Wikipedia:WikiProject UK Waterways

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Welcome to the Waterways of the United Kingdom WikiProject ...on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.
 * Mother projects: WikiProject Transport • WikiProject UK geography
 * Portal: Portal:United Kingdom


 * Goals
 * Improve Wikipedia's coverage of canals, navigable rivers in the UK.


 * Scope
 * The project covers all articles about canals, navigable rivers and related features (locks, reservoirs, bridges, aqueducts, boats, people, etc.) located in the United Kingdom.
 * To add coordinates and microformats as appropriate

Participants
You don't need to be British to help with this WikiProject. We welcome all registered editors good with layout and prose, and non-British editors who can point out when we've wrongly assumed we don't need to explain or define something for the reader, or failed to properly establish the context of an article.

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 * To add your name to the table, please visit the participants page.

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 * Adambro - Founding member.
 * Andy Mabbett - Founder. Interested in Birmingham/ Black Country canals, and the application of coordinates using the Geo and hCard microformats.
 * BeeTea as a Canadian who has never set foot in the UK, I cannot help much with individual articles, but I am mightily interested in the templates for this and for WP:TRAIL as well because I want to see them ready for roll-out in application to Canadian railways, canals and trails.
 * Catwhoorg an expat right now, but with a lot of background in the UK waterways, deeper knowledge of the Northern network than the other regions.
 * David Morris - active member of Chesterfield Canal Trust, tripboat skipper on Chesterfield Canal at Retford, living close to path of canal once restored, interested in keeping local sites current
 * DDStretch Canal-related matters in Cheshire and contact for Cheshire Project.
 * Derek Andrews expat now in Canada, formerly restoration volunteer and boater (c1973-c1985), interested in anything canal related, but especially the built heritage.
 * Erebus555 - Founding member.
 * Geni abandoned canals and canals under restoration mostly.
 * jmbatchelor - Lives next to the Basingstoke Canal.
 * L.J.Skinner interested in Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation and the Grand Union Canal, particularly around Tring, Pitstone, Aylesbury, Marsworth etc.
 * Lynbarn - Founding member. Interested in, rather than expert in waterways, but keen to learn! Also doing some work with the stripmap templates for rail and waterways.
 * Martin Cordon - Founding member. Originator of articles on Butterley and Norwood Canal Tunnels and Worsley Navigable Levels. Mainly interested in canal tunnels and the canals in my area. These are the Erewash, Cromford, Derby, Nottingham and Nutbrook Canals.
 * Dave Mayall Narrowboat Mr Jinks, moored on the Peak Forest Canal, interested in expanding articles in the local area, and in improving image and map content.
 * Oosoom - currently interested in local history of Birmingham and an old interest in canals.
 * Pyrotec canals around Birmingham / Black Country, plus a few others, such as the Glasgow, Paisley and Johnstone Canal.
 * Rafmarham - Been on hire boat holidays for much of my life.
 * Renata - Back again after a long absence. Moved from Derbyshire to Edinburgh last Sept. Interests: active canal boater (mainly Union Canal); history etc. of Scottish and other UK canals; UK rivers/waterways; Edinburgh and the Lothians; and more.
 * Ron Jones Narrowboat "Betsey Trotwood", moored at Whixall Marina on Llangollen Canal, previously at Hallingbury Marina on River Stort - general interest.
 * Simply south - some general stuff
 * Smurrayinchester - interested in boat lifts/locks etc. and technical stuff (esp. templates)
 * Traveler100 - photos

Guidelines
/How to write about UK Waterways

Open tasks

 * Fix
 * Write
 * For any articles without images, update the UKW project banner template call on the article talk page to include  which will add the article to Category:UK waterways articles needing images.
 * Try to find suitable images where possible for pages listed in Category:UK waterways articles needing images.
 * For any articles without a route map where one is appropriate, update the UKW project banner template call on the article talk page to include  which will add the article to Category:UK waterways articles needing routemaps.
 * Create route maps where possible for pages listed in Category:UK waterways articles needing routemaps.
 * Recategorise articles from Category:Canals in the United Kingdom to categories for constituent nations.
 * Assessment basics is now possible on class and importance. Please assess any unassessed pages.
 * On a related note, the assessment page is at its basics and would welcome improvement.
 * Articles that need re-assessing, as a result of significant additions.
 * Barnsley Canal reassessed stub -> C class
 * Add geographical coordinates to all articles on canals; buildings, canal features, etc. listed in this CatScan search. Alternatively, if CatScan is down or very slow, in Category:United Kingdom articles missing geocoordinate data. Find out how to do this at the Geocoding how-to for WikiProject members.

Assessment
For the assessment page see WikiProject UK Waterways/Assessment.

Article categories

 * Category:Canals in the United Kingdom -
 * Category:Aqueducts in the United Kingdom -
 * Category:Aqueducts in England
 * Category:Navigable aqueducts in England
 * Category:Aqueducts in Scotland
 * Category:Navigable aqueducts in Scotland
 * Category:Aqueducts in Wales
 * Category:Navigable aqueducts in Wales
 * Category:Canals in England
 * Category:Birmingham Canal Navigations -
 * Category:Canals in Berkshire
 * Category:Canals in Cheshire
 * Category:Canals in Gloucestershire
 * Category:Canals in Greater Manchester
 * Category:Canals in Hertfordshire
 * Category:Canals in London
 * Category:Kennet and Avon Canal
 * Category:Canal reservoirs in England
 * Category:Canals linked to the River Severn
 * Category:Canals in Somerset
 * Category:Canals in South Yorkshire
 * Category:Canal junctions in England -
 * Category:Canal tunnels in England -
 * Category:Canals in Northern Ireland
 * Category:Canals in Scotland
 * Category:Canals in Wales
 * Category:Canal tunnels in the United Kingdom
 * Category:Canal tunnels in England -
 * Category:Locks of the United Kingdom -
 * Category:Locks of Berkshire
 * Category:Locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal
 * Category:Locks of Oxfordshire
 * Category:Locks on the River Thames
 * Category:River navigations in the United Kingdom
 * Category:United Kingdom canal stubs -
 * Category:Inland waterways under restoration

Meta categories

 * Category:WikiProject UK Waterways -
 * Commons:Category:Icons for canal descriptions - 598
 * Category:UK waterways articles needing images -
 * Category:Waterway routemap templates -
 * Category:UK waterways articles needing routemaps -

Templates

 * User UKW


 * WikiProject UK Waterways or UKW


 * or


 * UK-canal-stub

''This location-related article lacks geographic coordinates. You can help by adding them. Please don't be overly precise.
 * LocateMeText

''This article about a linear feature lacks geographic coordinates. You can help by adding them, for each end, and perhaps the middle and any other significant points. Please don't be overly precise.
 * LocateMeLong

for articles with multiple sets of coordinates; allows users to export them as KML files or see them on Google maps. (other services to be added).
 * GeoGroup

additional tags to the project template

 * adds image requested text, and adds to Category:UK waterways articles needing images
 * adds routemap requested text, and adds to Category:UK waterways articles needing routemaps
 * classify the article quality
 * classify the article importance

Maps

 * legend

Parentage
The parents of this WikiProject are
 * WikiProject Transport
 * WikiProject UK geography.

Related projects

 * UK Railways
 * Bridges
 * Transport in Scotland
 * WikiProject Rivers

Canals + places

 * Bury and Sladen Canal
 * Canals of the BCN:
 * Soho Branch (see Google Maps aerial photo)
 * Walsall Branch Canal (currently redirects to Walsall Canal, which article doesn't distinguish between them)
 * Canals mentioned in Baskerville House (being excavated )
 * Chetney Canal (River Medway)
 * Leicestershire Ring
 * Stanley Aqueduct (Wilts and Berks Canal)
 * Wasthill Tunnel on the Worcester and Birmingham Canal

Organisations

 * Cotswold Canals Trust
 * Kennet and Avon Canal Trust
 * Lichfield and Hatherton Canals Restoration Trust
 * Wilts & Berks Canal Trust


 * Fellows Morton and Clayton

People

 * William Bennet (engineer) - article created 2010-05-30
 * John Hodgkinson (engineer)
 * John Priddy
 * Thomas Yeoman (1709/10-1781)
 * Robert Weldon (?1754-1810)
 * Robert Whitworth (d.1799)

Technical

 * Backpumps or Back pumping
 * Newbury barges (wider than usual)
 * Puddle clay
 * Redirected to: Puddling (engineering)
 * Sea lock
 * Redirected to: Lock (water transport), expanding this within its article would be a good start.
 * Split bridge as described in the towpath article. For the time being, redirected to roving bridge.
 * Stop planks

Misc

 * Nicholson Guides

Miscellaneous Improvements needed

 * Category:United Kingdom canal stubs
 * Category:Water transport stubs
 * Category:UK waterways articles needing images
 * History of the British canal system needs citation.
 * Trentlock is a stub - now start class
 * Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company only mentions the railway line they owned!
 * Railway companies:
 * Great Western Railway
 * "GWR took over K&A", and "GWR owned 213 miles of canal". (Entire coverage in article!)
 * London Midland and Scottish Railway
 * doesn't properly mention canals, despite them closing many of them! (Doesn't actually cover railways that well, either!!!)


 * Dorset and Somerset Canal v short
 * British Transport Commission
 * an unreference article, but I have put a hint of what happened to the canals in it and it is linked to British Waterways Board.


 * Charles Hadfield - needs Bibliography
 * Trent and Mersey Canal]] - copy edit; remove bulletted lists
 * Manchester Dock - Badly needs expanding, especially bearing in mind it has recently been unearthed.
 * Westport Canal little sub about a Somerset canal but I'm having problems finding any info about it.
 * Fens Waterways Link Overall map a bit like the one here (not diagram) showing route options.
 * Hugh Henshall - newly created, any help would be appreciated.
 * Louth Navigation - needs more detail
 * Humber - has hardly anything about shipping, or inland commercial working
 * Illustrations - most pictures seem to come from Geograph, which is good, but there is a contemporary bias. Historic illustrations add depth & interest.

Images needed

 * See Category:UK waterways articles needing images) for a list of articles needing images
 * Add the  tag to the project template to add a page into this category

Route-map needed

 * See Template:Waterways legend for details of how to construct route maps
 * See Category:UK waterways articles needing routemaps for a list of articles needing routemaps
 * Add the  tag to the project template to add a page into this category where appropriate

Coordinates needed
See WikiProject Geographical coordinates/Linear for advice
 * Bude Canal
 * Shropshire Union Canal
 * Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal
 * Stourbridge Canal (work in progress)
 * Stourport Ring
 * Trent and Mersey Canal