Wikipedia:WikiProject Lancashire and Cumbria

Welcome to WikiProject Lancashire and Cumbria. We are a user group dedicated to improving and expanding Wikipedia's coverage of articles related to the counties of Lancashire and Cumbria, in North West England.

From Lancashire, we cover the cities of Preston and Lancaster and the boroughs and districts of Blackpool, Blackburn with Darwen, Burnley, Chorley, Fylde, Hyndburn, Lancaster, Pendle, Ribble Valley, Rossendale, South Ribble, West Lancashire, and Wyre, as well as all articles relevant and important to the area, such as Lancashire County Cricket Club and Blackpool Airport.

From Cumbria, we cover the City of Carlisle and the districts and boroughs of Allerdale, Barrow-in-Furness, Copeland, Eden and South Lakeland, as well as all articles relevant and important to the area, such as the Lake District and Hadrian's Wall.

If you plan to be active in editing the articles above, or articles related to them, please add your name to the participants list below. We discuss the project on our talk page and you are most welcome to join in the discussion there.

Aims

 * Our aims in the short term, are to achieve the following:


 * Get an infobox for every article relating to our WikiProject.
 * Get a lead image in every infobox of every article relating to our WikiProject.


 * Our aims in the mid-term, are to achieve the following:


 * Develop all of our "Top-importance" articles towards GA/FA.
 * Increase the number of members of the project to ensure we can cover a wide range of topics.
 * Assess and review all relevant articles for quality, importance and progress.


 * Our long term aims for the project are:


 * Improving all Wikipedia articles that are concerned with Lancashire and Cumbria, including its history, geography, people, constructions and buildings etc.

Guidelines
Please refer to these guidelines when writing about anything to do with Lancashire or Cumbria. This will ensure that all of our articles are at their best.


 * How to write about settlements
 * How to write about counties
 * How to write about districts
 * How to write about rivers
 * How to write about people

Participants

 * 93gregsonl2 (talk) 17:26, 13 September 2009 (UTC) Location: Banks, West Lancashire
 * Nev1 (talk) 00:43, 15 September 2009 (UTC) interested in settlements across both counties and Roman history of the area
 * Peter I. Vardy (talk) 07:40, 15 September 2009 (UTC) mainly heritage
 * Penrithguy (talk) 17:40, 15 September 2009 (UTC) mostly Cumbrian towns and villages
 * Margymarge (talk) 22:30,15 September 2009, mainly interested in early history of West Lancashire coastal plain.
 * Small-town hero (talk) 23:00, 15 September 2009 (UTC), mainly in and around West Lancs, can help with photos and may even do requests!
 *  Dr Greg  talk  18:36, 16 September 2009 (UTC), interested in railway history throughout Lancashire (and nearby), and geography of Lancashire from Preston northwards.
 * --Jza84 | Talk  20:45, 16 September 2009 (UTC) Based in Greater Manchester, but will have the project watchlisted and will be glad to help out on GAs and FAs about settlements. Have a few Lancs places that are dear to me too-Cockerham, Edenfield, Pilling and Blackpool.
 * ♦Tangerines♦ · Talk 23:35, 19 September 2009 (UTC) Location: Bispham
 * Bankhallbretherton 12:54, 21 September 2009 (UTC) Location: Southport, Banks, Tarleton, Bretherton, Croston, Mere Brow, Sollom, Hesketh Bank, West Lancashire. I also have an interest in Listed Buildings in Lancashire past and present.
 * Cj1340 (talk) 23.56 17 June 2011 Expanding article on Padiham, my home town to show the wealth of history of the immediate and surrounding area and the people
 * NtheP (talk) 14:17, 2 October 2009 (UTC) Being half Lancastrian and now living (dare I say it) in Yorkshire. My interests are the Forest of Bowland and those areas that have been in both Lancashire & Yorkshire.
 * Gallo glass 08:32, 3 October 2009 (UTC) Creator and editor of a number of Lancashire historical and political articles.
 * Lozleader (talk) 10:46, 13 October 2009 (UTC) have worked on/created a number of articles on local government, historic constituencies, MPs etc.
 * Bobyllib (talk) 20:34, 7 December 2009 (UTC) I'm on the cusp - technically I live in Merseyside, but I'll join in. I'm primarily interested in West Lancs.
 * Al.Glitch (talk) 18:34, 31 January 2010 (UTC) Originally from the west coast of Cumbria and have worked on most of the articles for that region.
 * J Milburn (talk) 22:22, 3 February 2010 (UTC) I'm from Cumbria, but spend around half of the year in Lancashire at university. Currently working on portals for both Cumbria and Lancashire (Portal:Cumbria/Portal:Lancashire)
 * MJLRGS (talk) 17:24, 18 April 2010 (UTC) I'm from Preston, but spend 9 hours of my weekdays that aren't holidays in Lancaster. I've created the page Transport in Preston and have edited many pages linked to transport, education, ethnicity, rivers etc. in North West England.
 * Jim Killock (talk) 21:13, 26 February 2011 (UTC) I've been doing a bit of work on cotton such as Cotton Board (United Kingdom) and think some things are missing. I'm hoping to get some help and encouragement!
 * BigDom (talk) 23:01, 20 April 2011 (UTC) From Nelson, Lancashire. Mostly interested in adding articles about football in Lancashire, particularly the Nelson and Burnley clubs. Would do more related to East Lancashire, especially Pendle, if only I had the sources.
 * Preston North End Dan talk  13:30, 30 September 2011 (UTC) I lived in Longton most my life, then moved to Canada, now I'm back, near Leyland and I wish to make all the village and town pages similar in layout, mainly for the South Ribble and Wyre areas.
 * Tom (talk) 20:10, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
 * JMRH6 (talk) 21:08, 05 February 2012 (UTC) Love anything to do with Lancashire or the West Lancashire area, from Southport area - Lancaster to Colne and Darwen areas anywhere in between call it 'my patch'. History, Geography, Architecture, I have created many articles and have been part of this project under a different username but had to change it.
 * Pam D  15:33, 18 May 2012 (UTC) - temporarily resident in Lancs very near Cumbria border, and have just done a major project on the Outlying fells, so I might as well sign up!
 * - Wikipedian in Residence at Queen Street Mill Museum.
 * - History of Cumbria, Cumbrian literature.
 * Retroplum (talk) 12:03, 27 May 2014 (UTC) Anything and everything, but in particular places I know well in the Allerdale area.
 * Thoughtfortheday (talk) 15:29, 7 January 2015 (UTC) Am interested in history, wildlife etc
 * aricooperdavis (talk) 19:07, 21 April 2015 (UTC) Generally good with locations and coordinates; a bit rusty on the history.
 * Clem Rutter (talk) 10:23, 2 November 2015 (UTC) If cotton was ever spun, or woven there. I do lot with the museum service.
 * ▲RedScrees (talk) 16:26, 31 March 2016 (UTC) Live in the Lakes
 * Dthomsen8 (talk) 00:42, 13 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Lancashire2789 15:43 29 April 2018 (UTC)
 * DiggingLake (talk) 12:53, 20 August 2018 (UTC) Native of Kendal and Lancaster, currently focusing on trying to improve the Cumbria article
 * Sinnistrall (talk) 11:42, 9 November 2018 (UTC) Blackpool resident, history graduate, primarily focused on improving or adding citations
 * Bduke (talk) 06:48, 24 May 2021 (UTC) Now in Australia but worked at Lancaster University for many years and I know and love the Lakes.
 * User:Transandrosupport from north Manchester/Lancashire, interested in ancient history
 * Pickled Pigeon (talk) 16:44, 13 December 2021 (UTC) From south Lancashire, interested in history and geography

Peer Reviews
List of current articles under the project that are awaiting peer review:
 * None

Pages that need improving
Please refer to Assessment and progress of articles and Guidelines when improving an article.

Stubs
The list below is for articles that are stubs and need improving to make Wikipedia's coverage of Lancashire and Cumbria better. Please look at the links for the list of stubs.

Articles that have already been assessed by this project as stub class:


 * Category:Stub-Class Lancashire and Cumbria articles

For all stubs, whether assessed by this project or not, see:


 * Category:Lancashire geography stubs
 * Category:Cumbria geography stubs
 * Category:Lancashire building and structure stubs
 * Category:Cumbria building and structure stubs
 * Category:North West England railway station stubs (also contains Cheshire stubs)
 * Category:North West England school stubs (also contains Greater Manchester, Merseyside and Cheshire stubs)

Geocoordination
More infomation: Geographic coordinate system

The links below shows Lancashire and Cumbrian articles that need to be coordinated.


 * Category:Lancashire articles missing geocoordinate data
 * Category:Cumbria articles missing geocoordinate data

New articles
New articles relating to Lancashire and Cumbria may be found on this automatically-generated list: indicates that the article has been assessed against the project quality and importance criteria Search results· Log· Rules· Archives

Monitoring articles
All members should always feel free to patrol the recent changes list or Wikiproject Watchlist - WikiProject Lancashire and Cumbria to note improvements to, changes, or vandalism of articles within the scope of this project.

Anyone interested in cleaning up articles can refer to this list of project articles tagged for clean up.

Assessment and progress of articles
Below is a bot generated table of the assessment process of WikiProject Lancashire and Cumbria supported articles. The stats are generated automatically every 2–3 days, but they can be updated manually by entering Lancashire and Cumbria here. You may also need to refresh this page's cache.

The statistics above may be a few days out-of-date, but the summary statistics below are current:

Project scope
All articles that fall within the scope of the Lancashire and Cumbria WikiProject should have the above template placed on their talk page. You can add the template by editing in right on the top of the talk page. You should also attempt to make an assessment of the quality and importance of that article.

Project userbox
Project members should feel free to add the above userbox to their page by typing.

Project award
You can reward other project members with by adding   to their userpage.

Project stubs
There are a number of stub templates appropriate for this WikiProject. You may add these to the end of each short, unreferenced, and expandable article.

Requesting photographs
Photographs for Lancashire and Cumbria related articles can be requested using the template added to the article's talk page.


 * adds an article to Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Lancashire
 * adds an article to Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Cumbria

Wikimedia Commons
Sometimes there are a number of images also on Wikimedia Commons related to articles. Therefore this WikiProject recommends that you add a Wikimedia Commons link to the references section of an article. The templates to the right can be added to link through to the revelant category using. Please remember to always change Lancashire to the revelant articles' name.

There are now a large number of photographs on Commons that have been imported from the Geograph project. However, many of these have been categorised by a bot which sometimes puts photos in the wrong category, and others have not been categorised at all. You can use this tool to search for photos (categorised or not): zoom in to the area of interest. You can help by adding or changing the categories to something relevant.

Popular pages
We now have a popular pages list from the Wikimedia Toolserver. This is a list of articles tagged for this project which have been viewed the most. The archived list for the last month is at WP:L&C/PP, and you can generate other lists at https://tools.wmflabs.org/popularpages/view.php?proj=Lancashire_and_Cumbria&limit=100&offset=0

Problem?
If you have a question, you need help or you have an idea to make this WikiProject better than please address all of the WikiProject Lancashire and Cumbria contributors by writing your question/idea on the WikiProject's talk page. We are here to help.