Wikipedia talk:WikiProject United Kingdom

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Small club for older people to edit Wikipedia

I'm looking into the possiblity of setting up a small club in Luton for local people to come along and learn about editing Wikipedia.

Our target audience is older people without formal education and with lowish digital skills, we'd be running functionally like a student assignment with a set of articles about local topics to create/improve but a lot of the club time will be using Wikipedia as an execuse to teach a lot of other digital skills.

I might not be asking in the right place, but does anyone know of any other UK projects that took a similar approach of 'teaching other digital skills while also improving the Wiki'? Or indeed, does anyone know something they think I should know in general?

Joe (talk) 12:01, 13 December 2022 (UTC)

It would be worth contacting Wikimedia UK who have lots of materials which would be helpful & experience supporting these sorts of actvities with a wide range of groups.— Rod ^talk 12:33, 13 December 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Politics of the United Kingdom has an RFC

Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Politics of the United Kingdom has an RFC for possible consensus. A discussion is taking place. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. Colonestarrice (talk) 10:34, 28 December 2022 (UTC)

Merger discussion for Jurisdictions of the United Kingdom

An article which may be of interest to members of this project—Jurisdictions of the United Kingdom—has been proposed for merging with Law of the United Kingdom. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. XAM2175 ^(T) 20:18, 4 January 2023 (UTC)

Discussion at Template talk:Infobox university § Add Visitor as a field

 You are invited to join the discussion at Template talk:Infobox university § Add Visitor as a field. Robminchin (talk) 02:25, 5 February 2023 (UTC) Robminchin (talk) 02:25, 5 February 2023 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for The Scout Association

The Scout Association has been nominated for a 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. Femke (alt) (talk) 09:50, 6 February 2023 (UTC)

Eldred Evans, architect

I just created an article for Eldred Evans. She worked on 150 projects between 1964 and 2008, including Tate St Ives. Thriley (talk) 15:57, 10 February 2023 (UTC)

FAR for Edgar Speyer

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Ian Gibbons (biochemist)

Ian Gibbons (biochemist) -- was the Chief Scientist of Theranos, who took his own life amid controversy over the company's technology. Recently expanded article and nominated for Good Article consideration. Thank you, Princessa Unicorn (talk) 03:07, 5 March 2023 (UTC)

RfC for removing post-nominals from lead sentences to article bodies

Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Biography#Proposal: Moving post-nominals from lead sentences to article bodies An RFC that may be of interest to editors here. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 23:05, 9 March 2023 (UTC)

WP:CIII "task force"

As this Wikiproject is listed as considering the B-Grade article Charles III as Top Importance, dropping by to notify you of an attempt to organise some sort of effort to improve it at least one quality notch. 109.255.211.6 (talk) 04:27, 10 March 2023 (UTC)

Update for Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice

Hi there - an article that I created (Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice) is in need of an update/overhaul re new information. If anyone is interested in this topic area I would greatly appreciate some more eyes on this. 82.23.242.26 (talk) 18:07, 12 March 2023 (UTC)

Cherry Valentine

Cherry Valentine has been nominated for Featured article status. Article improvements and feedback welcome. Thanks! ---Another Believer _(Talk) 16:36, 4 April 2023 (UTC)

Move discussion

Please offer input in Talk:2013_Yorkshire_Bank_40#Requested_move_27_March_2023. Thank you! – CityUrbanism 🗩 🖉 18:45, 11 April 2023 (UTC)

RFC being held, concerning British royal family

Input would be appreciated at RFC being held, concerning the British royal family. GoodDay (talk) 03:36, 12 April 2023 (UTC)

Project-independent quality assessments

Quality assessments by Wikipedia editors rate articles in terms of completeness, organization, prose quality, sourcing, etc. Most wikiprojects follow the general guidelines at Wikipedia:Content assessment, but some have specialized assessment guidelines. A recent Village pump proposal was approved and has been implemented to add a |class= parameter to {{WikiProject banner shell}}, which can display a general quality assessment for an article, and to let project banner templates "inherit" this assessment.

No action is required if your wikiproject follows the standard assessment approach. Over time, quality assessments will be migrated up to {{WikiProject banner shell}}, and your project banner will automatically "inherit" any changes to the general assessments for the purpose of assigning categories.

However, if your project has decided to "opt out" and follow a non-standard quality assessment approach, all you have to do is modify your wikiproject banner template to pass {{WPBannerMeta}} a new |QUALITY_CRITERIA=custom parameter. If this is done, changes to the general quality assessment will be ignored, and your project-level assessment will be displayed and used to create categories, as at present. Aymatth2 (talk) 22:10, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

England, Scotland, etc. vs UK in concert articles

There is a discussion regarding the use of England, Scotland, etc. versus UK in lists of concert locations. Please add any comments at WT:WikiProject Concerts#England, Scotland, etc. vs UK. Thanks. —Ojorojo (talk) 17:37, 15 April 2023 (UTC)

Leadership approval opinion polling for the next United Kingdom general election

The page Leadership approval opinion polling for the next United Kingdom general election is out of date and missing a lot of content in multiple respects. Every section is at least months out of date. Nicola Sturgeon's polling on this page hasn't been updated since 2021 and there is nothing for the SNP's current leader Humza Yousaf. Some other sections, such as that of the Green Party of England and Wales' current leaders Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay haven’t had any information added at all since they became the party's co-leaders. Can someone please update this page and add missing information such as for that of the Greens etc? Helper201 (talk) 21:44, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

British people by ethnicity and occupation category deletion discussion

Of possible interest: [1] — Biruitorul ^Talk 22:07, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

RfC at Charles III

Hello--There's an open RfC Talk:Charles III#RfC on opening sentence that welcomes input. ₪ MIESIANIACAL 17:51, 28 April 2023 (UTC)

Abdulhadi Mana Al-Hajri, the owner of the Ritz

I created a stub for Abdulhadi Mana Al-Hajri, the current owner of The Ritz Hotel, London. Any help would be appreciated. Thriley (talk) 19:10, 2 May 2023 (UTC)

The SVG file for the Union Jack is wrong

Although the png image on the wikipedia page shows the correct Union Jack, when you click the link to download the svg file, the resulting file is completely incorrect. The red diagonals on three of the stripes are much too thick. Stevemulvey (talk) 09:37, 6 May 2023 (UTC)

@Stevemulvey: Presumably you mean File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg. It looks fine to me. I don't think that the exact dimensions are laid down in law, except that the upper edges of the red diagonals in the hoist, and the lower edges of the red diagonals in the fly, coincide with imaginary lines drawn from corner to corner. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 21:18, 6 May 2023 (UTC)

There are "approved" dimensions: https://www.college-of-arms.gov.uk/resources/union-flag-approved-designs

I can't tell the difference between the SVG and the official PDF visually. PaulT2022 (talk) 01:05, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for the response Redrose64‬, I have re-downloaded the SVG file, and although it looks fine when previewing it with the default Mac app "Preview" - it definitely appears incorrect when you open the file in Adobe Illustrator.

Very strange, I have never seen this happen before in my 35 years of creating digital artwork with Adobe. Stevemulvey (talk) 06:35, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

Some agents have difficulties with the <clipPath>...</clipPath> element. It is suggested at the SVG 1.1 spec that they be placed inside a <defs>...</defs> element. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 19:00, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

Dialling codes in the Untied Kingdom

Following the deletion of one article, and nomination of 6 others for deletion, without any attempt to discuss the set of articles systematiccay, I have initiated a centralised discussion intended to do just that at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Telecommunications#Dialling codes in the United Kingdom; please leave comments there. Thryduulf (talk) 23:16, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

FAR for William Wilberforce

User:Buidhe has nominated William Wilberforce for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 05:24, 8 May 2023 (UTC)

Privy Council

Is there a reason why privy council membership isnt indicated by adding PC after the name at the beginning of the article like with all the royal societies and other awards and orders? Especially for politicians its mostly buried somewhere in the article or not mentioned at all. Was there a previous discussion on this? --jonas (talk) 18:19, 9 May 2023 (UTC)

It's not necessary if the article shows the honorific prefix "The Right Honourable". --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 18:37, 9 May 2023 (UTC)

Deprecated language in citations in UK honours lists

There is a discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Orders, decorations, and medals#Deprecated language in citations for UK honours about whether citations should be updated to today's language, eg changing the 1980 "For service to the disabled." to "For service to disabled people." Members of this Wikiproject may have a view: please comment there. PamD 17:10, 10 May 2023 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Llancaiach Fawr#Requested move 28 April 2023

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Llancaiach Fawr#Requested move 28 April 2023 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. EggRoll97 ^(talk) 00:25, 13 May 2023 (UTC)

Prince Charles or Charles III??

On Wikipedia, when referring to Charles III before he became king, should he be referred to as Charles III or Prince Charles, because alot of articles still refer to him as "Prince Charles" and on today's featured article, I changed "Prince Charles" to "Charles III" but it got changed back. GoldenBootWizard276 (talk) 11:27, 17 May 2023 (UTC)

FAR for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio series)

User:Buidhe has nominated The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio series) for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:04, 27 May 2023 (UTC)

Citations needed on Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

The history section of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is completely unsourced. I am pretty sure all that is needed is a transfer of references from History of the prime minister of the UK, but my modern history is crap, and I'm not comfortable doing it myself.

If anybody with a better grounding than me wants to give it a go, it would be great. I don't think we should have an unsourced section on such an important article. Boynamedsue (talk) 08:51, 28 May 2023 (UTC)

FAR for His Majesty's Theatre, London

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Feedback and Review requried: UK-Pakistan Judicial Protocol on Children Matters (2003)

Hi there - an article that I created UK-Pakistan Judicial Protocol on Children Matters (2003) is in need of a feedback and review. If anyone is interested in this topic area I would greatly appreciate some more eyes on this. 147.188.245.156 (talk) 15:17, 8 June 2023 (UTC)

West Norfolk and Lynn Hospital

I just created this little article. I suspect a local could come up with a good deal more on the place; the hospital seems to have been fairly prominent in the late nineteenth century, there are lots of articles in the medical journals from doctors there. Brianyoumans (talk) 18:38, 9 June 2023 (UTC)

RfC on List of tallest buildings in the United Kingdom

Hi, I've requested comment on List of tallest buildings in the United Kingdom regarding a dispute about different definitions being used determine which city a tall building is located in.

See RfC about the use of different definitions of a city

ChiZeroOne (talk) 18:27, 10 June 2023 (UTC)