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Provisional Government of Southern Ireland

A discussion about moving this article to Provisional Government of the Irish Free State was started. Very limited participation so far and more input would be appreciated. Frenchmalawi (talk) 23:03, 6 April 2015 (UTC)

Moving Southern Ireland (1921-1922) back to its original title

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Southern Ireland (1921-1922) should be moved back to "Southern Ireland" as it was for years. You can contribute to the discussion at Talk:Southern Ireland (1921–22). Frenchmalawi (talk) 17:27, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

Relevant move request

There is a move request at Talk:Epping (disambiguation) that members of this project may be interested in. Egsan Bacon (talk) 14:39, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

Royal Society of Chemistry editathon, 29 July 2015

You are warmly invited to an editathon in the library of the Royal Society of Chemistry, London, on Wednesday, 29 July 2015. Booking essential. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:28, 8 May 2015 (UTC)

Olympic medallist categories (?)

Why do these categories exist?

No athlete has ever competed in the Olympic Games as an Englishman, Scot or Welshman; the United Kingdom has always fielded a single team for the Olympics, competing as "Great Britain." It's one thing to sub-categorize British swimmers as "Scottish swimmers" or "Welsh swimmers" based on their ethnicity/subnationality (categories that already exist), but it's quite another to classify them as "English Olympic medalists" or "Welsh Olympic medalists" when England, Scotland and Wales, as separate entities, have never competed at the Olympic Games. I would propose to up-merge these three categories to the parent category, Category:Olympic medalists for Great Britain, doing likewise for related categories for "Olympic competitors". Being an American, I thought it best to propose this category merge here first, before doing so at WP:Categories for discussion, and I will defer to whatever the consensus decision here may be. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 11:58, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

If there are enough people that splitting the category up into smaller categories is desirable, that could be the reason. Though they should be called "Category:British Olympic medallists from England" etc -- 65.94.43.89 (talk) 21:36, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

RfC: Renaming the Derry and County Londonderry articles

Please give your opinion at Talk:Derry#RfC: Renaming the Derry and County Londonderry articles. Dubs boy (talk) 20:06, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

"Wikipedia talk:WikiProject United Kingdom"

FYI Wikipedia talk:WikiProject United Kingdom (edit | project page | history | links | watch | logs) was recently, in March 2015, converted from being a redirect to Wikipedia talk:UK Wikipedians' notice board into being a separate talk page. So notices that once were redirected there (from 2009-2015) can be found in its history Wikipedia talk:UK Wikipedians' notice board (edit | project page | history | links | watch | logs) -- 65.94.43.89 (talk) 04:45, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

"Ireland"

The naming of the article at Ireland and the usage and topic of the pagename "Ireland" are up for discussion, see Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Ireland_Collaboration#Move "Ireland" to "Ireland (island)" or similar (June 2015) -- 70.51.203.69 (talk) 05:10, 16 June 2015 (UTC)

RfC: Renaming the Derry article

Back with a vengeance? Trying to gather opinions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Derry#RfC:_Renaming_the_Derry_articleDubs boy (talk) 21:21, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

Thousands of UK cityscape and other images may be deleted from Commons

Please see discussion at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(miscellaneous)#Two_weeks_to_save_freedom_of_panorama_in_Europe. I think it is an item of major interest to the editors interested in this WikiProject. The (very underestimated) counts for how many images may be affected have been posted to commons:Commons_talk:Freedom_of_Panorama_2015#numbers. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 01:10, 24 June 2015 (UTC)

Dissolution of ACPO

Following the dissolution of ACPO in the UK, and the creation of the National Police Chiefs' Council, all of these articles need to be re-examined and brought up to date:

and this one needs to be split out from the ACPO article entirely:

Once they've all been revised and re-referenced, Template:UK home nations police forces should also be updated to remove the reference to ACPO.

-- The Anome (talk) 15:24, 28 June 2015 (UTC)

Rating explanation

Per Talk:Alleged_British_use_of_chemical_weapons_in_Mesopotamia_in_1920#Is_this_seriously_considered_high_importance_in_the_uk_and_Iraq.3F please can you explain these ratings ? -- John (Daytona2 · Talk · Contribs) 09:55, 5 July 2015 (UTC)

Great Britain

"Great Britain" is an island here at English Wikipedia. Britain, like American and Russia, is a common short name of a state. See Anti-German sentiment (history) where I reverted the repeat change of one section heading from "United Kingdom" to "Great Britain" by User:Rjensen. Out of town with limited net access and time this week, this notice completes my session. --P64 (talk) 15:40, 11 July 2015 (UTC)

"Britain"/ "Great Britain" is the name of a country according to the historians--they rarely use "United Kingdom" for pre-1940 history Proof-- look at the titles of books in Amazon. Rjensen (talk) 17:11, 11 July 2015 (UTC)

stones vs kilograms

Typically speaking, do people think in terms of stones or kilograms for a person's mass in the UK? Which is more intuitive to most people? Jason Quinn (talk) 13:30, 16 July 2015 (UTC)

It probably varies by age. Older people will use stones, whereas younger people are more familiar with metric and more likely than older generations to know their weight in kilograms, though my feeling is that many still use stones and pounds when weighing themselves. Cordless Larry (talk) 18:47, 18 July 2015 (UTC)
The relevant guideline is WP:UNIT, which specifies stones and pounds for the weight of Britons. RGloucester — ☎ 18:45, 28 July 2015 (UTC)

Talk:1st Indian Cavalry Brigade

There is an ongoing RM discussion. --George Ho (talk) 06:37, 31 July 2015 (UTC)

"Thus"

The usage and primary topic of Thus is under discussion, see talk:Thus (company) -- 67.70.32.190 (talk) 06:57, 1 August 2015 (UTC)

Guy Fawkes Night RfC

There is an RfC at Talk:Guy Fawkes Night/Archive 8#Request for comments on the scope of the article. Apparently, there is a dispute going back four years, but it has been confined to a small number of editors. More input from uninvolved editors would be helpful. Scolaire (talk) 12:21, 1 August 2015 (UTC)

Gateway Protection Programme FAC

The Gateway Protection Programme article is currently a featured article candidate. The last time it was nominated, the review was archived due to a lack of comments, so I would be grateful if interested editors could take a read of the article and submit comments to the review. It's a topical issue at the moment, and you might even learn something about refugee resettlement! Cordless Larry (talk) 20:49, 4 August 2015 (UTC)

Request for WikiProject comment on subjective edit on sensitive article

An editor, Gob Lofa, is intent on misquoting a source to present speculation as fact. Outside input would be appreciated to see whether their edit or my amendment better reflects the source and should be used. Discussion is at Talk:RUC_Special_Branch. Obviously due to the topic of the article it is sensitive, even if only recently created by Gob Lofa, hence the need for accurate quoting/paraphrasing. Mabuska (talk) 11:13, 6 August 2015 (UTC)

Issue has been resolved. Mabuska (talk) 11:44, 6 August 2015 (UTC)

Moving Burma to Myanmar - new 2015 poll

I think I put this here last go around because of the historical ties to Burma/Myanmar. New move attempt of Burma>Myanmar Fyunck(click) (talk) 08:34, 7 August 2015 (UTC)

Request for proof reading by someone who normally uses British English.

So I just got done expanding Constitution of Saint Kitts and Nevis from a stub. However, I'm an American, and while I've tried to use British English as much as possible in the article, I'm sure I've got an odd mixture of British and American spellings. Would someone be kind enough to proof read it and fix any American spellings I've got in there? Thanks. ~ ONUnicorn(Talk|Contribs)problem solving 16:23, 10 August 2015 (UTC)

notice of proposal to merge "The Sunday Telegraph" into "The Daily Telegraph"

There's a proposal to merge The Sunday Telegraph into The Daily Telegraph at Talk:The Daily Telegraph#proposal to merge "The Sunday Telegraph" into "The Daily Telegraph" which may be of interest. Please consider participating there. --doncram 17:45, 21 August 2015 (UTC)

Public art lists

I wrote a blog post and am busy on social media and mailing lists, trying to encourage more people to create or contribute to locality-based lists of public art. Please look out for newbie contributions, assist the editors and tidy up as needed. Please help to publicise this drive, too! Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:05, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

British Bangladeshi GA reassessment

British Bangladeshi, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for an individual good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Cordless Larry (talk) 20:41, 24 September 2015 (UTC)

"The Duke of Edinburgh Awards"

The usage of The Duke of Edinburgh Awards is under discussion, see talk:The Duke of Edinburgh Awards -- 70.51.202.113 (talk) 23:46, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

Discussion of merging recently created content fork

France in the American Revolutionary War has been the subject of two recent move requests (Requested move 29 January 2015, Requested move 20 August 2015), both of which have failed. Perhaps frustrated by the failure to move, but undeterred from purpose, new User:AdjectivesAreBad chose to build the created redirect into its own article. France in the ARW is a legitimate topic, has existed since 2005, and deserves improvement. Newly created Anglo-French War (1778–83) is a clear content fork, and should be deleted and redirected (or perhaps merged) to the France in the American Revolutionary War pagespace. I encourage interested editors to visit the merge discussion here. BusterD (talk) 21:13, 7 October 2015 (UTC)

Talk:Greco-Italian_War#RfC_v2

G'day all, there is a RfC about the scope of the Greco-Italian War article that you may wish to contribute to. Thanks, Peacemaker67 (crack... thump) 22:42, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

Requests for Comment

Two RfCs are ongoing at WikiProject Boxing. The first concerns use of Flag icons in professional boxing record tables here: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Boxing#RfC: Flag icons in professional boxing record tables. The second concerns a proposed MOS for boxing articles Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Boxing#MoS:Boxing Final call, in particular whether UK should be added to locations in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Editors are invited to comment. Daicaregos (talk) 14:13, 13 December 2015 (UTC)

Royal justices

We have a fair few articles in which English people are described as having been royal justices. (I've linked quite a few of these: see here). However, we don't have an article on what a royal justice might have been. To say I am not a historian is putting it mildly. As far as I can see, they were royal officials who circulated around the country acting as representatives of the king, and dealing out the king's law among the people, like a Roman governor traveling the provinces -- or possibly Judge Dredd. They seem mostly to have been a phenomenon of the Angevin era, and various web sources suggest that the institution led to the development of the common law system. So that seems really interesting. Would someone be interested in creating an article about this? -- The Anome (talk) 23:18, 19 December 2015 (UTC)

Infobox Locations

Seem to remember that a consensus was agreed somewhere that we should not add the UK to biog infoboxes from Place, County, England/Wales/Scotland/Northern Ireland, to add United Kingdom at the end, or for that matter remove the UK from articles that already have it. I believe it was to stop forward and backward reverting and endless arguments. A User:GaryFG8125 has been adding the UK to political biographies so I was just checking what the latest position was on this, thanks. MilborneOne (talk) 17:50, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

help needed at 2016 New Year Honours

I need some help locating existing profiles for some of the 1,000+ BLP on today's list, plus updating bios to reflect their new post-noms (ie OBE, CBE etc). I've been typing and mouseclicking for hours and my hand is about to fall off. Thanks and Happy New Year!!!! —МандичкаYO 😜 01:30, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

Request for comments

For info: Talk:Royal_Tunbridge_Wells#RFC --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 22:07, 5 January 2016 (UTC)

Is the St Peter & Paul Priory, Ipswich notable

There are several such unsourced substubs, their author blocked in 2010. Xx236 (talk) 10:50, 18 February 2016 (UTC)

Canada in the American Civil War

Canada in the American Civil War has been proposed to be renamed to be British, see talk:Canada in the American Civil War -- 70.51.46.39 (talk) 07:37, 5 March 2016 (UTC)

"Pub Rock"

The usage and primary topic of Pub rock is under discussion, see talk:Pub rock (United Kingdom) -- 70.51.46.39 (talk) 07:16, 14 March 2016 (UTC)

Awaken the Dragon Edit-a-thon/Contest

Hi, can I interest anybody in contributing to a national edit-a-thon/contest for Wales in April, Wikipedia:WikiProject Wales/Awaken the Dragon. You can win up to £200 worth of Amazon vouchers and books of your choice for entering the contest. The idea is that Amazon vouchers and books can then be used by people to buy/have discount off more books and produce more articles for wikipedia. The scoreboard will be kept here. However, if contests and prize aren't your cup of tea you're very welcome to participate in the edit-athon throughout the month. Everything will count and be added to a list at the bottom. We have a number of missing listed buildings identified and a core list at Wikipedia:WikiProject Wales/Awaken the Dragon/Core articles. Already we have about 30 people interested but it would be great to see more get involved and producing content and really show what can be achieved in a month.The point of it is getting some of the core articles up to decent status and an overall improvement in quality. So if you generally work on military history or trains or whatever and you spot something which might interest you please consider working on it within the next six weeks! There is also a physical edit-athon at the National Library of Wales on April 22, see this for details.♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:45, 15 March 2016 (UTC)

HMS Uganda C66

FYI, HMCS Quebec has been proposed to be merged into HMS Uganda, see the discussion at Talk:HMS Uganda (66) -- 70.51.46.39 (talk) 04:12, 5 April 2016 (UTC)

RfC: Should the Flag of Northern Ireland article say at the start there is currently no national flag for Northern Ireland

At Talk:Flag of Northern Ireland#RfC: Should the Flag of Northern Ireland article say at the start there is currently no national flag for Northern Ireland. Dmcq (talk) 17:10, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

"Balfour Declaration"

The primary topic of "Balfour Declaration" is under discussion, see Talk:Balfour Declaration -- 70.51.45.100 (talk) 04:50, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

Status country in country in infobox country

There is a dispute over the status entry in the infobox for the countries in the UK at Talk:Wales#Status parameter in infobox. Dmcq (talk) 14:53, 11 May 2016 (UTC)

Category:Brentford F.C. Hall of Fame inductees has been nominated for discussion

Category:Brentford F.C. Hall of Fame inductees, which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has been nominated for deletion. A discussion is taking place to see if it abides with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. RevelationDirect (talk) 03:16, 29 May 2016 (UTC)

Auto-assessment of article classes

Following a recent discussion at WP:VPR, there is consensus for an opt-in bot task that automatically assesses the class of articles based on classes listed for other project templates on the same page. In other words, if WikiProject A has evaluated an article to be C-class and WikiProject B hasn't evaluated the article at all, such a bot task would automatically evaluate the article as C-class for WikiProject B.

If you think auto-assessment might benefit this project, consider discussing it with other members here. For more information or to request an auto-assessment run, please visit User:BU RoBOT/autoassess. This is a one-time message to alert projects with over 1,000 unassessed articles to this possibility. ~ RobTalk 01:25, 4 June 2016 (UTC)

Category:Prince Philip Designers Prize has been nominated for discussion

Category:Prince Philip Designers Prize, which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has been nominated for deletion. A discussion is taking place to see if it abides with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you.RevelationDirect (talk) 04:38, 12 June 2016 (UTC)

Do buildings belong in Category:nnnn establishments in Great Britain?

@Johnpacklambert: There has been some discussion at Talk:Leighton Hall as to whether Category:1761 establishments in Great Britain is appropriate for the Hall; I bring it here to get input from a wider GB audience.

The definition of the "establishments" category is "This category is for organizations, places, awards and competitions founded or established in Great Britain in the year nnnn". Is a building a "place" in this sense? Featured articles Buckingham Palace and Bodiam Castle do not have such categories. The categories such as Category:1761 establishments in Great Britain appear at present to hold organisations etc but not individual buildings. Any thoughts? PamD 21:46, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

The West Country Challenge

Copying here the notice which was put on my talk page, after noticing the "Awaken the Dragon" notice above

The The West Country Challenge will take place from 8 to 28 August 2016. The idea is to create and improve articles about Bristol, Somerset, Devon, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, Dorset, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire.

The format will be based on Wales's successful Awaken the Dragon which saw over 1000 article improvements and creations and 65 GAs/FAs. As with the Dragon contest, the focus is more on improving core articles and breathing new life into those older stale articles and stubs which might otherwise not get edited in years. All contributions, including new articles, are welcome though.

Work on any of the items at:

or other articles relating to the area.

There will be sub contests focusing on particular areas:

To sign up or get more information visit the contest pages at Wikipedia:WikiProject England/The West Country Challenge.— Rod talk 16:52, 18 July 2016 (UTC) Copied here by: PamD 21:51, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata properties specific to the United Kingdom

I've just made a list of all the Wikidata properties specific to the United Kingdom (to to its constituent parts). Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:22, 10 August 2016 (UTC)

GA Reassessment of United Kingdom national football team

United Kingdom national football team, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for an individual good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. BlueMoonset (talk) 16:16, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge

Hi there. I've started a new initiative, the Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge. It's a long term goal to bring about 10,000 article improvements to the UK and Ireland. Through two contests involving just six or seven weeks of editing so far we've produced over 1500 improvements. Long term if we have more people chipping it and adding articles they've edited independently as well from all areas of the UK then reaching that target is all possible. I think it would be an amazing achievement to see 10,000 article improvements by editors chipping in. If you support this and think you might want to contribute towards this long term please sign up in the Contributors section. No obligations, just post work on anything you feel like whenever you want, though try to avoid basic stubs if possible as we're trying to reduce the overall stub count and improve general comprehension and quality. Thanks.♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:45, 30 August 2016 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:British independence

There's currently a discussion open at Talk:British independence that may be of interest to members. Please feel free to add your thoughts. Thanks, This is Paul (talk) 20:48, 24 September 2016 (UTC)

Merge of Leeds and City of Leeds

It has been proposed that the two articles on Leeds, Leeds and City of Leeds, be merged. This has been brought up several times and it has been 6 years since a discussion resulted in retaining the split. Please share your thoughts here. Keith D (talk) 20:52, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

Towns and villages which are part of Greater London

Noticed that in a few recent years, some editors have started trying to change the location of villages and town in of Greater London to simply Cardinal points of the compass i.e., North, East, South, and West instead of staying with the Ordinal points of N, NE, SE, S SW, W, & NW. Editors which live in London (and they obviously know were they live) just keep reverting them but the changes keep coming. (WP wise, London editors are very few in number in comparison to the rest of the Globe and these changes wastes their time - quite apart from being very irritating) Is there any way to stop this? Don't think it is going to be efficacious to place a RfC on all the towns and villages talk pages, as Greater London is such a big area and so would be a very long job. Also other GL places may be added in the future. So what I am asking, for is a RfC here and suggestions for an acceptable solution. --Aspro (talk) 21:13, 29 November 2016 (UTC)

One solution maybe to rename West London (sub region) to simply West London and thus bringing it into line with East London which correctly points out, is a popularly and informally defined part of London. West End of London , West End (ward) , W postcode area, can be included as a See also section rather than part of the current disabig. The Economic Development sub-regions of GL (as decided by each London Mayor) are covered in the London Plan. Some editors do not seem to realize that Wikipedia is not a reliable source and should not be using WP as the sole authority to justify changing the locations of towns and villages on the sole bases of an Economic Development Plan. It appears now, that even rail stations locations are being converted by some editors relying on the West London (sub region) article, against long held and still recognized and accepted geographical locations. --Aspro (talk) 23:24, 30 November 2016 (UTC)

Women in Red

WikiProject Women in Red wants your biographies

I have taken the liberty of adding a link from this project's {{UK quick links}} (diff), to a redlist of Missing United Kingdom women for whom we have no biography article. Right now, there are five times as many biographies of men as there are of women on wikipedia - see the Wikidata Human Gender Indicators page. I hope this project will lend its support to addressing this imbalance by creating biographies for women within your project's scope. More generally, WikiProject Women in Red has very many redlists covering perhaps 100,000 notable women for whom we have no biography. thanks --Tagishsimon (talk) 14:23, 10 December 2016 (UTC)

RFC on tennis player Andy Murray (Scottish/British)

There is an ongoing RfC to determine whether Andy Murray is a Scottish or British tennis player. Please lend a hand at the Andy Murray British tennis player or Scottish tennis player RfC. Thanks. Fyunck(click) (talk) 09:39, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

Leslie R. Mitchell

Leslie R. Mitchell is up for deletion, please weigh in.--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 10:35, 18 December 2016 (UTC)

A recent Forbes article

A recent Forbes article stated that the Indian economy surpassed that of the UK. However, Forbes used an unconventional method to arrive at this conclusion - they took the recent 20% slump in the value of the pound, and used that exchange rate for the entire 2016 GDP of the UK. Needless to say, this method of calculating GDP is completely wrong; the IMF and World Bank (etc.) take average monthly exchange rates. However, over at the Economy of the United Kingdom, Economy of France and Economy of India articles, many (uninformed) editors are taking the Forbes article as gospel. This is bad practice and I think it better we stick to official figures as provided by the IMF, where the methodology is proper. It would be nice if other editors here could help me keep an eye on those articles. Cheers. Antiochus the Great (talk) 12:25, 19 December 2016 (UTC)

Talk:Exile on Main St

I recently started an RM discussion. I invite you to comment there. --George Ho (talk) 04:14, 20 December 2016 (UTC)

Started a fresher one: Talk:Exile on Main St.#Requested move 20 December 2016. George Ho (talk) 12:02, 20 December 2016 (UTC)

Request for assessment in advance of appearance on the main page

I note that HMS Spiteful (1899) is due to be on the main page in a couple of days, per Template:Did you know/Queue/5 at the time of writing: I wonder if someone might be kind enough to assess the article for this project before then, as it's the only thing that's visibly lacking at present. Thanks for reading. Nortonius (talk) 12:13, 7 February 2017 (UTC)

400,000 photographs of archaeological objects found by members of the public in England and Wales

In recent weeks, 400,000 images of finds, logged and photographed by the Portable Antiquities Scheme, have been uploaded to Commons.

  • Portable Antiquities Scheme sample gallery
  • Hand of ancient Roman statue, Leicestershire.
    Hand of ancient Roman statue, Leicestershire.
  • Roman coin hoard, now at the Roman Baths and Pump House Museum in Bath.
    Roman coin hoard, now at the Roman Baths and Pump House Museum in Bath.
  • Roman gold intaglio, 100-200 AD, Essex.
    Roman gold intaglio, 100-200 AD, Essex.
  • Pewter ladle or toy, medieval, Lincolnshire.
    Pewter ladle or toy, medieval, Lincolnshire.
  • Flat axe, bronze age, Lincolnshire.
    Flat axe, bronze age, Lincolnshire.
  • Swastika design brooch, Anglo-Saxon 6th-7th century, York.
    Swastika design brooch, Anglo-Saxon 6th-7th century, York.
  • Unidentified copper alloy coin, thought to date to 1-296 AD, Hertfordshire.
    Unidentified copper alloy coin, thought to date to 1-296 AD, Hertfordshire.
  • Ancient Roman brooch in the shape of a dog, 100-200 AD, Lincolnshire.
    Ancient Roman brooch in the shape of a dog, 100-200 AD, Lincolnshire.
  • Sunburst rowel (spurs), c.17th century, Cornwall.
    Sunburst rowel (spurs), c.17th century, Cornwall.
  • Unusual quarter stater, 50BC-20BC, Surrey.
    Unusual quarter stater, 50BC-20BC, Surrey.
  • Medieval thimble, Norfolk.
    Medieval thimble, Norfolk.
  • Anti-papist pipe tamper with head of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey, 1678, West Berkshire.
    Anti-papist pipe tamper with head of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey, 1678, West Berkshire.

They are now ready for further categorisation on Commons, and use in Wikipedia articles.

Please see this note on Commons and the project page there. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:10, 11 February 2017 (UTC)

Nationality categories

There is an ongoing issue at Bertrand Russell, who is categorised as, for example, a "British mathematician" but a "Welsh philosopher"... etc.. The issue in that particular case is that Russell did not regard himself as Welsh - he was born in Monmouthshire, which at the time of his birth had a somewhat ambiguous status - and the established consensus at that article is that he should be described as British. There are many other similar issues in other articles, over whether individuals should be described as English, Welsh, Scottish, etc. - or British, which is their legal nationality but not necessarily (for example in the case of sporting figures) how they view themselves - see WP:UKNATIONALS for an overview of the problem The issue with the Russell article (and potentially elsewhere) is that we have one editor who maintains that "the way things are done" is to categorise anyone born in (for example) Wales as Welsh, irrespective of any existing consensus over how they should be described in article text. Is that editor correct (that is, acting in accordance with guidance or policy) in insisting on that point of view, or should nationality categories be determined on the basis of editor consensus in each case, rather than solely on the basis of birthplace? Ghmyrtle (talk) 20:55, 1 March 2017 (UTC)

British would appear to be the default choice, if the subject matter itself doesn't self-identify as one or the other. Both England & Wales are situated within the United Kingdom. GoodDay (talk) 05:57, 3 March 2017 (UTC)
The logical conclusion of that statement would be to delete all the English, Welsh and Scottish categories and move all their entries into the parent British categories. And that is just not ever going to happen. To address the original problem, the nature of the category tree is the all geographical categories are nested into parent categories. So Welsh philosophers are a subset of category:British philosophers, so if Russell is in one then he is automatically subsumed into the parent category even if he is not listed separately there. With the mathematician category tree, there doesn't seem to be any lower categorisation than category:British mathematicians so the question is moot. The philosopher categories seem to be more populated than the mathematicians so it makes sense to breakdown the British category into Welsh, Scottish and English categories. It looks to me like more of the British philosophers need to be re-categorised geographically to depopulate a bulging parent category. Right across the project there is no requirement that I'm aware of that categorisation is supported by references for instance. It seems to be custom and practice. So the question I would ask is how the OP would define the rules about who should be placed in which categories? CalzGuy (talk) 07:09, 3 March 2017 (UTC)
I think this misunderstands the issue. There is no problem over the principle of nesting. If someone was a philosopher who clearly identified as being Welsh and is described as Welsh in the opening paragraph, they fall into Category:Welsh philosophers, which is a subset of Category:British philosophers. That is not the issue. The issue is what happens when someone is described, either by default or by consensus of editors, as British? This may be a diminishing problem, but historically many people have identified themselves as British irrespective of whether they were born in England, Scotland or Wales. In Russell's case, he was born in an area that is now part of Wales (though at the time of his birth it was unclear to some whether it was in Wales or England) - but did not identify as Welsh and through the consensus of editors on his article is best described as British. In such cases, should place of birth be the sole determinant of which category he is placed in? In that case, should David Lloyd George, for example, be categorised as an English politician because he was born in Manchester, or should Saunders Lewis be categorised in some way as an English "Welsh-nationalist"? It becomes absurd. The default position should in my view be that British people should be categorised by the nationality described in the article text, which can be agreed between editors, rather than purely on the basis of their place of birth and modern national boundaries. Ghmyrtle (talk) 08:29, 4 March 2017 (UTC)
Why not just rename the cats to Philosophers from Wales, Political theorists from Wales etc. This would deal with the problems you have brought up.Apollo The Logician (talk) 10:04, 4 March 2017 (UTC)

Island of Great Britain

A series of categories relating to Great Britain have been nominated for re-naming here which may interest the project. Laurel Lodged (talk) 13:57, 4 March 2017 (UTC)

Notice about adminship to participants at this project

Many participants here create a lot of content, may have to evaluate whether or not a subject is notable, decide if content complies with BLP policy, and much more. Well, these are just some of the skills considered at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship.

So, please consider taking a look at and watchlisting this page:

You could be very helpful in evaluating potential candidates, and even finding out if you would be a suitable RfA candidate.

Many thanks and best wishes,

Anna Frodesiak (talk) 05:40, 6 March 2017 (UTC)

Northern England peer review

Hello! I'm currently trying to get the article on Northern England up to featured article status, and I've opened a peer review to get input. Any comments on it would be very welcome. Thanks, Smurrayinchester 15:50, 13 March 2017 (UTC)

Free aerial photography from Environment Agency

Headingley
Chester Racecourse.

Something that might be useful: The Environment Agency has made a load of aerial photography freely available under the Open Government License (England only, unfortunately). The quality is good, although coverage is very patchy. The biggest downside is that it's in ECW file format, which requires QGIS or a similar piece of GIS software. It's fairly simple to do though, and I'd be happy to help anyone who wants to try it. You can check if your area is covered at data.gov.uk - click on your area, and see if "Vertical Aerial Photography Tiles (RGB)" appears. If it does, click "On/Off" to see (more or less) exactly where the photos cover. I think the photos were originally created to assess flooding risk, so your best bet is to try areas near rivers and the coast. Smurrayinchester 21:18, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

Move request at Talk:UK miners' strike (1984–85)

Please comment on the requested move at Talk:UK miners' strike (1984–85)#Requested move 26 March 2017.--Nevé–selbert 13:47, 26 March 2017 (UTC)

Request assessment of unassessed article

Please help assess this article: Dhammakaya Movement UK. Thank you.--Farang Rak Tham (talk) 21:35, 5 April 2017 (UTC)

Upcoming "420 collaboration"

You are invited to participate in the upcoming

"420 collaboration",

which is being held from Saturday, April 15 to Sunday, April 30, and especially on April 20, 2017!

The purpose of the collaboration, which is being organized by WikiProject Cannabis, is to create and improve cannabis-related content at Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects in a variety of fields, including: culture, health, hemp, history, medicine, politics, and religion.

WikiProject United Kingdom participants may be particularly interested in the following:
Cannabis in the United Kingdom (Category:Cannabis in the United Kingdom).

For more information about this campaign, and to learn how you can help improve Wikipedia, please visit the "420 collaboration" page.

---Another Believer (Talk) 14:34, 11 April 2017 (UTC)

The Special Relationship - the Balfour Mission

Tomorrow marks the 100th anniversary of the start of the Balfour Mission, which is considered an important milestone in the beginning of the Special Relationship between the UK and US. The article was created yesterday, and might be of interest to this project.

Oncenawhile (talk) 08:42, 21 April 2017 (UTC)

Popular pages report

We – Community Tech – are happy to announce that the Popular pages bot is back up-and-running (after a one year hiatus)! You're receiving this message because your WikiProject or task force is signed up to receive the popular pages report. Every month, Community Tech bot will post at Wikipedia:WikiProject United Kingdom/Archive 1/Popular pages with a list of the most-viewed pages over the previous month that are within the scope of WikiProject United Kingdom.

We've made some enhancements to the original report. Here's what's new:

  • The pageview data includes both desktop and mobile data.
  • The report will include a link to the pageviews tool for each article, to dig deeper into any surprises or anomalies.
  • The report will include the total pageviews for the entire project (including redirects).

We're grateful to Mr.Z-man for his original Mr.Z-bot, and we wish his bot a happy robot retirement. Just as before, we hope the popular pages reports will aid you in understanding the reach of WikiProject United Kingdom, and what articles may be deserving of more attention. If you have any questions or concerns please contact us at m:User talk:Community Tech bot.

Warm regards, the Community Tech Team 17:16, 17 May 2017 (UTC)

Foreign language redirects to United Kingdom

I've nominated redirects from Italian, Spanish, French, German and Dutch names to United Kingdom at RfD. You are invited to the discussion at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2017 May 26#Regno Unito. Thryduulf (talk) 19:45, 26 May 2017 (UTC)

Reliable source? Template:Rayment, Rayment-hc, Rayment-bt, Rayment-pc etc

A discussion is taking place about whether a series of templates used to generate references to the work of Leigh Rayment fall within Wikipedia's content guideline to use reliable sources, or alternatively whether they should be deprecated and tagged with {{Self-published source}} and/or {{Better source}}.

These templates are used for referencing over 10,000 articles relating to the House of Commons of England, the House of Commons of Ireland, the House of Commons of England, the House of Commons of Great Britain, the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, and the peerages and baronetcies of the islands of Ireland and Great Britain.

Since whatever decision is made will effect so many articles, I am notifying the following WikiProjects of this discussion: WP:WikiProject England, WP:WikiProject Ireland, WikiProject Northern Ireland, WikiProject Scotland, WikiProject United Kingdom, and WikiProject Politics of the United Kingdom.

Your comments would be welcome, but please post them at WT:WikiProject Peerage and Baronetage#Leigh_Rayment.27s_Peerage_Pages_.282017.29, so that your contribution can be weighed as part of the discussion. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 17:17, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

Talk:Community Charge#Requested move 20 July 2017

Please see the requested move discussion at Talk:Community Charge#Requested move 20 July 2017. AusLondonder (talk) 18:13, 20 July 2017 (UTC)

Terrorism categories

A discussion on whether articles on attacks by paramilitary groups such as the IRA etc. against the army and RUC should include terrorism categories requires further input here. Mabuska (talk) 11:07, 29 August 2017 (UTC)

Sorted magazine article

Can we get some eyes on Sorted magazine (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)? At the article, an IP is repeatedly removing sourced material and replacing it with unsourced material, promotional language, and spam. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 23:35, 9 September 2017 (UTC)

Help Subdividing Category:Parliament of England (pre-1707) MP stubs

Hi all, I do a lot of work with organizing stubs, and the largest stub categories is Category:Parliament of England (pre-1707) MP stubs, which has 2,893 associated pages. My goal is to subdivide this into categories with more manageable amounts of stubs (maybe 200 articles each). Unfortunately, I don't know much about UK/English politics, so I don't have any great ideas about how to subdivide. Does anyone at this wikiproject have any ideas of how to subdivide this, or know a better wikiproject to ask about this?

I would also note that Category:UK MP for England stubs is also an extremely large category, with 1,593 uncategorized pages, so subdivision ideas for that category would welcome as well. This is crossposted at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject England and Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Politics of the United Kingdom -Furicorn (talk) 07:04, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

Is there a guideline on U.K. vs UK

As I've found an editor, User:Clayton Forrester, going through articles and changing UK to U.K. (ditto US). Thanks. Doug Weller talk 14:10, 30 September 2017 (UTC)

Common usage in the UK is not to include full stops in acronyms and initialisms probably covered by WP:ENGVAR although Full stop also indicates that the Americans are not using the full stop/period as much as they did as the American The Chicago Manual of Style says dont use them. MilborneOne (talk) 17:01, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

Economy sections on articles for English regions

I've noticed that pretty much every article for a region of England has an "Economy" section which is little more than an overly-intricate list of businesses with a lot of redlinks and very few (often zero) citations. I don't think these sections are particularly encyclopaedic, and they don't really fulfil the goal of informing the reader about the economy of each region. I'm also pretty sure that no single business is particularly noteworthy in the context of an entire region's economy, but I could be mistaken on that point. I propose deleting every sentence which just states that a business is located somewhere and just keep the information relevant to each region as a whole. — dukwon (talk) (contribs) 09:48, 6 October 2017 (UTC)

Article move discussion: List of conflicts/wars involving the United Kingdom

Please see article move discussion here:

New Editor Needs Help @ Talk:Lancashire County Council election, 2017

A new editor is in need of some assistance and advice in a content dispute at Talk:Lancashire County Council election, 2017. I am INVOLVED in my capacity as an administrator so I can't take sides in the content dispute. Unfortunately I have found it necessary to temporarily lock the article to put the breaks on a slow motion edit war. That lock will expire tomorrow... er later today. In the meantime any help from more experienced editors who might be interested would be greatly appreciated. -Ad Orientem (talk) 02:15, 13 October 2017 (UTC)

Courtesy ping: Bulgaroon -Ad Orientem (talk) 02:16, 13 October 2017 (UTC)

RfC for pedophilia terminology at the Milo Yiannopoulos article

Opinions are needed on the following matter: Talk:Milo Yiannopoulos#RfC: Should the article include text/sources analyzing Yiannopoulos's statements on pedophilia?. A permalink for it is here. The discussion concerns whether or not to mention that sources note that Yiannopoulos's definition of pedophilia is technically correct, but also that the term is used more broadly than the technical definition (to include adults engaging in sexual activity with minors, or specifically committing child sexual abuse). Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 21:14, 8 November 2017 (UTC)

Blyth, Northumberland

nominated for FAR at Wikipedia:Featured article review/Blyth, Northumberland/archive1 - please fix if possible....Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 20:32, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Black Jack Mulligan

First off, "Wp:uk" redirects to Wikipedia:Manual of Style#National varieties of English with no hatnote tying that page to this project page or otherwise any explanation as to why the redirect points there and not to the project page.

As for why I'm here, I'll be upfront and state that this notification may not be entirely neutral. I discovered this AFD at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Wrestling. The nominator is rather active in that corner of the encyclopedia. From following that page, a pattern emerges. Namely, the nominator is using deletion processes to push our coverage of professional wrestling in the direction of being a mindless repetition of certain wrestling websites. In other words, no other notable topics need apply if coverage depends upon the breadth of sources as opposed to these few cherry-picked websites. Resultantly, one can see all sort and manner of minutiae regarding Canadian professional wrestling while the wrestling scene in the UK (among numerous other subtopics) has been consistently given short shrift, despite evidence that the latter was a much bigger affair business-wise. Specifically regarding the article, it states that Mulligan appeared on World of Sport. I'm pretty sure that "the similarly named American Blackjack Mulligan" never wrestled on network television. Furthermore, the nomination states "No significant coverage in reliable independent sources". This AFD followed the latest of multiple unsuccessful attempts to PROD the article by folks who failed to notice that it was previously PRODed. During one of those attempts, the editor who declined the PROD added a source from New Society. This is perhaps the key point as far as this project is concerned. In this edit, the uncomfortable collision of WWE's wrestling storylines and the real-life scrutiny of Linda McMahon as a United States Senate candidate is deemed to be an "irrelevant example" by this same editor, despite being covered by such "patently unreliable sources" as the New York Times and the Washington Post. It appears that New Society is being treated the same way by this editor. In closing, I'm really hoping that there's still any common sense left around here, that one or more of you views this nomination with the same suspicion that I do, and that someone has access to applicable sources. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions 01:11, 26 November 2017 (UTC)

Disambiguation links on pages tagged by this wikiproject

Wikipedia has many thousands of wikilinks which point to disambiguation pages. It would be useful to readers if these links directed them to the specific pages of interest, rather than making them search through a list. Members of WikiProject Disambiguation have been working on this and the total number is now below 20,000 for the first time. Some of these links require specialist knowledge of the topics concerned and therefore it would be great if you could help in your area of expertise.

A list of the relevant links on pages which fall within the remit of this wikiproject can be found at http://69.142.160.183/~dispenser/cgi-bin/topic_points.py?banner=WikiProject_United_Kingdom

Please take a few minutes to help make these more useful to our readers.— Rod talk 19:50, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

British war crimes

I have instigated a discussion about this highly biased and OR driven article at Talk:British_war_crimes#Article_problems. Mabuska (talk) 23:19, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

A-Class review for HMS Erin needs attention

A few more editors are needed to complete the A-Class review for HMS Erin; please stop by and help review the article! Thanks! AustralianRupert (talk) 09:02, 24 February 2018 (UTC)

Relisting of move discussion

Greetings! I have recently relisted a requested move discussion at Talk:Hutchison 3G#Requested move 17 February 2018, regarding a page relating to this WikiProject. Discussion and opinions are invited. Thanks, SkyWarrior 20:21, 24 February 2018 (UTC)

82.12.206.83 (talk) 15:50, 2 March 2018 (UTC)How can I correct vandalism to the summary that appears in the Google search?

Hi

I am a deputy head teacher at Langtree School.

A parent searching for news about whether our school was open this morning, Googled the school and saw some inappropriate comments among the results of her search.

I have done the same search and found what she is referring to. When I click on the search item it takes you to a Wikipedia page with no inappropriate comments.

Is this an issue I need to correct within Wikipedia or one that I should take up with the search engine, it appears this search item only appears in Google - so I might have answered my own question?)?

Thanks

Simon — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.12.206.83 (talk) 15:43, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

Simon, it looks as if a vandal corrupted the school motto in this edit on 26 Feb, which was not spotted and reverted until this edit on 1 March. Google seems to have picked up the version of the article from those 3 days. I don't know if anything can be done to get the updated/corrected version to be used by Google instead, or whether we just wait for it to happen - other respondents may know more. I have now requested that the Wikipedia page be protected from editing by unregistered users, as there seems to have been a pattern of recurrent silly vandalism, though that request may or may not be granted - see Wikipedia:Requests_for_page_protection#Langtree_School. It might be useful for you to find some responsible person who edits Wikipedia regularly and could add the school to their "Watch list" so that they are notified of any changes to the page and can keep an eye out for vandalism, and take appropriate action. PamD 23:37, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
It has been semiprotected (ie no anonymous editing) for 4 days. After that, someone needs to keep an eye on it. PamD 07:49, 3 March 2018 (UTC)

A-Class review for Yeomanry Cavalry needs attention

A few more editors are needed to complete the A-Class review for Yeomanry Cavalry; please stop by and help review the article! Thanks! AustralianRupert (talk) 04:26, 23 March 2018 (UTC)

Ending the system of portals

Hello, there's a proposal to delete all Wikipedia portals. Please see the discussion here. --NaBUru38 (talk) 14:02, 14 April 2018 (UTC)

Opinions needed at Talk:Religion in the United Kingdom

There is the need of opinions from third parties at Talk:Religion in the United Kingdom, regarding the inclusion of additional pie charts into the article.--Wddan (talk) 21:18, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

Please come and help...

The requested move at Talk:2018 missile strikes against Syria has been relisted, because there is no consensus yet either to move or not to move the article to a different title. Your !vote and rationale in this debate would be appreciated!  Paine Ellsworth  put'r there  23:50, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

A-Class review for Polaris (UK nuclear programme) needs attention

A few more editors are needed to complete the A-Class review for Polaris (UK nuclear programme); please stop by and help review the article! Thanks! AustralianRupert (talk) 05:12, 12 May 2018 (UTC)

A-Class review for Territorial Force needs attention

A few more editors are needed to complete the A-Class review for Territorial Force; please stop by and help review the article! Thanks! AustralianRupert (talk) 01:08, 27 May 2018 (UTC)

WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject

The reason I am contacting you is because there are one or more portals that fall under this subject, and the Portals WikiProject is currently undertaking a major drive to automate portals that may affect them.

Portals are being redesigned.

The new design features are being applied to existing portals.

At present, we are gearing up for a maintenance pass of portals in which the introduction section will be upgraded to no longer need a subpage. In place of static copied and pasted excerpts will be self-updating excerpts displayed through selective transclusion, using the template {{Transclude lead excerpt}}.

The discussion about this can be found here.

Maintainers of specific portals are encouraged to sign up as project members here, noting the portals they maintain, so that those portals are skipped by the maintenance pass. Currently, we are interested in upgrading neglected and abandoned portals. There will be opportunity for maintained portals to opt-in later, or the portal maintainers can handle upgrading (the portals they maintain) personally at any time.

Background

On April 8th, 2018, an RfC ("Request for comment") proposal was made to eliminate all portals and the portal namespace. On April 17th, the Portals WikiProject was rebooted to handle the revitalization of the portal system. On May 12th, the RfC was closed with the result to keep portals, by a margin of about 2 to 1 in favor of keeping portals.

There's an article in the current edition of the Signpost interviewing project members about the RfC and the Portals WikiProject.

Since the reboot, the Portals WikiProject has been busy building tools and components to upgrade portals.

So far, 84 editors have joined.

If you would like to keep abreast of what is happening with portals, see the newsletter archive.

If you have any questions about what is happening with portals or the Portals WikiProject, please post them on the WikiProject's talk page.

Thank you.    — The Transhumanist   07:59, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

A-Class review for MAUD Committee needs attention

A few more editors are needed to complete the A-Class review for MAUD Committee; please stop by and help review the article! Thanks! AustralianRupert (talk) 07:27, 17 June 2018 (UTC)

British Hong Kong

There's a discussion about what the year of establishment should be in Talk:British Hong Kong. Third party opinions welcome. Spellcast (talk) 02:14, 26 June 2018 (UTC)

Historicity of King Arthur needs work

 – Pointer to relevant discussion elsewhere.

Please see Talk:Historicity of King Arthur/Archive 1#Undue dwelling on Castus and the Sarmatian/Nart hypothesis
TL;DR: There's some coatracking going on there, and some merging out of material needs to happen, or perhaps a separate article on the Nart–Sarmatian–Alan hypothesis.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  18:19, 4 July 2018 (UTC)

Adjustments for Brexit

Reposting something I have also posted elsewhere:

Maybe this is a project on its own, but the United Kingdom leaving the European Union will need a lot of changes, both on European Union pages and on United Kingdom pages. The changes take effect only on 29 March 2019 - we have nine months - and in that pregnant pause there could be hundreds (or thousands) of references to be tagged as needing attention after that date.

I am looking at things from the admin side and from the British side of the Channel. I have found that it is not just big articles which contain references which will need changing. It goes even down to village level.

Is this a project for this Project or a new one? LG02 (talk) 15:34, 29 June 2018 (UTC)

I have just created {{Brexit note}} for tagging the relevant articles. The tag is invisible until after 29 March 2019, but adds articles to Category:Articles tagged for attention after Brexit. That Category is also invisible until after that date. LG02 (talk) 13:19, 30 June 2018 (UTC)

Would it be useful to split 'Category:Articles tagged for attention after Brexit' with sub-categories, such as 'Priority articles [etc]', 'Institution articles [etc]'. It is just a question of adding a parameter to the tagging template. LG02 (talk) 22:14, 6 July 2018 (UTC)

Merge Debate re: Salisbury/Amesbury poisonings

Hello - there's currently a discussion at the talk page of the article 2018 Amesbury poisonings as to whether this should be merged with the Poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal article. Although I have my view as expressed in that discussion, I'm not here to canvass for that, but I do think it needs a few more eyes as at the moment there's no real progress or discussion towards a consensus. You can contribute to this at Talk:2018 Amesbury poisonings#Merge. --Super Nintendo Chalmers (talk) 09:52, 20 September 2018 (UTC)

Fire stations

I've been developing List of fire stations in the United Kingdom, a section of a worldwide list which so far includes just 10 notable ones which were in Category:Fire stations in the United Kingdom. Compared to several hundred in the United States. Surely there are more historic ones that are included in historic districts or otherwise didn't get categorized yet, and surely there are some notable modern ones, with or without articles yet. Help would be appreciated! --Doncram (talk) 05:16, 10 October 2018 (UTC)

Infobox UK place

ImprovedWikiImprovment has suggested a change at Template talk:Infobox UK place#Template protected edit request. It's sandboxed and visible at Template:Infobox UK place/testcases. Any comments before the change is made? Cabayi (talk) 17:20, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

WikiProject Report

Hello WikiProject UK,

I'm doing the WikiProject report for The Signpost and I was wondering if any members are interested in being interviewed. If you are please ping me a reply ASAP. Many thanks.

ProgrammingGeek talktome 03:53, 21 November 2018 (UTC)

Great power article: Map

Following quite nasty edit-war, I started discussion on the Great Power article talk page about map in the article. Main topics for discussion: What countries should be on the map? Should the map show some sort of hierarchy of great powers (eg. using colours)? Would not be better to remove the map altogether? So far, only IPs and new accounts entered this discussion, so input from experienced editors would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Pavlor (talk) 08:24, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

James Dredge Sr.

In this article, there is a passage that reads

who was also a notable journalist of Engineering,[1]

References

  1. ^ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1912). "Dredge, James" . Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 522.

The issue is that is a magazine called Engineering, as well as a magazine called The Engineer, to which the link links. Since I don't have access to the DNB, could you check which of these two publications this refers to? Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 19:59, 27 January 2019 (UTC)

The DNB page that link takes me to says [Engineering (with portrait), 24 Aug. 1906; Min. Proc. Inst. Civ. Eng. clxvi. 382.]" - does that help?— Rod talk 20:10, 27 January 2019 (UTC)
The text says 'Engineering' a few times, so this must be Engineering. Likewise for [1].Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 20:30, 27 January 2019 (UTC)

RfC at Talk:Gibraltar

There is a Request for comments in progress at Talk:Gibraltar#Request for comment: population movement after 1704. The question is, should the History section state that before the occupation of Gibraltar in 1704 there were about 4,000 Spanish inhabitants there, and after it only 70 or so remained, most of the others settling in the surrounding campo, especially in San Roque, Cádiz? Scolaire (talk) 16:17, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

WP 1.0 Bot Beta

Hello! Your WikiProject has been selected to participate in the WP 1.0 Bot rewrite beta. This means that, starting in the next few days or weeks, your assessment tables will be updated using code in the new bot, codenamed Lucky. You can read more about this change on the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial team page. Thanks! audiodude (talk) 05:39, 27 February 2019 (UTC)

CFD: overlapping categories for the British Empire and British Overseas Territories

I have proposed merging some overlapping chronology categories for the British Empire and British Overseas Territories. For example: Category:1983 in the British Empire to be merged to Category:1983 in British Overseas Territories.

The proposal would involved 57 categories being merged or renamed.

This discussion is at WP:Categories for discussion/Log/2019 March 1#British_Empire, where your comments will be welcome. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 02:02, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

Percy Glading

This article—of interest to this project—is currently undergoing a peer review. All project members are welcome to comment there. Thank you! ——SerialNumber54129 19:03, 10 March 2019 (UTC)

RfC

Please comment at the RfC at Talk:United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland#‎Demonym on whether the demonym Briton is appropriate for people from Ireland before 1922. DrKay (talk) 17:14, 15 March 2019 (UTC)

RfC on disambiguation of TV articles

An RfC has been opened at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (television)#RFC: What disambiguation should shows from the United States and United Kingdom use?. Additional participation is welcomed. -- Netoholic @ 19:00, 3 April 2019 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride

You are invited to participate in Wiki Loves Pride!

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    1.) Create or improve LGBT-related articles and showcase the results of your work here
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AfD needing more attention

G'day all, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2007 British Army order of battle has been re-listed and could do with some more attention from interested editors. Cheers,

A new newsletter directory is out!

A new Newsletter directory has been created to replace the old, out-of-date one. If your WikiProject and its taskforces have newsletters (even inactive ones), or if you know of a missing newsletter (including from sister projects like WikiSpecies), please include it in the directory! The template can be a bit tricky, so if you need help, just post the newsletter on the template's talk page and someone will add it for you.

– Sent on behalf of Headbomb. 03:11, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

The Troubles listed at Requested moves

A requested move discussion has been initiated for The Troubles to be moved to Northern Ireland conflict. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. --Scolaire (talk) 15:12, 13 April 2019 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Infobox UK place

Template:Infobox UK place has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. -Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 22:41, 17 April 2019 (UTC)

Derrick Morris Article for Deletion

Nomination of Portal:British Army for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether Portal:British Army is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The page will be discussed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:British Army until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the page during the discussion, including to improve the page to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the deletion notice from the top of the page. North America1000 01:13, 21 August 2019 (UTC)

Portal:BBC is suggested for deletion

Portal:BBC is suggested for deletion as part of a group nomination, see: Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Mixed bag of group portals. It is in need of a maintainer, if anyone is interested, though this is not the rationale for deletion. Espresso Addict (talk) 00:40, 23 April 2019 (UTC)

Requested merge 1 April 2019

– Time to sort this mess out[April Fools!]

Samsara 18:02, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

April fools joke still in place on the project page in mid-May. Oh my, how funny. I almost... no. Cabayi (talk) 11:17, 11 May 2019 (UTC)

Discussion of WalesOnline on the reliable sources noticeboard

There is a discussion on the reliability of WalesOnline on the reliable sources noticeboard on the reliable sources noticeboard. If you're interested, please participate at Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard § WalesOnline.co.uk. — Newslinger talk 22:31, 3 June 2019 (UTC)

Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg

There is currently a discussion at Talk:Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg as to whether the subject should be described as a "British-born New Zealander", "British-New Zealander" or something else entirely. Additional input is welcomed. Wikipedia:New Zealand Wikipedians' notice board has similarly been notified. Cheers, Abraham, B.S. (talk) 06:21, 2 August 2019 (UTC)

RfC of interest

This RfC may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Beyond My Ken (talk) 02:38, 27 August 2019 (UTC)

Finding date of death of recipient of companionage ?

I'd like to get confirmation over whether this book is in the public domain in the UK through "life + 70 years," and that would go by getting the date of death of co-author Haif Apisoghom S. Utidjian.

Bucknill died in 1926, and as copyright is life + 70 years in the UK, his copyright expired in 1996. As for Utidjian, Worldcat says he was born in 1853. If this is accurate, 120 years means he could have lived to, at most 1973 or so, and the copyright would certainly have expired by 2033.

Utidjian's birth year is seen here under "Companionage": Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage. Kelly's Directories, 1916. p. 1495.

Thanks! WhisperToMe (talk) 10:10, 13 September 2019 (UTC)

RuPaul's Drag Race UK (series 1)

Happy editing! ---Another Believer (Talk) 01:05, 4 October 2019 (UTC)

Request for information on WP1.0 web tool

Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.

We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma (talk) 04:25, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

UK vs. GB

There are different articles for stamps under each name:

Does one article or set of articles need to change? (I expect the GB need to change since these are all after 1801) Naraht (talk) 17:31, 13 November 2019 (UTC)

RuPaul's DragCon UK up for deletion

Discussion is at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/RuPaul's DragCon UK. Gleeanon409 (talk) 14:38, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

New bot to remove completed infobox requests

Hello! I have recently created a bot to remove completed infobox requests and am sending this message to WikiProject United Kingdom since the project currently has a backlogged infobox request category. Details about the task can be found at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/PearBOT 2, but in short it removes all infobox requests from articles with an infobox, once a week. To sign up, reply with {{ping|Trialpears}} and tell me if any special considerations are required for the Wikiproject. For example: if only a specific infobox should be detected, such as {{infobox journal}} for WikiProject Academic Journals; or if an irregularly named infobox such as {{starbox begin}} should be detected. Feel free to ask if you have any questions!

Sent on behalf of Trialpears (talk) via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:34, 12 December 2019 (UTC)

Margaret, Maid of Norway

Would appreciate some input at the Margaret, Maid of Norway discussion. GoodDay (talk) 22:10, 3 January 2020 (UTC)

Wikiproject Report

Hello all! I am writing the next installment of the Signpost Wikiproject Report,and was wondering if 4-5 of you wanted to volunteer to answer some questions. If so, please respond and ping me here, and we can get connected. Thanks! Puddleglum 2.0 16:02, 4 January 2020 (UTC)

WikiProject History needs people

Hi everyone. I am the new coordinator for WikiProject History. we need people there!! right now the project seems to be semi-inactive. I am going to various WikiProjects whose topics overlap with ours, to request volunteers.

  • If you have any experience at all with standard WikiProject processes such as quality assessment, article help, asking questions, feel free to come by and get involved.
  • and if you have NO Experience, but just want to come by and get involved, feel free to do so!!!
  • Alternately, if you have any interest at all, feel free to reply right here, on this talk page. please ping me when you do so, by typing {{ping|sm8900}} in your reply.

we welcome your input. thanks!! --Sm8900 (talk) 20:38, 12 January 2020 (UTC)

Brexit

Is anyone coordinating all the updates to articles, categories and templates, once the UK leaves the EU in half an hour? Wikipedia:WikiProject European Union/Brexit task force appears moribund. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:32, 31 January 2020 (UTC)

Discussion about article "Brexit"

You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Brexit#Restructuring of articles, which is about an article that is within the scope of this WikiProject. Ythlev (talk) 07:59, 2 February 2020 (UTC)

The Great Britain/Ireland Destubathon

Hi. The Wikipedia:The Great Britain/Ireland Destubathon is planned for March 2020, a contest/editathon to eliminate as many stubs as possible from all 134 counties. Amazon vouchers/book prizes are planned for most articles destubbed from England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland and Northern Ireland and whoever destubs articles from the most counties out of the 134. Sign up on page if interested in participating, we have over 44,000 stubs! A good opportunity to improve stubs for your area!♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:11, 4 February 2020 (UTC)

RfC Monarchy of the UK

Hello,

I and another editor have been discussing whether the second paragraph of Monarchy of the United Kingdom is fine as it is or could be improved, but it would be really helpful to have some different voices in the disussion. If you can help that would be great. A.D.Hope (talk) 09:44, 9 February 2020 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:UK national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest

Template:UK national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. dummelaksen (talk) 06:55, 26 February 2020 (UTC)

m:Grants:Project/Groundings: Black British Archival Workshops

Two users are asking 98 k$ to «Create biographies on English Wikipedia for all notable Black publishers/ writers, cultural producers (artists/ playwrights/ musicians), performers/dancers in the UK from the beginning of the 20th Century onwards» and a few other things. Nemo 07:45, 27 February 2020 (UTC)

Notification of discussion on deleting all local government subdivision articles

There is currently a discussion going on at WikiProject Politics of the United Kingdom regarding a proposal to delete all articles on individual local government subdivisions. Please feel free to participate in this discussion. Sparkle1 (talk) 19:44, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

WikiProject Brass bands

Hi everyone, I have a proposal open to see about creating a WikiProject for brass bands, similar to the inactive marching band project (but active). There might be some players or fans of it here, so I'd appreciate any input on the discussion and future help. Thanks! PotentPotables (talk) 00:02, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:British and Irish political parties

Category:British and Irish political parties has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. You are encouraged to join the discussion on the Categories for discussion page. Place Clichy (talk) 15:13, 22 April 2020 (UTC)

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