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Welcome to the Devon WikiProject, a collaboration area and group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of the British county, Devon.

(For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject and the Guide to WikiProjects).

Goals

To improve all Wikipedia articles that are concerned with Devon so that as many as possible become Featured Articles.
Identify 'holes' or omissions in the coverage of Devon, and write new articles to remove them.

Scope

Articles about all subjects related to Devon.

1 Guidelines
2 Open tasks
3 Participants
4 Articles
5 Templates
6 Categories
7 Resources
- 7.1 Symbols we might use to mark Places of Interest
- 7.2 Related projects

[edit] Guidelines

[edit] Open tasks

The process of specifying open tasks is currently taking place on the project's talk page. Please feel free to join in.

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Devon:

edit · history · watch · refresh

Here are some tasks you can do:

Requests: South Hams WWII evacuation, Scouting in Devon and lots of villages need articles
Cleanup: Torquay United F.C.
Expand: Teignbridge, Mid Devon, Janner
Other: Complete tagging of articles (see category list)

[edit] Participants

Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.

Totnesmartin - I live in Totnes and I'm most interested in ~~chips~~ The South Hams/Torbay area and Devon's Folklore.
Safalra 19:47, 2 January 2007 (UTC) - I live in Torquay and I've mainly worked on that article, including spending far too much time making a detailed map (Image:Map-of-torquay.png) from out-of-copyright sources.
Birddrz - I live in Brixham and I'm very interested in the history of the area, the area in which I am the most knowledgeable (in my opinion) is the importance of Devon in British Naval Warfare, particularly Napoleonic warfare.
TempyIncursion - I live in Plymouth, and have contributed to this and other Devon articles. I'm particularly interested in Devon's role in history (particularly the Civil War), its transport links and also Dartmoor and Exmoor.
Geof Sheppard - I lived in Plymouth but have had to move back up country. I edit mainly railway articles.
Herby - Born & bred and still live in the county. Dartmoor would be my specialist subject (I was around before as User:NigelR with a few edits but got a bit hacked off with stuff). That said at present I am mostly active on Wikibooks as an admin but I'll do what I can for Devon!
Stevebritgimp Native and denizen of Plymouth. Interested in Devon ancient (Dumnonia) and modern (the sh*t-hole by the sea).
Sjc 'nuff said.
Foggy Dew - I was born in Honiton and lived in East Devon for the first 25 years of my life. Interested in the history of my home county especially East Devon.
John Stumbles My father and many other ancestral Stumbles-es originate in the South Hams, especially Salcombe, and I have holidayed there since a child. I'd like to add my two-penn'orth where I can.
Stickman I've been meaning to beef up the Kingsbridge page for a while now. If I get a free moment I'd like at least get a photo up, but ideally I'd like to spend a bit of time researching the history etc.
Lynbarn My interest in the Lynton and Barnstaple Railway has lead to numerous edits to articles related to that line, and to several others of local interest.
Suriel - Living in Plymouth for the last 8 years. Will be looking to contribute to articles about the city.
Mageslayer99 - Born and raised in Plymouth, and I'm starting to add more articles, mainly sport-related.
JamesFitz - Born and raised in Exeter, think that it is a great old place (boring maybe but nice) and feel that apart from the same old same old there is a need to broaden Exeter's entries - like mentioning something a little more recent than the Prayer Book Rebellion.

[edit] Articles

[edit] Featured content

[edit] Candidates

[edit] Priority articles

The following articles have been identified by project members as being of a particularly high priority to the project:

Main project articles: Devon, History of Devon
Major settlements: Exeter, Plymouth, Torquay
Topics of national significance: Dartmoor, Kents Cavern

These articles should be brought up to Good Article and then Featured Article status.

[edit] New articles

Please feel free to list your new Devon-related articles here. Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box the Main Page.

December 2006

Bideford witch trial
Colyton, Devon - stub

January 2007

[edit] To do

[edit] Collaboration and review

Collaboration of the week

Peer review

Assessment

[edit] Templates

This section contains templates used by or applicable to the project. Note that new stub templates should be proposed before creation at WP:WSS/P

[edit] Talk page template

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Devon, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of topics connected with Devon. If you would like to participate, you can visit the WikiProject Devon project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks.

The following changes have been suggested to improve this article:

no suggestions have been made

You can update this list by editing this page and changing the suggestions parameter of this template.

All entries of Devon towns and villages should have the above template placed on their talk pages. A list of categories whose articles should be tagged is available at Wikipedia:WikiProject Devon/Categories. Sometimes, you will see a UK geography WikiProject template already there; in these cases, add our template after theirs. You can add the template using the following code:

{{WikiProject Devon
| suggestions =
}}

See Template:WikiProject Devon for further examples and details of the suggestions parameter.

[edit] Article template

Template:Devon

The above template should be routinely added to the end of each entry of a Devon town and village. You add it by editing in {{Devon}} at the end of the entry's page.