User:Lidos/to do
- In-tray Project 2009:1 Articles to create - historic lidos
- Hornsey, Park Road Pools, was Hornsey Lido (1929) usual source - brief mention added to Hornsey#History (reduce detail when new article exists)
- Ealing Village Pool, a Grade II Listed pool on the Art Deco estate of Ealing Village (1934), Surprising there isn't an article on the latter. Use usual source and ealingvillage.com history. CCL photo here
- Hathersage Open Air Heated Swimming Pool, see also Smith p. 163 - mentioned on Hathersage
- London Fields Lido (1932) - reopened October 2006 - see Smith p.169 - mentioned on London Fields and Miniscule of Sound - see usual source - started in User:Speedoguy/sandbox
- Charlton Lido (1939) - see Smith p.30 and 37, see London Borough of Greenwich. Currently closed.
- In-tray Project 2009:2 Articles to check
Droitwich_Spa_Lido has article issues. Brief rewrite with new headings needed.
Commons:User:Fæ wrote
If the parent article seems long, it's not unreasonable to split off the swimming pool section as a new article. Note that the guidance of WP:CFORK applies.
- Aldershot#Swimming
- Banbury Lido
- Bourne Outdoor Swimming Pool - redirects to Abbey Lawn
- Brightlingsea#Brightlingsea open air swimming pool
- Chesham Moor - Gym & Swim in Chesham#Community facilities
- Chudleigh#Swimming Pool
- Filkins outdoor pool, Oxfordshire - see website
- Gillingham, Kent#Sport - Strand Leisure Park
- Haltwhistle#Governance
- Ivybridge#Sports
- Letchworth Lido on Norton Common
- Lydney#Sport.2C recreation and arts = Bathurst Swimming Pool
- Richmond Pools on the Park (1966 Grade II listed lido) mentioned on Old Deer Park
- Tonbridge swimming pool
- In-tray Project 2009:3 Check articles on historic lidos cf. Janet's book
- p.1, 90, 175 Sandford Parks Lido
- p.14 Clifton Lido on Clifton Lido and The Victoria Public House
- p.8, 33, 92 Jubilee Pool on Penzance#Main sights
- p.20, 82 Guildford Lido
- p.37 Ilkley Lido on Ilkley#Culture and attractions
- p.39 Portishead Pool - see Portishead, Somerset#Portishead today
- p.39 Stroud Pool on Stratford Park
- p.45, 102 Hilsea Lido
- p.46 Serpentine Lido on Serpentine (lake)#Swimming
- p.46, 52 Tooting Bec Lido
- p.76 Finchley Lido
- p.50, 84 Stonehaven Open Air Pool
- p.106 Uxbridge Lido
- p.108 Tinside Pool
- p.116 Peterborough Lido
- p.138 Brockwell Lido
- p.146 Saltdean Lido
- p.158, 163 Ingleton Open Air Heated Swimming Pool - see Ingleton, North Yorkshire
- p.159 Pells Pool
- p.160 Cirencester Pool on Cirencester#Sport
- p.161 Greenbank Pool - see Street, Somerset#Leisure
- p.162 Hampton Heated Open Air Pool
- p.164 Arundel Open Air Pool - not mentioned on Arundel
- p.165 Chagford Swimming Pool - not mentioned on Chagford (Dartmoor NP)
- p.165 Eversholt Pool - see Eversholt, Bedfordshire
- p.167 Droitwich Spa Lido
- p.171 Hampstead Ponds
- p.172 Wotton Pool - see Wotton-under-Edge#Facilities
- p.173 Oasis Swimming Pools
Out-tray
- Broomhill Pool, Ipswich re-designed with local editors eg User:Broomhillsaved and User:Broomhill Pool Trust.
- Article on Ruislip Lido tidied up, following Hillingdon Council's £1.5 million investment plans, just announced.
- New page on Broom Hill Park drafted in User:Lidos/Sandbox - issued to Broomhill Park - note, Broomhill seems more widely used but I could be confusing Sheffield's Broomhill...
- Create Beccles Lido - issued Beccles Lido
- Invite external Yahoo group to review and contribute, OM has done this, little response
- Fix Infobox to get coord data working again. Left msg asking for a fix on [[1]] - now fixed.
- Cross-link from www.lidos.org.uk to Wikipedia articles - see
WP link webpage created by OM
- Lymington Open Air Sea Water Baths created, oldest sea-water pool (1833) - mentioned on Lymington - recent pics on Wikimedia Commons.
- Noted discussion here WT:British Isles Terminology task force/Specific Examples#Tooting Bec and Tooting Bec Lido about Tooting Bec Lido.
- Parliament Hill Lido Created. Then add link from Hampstead Heath#Parliament Hill Fields and Parliament Hill, London and possibly Gospel Oak
- Woodhall Spa outdoor pool; rel sec is Woodhall Spa#Jubilee Park looks suitable for article; created: Jubilee Park pool. Title amended to read Jubilee Park Swimming Pool as this is what it's known as locally. (You can use the list of Operating Lidos in the back of Smith to determine this.)
- Renamed IAW sources.
- Turn User:Lidos/Sources into a stand alone list
- Uxbridge Lido - now moved from User space
- Lidos - link to category list - formatting error
- Aylesbury: Aqua Vale - added to Architecture of Aylesbury#Notable buildings that have been demolished
- Category:Lidos (closed) populated with appropriate note added to to Talk page for each pool
- Oasis Swimming Pools, London (1937-46)
- Hampton Heated Open Air Pool (1922) - open 365 days of year - mentioned on Hampton, London
- Amend and update Hampstead Ponds - see Smith p.171
General improvements to other pages (2009)
1. Lidos
- . Check against www.lidos.org.uk
- .
Refine Category:Lidos
- . Add better in-line sources
- .
Gravitate Lido di Venezia away from Lido as a shortcut using search with the aim of moving it over to the more commonly used sense - .
Collate source list for reuse
2. Swimming pool - edit very US-centric page and add citations. Perhaps add something to Talk:Swimming pool first.
Backlog
Article format, etc.
- Add Category "Buildings and structures in nameofcounty" grab from Category:Buildings and structures in England by county. Note some counties have category "Sports venues in nameofcounty" instead. Have made a start on this.
- Add (WPnameofcounty|class=stub|importance=low) to Talk page of newly created articles, to maximise editorial comments and improvements. Again have made a start with this.
- Olympic size pools in the UK - add 50m outdoor pools
- Add inline coordinates for smaller lidos in villages, see User talk:Lidos#Coordinates for lidos
- Incorporate items from Lidos FAQ
FAQ list progress 2/17 complete
- 1: Oldest still open:
sea-water Lymington (1833)freshwater Lewes (1860) - Lymington Lido created. - 2: Most Recent Chudleigh Swimming Pool, Devon (built 1997)
3: Highest Attendance in one day Finchley Lido (1931-1992) - 11,962 on 11 July 1971 -- added but needs original source for verification.- 8: Noted Hilsea Lido as UK joint deepest. Problem is with both Hilsea and Broomhill being closed, where is the deepest pool still open? Usual source webpage needs updating...
- Add convert template eg {{convert|220|x|72.5|ft|m}} to appropriate articles
- Tweak Template:Infobox Swimming Pool as necessary, and add to lido articles, and maybe a few Grade II listed indoor pools, see UK Parliament Select Committee ref
- Current articles using the infobox is shown on this list.
- Check articles on these closed or demolished pools
- Ashford Green Corridor outdoor pool
- Bowden Housteads Woods, Sheffield
- Brookvale Park Lake
- Bulmore Lido on Bulmore
- Chorley outdoor pool
- Clacton Pier
- Cleveland Pools, Bath (see p.13 Smith)
- Cold Knap, Barry, South Wales
- Daventry#Modern times
- King's Meadow swimming pool (see p.166 Smith)
- Longley Park, Sheffield
- Milford Haven#The 20th Century outdoor pool
- North Berwick Harbour
- Strathlene outdoor swimming pool on Buckie
- Seven Sisters, Neath Port Talbot outdoor pool
- South Shields open air pool
- Surbiton Lagoon
- Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex open air pool on Maxims Casino
- Weston-super-Mare (Tropicana)
- open air pools on History of Woking#Facilities 2
- Other tasks (2009-10)
- Confirm style guidance for addresses in lead text and apply consistently to all lido articles
- Request peer reviews for best articles
- Request suitable interesting photos to be released onto Wikimedia Commons for use in the articles, perhaps using Flickr Group on Lidos
Completed archive
- Add Wikipedia:WikiProject Geographical coordinates to all new articles
- Remove Category:Swimming articles needing photographs from articles and use {{WP Swimming}} on talk pages instead.
- change Teignmouth lido to Teignmouth Lido
- change Tonbridge swimming pool to Tonbridge Swimming Pool - ref: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (capitalization) - these are proper nouns (names)
- Gourock Outdoor Pool [2] - note File:Gourock swimming pool.jpg and mention on Gourock
- Pells Pool, Lewes - Grade II Listed - briefly mentioned on Lewes#Geography
- Jesus Green Swimming Pool - add redirect Cambridge Lido
- Hilsea Lido (closure threatened), Portsmouth - see also HLF-funded oral history project No Diving.
- Saltdean Lido, near Brighton - and mention on Saltdean
- Teignmouth, Tonbridge, Westward Ho! and Tollesbury - add a sentence/link to lidos on each
- Woodgreen Lido (Banbury) reopened on 26 July 2009.[3]
- Lidos needs amending to say that that the Clifton Lido and Woodgreen Lido campaigns were successful.
- The WP page title on Clifton Pool and The Victoria Public House really needs changing, see [4]
- Teignmouth lido, Devon
- Woodup Pool, near Maldon, Essex
- Tonbridge swimming pool, Kent
- Brixham: Shoalstone Pool, Devon
- Bude Sea Pool, Cornwall
- Monitoring