Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Devon

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Nice to see the page up! Birddrz 20:31, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Now I've suddenly got more time, I can fill it with seeing to this (when not writing about obscure corners of Africa, that is). Totnesmartin 20:45, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Contents 1 Article tagging 1.1 Who's in and who's out? 2 Parliament Street, Exeter 2.1 Wanted Images 3 William Bligh 4 Parliamentary constituencies in Devon 5 Inferiority complex 6 Priority articles 7 Infobox flag straw poll

[edit] Article tagging

Now that the article talk page template has been created, we need to tag all appropriate articles. User:Totnesmartin has already started doing this. We should probably tag all articles in Category:Devon and its subcategories. I'd recommend that we each do a subcategory at a time, and we announce here which categories have been done. Also, it'd be nice if when tagging articles we look through the article first to see if we have any suggestions for improvement to put in the talk page template's suggestions parameter. -Safalra 18:49, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

yes, I'm giving each article a quick butcher's to see what needs doing (although my knowledge of the north is rather limited I'm afraid!) Totnesmartin 18:58, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

I've put a list of all relevant categories at Wikipedia:WikiProject Devon/Categories. As we tag the articles within the categories we should move the categories from the 'untagged' list to the 'tagged 'list. -Safalra 20:30, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Who's in and who's out?

I was going to tag Beth Gibbons but realised that, apart from being born here, she has no other connection to Devon. Should we tag people whose Devon-ness is irrelevant to their achievements? Totnesmartin 19:59, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

I guess that depends on whether we would regard improvement of that article as helping Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to Devon. Just to make things simple I'd tag any article in a category listed on Wikipedia:WikiProject Devon/Categories, with the exceptions of the obviously Cornish articles in Category:Scenic railway lines in Devon and Cornwall. - Safalra 20:30, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

There are 20 categories on Wikipedia:WikiProject_Devon/Categories that are of the form People from [somewhere in Devon]. Tagging all these people will take a long time, and many of them are only linked to these places by being born there. Therefore, I'd now suggest we only tag people whose connection to Devon is stronger than just being born here. - Safalra 20:20, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Parliament Street, Exeter

The Parliament Street, Exeter article needs some sort of picture, to show to fact that it is the narrowest street in the world. I would do it myself but I don't intend to go into Exeter anytime soon, so if anyone is in the area it would be handy to have some sort of picture. Birddrz 21:51, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

perhaps one of us could ask an Exeter-based friend to take a pic and email it. Actually that would be a good idea for any part of Devon. Totnesmartin 13:30, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Are we certain this is the narrowest street in the world? It's not the only street claiming that:

* http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/298895 "Another view of the narrowest street in the world. This street has a street name plaque on the left wall of this picture and also commands a post code. The records show that this is the narrowest street in the world to have an official name and street name plaque."

* http://gocentralamerica.about.com/od/belizeguide/a/Placencia.htm "Placencia’s Main Street sidewalk has earned the distinction as the World’s Narrowest Street in the Guinness Book of World Records!"

- Safalra 20:26, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

We should try to get this claim (Exeters) cited then Birddrz 12:44, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Further to this, today a friend of mine was visiting Exeter, and I asked her to photograph Parliament Street. Should get the pics tomorrow to put up. Totnesmartin 21:46, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Oh for ----! My friend asked Tourist Information in Exeter where Parliament Street is. They'd never heard of it. So, sorry, no pics. Totnesmartin 15:00, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wanted Images

This makes me wonder if it might be an idea to create a list of wanted images at Wikipedia:WikiProject Devon/Wanted images. We could group wanted photographs by area, and then a committed member of the project could take the photographs when they next happen to be in the appropriate area. --Safalra 21:51, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Good idea. Perhaps we could ask people outside Wikipedia as well (although we'd have to explain about the copyright issue). Totnesmartin 21:58, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

I've set up the wanted images page. Change it if you think it needs changing, I'm not precious about it. Totnesmartin 22:14, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

I'm working on Commons quite a bit at present. I think there are quite a few more Devon images there than I had realised although not well cat'ed (which is what I am trying to do among other things). It is best to place images in Commons so that they are available for use widely. Cheers --Herby ^{talk thyme} 08:39, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

There are quite a few images in Commons that are Devon ones that were not/are not in the category. I've added quite a few today and will continue to do so. May be worth a while browsing that category on Commons (the sub categories are quite random at present but I'll work on that after I've got them into the Devon category at least so that they can found) - cheers --Herby ^{talk thyme} 17:15, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] William Bligh

Should we include him in the Project? As he was born in Plymouth, but from then on it seems his fame was more because of him being mutineered on the Bounty, what do you others think? Full article here Birddrz 23:25, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

I think we really need people to have a stronger link to Devon than just having been born here. As I've mentioned above, there are about 20 categories of the form People from [place in Devon] (see Wikipedia:WikiProject_Devon/Categories for the full category list), and many of these people have little connection to Devon other than it being their place of brith. --Safalra 12:25, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Parliamentary constituencies in Devon

Greetings from the Wikipedia:WikiProject UK Parliament constituencies. I notice a constituency article has been tagged by your project. Looking at the Politics of Devon category I see that only a few Devon constituencies are currently included. I have been working on a series about the Parliamentary representation of the different historic counties which should (hopefully) provide a complete list of constituencies, with links to existing articles for them. When I do the Devon article I will include it in the Politics of Devon category so you can identify the other Devon seats for your project. --Gary J 21:56, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Parliamentary representation from Devon is now available, with listings of both current and historic constituencies. --Gary J 00:32, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Inferiority complex

Just a little bit of sounding off from me - yet another 'Plymouth should direct to a disambiguation page' comment has appeared on the Plymouth talk page - obviously you can laugh it off, but it does make me go 'rrrrrrrrrr'. I'm afraid Plymouth is up against various obscure American Plymouths, and they think they're more important. For me, if London, Birmingham, Boston and Charlotte aren't disambiguations, Plymouth shouldn't be. When they are, Plymouth can be.172.209.84.63 21:29, 8 February 2007 (UTC) (Stevebritgimp - not signed in).

I couldn't agree more. I've just been reading the, er, North American perspective and quite frankly feel like tearing some hair out. I don't want to resort to shouting American stereotypes about them thinking they're the centre of the universe... but the attitudes expressed on that discussion page are biased to the point of being xenophobic. One American has stated 75% (yes, you read that right) of people clicking on the Plymouth page would not wanted to have gone there. Argh. Okay. Rant over. Suriel1981 07:13, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Priority articles

I don't think WikiProject Devon is big enough yet to institute an assessment division, but I do think it would be a good idea to produce a list of high priority articles that we should try to get to Featured Article status (and at the very least Good Article status) as soon as possible. I would suggest the following list as a start:

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

Any other suggestions?

--Safalra 15:49, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

That should be enough, if we have too many it would go against the idea - to concentrate on a few articles. Totnesmartin 16:28, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Okay, I've added them to the main project page under 'priority articles'. --Safalra 17:00, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Infobox flag straw poll

Hello fellow editors. A straw poll has opened today (27th March 2007) regarding the use of flags on the United Kingdom place infoboxes. There are several potential options to use, and would like as many contrubutors to vote on which we should decide upon. The straw poll is found here. If joining the debate, please keep a cool head and remain civil. We look forward to seeing you there. Jhamez84 11:47, 27 March 2007 (UTC)