Wikipedia:WikiProject Wiltshire

WikiProject Wiltshire
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Welcome to WikiProject Wiltshire. The aim of this project is to bring together editors working on Wiltshire-related articles with an aim of improving and expanding all aspects of the coverage of the English county of Wiltshire. Anybody with an interest in or knowledge of Wiltshire is free to join and help contribute to anything related to the project. If you would like to help, please join the participants list, post on the project's talk page or see the to do list below. This project was started on 18 September 2010.

Members

If you would like to join, please feel free and add your user name to the list. You may also wish to give a short description of your areas of interest in Wiltshire.

  1. Jaguar (talk · contribs) I can copyedit any articles if need be and I will do anything to improve this project. 18:18, 18 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Redrose64 (talk · contribs) - mainly railway-related articles 19:02, 20 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Moonraker (talk · contribs) 03:25, 9 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Bailo26 (talk · contribs) 17:04, 19 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  5. BabbaQ (talk · contribs) 21:18, 19 April 2011 (UTC) If requested I can help with edits on Wiltshire related articles.[reply]
  6. Wire723 (talk · contribs) Slowly adding articles to Category:Civil parishes in Wiltshire and updating as I go, since August 2014; by August 2015 the category was complete, with 276 articles (260 Wiltshire parishes and 16 in Swindon). Also adding articles or sections for every Grade I listed church.
  7. Zachary Hawson (talk · contribs) 4 June 2015, adding slowly to various articles and improving election related items in particular.
  8. TangoTizerWolfstone (talk · contribs) 07:12, 11 March 2018 - done several pages for white horses and also contributed to other hill figure and landmark pages. Will continue to do so.
  9. Staruge (talk · contribs) 22:24, 25 June 2018 (UTC) Just adding what I can when I can[reply]
  10. Shaun Sheep (talk · contribs) 14:52, 07 December 2020 (UTC) Mainly editing articles relating to Swindon. Im a hertiage proffessional and archaeologist by training (and a member of the Wikipedia Archaeology Project) so can help with articles about the historic environment of Wiltshire more widely.[reply]
  11. Sebbys (talk · contribs) 17:23, 6 January 2024 (UTC) Just editing what I can[reply]

Retired members

  1. Hroðulf (talk · contribs) (or Hrothulf) With a couple of brief Wilts articles under my belt, I will be glad to pop in now and again 13:05, 23 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  2. LPG32 (talk · contribs) 18:51, 24 September 2013 (UTC) I will sometimes pop in to edit locations around my local area.[reply]

Assessment

Current status

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Significant articles

Airports

Ancient monuments

Battles

Biographies

Canals

Colleges

Former county council

Districts

Former districts

Geography

Hill figures

History

Former hospitals

Hospitals

Industry

Listed buildings

Museums

Newspapers

Parishes

Parliamentary constituencies (existing)

Parliamentary constituencies (future)

Parliamentary constituencies (historic)

Prisons

Railways

Railway stations

Rivers

Roads

Roman roads

Schools

Former schools

Sports

Theatres

Towns

Uniformed services

Zoos and public gardens

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Importance Criteria

Importance scale

Below is the importance criteria for Wikiproject Wiltshire. Articles tagged with {{WikiProject Wiltshire}} should be assessed for the project. The importance of an article varies on the importance of itself to be tagged with a High, Mid or Low importance.

Need: A measure of a subject's importance, regardless of its quality
Top Subject is a must-have for a print encyclopedia.
High Subject is exceptionally important.
Mid Subject contributes a depth of knowledge.
Low Subject fills in important details.
NA Subject importance is not applicable.

Working scheme:

Top Large settlements, landmarks, and topics, notable nationally or internationally. Stonehenge, Salisbury Cathedral, Swindon
High Settlements, places, buildings, schools, colleges, and other topics with awareness outside the county. Wootton Bassett, Salisbury Plain, Warminster,
Mid Other settlements, places, buildings, notable residents, schools, colleges, and topics notable in the county. Kennet and Avon Canal, List of places in Wiltshire
Low Everything else, notable locally, generally only important to a smaller number of people in the county. Conholt, Calne railway station, Alderbury

Related projects

Parent projects

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Templates

Navboxes

Add these navboxes to the end of an article for a box with a listing of various things (i.e. settlements, rivers, landmarks).

Barnstar

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New articles

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Resources

Online books and journals

  • John Aubrey, The Natural History of Wiltshire (c. 1695, full text at gutenberg.org)
  • John Britton, The Beauties of Wiltshire: Volume 2 (1801, full view)
  • Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement, General view of the agriculture of Wiltshire (1811, full view)
  • Board of Agriculture, General View of the Agriculture of Wiltshire (1813, full view)
  • James Waylen, Chronicles of the Devizes (1839, full view)
  • John Yonge Akerman, A glossary of Wiltshire words (1842, full view)
  • John Yonge Akerman, Wiltshire Tales (1853, full view)
  • James Waylen, A history, military and municipal, of the town (otherwise called the city) of Marlborough and more generally of the entire hundred of Selkley (1854, full view)
  • Post Office Directory of Hampshire, Wiltshire, and Dorsetshire (1855, full view)
  • James Waylen, The highwaymen of Wiltshire (1856) (snippet view)
  • A handbook for travellers in Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, and Somersetshire (John Murray, 1856) (full view)
  • A handbook for travellers in Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, and Somersetshire (John Murray, 1859) (full view)
  • James Waylen, E. H. Goddard, A history, military and municipal of the ancient borough of the Devizes (1859, full view)
  • Edward Kite, Monumental Brasses of Wiltshire (1860, full view)
  • William Henry Jones, Domesday for Wiltshire (1865, full view)
  • H. Rider Haggard, Rural England (Longman's, 1906), Wiltshire
  • John C. Longstaff, Notes on Wiltshire Names (1911, reprinted 2009)
  • Frank R. Heath, Wiltshire (1911, snippet view)
  • Geoffrey Boumphrey, Wiltshire (1963)
  • G. D. Ramsay, The Wiltshire woollen industry in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (1965, preview)
  • Maurice Henry Hewlett, Wiltshire essays (1969, preview)
  • John Sadler, Wiltshire Parish Registers (2009, preview)
  • John Yonge Akerman, Wiltshire (2009, preview)
  • The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, published regularly since 1854: the best-organised collection of scans is at the Biodiversity Heritage Library

Libraries and archives

  • http://www.swindon.gov.uk/swindoncollection The Swindon Collection and other resources at Swindon Central Library

Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

These sites, co-ordinated at the Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre in Chippenham, should be useful for researching history and archaeology.

  • http://www.wshc.eu
  • http://wiltshirestudies.wiltshire.gov.uk/ Wiltshire Studies Collection online catalogue.
  • http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/projArch/EUS/wiltshire_eus_2009/index.cfm Wiltshire Extensive Urban Survey, 2009 (maps and report for download)
  • http://history.wiltshire.gov.uk/smr/ Wiltshire and Swindon Sites and Monument Record
  • http://history.wiltshire.gov.uk/heritage/ Wiltshire Wills online catalogue
  • http://history.wiltshire.gov.uk/museums/ Wiltshire Treasures online catalogue of artifacts in museums and collections
  • http://www.wshc.eu/about-wshc/archaeology.html Archaeology Service
  • http://www.wiltshirebuildingsrecord.org.uk/ Wiltshire Buildings Record

Tools

Main tool page: toolserver.org
  • Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
  • Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
  • Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
  • Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.
  • User:WP 1.0 bot/Tables/Project/Wiltshire - see history for previously assessed Wiltshire articles.



Categories

Main category: Wiltshire

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