Wikipedia:WikiProject North East England

Some Wikipedians have formed a Project to create and improve articles relating to North East England. This includes a wide variety of different topics ranging from transportation to well-known local landmarks.

Scope
As mentioned above, there are many areas encompassed by the project, with the scope being anything relating to the main counties officially labelled as North East England, namely County Durham, North Yorkshire, Northumberland, Teesside and Tyne & Wear. The project aims to generally improve the coverage of the area on Wikipedia, as well as hopefully improve many to featured or good article status. To discuss ways in which to improve this project please discuss it on the Project talk page.

What can be done?
The improvement of articles is vital on Wikipedia, not just to articles relating to North East England, but to every single article on the English Wikipedia. If you find yourself improving, creating and making changes to articles which relate to the North East and are not a member, you may wish to add your name to the participant list below, however this is completely optional. You can also add this page to your Watchlist and check on the to-do section and see if you have the time and resources to help out, even if you are only editing with minor edits, it is still greatly appreciated by fellow members of the Project and Wikipedians.

Templates
These are the templates which can be used on article talk pages and user talk pages. The first template should be placed on an articles' talk page and is used to assess an article by quality, priority and importance. The second and the fourth can be placed on a members' User Page, they can have the Userbox and/or the large banner, however this is optional. The third template should be used on article talk pages indicating to viewers that the article they viewed has relevance to the North East. The current picture displayed all of the templates will be replaced by a proper Project logo in the near future. If you see an article relating to North East England, please add the relevant template on to the article talk page.

Assessment
The WikiProject North East England/Assessment page explains how to use the WPNorthEastEngland template to assess an article by quality and importance. Articles are automatically added to categories allowing members of the WikiProject to focus effort on key articles. Please support this by tagging all North East England articles with an importance - and if possible - a quality.

Participants
Wikiproject North East England Participants Welcome to the Patricipants section of Wikiproject North East England! We are always accepting new members, so if you would like to join - please add your name!

To join, please add your name here by adding a bullet point ( * ) then adding four tildes which will display your Username, the time and date. An example of how this would be set is:


 * Example 18:05, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Please add your name below

 * Bob talk 21:34, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Responsible? 11:47, 13 March 2007
 * gazh 11:58, 04 April 2007
 * MapsMan 19:20, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Barliner 16:12, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
 * BNC85 18:35, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
 *  Isles CapeTalk 17:13, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
 * DJminisite 18:27, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Djmckee1 -  Talk  06:32, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Ambirch1 16:45, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Dave the Rave (DTR) talk 13:39, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
 * MRacer 21:17, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Nesbit (talk) 02:19, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Nicg1883 (talk) 07.55, 23rd May 2008 (UTC)
 * Jim Sweeney (talk) 18:16, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Craigy (talk) 17:38, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Feline Hymnic (talk) 21:23, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Sunderland06 (talk) 16:07, 30 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Xtrememachineuk (talk) 10:37, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Savvo (talk) 13:57, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Aj.amatosi (talk) 14:38, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Tadramgo (talk) 00:27, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Fintan264 (talk) 18:43, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Dt128 (talk) 09:10, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Computerjoe 's talk 23:01, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Pandondene (talk) 08:37, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
 * VTomi (talk) 21:03, 27 August 2009 (UTC) 22:02, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Stuffed cat (talk) 00:32, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
 * John Blackburne (words ‡ deeds) 23:55, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Jimmy Pitt  talk  22:15, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Jo7777777uk 16:34, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Francis Hannaway Francis Hannaway 22:36, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Sigurd 11:00, 4th August, 2011 (UTC)
 * Meetthefeebles (talk) 22:11, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
 * MIVP - Allow us to be of assistance to you. (Maybe a bit of tea for thought?) 14:00, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
 * TWAMWIR - (talk)
 * JulieRNorthumberland (talk) 19:53, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Doctor Pleasant (talk) 17:23, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
 * User:DurhamLass62
 * Zakhx150 (talk) 21:42, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Womenhistory0803 (talk) 11:49, 17 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Dreamy Jazz 🎷 talk to me &#124; my contributions 09:25, 9 September 2018 (UTC)
 * GEbb4 (talk) 20:47, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
 * PilotSuggs (talk) 22:55, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Lindwigtoon (talk) 16:14, 9 November 2019
 * Unexpectedlydian (talk) 16:43, 22 November 2021 (UTC)
 * JayAmber (talk) 04:47, 25 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Eritha (talk) 18:02, 30 September 2023 (UTC)
 * SeanPadraig (talk) 17:54, 14 February 2024 (UTC)
 * DBaK (talk) 17:28, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
 * DBaK (talk) 17:28, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

Inactive

 * Elysium 73 21:26, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Dannilion 23:02, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Glenn Scott 00:16, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Qst 12:21, 17 February 2007 (UTC) '''(Project creator)
 * Michaeltyne 11:20, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Carlossus 19:35, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Pieboyjr 09:46, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Smiley 10:40, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Andy C 23:55 2 March 2007 (BST)

Member userbox
You may place User WP North East England on your user page to display the following userbox:

For other United Kingdom user templates, please see:
 * Userboxes/Location/European Union/United Kingdom

Categories
There are also many sub-pages of these categories which have articles in the which have not been tagged with WPNEE and need rating for importance and class.
 * Category:Tyne and Wear
 * Category:County Durham
 * Category:City of Sunderland
 * Category:North East England
 * Category:Northumberland
 * Category:Redcar and Cleveland Borough
 * Category:Locations in the Tees Valley
 * Category:Stockton-on-Tees Borough
 * Category:Darlington
 * Category:Darlington borough
 * Category:Middlesbrough

Infobox
The infobox is not designed to replace existing established infoboxes such as those on the Newcastle upon Tyne and Sunderland articles. Instead, it is designed to support articles such as suburbs and villages for which a full infobox would be unnecessarily large.

If you identify a North East England location without an infobox, you are encouraged to add one.

Instructions
The infobox is called Infobox settlement. There are a number of parameters that are passed in to populate the box. If you do not know a piece of information, leave the value blank.

As a minimum, you should enter the Place parameter, which is the name of the article, and the Latitude and Longitude, as the dot on the map is driven by these two values.

SuburbOf is the urban area that the place is a suburb of. District is one of the boroughs that the place belongs to. The Parliament parameter is the Paliamentary constituency that the place belongs. Postcode area is the 3-4 letter postal district that the place belongs. Population (if known) is the number of people that live in the place.

Latitude and Longitude
The red dot on the map is automatically generated based on the lat. and long. supplied. When entering values, please ensure that you are using decimalised minutes and seconds and not base-60 as this can affect the location of the dot. For example decimalised version: 54.5, -1.75 would be expressed in base-60 as 54.3, -1.45. See here: Minute of arc in Cartography.

Lat and Long can be extracted from mapping tools such as Google Earth - hover your mouse over a location and view the Latitude and Longitude at the bottom of the screen.

If you do not have access to a mapping tool, but would like latitude and longitudes to display in an infobox, leave a note here and someone from the project will find the information for you.

Request for Latitude and Longitude

 * Article - Your name

Issues and enhancements
Suggestions for improvements to the infobox are always welcome - please leave your suggestion on the project talk page. If you spot a problem with information displayed in an infobox - be bold! and change it. If the problem is with the infobox itself, please leave a message on the project talk page or User talk:Elysium 73.

Tagging articles
Urgent help is required to leave the appropriate template on article talk pages which fall within the scope of the Project (WPNEE), you can find them by looking at the categories section above and looking at the sub categories.

Tools

 * Main tool page: toolserver.org


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

External watchlist

 * Wikiproject Watchlist - WikiProject North East England