Wikipedia:WikiProject Surrey

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Welcome to WikiProject Surrey. This project draws together and helps editors working on all Surrey-related articles, with the aim of improving and expanding all aspects of coverage. If you have any queries, please add them to the talk page. If you would like to see clean-up tasks to do (which includes valuable and rewarding activities of finding and adding reliable citations), an automated service – bambot – updates this list of the project's clean-up tasks. More broadly, please consult the watchlist tool accessible at the foot of this page to review the latest changes to articles in the project. You can view, tag, discuss or improve articles by their assessed status shown in the table to the right.

Project goals
This project aims to improve the quality of Surrey-related articles on Wikipedia. You can contact another contributor (such as in the table below) to make articles more substantial than say stubs or ultimately match the quality of featured articles. You can see how well editors like you are progressing by looking at the 'ohm score' Ω 4.___ to the right. We would like a score of 3.___ which will set the county ahead of most others. You can achieve this by following guides such as how to write about UK settlements, WP:BIO (as to people) and WP:ORG (as to widely notable organisations/institutions). Alternatively simply copy the style of one of our Good Articles (GA), research using impartial, encyclopedic sources then upgrade its ranking modestly, and/or ask another participant in the project to do so. Our participants have offered a great deal of help to one another &mdash; if you have any questions then simply contact one or more of them.

Article guidelines
Guidelines at WikiProject Surrey/Article guidelines demonstrate what articles on common subjects should contain, and provide a recommended page structure for a number of types of article. These guidelines are advisory and editors are not obliged to follow them.

Article grading
Articles are graded for quality based on the Assessment scale and for importance using the Release Version Criteria scale. For further information, visit the Assessment department.

About Surrey
Surrey is a county in South East England, and one of the home counties. It borders Kent to the east, Sussex to the south, Hampshire to the west, Berkshire to the north-west and Greater London to the north-east. Surrey County Council is based in Reigate. With a population of 1.1 million, Surrey is the third-most-populous county in the South East.

Surrey is divided into eleven districts: Elmbridge, Epsom and Ewell, Guildford, Mole Valley, Reigate and Banstead, Runnymede, Spelthorne, Surrey Heath, Tandridge, Waverley, and Woking. Services such as roads, mineral extraction licensing, education, strategic waste and recycling infrastructure, birth, marriage, and death registration, and social and children's services are administered by Surrey County Council. The London boroughs of Lambeth, Southwark, Wandsworth, and small parts of Lewisham and Bromley were in Surrey until 1889; as were those of Croydon, Kingston upon Thames, Merton, Sutton and the part of Richmond upon Thames on the right bank of the River Thames until 1965, when they too were absorbed into Greater London, and the county extended north of the Thames by the addition of Spelthorne, as a result of the dissolution of Middlesex. Since the 1965 reform the bordering boroughs of the capital have been those taken from it in 1965 (except for Merton) plus Bromley, Hillingdon and Hounslow.

The form of Surrey which remains since 1965 is a wealthy county, due to aesthetic, conservation and logistical factors. It has protected green spaces (such as the North Downs, Greensand Ridge and related Surrey Hills AONB and royal landscapes adjoin it &mdash; Windsor Great Park and Bushy Park near to its interior reach of the River Thames). It has four racecourses in horse racing, the most of any Home County and as at 2013 contained 141 golf courses including international competition venue Wentworth.

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Noticeboard
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Articles
By quality • By importance • Top-importance articles • Most viewed

Featured articles
These are Surrey articles currently holding the status of Featured articles. They have been identified as some of the best articles produced by the Wikipedia editorial community.


 * London Necropolis Company
 * Mary Toft
 * List of Old Guildfordians (Royal Grammar School, Guildford)
 * List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in Southeast England

Featured article and list candidates
This section is for you to mention Surrey-related articles pending at the featured article nomination stage.

Good articles
These are Surrey-related articles which hold the status of Good articles. They have been identified as well developed articles produced by the Wikipedia community.


 * Dorking
 * Epsom
 * Leatherhead
 * London Necropolis Railway
 * Middlesex
 * Royal Grammar School, Guildford
 * Staines-upon-Thames
 * Tillingbourne Bus Company
 * University of Surrey
 * Weybridge

Good article candidates
This section notes Surrey-related articles that are currently nominated to become good articles. That is an article that is particularly well-written and complete but may lack the length or breadth to be a featured article. Articles in this list should be monitored closely and edited with care.

Potential good article candidates
This section notes Surrey-related articles that can be recommended as a Good Article. That is an article that is particularly well-written and complete but may lack the length or breadth to be a featured article. Please list an article that is close to this criteria so that everyone can edit away to bring it up to good article quality and submit it for consideration as a good article.


 * River Mole

Did you know?
These articles are a selection of those in this project once or repeatedly featured in the Did you know? section on the main page:

Did you know...
 * ... that places of worship in the Surrey district of Tandridge include a Latter-day Saints' Temple (pictured), a Neo-Byzantine United Reformed church and a converted school building?
 * ... that a chest tomb in the churchyard of Old St Peter and St Paul's Church, Albury in Surrey commemorates the artists Arthur Devis and Anthony Devis?
 * ... that Eastley End House, in Surrey, was used as a base for "burglar-hunting" parties?
 * ... that General Augusto Pinochet was once kept under house arrest at a house on the Wentworth Estate, an exclusive residential area surrounding the Wentworth Golf Club in Surrey, England?
 * ... that local legends say that a white witch lives in Mother Ludlam's Cave near Waverley Abbey in Surrey, South East England?
 * ... that cricketer Major Leo Bennett was meant to have been made captain of Surrey in 1946, but a different Major Bennett was offered the position by mistake
 * ... that Holy Trinity Church, Guildford served as pro-cathedral of the Diocese of Guildford until the consecration of the current cathedral?
 * ... that Denzil Onslow was Member of Parliament for Guildford after his nephew Foot Onslow, and was then succeeded by another nephew, Richard Onslow, 1st Baron Onslow?
 * ... that the Treadwheel crane at Guildford, Surrey, England was in use as recently as c. 1960?
 * ... that Fitznells Manor, the last surviving manor house in the borough of Epsom and Ewell in Surrey, UK, and a Grade 2 listed building, is now used by a medical practice? (8 February 2010)
 * ... that Margaret Greville bequeathed Polesden Lacey in Surrey to the National Trust in 1942 in memory of her father, Scottish brewer William McEwan?
 * ... that the British businessman and Member of Parliament Sir Edgar Horne owned most of the village of Shackleford in Surrey?
 * ... that racing driver Glen Kidston was the only survivor of the crash of a Luft Hansa Junkers G 31 in 1929?
 * ... that the 18th-century Camberley Obelisk may have been built by John Norris to communicate by heliograph with Sir Francis Dashwood at West Wycombe church, about 20 mi away?
 * ... that cricketer Major Leo Bennett was meant to have been made captain of Surrey in 1946, but a different Major Bennett was offered the position by mistake
 * ... that Sir Edwin Lutyens designed four memorials in the same Surrey churchyard, including the Busbridge War Memorial?
 * ... that Alfred Jeacocke nearly had to stop playing cricket for Surrey because he lived on the wrong side of the road
 * ... that places of worship in Waverley, Surrey include a former Strict Baptist chapel founded in a loft by a Jewish convert
 * ... that a Bronze Age sword and a Roman tile were found at Caesar's Camp, a large multivallate Iron Age hillfort on the Surrey–Hampshire border?
 * ... that Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Hazlitt lectured at the short-lived Surrey Institution (pictured), and Goldsworthy Gurney won recognition there for his work on blowpipes?

Surrey articles recommended for deletion

 * See Articles for Deletion (Surrey) for a current list of Surrey-related which have been nominated for deletion.

Article requests
The article requests department helps co-ordinate the creation of missing articles within the scope of the project. To request an article be created please visit WikiProject Surrey/Article requests.



Articles to improve
All articles in Class B or lower need your help, following the sections and content guidance in UKTOWNS / UKVILLAGES these in particular are in need of improvement and extra information:


 * Stoke Park
 * Horley
 * Thames Ditton
 * Normandy Youth Club–The N-Factor

Article alerts
Details in this section are updated daily by a bot. Click 'show' to view.

If you notice any errors, or omissions, post a message on the project talk page.

Participants
Key contacts are below for peer-reviewing, queries or suggestions. Alternatively join this list here. 
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Templates
We do not believe in a rigidly prescribed format for our articles &mdash; some sections are optional for most geographic articles &mdash; see WP:UKVILLAGES.

To guide your UK places style: Giffnock and Chew Magna outside of the county have good article status which is very difficult to reach for settlements.

Article talk pages

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 * To request photos for Wikipedia:WikiProject Surrey, use and substitute the location name for "geographic location".

User namespace

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 * is a template that project participants only may award to those who have contributed in multiple ways.

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.