 2015 (UTC) Generally good with locations and coordinates; a bit rusty on the history.[reply]
• Clem Rutter (talk) 10:23, 2 November 2015 (UTC) If cotton was ever spun, or woven there. I do lot with the museum service.[reply]
• ▲RedScrees (talk) 16:26, 31 March 2016 (UTC) Live in the Lakes[reply]
• Dthomsen8 (talk) 00:42, 13 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
• Lancashire2789 15:43 29 April 2018 (UTC)
• DiggingLake (talk) 12:53, 20 August 2018 (UTC) Native of Kendal and Lancaster, currently focusing on trying to improve the Cumbria article[reply]
• Sinnistrall (talk) 11:42, 9 November 2018 (UTC) Blackpool resident, history graduate, primarily focused on improving or adding citations[reply]
• Bduke (talk) 06:48, 24 May 2021 (UTC) Now in Australia but worked at Lancaster University for many years and I know and love the Lakes.[reply]
• User:Transandrosupport from north Manchester/Lancashire, interested in ancient history
• Pickled Pigeon (talk) 16:44, 13 December 2021 (UTC) From south Lancashire, interested in history and geography[reply]

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 Lancashire and Cumbria}}) or categorized correctly and wait for the next update. See WP:RECOG for configuration options.

Featured articles

Total pages in content type is 22

Former featured articles

Total pages in content type is 2

Featured lists

Total pages in content type is 10

Good articles

Total pages in content type is 51

Former good articles

Total pages in content type is 9

Good article nominees

Total pages in content type is 1

Featured pictures

• 
  A591 road, Lake District - June 2009 Edit 1
• 
  Ambleside & Waterhead Panorama 2, Cumbria, England - Oct 2009
• 
  Lancashire 1610 Speed Hondius - Restoration

Total pages in content type is 3

Featured portals

Total pages in content type is 1

Featured topics

Total pages in content type is 1

Did you know? articles

Total pages in content type is 188

In the News articles

Total pages in content type is 11

Main page featured articles

Total pages in content type is 19

Main page featured lists

Total pages in content type is 3

Picture of the day pictures

• 
  Ambleside & Waterhead Panorama 2, Cumbria, England - Oct 2009 (2014-03-14)
• 
  A591 road, Lake District - June 2009 Edit 1 (2018-10-25)
• 
  Lancashire 1610 Speed Hondius - Restoration (2019-02-24)

Total pages in content type is 3

List of current articles under the project that are awaiting peer review:

• None

Please refer to Assessment and progress of articles and Guidelines when improving an article.

Stubs

The list below is for articles that are stubs and need improving to make Wikipedia's coverage of Lancashire and Cumbria better. Please look at the links for the list of stubs.

Articles that have already been assessed by this project as stub class:

• Category:Stub-Class Lancashire and Cumbria articles

For all stubs, whether assessed by this project or not, see:

• Category:Lancashire geography stubs
• Category:Cumbria geography stubs
• Category:Lancashire building and structure stubs
• Category:Cumbria building and structure stubs
• Category:North West England railway station stubs (also contains Cheshire stubs)
• Category:North West England school stubs (also contains Greater Manchester, Merseyside and Cheshire stubs)

Geocoordination

More infomation: Geographic coordinate system

The links below shows Lancashire and Cumbrian articles that need to be coordinated.

• Category:Lancashire articles missing geocoordinate data
• Category:Cumbria articles missing geocoordinate data

New articles relating to Lancashire and Cumbria may be found on this automatically-generated list:
 Done indicates that the article has been assessed against the project quality and importance criteria

All members should always feel free to patrol the recent changes list or Wikiproject Watchlist - WikiProject Lancashire and Cumbria to note improvements to, changes, or vandalism of articles within the scope of this project.

Anyone interested in cleaning up articles can refer to this list of project articles tagged for clean up.

Below is a bot generated table of the assessment process of WikiProject Lancashire and Cumbria supported articles. The stats are generated automatically every 2–3 days, but they can be updated manually by entering Lancashire and Cumbria here. You may also need to refresh this page's cache.

Index · Statistics · Log

Lancashire and Cumbria articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	1	5	5	11			22
FL		2	3	5			10
GA		8	9	34			51
B	7	25	30	67		5	134
C	4	70	95	464		30	663
Start	21	151	381	1,980	1	66	2,600
Stub	8	39	548	2,165		38	2,798
List	1	3	30	612		2	648
Other					2		2
NA	2	3	14	50	1,355		1,424
Assessed	44	306	1,115	5,388	1,358	141	8,352
Unassessed		1		3	1	58	63
Total	44	307	1,115	5,391	1,359	199	8,415
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 32,944			Ω = 5.26

The statistics above may be a few days out-of-date, but the summary statistics below are current:

We have currently assessed the quality of 99.25% of all articles/pages tagged for this project. We have currently assessed the importance of 97.63% of all articles/pages tagged for this project. (Some additional article talk pages may require tagging, however.)

WikiProject Lancashire and Cumbria  articles by quality     Refresh

FA	A	GA	B	C	Start	Stub	FL	List	Draft	NA	???	Total
22	0	51	134	663	2,600	2,798	10	648	2	1,424	63	8,415

WikiProject Lancashire and Cumbria Articles by importance (refresh)

Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
44	307	1,115	5,391	1,359	199	8,415

Quality scale

Importance scale

WikiProject article importance scheme

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Importance	Criteria	Example
Top	Articles describing the major structural elements of Lancashire and Cumbria, or subjects of UK or international importance. Examples: Counties, local government districts, major urban areas, former county or municipal boroughs	Lancashire
High	Articles describing the major infrastructure of the counties, or subjects of significant importance to the counties Examples: crown courts, large stations (both current and historical), towns that are not former boroughs, parliamentary constituencies, Grade I listed buildings, scheduled ancient monuments.	Fleetwood
Mid	Articles describing the minor infrastructure of the counties Examples: medium sized stations, large libraries, magistrates courts, electoral wards, Grade II* listed buildings, nationally known schools, civil parishes, villages, notable localities.	Banks
Low	Articles describing subjects of local interest Examples: suburbs, small stations/metro stops, branch libraries, leisure centres, Grade II listed buildings, local parks.	Greaves Hall Hospital

Project scope

Lancashire and Cumbria NA‑class

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Lancashire and Cumbria, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Lancashire and Cumbria on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Lancashire and CumbriaWikipedia:WikiProject Lancashire and CumbriaTemplate:WikiProject Lancashire and CumbriaLancashire and Cumbria articles NA This article has been rated as NA-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.

All articles that fall within the scope of the Lancashire and Cumbria WikiProject should have the above template placed on their talk page. You can add the template by editing in {{WikiProject Lancashire and Cumbria|class=|importance=}} right on the top of the talk page. You should also attempt to make an assessment of the quality and importance of that article.

Project userbox

Project members should feel free to add the above userbox to their page by typing {{User WP Lancashire Cumbria}}.

Project award

The WikiProject Lancashire and Cumbria Award {{{1}}}

You can reward other project members with {{The WikiProject Lancashire and Cumbria Award}} by adding {{WPL&C Award|put your reason here ~~~~}} to their userpage.

Project stubs

There are a number of stub templates appropriate for this WikiProject. You may add these to the end of each short, unreferenced, and expandable article.

	in Lancashire	in Cumbria
Location	{{Lancashire-geo-stub}}	{{Cumbria-geo-stub}}
School	{{Lancashire-school-stub}}	{{Cumbria-school-stub}}
Railway station	{{NorthWestEngland-railstation-stub}}
Other building or structure	{{Lancashire-struct-stub}}	{{Cumbria-struct-stub}}

Requesting photographs

Photographs for Lancashire and Cumbria related articles can be requested using the {{reqphoto}} template added to the article's talk page.

• {{reqphoto|in=Lancashire}} adds an article to Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Lancashire
• {{reqphoto|in=Cumbria}} adds an article to Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Cumbria

Wikimedia Commons

Sometimes there are a number of images also on Wikimedia Commons related to articles. Therefore this WikiProject recommends that you add a Wikimedia Commons link to the references section of an article. The templates to the right can be added to link through to the revelant category using {{commonscat|Lancashire}}. Please remember to always change Lancashire to the revelant articles' name.

There are now a large number of photographs on Commons that have been imported from the Geograph project. However, many of these have been categorised by a bot which sometimes puts photos in the wrong category, and others have not been categorised at all. You can use this tool to search for photos (categorised or not): zoom in to the area of interest. You can help by adding or changing the categories to something relevant.

WikiProject Resource Exchange
Shared Resources Resource Request Free image resources Free online resources Free sound resources Public domain resources Public domain image resources Non-PD resources Bibliographies Maps
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	Requests for Adminship		Articles for Deletion
	Templates for Deletion		Miscellany for Deletion
	Images for Deletion		Redirects for Deletion
	Administrator Noticeboard/Incidents		List of Policies
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	Wikipedia Logs		User Warning Templates
	Article Cleanup Templates		Manual of Style

Popular pages

We now have a popular pages list from the Wikimedia Toolserver. This is a list of articles tagged for this project which have been viewed the most. The archived list for the last month is at WP:L&C/PP, and you can generate other lists at https://tools.wmflabs.org/popularpages/view.php?proj=Lancashire_and_Cumbria&limit=100&offset=0

If you have a question, you need help or you have an idea to make this WikiProject better than please address all of the WikiProject Lancashire and Cumbria contributors by writing your question/idea on the WikiProject's talk page. We are here to help.