Wikipedia:WikiProject Isle of Wight

Welcome to WikiProject Wight. This project draws together editors working on all Isle of Wight-related articles, with the aim of improving and expanding all aspects of coverage. There are many articles to deal with, from local newspapers to landmarks and sports teams. Please join us to help these articles become amongst the best on Wikipedia.

Requesting an assessment
In most cases, if you think an article needs to be assessed, be bold and assess it. If you have not assessed articles before or wish to refresh your memory, have a look at our assessment criteria and the Talk Page template.

However, if you have made significant changes to an article and would like an outside opinion on a new rating for it please leave a note on our Assessment request page - brief directions can also be found there.

For further details on our assessment process please go to our assessment page.

Project History

 * 2008-08-20 - Project started
 * 2008-08-21 - Project page goes live
 * 2008-08-31 - Over 100 articles assessed for both importance and quality

Articles

 * For geographical pages that are still stubs: IsleofWight-geo-stub
 * For all Isle of Wight settlements: Settlements on the Isle of Wight
 * For major articles: Isle of Wight box
 * For major transport-related articles: Isle of Wight Transport

Talk page
This template to be placed on the discussion page of articles related to the Isle of Wight.

To do so, use the following code: WPWight or WikiProject Wight.

If possible, please also rate the article using the project's quality and importance assessment guidelines.

If the article is already associated with another project, multiple projects may be listed using the   template.

Membership
Add this template to your User page to indicate membership of the Isle of Wight project, using this code:

 

Portal
 

Add this template for a link to the Isle of Wight Portal.

Guidelines

 * We should be using "the island" as opposed to " the Island " as that's a local colloquialism.

Articles to be created
To mark a potential article as 'needed' please go to Talk:Name of the needed article and place the following code:

The WikiProject template will add it to the list of needed articles. The Go Away template will prevent it being accidentally deleted by a bot under WP:Criteria for Speedy Deletion.

It is preferred, if possible, to actually create a stub rather than just mark a page as needed. However, if you can see a need for an article but do not have the knowledge or sources to write even a dictionary-style definition, mark it as needed.


 * For full listing of needed articles see Category:Needed-Class Isle of Wight-related articles

Schools

 * None identified yet

Churches

 * None identified yet

People

 * Anyone notable who isn't already on WP.

Images
Anything you think could be usable!

Diagrams

 * None identified yet

Merge, Unmerge, Remerge?

 * Talk:Thorley, Isle of Wight
 * Talk:Bembridge - merge from Lane End Merge performed 2008-09-17
 * Queen's Bower - Appears to be an article on exactly the same place as Queen Bower. (See talk page)

Members
To join the project, just add your name in this format:

 #YourUserName 


 * 1) Peeky44
 * 2) Naturenet
 * 3) NeilTarrant
 * 4) Editor5807
 * 5) Streona
 * 6) Simply south (talk)
 * 7) Robwebb
 * 8) Debnigo
 * 9) Greengolf17
 * 10) Dainamo
 * 11) Xhavnak
 * 12) gcman105
 * 13) Gordonofcartoon
 * 14) BrayLockBoy
 * 15) Raggz
 * 16) MapReader
 * 17) Corkedwine
 * 18) AmethystTalon

You may also add the userbox to your personal user page.

Categories
Main category: Isle of Wight
 * Category:Isle of Wight articles needing attention - please deal with anything in this category as a matter of urgency
 * Category:Isle of Wight-related articles by importance
 * Category:Isle of Wight rated articles with no comments
 * Category:Isle of Wight-related articles requiring photo
 * Category:Isle of Wight-related articles by quality
 * Category:Unreferenced Isle of Wight-related articles
 * For images: Category:File-Class Isle of Wight-related articles

Our featured articles

 * List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest on the Isle of Wight
 * Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom
 * Shorwell helmet

Our good articles

 * Battle of Bonchurch
 * Whitwell, Isle of Wight
 * Ventnor

Useful external links

 * Neighbourhood Statistics
 * Dialling codes
 * Multimap Gives long/lat, grid ref and Postcode of a place.
 * OpenStreetMap - open-source Wiki maps that we can copy and upload