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England-related articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	19	51	73	173		2	318
FL		1	10	93			104
FM					179		179
A		1		2			3
GA	9	37	162	778		9	995
B	37	185	349	1,381		210	2,162
C	27	181	723	6,065		550	7,546
Start	18	137	1,322	25,144		1,634	28,255
Stub		18	360	21,094	63	2,501	24,036
List	1	21	98	1,631	3	40	1,794
Category					23,132		23,132
Disambig					68		68
File					210		210
Portal					173		173
Project					34		34
Template				8	1,727		1,735
NA	6	6	17	440	4,138		4,607
Other					109		109
Assessed	117	638	3,114	56,809	29,836	4,946	95,460
Unassessed			1	8		369	378
Total	117	638	3,115	56,817	29,836	5,315	95,838
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 323,940			Ω = 5.12

Welcome to WikiProject England! Some Wikipedians have formed a Project to improve and organise articles which relate to England. We are dedicated to improving these articles and if you would like to help, please add your name to the participants!

Goals

Improve the coverage of English parishes to more than just one line by adding photos and infoboxes where appropriate
To better organise and link together England related articles throughout Wikipedia (festivals, customs etc.) so that they can be more easily explored by interested laymen
Increase the detail of articles about English including illustrations and photos where appropriate
Set a common style for English related articles
Improve the article England to featured status.
Ensure that sub articles like Education in England and Geography of England are to a high standard, whilst not using too much from the similar articles at History of the United Kingdom.
English city and town articles such as London to a high standard.
Fulfill requests for photos in Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in England

Announcements and open tasks

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

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Wymington - Trying to build out article. Needs work on late 19th and early 20th century history, geography, and demography. Built up from next to nothing, would like to get this to B or GA standard one day. Unfortunately I'm running into a bit of a wall with sourcing...turns out, there might just not be that much terribly interesting that's happened in a small village in north Bedfordshire in the last 200 years! nf utvol (talk) 03:04, 2 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Fives working on article, hopefully to bring up to Good status. Started work, already doubled the article, any help is welcome. (Needs more info on history, rules, and playing abroad). Frzzl (talk) 17:04, 3 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Sherborne_School: One of the classic British public schools. Much of the article is a copyvio from an old brochure. (See Talk:Sherborne_School#Copyvio) There are some conflict of interest problems. (See Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest/Noticeboard#User:SherborneArchives_reported). And, amusingly, there seems to be a slow-motion edit war between the school management, which wants to join the 21st century, and the old boys' association (their website: [1]), which wants to focus on the Good Old Days (of cold showers and hazing, perhaps[2]). This needs some good edits by an interested but neutral party. --John Nagle (talk) 17:48, 18 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Anglophobia: needs input on whether what I have added ([[3]]) should remain in this article, or needs to be changed in some way. I'd also appreciate it if someone could add material about Anglophobia outside the United Kingdom.
The Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell article was promoted to Featured article. Read the argumentation in the comments. Wim van Dorst (Talk) 20:13, 21 April 2007 (UTC).[reply]
United Kingdom - Split off parts in sub articles.
Downing Street memo - need some tidying up, fleshing out of lead and trim of ext links but has 60 references
Victorian architecture - article extremely biased towards architecture in the USA. See Talk:Victorian architecture for details. --Kudpung (talk) 12:15, 12 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Joan Pujol Garcia - The Spanish WWII double-agent better known as GARBO. Awarded both an MBE from George VI and the Iron Cross by Hitler. Convinced Germans that Normandy was a diversion. Submitted for Good Article status, trying to get featured in time for D-Day anniversary. K8 fan (talk) 00:44, 20 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Re-rated to B Class. Thanks! How can we get it to GA class in the opinion of those more knowledgeable about the subject's importance to the history of England? K8 fan (talk) 02:17, 1 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Scunthorpe could be nominated for GA if the long-tagged refs problems were sorted.--Robert EA Harvey (talk) 07:48, 18 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
House of Commons of England needs to be expanded. I was surprised that it is such a short article. Much more history needs to be added, and things like when did the election of its members started, what were the requirements to be a voter, and how these changed through time. Thinker78 (talk) 07:35, 5 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Special request

Thousands and thousands of articles are located in Category:England and all of its sub-categories and they all need tagging using {{WPE}} and rating for class and importance, for example to rate an article as top importance and class A, you would type {{WPE|class=A|importance=Top}}, for the class there is a range of different types, the following is a list of them:
A - An excellent article - above Good article status (The article does not have to have been given GA status to be classed as A)
GA - The article has been officially reviewed by a non-editor to the article and has been given the official good article status
B - A well written article but lacking certain information, however still of a high standard, with references.
C - The article is better than a start, gives a reasonable coverage of subject but is incomplete, is wikified, has some refs, but lacking in style & layout.
Start - The article is more than just a stub but needs a lot of work doing to it, possible work includes wikifying etc.
Stub - The article is very short yet explains the title and gives enough information but more information could be added.

Importance

Top - This is for very high importance articles (e.g. London) which are widely recognised.
High - High importance articles which are recognised but not as well known as - for example the capital of a country.
Mid - Articles and people/places etc. in which are recognised nationally but not internationally.
Low - Articles about places just within the local community and not internationally known, (e.g. A local school).

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England Unassessed

	England portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject England, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of England on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.EnglandWikipedia:WikiProject EnglandTemplate:WikiProject EnglandEngland-related
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Portals

Candidates

Anything applicable to the project that's already listed at Featured article candidates, Featured picture candidates, or Featured list candidates
River Parrett
List of civil parishes in Somerset

New articles

Please feel free to list your new England-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.

Water supply and sanitation in England
Todenham User:Acabashi new article
Belsar's Hill User:Wasechun tashunka As per request
Crowfield, Suffolk User:JonS1950 Improving a stub-article. 21:03 15 October 2012 (UTC)
Industrial novel Rwood128 (talk) 13:10, 14 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
British regional literature Rwood128 (talk) 13:10, 14 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
List of English Electoral Wards by Constituency - just thought it might fit in. 07bargem (talk) 14:34, 5 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Belmont Castle, England – current DYK nomination. Voceditenore (talk) 14:59, 24 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Jack Barnes - Current DYK nom (my first). WFCforLife (talk) 00:53, 1 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Resources

List of United Kingdom locations contains many coordinates for UK locations, in lat/long or OSGB format.
Geograph British Isles project contains many Creative Commons Share-alike v2.0 images which are usable by wikipedia.
Commons:Category:England Wikimedia Commons England category.
Images of England details of listed buildings from English Heritage

Project space portals

Portals that have been put up for deletion, but are of sufficient utility to be used by project editors to expand and improve topic coverage and quality are listed here:

Portal:Peak District

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Did you know

26 Dec 2024 – Battle of South Harting (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by TheBestEditorInEngland (t · c); see discussion
15 Dec 2024 – Ethel Lote (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Spiderpig662 (t · c); see discussion
08 Dec 2024 – Thomas Fenner (sea captain) (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by 4meter4 (t · c); see discussion

Articles for deletion

28 Dec 2024 – Ribble Link Trust (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Samoht27 (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
27 Dec 2024 – Ally Louks (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Darth Stabro (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
27 Dec 2024 – Asset.tv (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Imcdc (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
27 Dec 2024 – Woodside, Telford (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by DragonofBatley (t · c); see discussion (4 participants)
26 Dec 2024 – Josh Whidborne (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Bgsu98 (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
26 Dec 2024 – Charlotte Aiken (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Bgsu98 (t · c); see discussion (4 participants)
26 Dec 2024 – List of pubs in Hampshire owned by JD Wetherspoon (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by CipherRephic (t · c); see discussion (6 participants)
23 Dec 2024 – Zorch (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Consarn (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
23 Dec 2024 – Tim McLelland (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by TheLongTone (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
23 Dec 2024 – Claire Swire email (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Transcendence (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)

(19 more...)

Proposed deletions

16 Dec 2024 – Viridian Housing (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Jay8g (t · c) was deleted

Categories for discussion

26 Dec 2024 – Category:Child family (English bankers) (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Mike Selinker (t · c); see discussion
16 Dec 2024 – Category:Page family of Virginia (talk · edit · hist) CfDed by Mike Selinker (t · c) was closed; see discussion
15 Dec 2024 – Category:Canning family (political) (talk · edit · hist) CfDed by Mike Selinker (t · c) was closed; see discussion
15 Dec 2024 – Category:Collins family (English writers and artists) (talk · edit · hist) CfDed by Mike Selinker (t · c) was closed; see discussion

Redirects for discussion

24 Dec 2024 – 2021–22 Women's Championship (talk · edit · hist) →2021–22 FA Women's Championship was RfDed by Hey man im josh (t · c); see discussion
13 Dec 2024 – Old Roman Empire (talk · edit · hist) →Roman Empire was RfDed by Veverve (t · c); see discussion

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