Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Hampshire/Archive 1

Hampshire county

Hello, good luck with the project! Just thought the project ought to point out it is based on the county of Hampshire, UK, and not Hampshire County, Massachusetts! I'm also from the former, but why not collaborate with any would be US Hampshire Hogs :) LeeVJ (talk) 01:40, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, I've adjusted the intro accordingly. waggers (talk) 22:01, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

Woolmer

I begun the article on Woolmer, describing it as a 'village'. Is this strictly accurate? What is its connection to the military? Anypone who knows the place please do look over the stub Grunners (talk) 19:59, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

info box

is there one for this project yet? Grunners (talk) 15:45, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

I'm assuming you mean userbox rather than infobox - there isn't one that's been created especially, but I suggest you use {{Participant|Hampshire}} which gives:

This user is a participant in WikiProject Hampshire.

If you do mean infobox, then it will depend on the article in question - rivers will use {{Infobox River}}, hospitals {{Infobox Hospital}}, places {{Infobox UK place}}, etc. - there's no need for anything Hampshire-specific. waggers (talk) 20:13, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

Userbox, yes, sorry my mistake! =) Grunners (talk) 20:36, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

I've just created a new one especially for the project: {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Hampshire/userbox}} - which gives:

This user is a member of WikiProject Hampshire.

. Hope you like it! waggers (talk) 09:36, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Importance Criteria

It seems to me that we need to work out an Importance Criteria to rate articles.

General Guidelines: The importance of articles is a more local criterion. It mirrors the project-wide importance scheme, but in relation to a publication purely about Hampshire as opposed to a general encyclopaedia. For example, articles on Hampshire's subdivisions and prinicpal settlements might not appear as stand-alone entries in a general print encyclopaedia but would be essential inclusions in an encyclopaedia of Hampshire.

Need: A measure of a subject's importance, regardless of its quality

Top	Subject is a must-have for a print encyclopedia.
High	Subject is exceptionally important.
Mid	Subject contributes a depth of knowledge.
Low	Subject fills in important details.
NA	Subject importance is not applicable.

My Thoughts/Proposal:

Top	Large settlements, very notable from outside.	Southampton, New Forest
High	Smaller settlements and places of interest/awareness outside the county.	Aldershot, Southampton F.C., University of Southampton. Winchester Cathedral
Mid	Smallest settlements/areas. Places of importance to residents, including more notable schools/colleges. Overviews of whole of county.	Marwell Zoological Park, Netley, History of Hampshire, Peter Symonds College
Low	Everything else, generally only important to a small number of people in the county.	Sholing railway station, Cantell Secondary School, Southampton Music Services
Template:No-importance	Items/people from/in Hampshire that are non-notable	The General (TV series)

Hmmm, just realised we could 'copy' someone elses. Wikipedia:WikiProject Cornwall/Assessment phrases it well:

Label	Criteria	Examples
Top	Places, icons or topics recognisable or of interest to the whole UK or further.	Cornwall, Saint Piran's Flag, Eden Project
High	Articles with recognition in the Westcountry or all of Cornwall.	Camborne, Media in Cornwall
Mid	Articles with recognition in most of Cornwall or specialist topics.	Looe, Diocese of Truro
Low	Articles with very localised recognition.	Lanner

-- Fluteflute ^{Talk Contributions} 16:26, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

I think the general guidelines outlined in {{Importance legend}} do a good job, if we apply the criteria to Hampshire specifically. In other words:

Label	Criteria	Examples
Top	Subject is a must-have for a print encyclopedia of Hampshire	Hampshire, cities and major towns, scheduled ancient monuments
High	Subject is exceptionally important within Hampshire	Grade I and II* listed buildings, smaller towns and particularly notable villages, local government districts, Portsmouth and Southampton football clubs, Hampshire Cricket Club, major rivers, particularly notable schools (eg Winchester College), particularly notable people from Hampshire
Mid	Subject contributes a depth of knowledge to Hampshire.	Grade II and III listed buildings, villages and larger city suburbs, parishes, urban area articles, tributaries to major rivers, secondary schools, not-very-famous people who's sphere of influence is related to the county
Low	Subject fills in important details.	Smaller city suburbs, hamlets, primary schools, people from Hampshire who's sphere of influence doesn't relate directly to the county

I think in general all of the suggestions are in broad agreement, and it's important to remember that the whole process is subjective and so there will be differences of opinion. If there's a particularly difficult or contentious choice, it should be brought here for discussion. waggers (talk) 12:23, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Coordinators' working group

Hi! I'd like to draw your attention to the new WikiProject coordinators' working group, an effort to bring both official and unofficial WikiProject coordinators together so that the projects can more easily develop consensus and collaborate. This group has been created after discussion regarding possible changes to the A-Class review system, and that may be one of the first things discussed by interested coordinators.

All designated project coordinators are invited to join this working group. If your project hasn't formally designated any editors as coordinators, but you are someone who regularly deals with coordination tasks in the project, please feel free to join as well. — Delievered by §hepBot (Disable) on behalf of the WikiProject coordinators' working group at 05:35, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Article alerts

This is a notice to let you know about Article alerts, a fully-automated subscription-based news delivery system designed to notify WikiProjects and Taskforces when articles are entering Articles for deletion, Requests for comment, Peer review and other workflows (full list). The reports are updated on a daily basis, and provide brief summaries of what happened, with relevant links to discussion or results when possible. A certain degree of customization is available; WikiProjects and Taskforces can choose which workflows to include, have individual reports generated for each workflow, have deletion discussion transcluded on the reports, and so on. An example of a customized report can be found here.

If you are already subscribed to Article Alerts, it is now easier to report bugs and request new features. We are also in the process of implementing a "news system", which would let projects know about ongoing discussions on a wikipedia-wide level, and other things of interest. The developers also note that some subscribing WikiProjects and Taskforces use the display=none parameter, but forget to give a link to their alert page. Your alert page should be located at "Wikipedia:PROJECT-OR-TASKFORCE-HOMEPAGE/Article alerts". Questions and feedback should be left at Wikipedia talk:Article alerts.

Message sent by User:Addbot to all active wiki projects per request, Comments on the message and bot are welcome here.

Thanks. — Headbomb {^ταλκ_{κοντριβς} – WP Physics} 09:13, 15 March, 2009 (UTC)

Bursledon Windmill

Can this article be reassessed please? Mjroots (talk) 07:35, 6 June 2009 (UTC)  Done waggers (talk) 11:13, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

Portuguese Fireplace

Does anyone know where i can find more info on this. Also have i repeated myself? Also have i repeated myself? Also have i repeated myself? Also have i repeated myself? Simply south (talk) 00:03, 8 September 2009 (UTC) Simply south (talk) 00:03, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject Greater South East

I am proposing to merge a number of low or moderately active projects in south east England. The discussion is here: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject England#Wikipedia:WikiProject Greater South East MRSC (talk) 21:42, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

Neatham

I've created a stub for Neatham. Feel free to improve it. Nunquam Dormio (talk) 10:41, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

WP 1.0 bot announcement

This message is being sent to each WikiProject that participates in the WP 1.0 assessment system. On Saturday, January 23, 2010, the WP 1.0 bot will be upgraded. Your project does not need to take any action, but the appearance of your project's summary table will change. The upgrade will make many new, optional features available to all WikiProjects. Additional information is available at the WP 1.0 project homepage. — Carl (CBM · talk) 03:23, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

Up Nately

I've started a stub for Up Nately. All contributions welcome. Nunquam Dormio (talk) 08:22, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

Winslade

I have created a stub for Winslade. It is needing a infobox and a map, please help if you can. Thank you. Jaguar (talk) 11:46, 10 June 2010 (GMT)

 Done waggers (talk) 14:27, 10 June 2010 (UTC)

Bentworth

Could this article be reassessed please? Jaguar (talk) 20:10, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

 Done Jaguar (talk) 12:04, 10 July 2010 (UTC)

Southampton Terminus Railway Station

Can this be reassessed please, a lot of work from a few people have gone into remaking this article. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southampton_Terminus_railway_station (Zeoace (talk) 10:48, 31 July 2010 (UTC))

There are still large sections with no references. This needs to be addressed before the article can be re-rated. Daemonic Kangaroo (talk) 11:56, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

Tufton

I've created a stub for Tufton. All contributions welcome. Nunquam Dormio (talk) 08:22, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

Hampshire articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release

Version 0.8 is a collection of Wikipedia articles selected by the Wikipedia 1.0 team for offline release on USB key, DVD and mobile phone. Articles were selected based on their assessed importance and quality, then article versions (revisionIDs) were chosen for trustworthiness (freedom from vandalism) using an adaptation of the WikiTrust algorithm.

We would like to ask you to review the Hampshire articles and revisionIDs we have chosen. Selected articles are marked with a diamond symbol (♦) to the right of each article, and this symbol links to the selected version of each article. If you believe we have included or excluded articles inappropriately, please contact us at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8 with the details. You may wish to look at your WikiProject's articles with cleanup tags and try to improve any that need work; if you do, please give us the new revisionID at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8. We would like to complete this consultation period by midnight UTC on Monday, October 11th.

We have greatly streamlined the process since the Version 0.7 release, so we aim to have the collection ready for distribution by the end of October, 2010. As a result, we are planning to distribute the collection much more widely, while continuing to work with groups such as One Laptop per Child and Wikipedia for Schools to extend the reach of Wikipedia worldwide. Please help us, with your WikiProject's feedback!

For the Wikipedia 1.0 editorial team, SelectionBot 23:06, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

Hampshire settlements

Hi, I started working through the Basingstoke and Deane settlements and them branched out in Jaguars footsteps to more general Hampshire village articles, adding templates, governance and infoboxes. I've noticed that the Hampshire subdivision navigational boxes are quite different and in some cases missing:

And missing (unless I just haven't found them yet) Rushmore, Fareham (borough) and Havant (borough). So, which one should they all look like? And is New Forest Towns just New Forest (the national park) or should it be New Forest (district) like the other boxes? Scillystuff (talk) 21:23, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the kind comments. The New Forest template counts as the district itself (if it were to count as the National Park, there would be settlements that are not in Hampshire, some of the New Forest extends into Wiltshire). I too have noticed that all the Hampshire templates look different. But generally speaking, they should all look like the {{East Hampshire}}, {{Test Valley}} and {{Winchester}} templates because they were generally speaking, the oldest and default ones! Also, all the other templates need cleaning up. There are currently some redlinks in the {{Havant}} template and the {{Eastleigh borough}} one is not according to the general layout. I will be happy to create the Rushmoor and Fareham boroughs, although they are difficult to create because Rushmoor only covers the towns of Aldershot and Farnborough (along with its suburbs which have not yet been created) and Fareham only coveres... well, Fareham! I will look into these and see what I can do. Jaguar (talk) 22:13, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

OK, so I have boldly modified Winchester and New Forest to be more similar to the other templates. Scillystuff (talk) 21:28, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

Charles Fryatt

I've added the {{Hants}} to the talk page of Charles Fryatt (a GA). I've assessed the importance as low, feel free to change this if you wish. Mjroots (talk) 14:53, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

Weston Colley

I have been building this page (on the back of Jaguar's start). I hope to add images soon (have to find out how to do so). Also, I hope this is the right place - apologies if not - but Weston Colley is shown as in the civil parish of Stoke Charity. Is this correct? I thought - as do all the fellow residents with whom I spoke - that Weston Colley was within Micheldever. I have, however, left it as is for now, pending feedback. When I know for certain, I shall be able to re-write the first paragraph better than I have it now. Also: I am citing references where I can, though many aspects are only verifiable from visiting, rather than from known records (which may or may not exist). I may be able to offer further proof via the photographs when I discover how to submit them. Any comments appreciated. Druidbroga. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Druidbroga (talk • contribs) 22:20, 5 May 2011 (UTC)