Wikipedia:WikiProject British Empire

Welcome to the British Empire WikiProject. ...on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. The British Empire WikiProject was formed in order to foster better articles within its scope with a spirit of cooperation. The participants are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to the British Empire. This WikiProject is modelled on Wikiproject Commonwealth realms and was started in June, 2008. It is our hope that this project will provide an amicable atmosphere in which the efforts of interested Wikipedians can be focussed. If you would like to help, please inquire on our talk page and visit our to do page.


 * If there is a technical or design problem please contact Cameron.
 * If there is a problem that requires an administrator's attention view the status section of the participants list.
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What is the British Empire?


The British Empire was the largest empire in history and, for over a century, was the foremost global power. It was a product of the European Age of Discovery, which began with the maritime explorations of the 15th century, that sparked the era of the European colonial empires. By 1921, the British Empire held sway over a population of about 458 million people, approximately one-quarter of the world's population and about a quarter of Earth's total land area. As a result, its legacy is widespread, in legal and governmental systems, economic practice, militarily, educational systems, sports, and in the global spread of the English language. At the peak of its power, it was often said that "the sun never sets on the British Empire", a phrase that is still true even as of 2018, because its span across the globe ensured that the sun was always shining on at least one of its numerous colonies, protectorates, territories or subject nations.

During the five decades following World War II, most of the territories of the Empire became independent. Many went on to join the Commonwealth of Nations, a free association of independent states. See also Wikiproject British Overseas Territories.

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Aims

 * To provide guidelines and recommendations for articles that describe all aspects of the British Empire.
 * To improve Wikipedia's coverage of the British Empire by creating, expanding, and maintaining such articles.
 * To serve as the central point of discussion for issues related to the British Empire on Wikipedia.
 * To create a consistent look and style for each page within our scope.
 * To fight vandalism on articles within our scope by patrolling recent changes.

Participants
Anyone can help with this WikiProject. All we ask is that users be registered, and are familiar with Wikipedia's various policies and guidelines.

Follow the steps below to add yourself to our list of participants!


 * Add yourself to our list of participants here.

Add your name---> the date and time---> and your special interests....and you are an official member!

Scope
For a list of the articles deemed most important to this project see WikiProject British Empire/Important.

The project generally considers any article related to the British Empire to be a valid topic. A simple (but accurate) way of checking which pages are within our scope is to follow click "What links here" in the "toolbox" section of this page. The scope template is added to pages within our WikiProject. Anyone may add an article to the scope, provided they are sure that it is relevant to the project. An article may be in the scope of multiple WikiProjects. Where this is true one should be sure to contact the other WikiProjects too so as to avoid conflicts. If you are not sure whether to add the template, propose it at the talk page first.

Templates
For templates relevant to the British Empire see this page.


 * The scope template: This template is used to add articles to our project's scope. The scope template can be found here.


 * The Userbox: The userbox may be used by anyone who is a member of our project. Using the userbox helps people to identify Wikipedians as members of this project. The userbox template can be found here.

To-do list
. Feel free to add an article to the list or discuss on the project talk page.

Sandbox

 * You can experiment with edits and put up links on the discussion prior to them going "live" here.

Important

 * A list of the articles most important to the project can be found here.

Resources

 * A list of helpful websites and other resources can be found here.

Related projects

 * Sister project: WikiProject Commonwealth realms
 * United Kingdom: WikiProject British Government
 * Canada, WikiProject Canada

Current status
Below is a bot generated table stats are generated automatically every 2-3 days, but they can be updated manually by entering British Empire into the box here.

This log shows new and changed assessments, and is updated by a bot every few days.
 * Version 1.0 Editorial Team/British Empire articles by quality log

Tools

 * Main tool page: toolserver.org


 * Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
 * Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
 * Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
 * Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.