Wikipedia:WikiProject Northamptonshire

WikiProject Northamptonshire
WikiProject Northamptonshire
Ceremonial county
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Constituent country	England
Region	East Midlands
Time zone	UTC+0 (GMT)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+1 (BST)
Ceremonial county
Area	[convert: needs a number]
• Rank	of 48
• Rank	of 48
Density	[convert: needs a number]
Ethnicity	95.1% White; 2.0% South Asian; 1.2% Black British.

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Template:Northantsportal Welcome to WikiProject Northamptonshire (or Northants)! This is a collection of editors helping to expand coverage and make pages better in the county. If you would like to help or join the Project you do not have to live in Northamptonshire to join, so feel free to do so!

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Assessment, Article Alerts

Northants Assessment

Northamptonshire articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	Total
FA				3		3
FL			1	2		3
GA	1	2		12		15
B	1	8	4	13		26
C	1	8	9	81		99
Start		10	55	465		530
Stub		1	7	502		510
List		1	2	40		43
Category					330	330
Disambig				1	1	2
File	1	1	1		4	7
Project					3	3
Template				8	15	23
NA					36	36
Other					1	1
Assessed	4	31	79	1,127	390	1,631
Total	4	31	79	1,127	390	1,631
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 6,216			Ω = 5.25

This is updated every 3 days by WP 1.0 bot

Uses an importance scale of Low to Top.
See WikiProject Northamptonshire/Assessment for more information.

Article Alerts

See Article alerts for more info. Template:ArticleAlertbotSubscription. Northants Alerts are here: Wikipedia:WikiProject Northamptonshire/Article alerts

Aims

The main point of this project is to make coverage on Northamptonshire pages the best possible, not have pages with just a few lines, but have enough information without cluttering the page.

To have a page on all villages in Northamptonshire.
To have all pages with at least ten lines and expand pages with barely any information.
Create guidelines for articles about Northamptonshire.
Add suitable images by making or finding
Bring the Northamptonshire page to 'Good Quality'.
Add suitable maps by making or finding
To Improve all articles relating to Northamptonshire
To tag all Northants articles.
Complete the incomplete infoboxes (add coordinates)
Add some references
Add categories
Our biggest aim is to get Northampton, Wellingborough, Kettering, Corby and Rushden to 'Good Quailty'.

Participants, Members

Feel free to add yourself here; please indicate your particular interest.

Likelife (talk · contribs)-From Wellingborough, want to make Wellingborough and other information on transport better, but I will edit other pages any way.
Jeni (talk · contribs) - Generally working on village articles. Jeni ^(talk) 13:20, 4 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Kudpung (talk · contribs) - Lived in Corby for a couple of years. Work on articles for schools, and towns.--Kudpung (talk) 12:42, 5 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Jolly Ω Janner, help out here especially with setting up the assessment department. 13:03, 5 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Grev02 (talk · contribs) - Come from Kettering, live in Brighton. I've been adding to Kettering's history section as it appeared no one else in Kettering had bothered!
TheSmuel (talk · contribs) - Non-native, living and working Kettering.
ReformatMe (talk · contribs) - Wellingburian living in both Wellingborough and Twywell. Will be working on geographical information and expanding information on some of villages.
Bogbumper (talk · contribs) - grew up in the county; will try to help out where I can
Fortnum (talk · contribs) - Born and brought up in North Northamptonshire: will be working on villages in North and East Northamptonshire
Majabl (talk · contribs) - Northamptonian by birth and by residence. Spent most of my growing up in in Daventry district.

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To do list

There is lots to do but the most important things are:

Rushton village needs attention
List of places in Northamptonshire - make a page on villages with broken links.
Create pages on Kettering General Hospital and Northampton General Hospital.
Oundle, Higham F, Raunds, Rothwell, Towcester all need quite a few references.

Talk Page

The talk page is the place to talk about this project, and to centralise discussions that involve two or more articles.

Current Progress

All Villages have been tagged, class and have importance
All towns have been tagged and have importance Likelife (talk) 10:22, 5 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Active contributors to the Northampton article informed of this project creation.--Kudpung (talk) 13:56, 5 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Active contributors to the Corby article informed of this project creation.--Kudpung (talk) 13:56, 5 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Active contributors to the Wellingborough article informed of this project creation.--Kudpung (talk) 13:56, 5 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
All borough Councils have tags and importance scales but don't have Class as yet. Likelife (talk) 15:54, 5 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Active contributors to the Kettering article informed of this project creation. --Kudpung (talk) 16:57, 5 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Hardwick, Northamptonshire has been created with infobox and tags
All towns have been classed Wellingborough, Kettering, Corby, Rushden, Brackley, Thrapston, Oundle, Desborough, Rothwell, Burton Latimer and Higham Ferrers.Likelife (talk) 10:05, 10 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Wellingborough is getting a lot of structural edits and is on-going. Likelife (talk) 09:47, 22 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Wellingborough has been created. Likelife (talk) 12:02, 29 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Portal:Northamptonshire has been created. Likelife (talk) 13:39, 19 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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