Wikipedia:WikiProject Lincolnshire

 

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Aims

 * To Improve all articles relating to Lincolnshire
 * To tag all Lincolnshire articles
 * To Categorise all Lincolnshire articles
 * To create articles to fill in gaps in Lincolnshires coverage on Wikipedia

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Participants
Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.
 * User:Patronicus - Clee Grammar School/Humberston Foundation School
 * User:245TomUsername - Interested in local history, mainly the east of the county and Horncastle
 * User:Panderoona - villages/towns etc
 * - People, Military History, Generally Improving Articles.
 * User:BulldozerD11 - Already working on populating Category for Lincolnshire companies, so will help out here as well as my other projects.
 * User:Keith D
 * User:hurst477
 * User:Ddstretch - though my main interest is Cheshire, I may well do a little work here, probably centred around civil parishes and also Heckington, Great Hale, Little Hale, and Sleaford where I lived and went to school from age 8 to 18.  DDStretch    (talk)  18:27, 31 October 2008 (UTC)}}
 * User:Dendodge -
 * Dsergeant - I started quite a few of the articles in the North of the county, was brought up in Waddingham. I still keep a watch on those articles but have to admit I have done very little recently.
 * DominicCyninge Local to Horncastle. I have attempted to start, and have expanded several Lincolnshire based articles. Would like a better article on Horncastle Horse Fair. Plan in future to expand Kingdom of Lindsey. I am, unfortunately, incomepetent.
 * removed to Sleaford in 1996. As a natural pedant with a wide range of interests, you may find some of my edits controversial, but well-referenced nevertheless.
 * User:jkslouth Interests Louth & Louth Navigation
 * User:brunnian I live in Bourne and have an interest in local geography
 * User:DancingGerbil I recently moved to Sedgebrook and have an interest in the village and green lane motorcycling}}
 * User:Acabashi Special locale and video interests: South Kesteven and Isle of Axholme.
 * User:Footballgy Huge football fan, namely Grimsby Town, I keep an eye on all football related articles to do with GTFC and most other Lincs clubs.
 * User:Robert_EA_Harvey ex-seaman, ex-grocer, engineer and mathematician. I'm proud to live in Old Lincolnshire, even if I don't think much of the flag.
 * User:Mwheatley1990
 * User:EverythingGeography have lots of family members in Lincolnshire, especially in North Lincolnshire, so I know it quite well.
 * Mirrorme22
 * Zakhx150 now living in Barton-upon-Humber and have been creating articles relating to the architectural history of the town.
 * Harry Mitchell, I have an interest in Lincoln specifically and war memorials and bridges (among other things) generally.

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WikiProject Lincolnshire Barnstar Order of Merit


Recently, 95jb14 has created an official Barnstar for this WikiProject. It can be awarded by members of the Project to other members or those who aren't Participants for, basically, long and loyal service to the project. It may also be awarded for completing an excellent task. It has been added to the WikiProject Barnstars Page.


 * Keith D by 95jb14 on Sat. 28 March 2009 (British time)
 * BulldozerD11 by BSTemple on 30 March 2009 (Lincolnshire time ;-)
 * Jimmy Wales by 95jb14 on Friday 7 August 2009 (lincolnshire time:-) - founder of Wikipedia, I think we owe him our gratitude!


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Articles to create or improve

 * Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Lincolnshire
 * WikiProject Lincolnshire/Lincolnshire Settlements
 * WikiProject Lincolnshire/Lincolnshire People
 * WikiProject Lincolnshire/Lincolnshire Roads
 * WikiProject Lincolnshire/Lincolnshire Waters
 * WikiProject Lincolnshire/Lincolnshire Woodland and Forest
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Monitoring articles

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Assessments

 * WikiProject Lincolnshire/Assessment (Under development)


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Articles of note

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These articles on Lincolnshire-related subjects have featured article status, although not necessarily achieved through the work of this WikiProject.

Belton House • Navenby • Ormulum • Walter de Coutances • Alexander of Lincoln • Geoffrey (archbishop of York) • Robert de Chesney • Anne Hutchinson • Girl Pat (1935 trawler) • St Denys' Church, Sleaford • St Botolph's Church, Quarrington • Spalding War Memorial • Skegness {|style="background:Gold; border: 5px solid #E32636;border-radius:10px;"
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Peer review
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Symbol support vote.svg Good articles (GA)
The following articles have either been recognized as good articles or are currently under review for good article status:


 * Alexander of Lincoln
 * Margaret Thatcher
 * Simon Bradstreet
 * Geoffrey (Archbishop of York)
 * Francis Marbury
 * John Cotton (Puritan)
 * Siward Barn
 * Robert Bloet
 * Robert de Chesney
 * John Wheelwright
 * Hugh of Wells
 * William de Blois
 * Axholme Joint Railway
 * Butlins Skegness
 * Deeping Fen
 * Grantham Canal
 * South Forty-Foot Drain


 * Stainforth and Keadby Canal
 * Sleaford Navigation
 * Stamford Canal
 * River Welland
 * River Witham
 * Jade Etherington
 * Isaac Newton
 * Manor House, Sleaford
 * Sleaford
 * Bass Maltings, Sleaford
 * Westholme House
 * St Denys' Church, Sleaford
 * St George's Academy
 * Carre's Grammar School
 * Quarrington, Lincolnshire
 * Horncastle helmet fragment
 * Murder of William de Cantilupe


 * Under review

None at this time.


 * Failed review


 * Haxey Hood
 * Antinomian Controversy


 * George Boole

None at this time.
 * Good Article Review


 * Symbol unsupport vote.svg Delisted Good Articles

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 * Religious views of Isaac Newton
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Lists of note
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 * List of Lincoln City F.C. seasons
 * List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in the East of England
 * List of Lincoln City F.C. players
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The following lists are in review as Featured list candidates:

None at this time.

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Did you know
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 * ... that 4,920 Iron Age pellet moulds were uncovered at Sleaford, one of the largest deposits of its kind in Europe? - Featured 25 June 2015
 * ... that since production ceased at Bass Maltings in Sleaford, the complex has been used for rearing chickens? - Featured 21 April 2015
 * ... that Westholme House, a neo-Gothic mansion in Sleaford, became a library after World WarII and is now part of a school? - Featured 10 April 2015
 * ... that Cecil and Frank Rhodes learnt how to ride a horse while staying with their aunt at the Manor House in Sleaford? - Featured 25 March 2015
 * ... that Canadian novelist Marsha Canham became inspired to write Through a Dark Mist after experiencing a recurring dream of two men disguised as monks rescuing a damsel in distress? - Featured 20 March 2014
 * ... that until 1989, the village of Broadholme in Lincolnshire was located in Nottinghamshire? - Featured 3 August 2013
 * ... that St John the Evangelist's Church, Corby Glen ' has extensive early 15th-century wall paintings? - Featured 21 July 2013
 * ... that during the Antinomian Controversy, Anne Hutchinson (pictured) withstood two separate trials without counsel before being banished from Massachusetts?- Featured 9 July 2012
 * ... that St Denys' Church, Sleaford (pictured) has one of the oldest stone broach spires in England and an altar rail designed by Sir Christopher Wren? - Featured 5 June 2011
 * ... that up to 200 people played a game of football on land near Brothertoft, Lincolnshire, in the 1760s as a protest against enclosure? - Featured 23 April 2011
 * ... that the Lincoln Thornton Manuscript, compiled around 1430-1440 by an amateur scribe and country gentleman, contains the only extant copies of Sir Degrevant and the Alliterative Morte Arthure? - Featured 16 April 2011
 * ... that Ruck machine gun posts were built from prefabricated sections, paving slabs, sandbags and rammed earth? - Featured 5 October 2010
 * ... that the Outer Trial Bank, a nature reserve in East Anglia, UK, was originally built as part of a failed government scheme to barrage the Wash and create a reservoir? - Featured 16 March 2010.
 * ... that the medieval chronicler Matthew Paris accused the medieval bishop Hugh of Wells (d. 1235) of being biased against monks, calling him "an untiring persecutor of monks"? - Featured 17 January 2010.
 * ... that although little is known of the episcopate of William de Blois, Bishop of Lincoln from 1203 to 1206, he was still remembered as a learned man in the 14th century? - Featured 11 January 2010.
 * ... that the body of Saint Eadnoth was stolen by the monks of Ely Abbey while the guards taking it to Ramsey Abbey were drunk? - Featured 6 January 2010.
 * ... that Haldanes is the first mid-sized supermarket chain to open in the UK for more than 20 years? - Featured 5 January 2010.
 * ... that with his 60 tonne 25.25 m long Denby Eco-Link super lorry, Dick Denby of Denby Transport, Lincoln, hopes to challenge the government prohibition of most types of Longer Heavier Vehicles from the roads of the United Kingdom? - Featured 29 December 2009
 * ... that Archbishop of Rouen Walter de Coutances (d. 1207) had to pay the final 10,000 marks of King Richard I of England's ransom, as the archbishop was a hostage until it was paid? - Featured 6 December 2009.
 * ... that the medieval English bishop Robert de Chesney was an early patron of Thomas Becket, later famous for his quarrel with King Henry II of England? - Featured 1 December 2009.
 * ... that St Peter's Church, Barton-upon-Humber (pictured) was the first example of Anglo-Saxon architecture identified using evidence contained in the building? - Featured 30 November 2009
 * ... that the engine house of the Pinchbeck Engine, Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire, England, is a Scheduled Ancient Monument? - Featured 9 October 2009.
 * ... that medieval English bishop Alexander of Lincoln was patron of the chronicler Geoffrey of Monmouth, who dedicated his Prophecies of Merlin to the bishop? - Featured 7 October 2009.
 * ... that Horkstow Bridge in North Lincolnshire, completed in 1836, is the only suspension bridge designed by Sir John Rennie, builder of London Bridge? - Featured 6 October 2009.
 * ... that Robert Bloet, a medieval Bishop of Lincoln, appointed his own son Simon as Dean of Lincoln? - Featured 28 September 2009.
 * ... that the names of the several "Blue" public houses and inns in Grantham have their origins in a time when the parliamentary constituency of Grantham was a pocket borough? - Featured 2 August 2009.
 * ... that statues of The Boy with the Leaking Boot are found in Cleethorpes (England), Winnipeg and Toronto (Canada) and several cities in the United States, but his origins are obscure? - Featured 17 July 2009.
 * ... that despite winning the Football League Trophy in 2009, Luton Town are not presently eligible to defend their title? - Featured 19 May 2009.
 * ... that the 2008 Lincolnshire earthquake was the largest earthquake to hit the UK for over twenty years? - Featured 2 March 2008.
 * ... that Skinnand is a deserted medieval village in Lincolnshire, and that its Norman church was probably burned down by Oliver Cromwell in the English Civil War? - Featured 6 June 2008.
 * ... that the Wrawby Junction rail crash involved a locomotive supposedly renumbered after a psychic predicted a locomotive with the original number would be involved in a crash? - Featured 20 April 2008.
 * ... that Martin Lindsay led the 1934 British Trans-Greenland Expedition, which set a world record for travelling 1050 mi (1680 km) using sledges? - Featured 19 April 2007.
 * ... that Tom Hickathrift is the East Anglian equivalent of Jack the Giant Killer? - Featured 4 November 2006.
 * ... that James Bond author Ian Fleming suggested that Dame Violet Dickson should write her autobiography while he was researching a book on Kuwait, and that her autobiographical book was eventually published but his never was? - Featured 4 March 2007.
 * ... that the Witches of Belvoir supposedly believed a cat named Rutterkin helped them cast spells? - Featured 22 January 2007.
 * ... that the dried remains of cattle slaughtered under anti-BSE measures in the UK are burned for electricity? - Featured 18 August 2006.
 * ... that the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight contains the world's oldest airworthy survivor of the Battle of Britain, alongside ten other historic aircraft - two of which fought over Normandy on D-Day? - Featured 7 July 2005.
 * ... that Dunston Pillar, a land lighthouse south of Lincoln, England, was built in the 18th century to aid navigation across the treacherous eastern heathlands? - Featured 20 October 2004.
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Lincolnshire categories
A few of the relevant categories, please expand the list as it is incomplete. For a detailed list see Category tree

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 * Category:Lincolnshire
 * Category:Churches in Lincolnshire
 * Category:Lincolnshire cricketers
 * Category:Castles in Lincolnshire
 * Category:Villages in Lincolnshire
 * Category:Towns in Lincolnshire
 * Category:Local government in Lincolnshire
 * Category:Listed buildings in Lincolnshire
 * Category:Companies based in Lincolnshire
 * Category:Buildings and structures in Lincolnshire
 * Category:Museums in Lincolnshire
 * Category:Media in Lincolnshire
 * Category:People from Lincolnshire
 * Category:Schools in Lincolnshire
 * Category:Rivers of Lincolnshire
 * Category:Lord-Lieutenants of Lincolnshire
 * Category:North East Lincolnshire
 * Category:Sport in Lincolnshire
 * Category:Nature Reserves in Lincolnshire
 * Category:History of Lincolnshire
 * Category:Geography of Lincolnshire
 * Category:Environment of Lincolnshire
 * Category:Monasteries in Lincolnshire
 * Category:Royal Air Force stations in Lincolnshire
 * Category:Lincolnshire railway station stubs
 * Category:Lincolnshire geography stubs
 * Category:East Midlands region school stubs
 * Category:Lincolnshire building and structure stubs
 * Category:Public houses in Lincolnshire
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Guidance notes
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Current Progress
Tag Main Lincolnshire articles {|style="background:Gold; border: 5px solid #E32636;border-radius:10px;"
 * Lincolnshire + Lincoln - Green check.png
 * Lincolnshire Subdivisons (All article in the Navbox) - ✅
 * Lincolnshire Towns - ✅
 * Lincolnshire Villages - ✅
 * Lincolnshire civil parishes - ✅
 * Significant places of Interest - onging
 * Lincolnshire Companies - Green check.png
 * Lincolnshire Rivers - ✅
 * Lincolnshire Transport
 * Bus
 * Canals
 * Rail
 * Roads
 * Lincolnshire Culture
 * Lincolnshire People - Ongoing
 * Lincolnshire Buildings
 * Lincolnshire Sport
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