Wikipedia:WikiProject Wales

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Welcome to the Wales WikiProject. We are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of articles related to Wales.

Goals

• The goal of this WikiProject is to provide complete coverage on subjects related to Wales, by creating, expanding, and maintaining articles on people, places, and things resident or native to Wales.

Scope

• This project proposes to work with all pages related to Wales, its history, geography, and people. These should all be included in the Category:Wales or one of its subcategories.

Contents 1 Guidelines 2 Open tasks 3 Members 4 Articles 4.1 Featured articles 4.1.1 Education 4.1.2 Geography 4.1.3 History 4.1.4 Landmarks 4.1.5 Notable Welsh people 4.2 Peer review/Featured article candidates (FAC) 4.3 Good articles (GA) 4.4 New articles 4.5 Did you know (DYK?) 5 Formerly recognized content 6 Departments 6.1 Collaboration and review 7 Templates 7.1 Stubs 7.2 Other templates 8 Categories 9 Resources 9.1 Related projects

[edit] Guidelines

We shall try to follow the Wikipedia:Manual of Style for our articles.

[edit] Open tasks

	To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Wales:	edit  · history  · watch  · refresh
Here are some tasks you can do: Requests: An article like Gaelic road signs in Scotland for bilingual signs in Wales Other: Add the {{WikiProject Wales}} banner to all articles which fall within the scope of this project. Also, assess the article if possible.

All members should always feel free to patrol the recent changes list to note improvements, other changes, or vandalism of articles within the scope of this project.

[edit] Members

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

1. Pilipala9 10:26, 8 January 2007 (UTC)- Famous Welsh people, North American Welsh people, Welsh sport, Cardiff.
2. Rhion 17:54, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
3. Normalmouth 18:38, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
4. Telsa (talk) 20:17, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
5. Snowded 21:01, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
6. Cynnydd 08:27, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
7. Drachenfyre 22:45, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
8. garik 20:10, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
9. Deb 23:15, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
10. OwenBlacker 23:19, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
11. Bards 15:48, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
12. Trident13 01:21, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
13. Agathoclea 19:10, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
14. Tigershrike 20:33, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
15. Dalejenkins 21:31, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
16. Lucky Luky 19:03, 17 February 2007 (UTC)- media, culture, arts, music, Welsh language, Cardiff.
17. Skully Collins^Edits 14:22, 20 February 2007 (UTC) - Welsh Sportsmen and Women.
18. Alexj2002 16:18, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
19. Gareth 12:00, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
20. User:The Gannet 21:40 20 March 2007 (UTC)
21. Bencherlite 02:38, 26 March 2007 (UTC) - classical music, categorization, Anglesey

All members should feel free to add {{User WikiProject Wales}} to their userpages to identify themselves as members of the project.

[edit] Articles

[edit] Featured articles

Articles on Wales-related subjects, not necessarily improved to Featured Status by this WikiProject.

[edit] Education

[edit] Geography

[edit] History

Slate industry in Wales

[edit] Landmarks

[edit] Notable Welsh people

John Dee · Llywelyn the Great · Rhys ap Gruffydd · Rhodri Morgan · Tom Jones · Shirley Bassey · Max Boyce · Twm Sion Cati · Tom Pryce

[edit] Peer review/Featured article candidates (FAC)

The following articles are in review as Featured article candidates:
None at this time.

[edit] Good articles (GA)

The following articles have either been recognized as good articles or are currently under review for good article status:

Art, architecture and archaeology

Economics and business

Culture and society

Welsh law

Engineering and technology

Ffestiniog Railway

Food and drink

Geography

History

Language

Mathematics

Music

Politics and government

Religon

War and military

[edit] New articles

Please feel free to list your new Wales-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box the Main Page. Please also make sure that each new article created is put into one of the categories for Wales, so that the articles will appear there. Also, if possible, add each new article to the page Wikipedia:WikiProject Wales/Articles (still under construction) so that they can be viewed for recent changes.

• Jason Mohammad
• Gwyneth Lewis
• Claire Summers
• Gwyn Thomas
• Nathaniel Wells
• Academi - not a new article, but one I got moved from a very poor English translation of its real Welsh name. Still a very poor article, perhaps a colaboration of the week in future?

[edit] Did you know (DYK?)

[edit] Formerly recognized content

Former featured articles

Delisted Good Articles

Chepstow Bridge

[edit] Departments

[edit] Collaboration and review

Assessment - rates articles for both quality and importance to this project.

Collaboration of the week

• I'd like to nominate Silyn Roberts - a notable person, with lots left to say about him. Deb 12:40, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Peer review

[edit] Templates

[edit] Stubs

• {{Wales-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to Wales; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
  • {{Wales-struct-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to buildings and structures in Wales; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
  • {{Wales-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to the geography of Wales; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
    • {{Anglesey-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to the geography of Anglesey; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
    • {{Gwynedd-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to the geography of Gwynedd; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
      • {{Conwy-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to the geography of Conwy; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
      • {{Denbighshire-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to the geography of Denbighshire; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
      • {{Flintshire-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to the geography of Flintshire; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
      • {{Wrexham-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to the geography of Wrexham; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
    • {{Powys-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to the geography of Powys; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
    • {{Ceredigion-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to the geography of Ceredigion; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
    • {{Carmarthenshire-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles related to the geography of Carmarthenshire; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
    • {{Pembrokeshire-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles related to the geography of Pembrokeshire; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
      • {{NeathPortTalbot-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles related to the geography of Neath Port Talbot; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
      • {{Bridgend-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles related to the geography of Bridgend; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
      • {{Rhondda-Cynon-Taff-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles related to the geography of Rhondda Cynon Taff; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
      • {{ValeofGlamorgan-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles related to the geography of the Vale of Glamorgan; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
      • {{Merthyr-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles related to the geography of Merthyr Tydfil; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
      • {{Cardiff-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles related to the geography of Cardiff; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
      • {{Swansea-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles related to the geography of Swansea; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
      • {{Torfaen-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles related to the geography of Torfaen; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
      • {{Monmouthshire-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles related to the geography of Monmouthshire; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
      • {{Caerphilly-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles related to the geography of Caerphilly; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
      • {{Newport-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles related to the geography of Newport; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
  • {{Wales-bio-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to Welsh people; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
    • {{Wales-AM-stub}} - Stub notice for articles members of the National Assembly of Wales; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
    • {{England-cricket-bio-stub}} - Stub notice for articles people from England and Wales involved in the sport of cricket; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
      • {{England-international-cricket-bio-stub}} - Stub notice for articles related to English cricketers who have played in Test crickete, One-day Internationals, or international Twenty20 matches; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
    • {{Wales-footybio-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to Welsh football (soccer) people; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
      • {{Wales-footy-defender-stub}} - Stub notice for articles related to Welsh football (soccer) defenders; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.

NOTE: Stubs are managed by the Stub-sorting WikiProject. Before creating a new stub, you should propose it at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals. See Wikipedia:Stub for general guidelines on proposing stub templates and categories. DO NOT simply create new stub templates, as these will be deleted.

[edit] Other templates

{{WikiProject Wales}} should be placed on the talk pages of relevant articles to put them under the project's radar.

{{WikiProject Wales}} looks like this:

	This page is within the scope of WikiProject Wales, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to articles on Wales on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the Project's quality scale. Please rate the article and then leave a short summary here to explain the ratings and/or to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the article.

[edit] Categories

• Category:Wales

[edit] Resources

[edit] Related projects