Wikipedia:WikiProject Woking

{|    WikiProject Woking 

 Hello, there, and welcome to Wikipedia: Wikiproject Woking! It's currently :: on Monday, 29 July, 2024 in Woking, United Kingdom! There are Special:Statistics articles on Wikipedia and counting, of which many are related to Woking. If you have any issues or wish to discuss something, then please do leave a new message.

Welcome to the Woking WikiProject! This is a Wikiproject dedicated to improving all Woking's articles and their coverage. If you would like to join Wikipedia:Wikiproject Woking, just add your name to the members' list below.

Aims
Below are the aims of Wikipedia:Wikiproject Woking:


 * Goals.


 * Improve Wikipedia's coverage of Woking.
 * Improve all Woking Articles.
 * Make Woking Articles and this Wikiproject a trustworthy source.


 * Guidelines for articles (More Guidelines will be added over time):
 * Make them neat and trustworthy.
 * Make sure they are notable before you create them.
 * Recognise the importance of citations and use them in all articles.
 * Scope
 * The project covers all articles about, related or connected to Woking.

About WikiProject Woking
WikiProject Woking is a wiki project focusing on Woking, Surrey. It was started by Willrocks10 and pbl1998 in a bid to improve all Woking-related articles along with improving Wikipedia's coverage of all Woking-related articles.

About Woking
Woking is a large town in the United Kingdom. Woking Town Centre has a population of 62,000 with the Borough housing 92,000. Woking was included in the Domesday Book under the name Wochinges. Woking has a Tudor palace (It is actually an old hunting lodge), although it is in ruins. Woking is one of the largest towns in Surrey.

The Basingstoke Canal runs through the town, with the River Wey and the Wey Navigation running through the Borough. The Town has two shopping centres, The Peacocks and the smaller Wolsey Place.

Woking also has a Blue Square Bet Premier Team, Woking F.C., as well as a hockey club, which is one of the best in the country, and other sports teams.

Current featured article
Featured articles will change every so often.

Article to Work on
If you want to help a Woking Article, this is it. Please add referenced information on this article. We will swap each article every so often.

Did You Know....
New Did You Knows? will be added every so often.

Woking in Numbers!
Woking in Numbers will change every so often.

Project coordinators
Below shows a list of project coordinators.


 * User:Willrocks10


 * User:Pbl1998


 * User:ThePaintedOne

If you have any queries to do with Woking, Woking articles or this Wikiproject please contact us via the link on our names.

To Do List
Please help with the below tasks:

Notice board
Please check this noticeboard regularly. It will contain any information that concerns Woking on Wikipedia.


 * If we want to get Woking up to a Featured Article, we need to battle the Citation Needed notices. Please try to find citations for these.

User boxes
These are some userboxes you can add to your user page.

Add this to your user page to show your a member.

If you love Woking you can also add this badge:

If you are interested in Woking you can add this badge:

If you help Woking Articles significantly, you may be awarded this badge:

If you have been given a gold award and you continue to show good edits on Woking articles you may be awarded with a barnstar.

Woking articles
This list is incomplete, please help add Woking Articles that are not yet on this list.

Woking (borough) - Information on the Borough of Woking.

Brookwood, Surrey - A local village, famous for being the largest cemetery in the British Isles and one of the largest in Western Europe. It was planned to be much bigger than it actually is.

Basingstoke Canal - A Canal that runs through Woking. Completed in 1794, closed in 1932 and restored 10th May 1991.

Byfleet - A local village.

Church of St Andrew, Goldsworth Park

Export House - Article on the tallest building in Woking. A neat page that has had a lot of work put into. Aim is to make it a good article in the next year.

Goldsworth Park - Article on Goldsworth Patk. Goldsworth used to be the biggest housing estate in Europe when it was completed.

GU postcode area - Woking is within the GU postcode area.

History of Woking

Horsell - A local village. Woking High School is situated here.

Horsell Common - Horsell's Common

HP (car)

The Lightbox - A local art gallery. Good Page.

List of mayors of Woking - A List of Mayors of Woking

London Necropolis Company

Mayford - A local village (Mentioned in the Doomsday Book, 1086)

Old Woking-The Old Woking. Henry VIII often visited Old Woking, then just 'Woking'.

Peer Productions

Pyrford - A local village

Sutton Green, Surrey - A local village

The Peacocks (Woking) - The local shopping centre. All help woth this article will be appreciated.

Westfield Common - Information on Westfield Common.

Westfield, Woking, Surrey - Page on Westfield. A village in the Borough of Woking.

Woking - The page on the town of Woking.

Woking (hundred) - Information on the Medieval hundred of Woking.

Woking railway station - Information on Woking rail station. Woking is an important station for the London commuter belt.

Woking F.C. - Page on Woking F.C.

Woking (UK Parliament constituency)

Woking Council election, 1998

Woking Council election, 1999

Woking Council election, 2000

Woking Council election, 2002

Woking Council election, 2003

Woking Council election, 2004

Woking Council election, 2006

Woking Council election, 2007

Woking Council election, 2008

Woking Council election, 2010

Woking local elections-Brief history and information on the Woking Local Elections.

Woking Park-A detailed page on Woking Park. Try to make it a good article over the next year.

It would be very useful if you put this userbox on all Woking articles talk pages.

Members
We currently have 4 members in our project. If you want to become a new member please write your Wiki name and introduce yourself below:


 * 1)  (Creator of project lives in and interested in Woking and loves to edit. Coordinator)
 * 2)  (Co-Creator of project, lives in and interested in Woking! Coordinator)
 * 3)  ( Good Editor)
 * 4)  (Asked to join, will try to contribute to transport-related parts Good Editor)

Inactive members

 * 1)  (Too helpful for his own good, lives in Woking and edits wikipedia when real life allows. Coordinator)

Gallery
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