Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Gloucestershire

Redirect for discussion
The redirect at WikiProject Gloucestershire to WikiProject Gloucestershire has been nominated for deletion. See WP:RFD. Stifle (talk) 09:55, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

WikiConference UK 2011 16 April 2011: Watershed Bristol
If you missed the Wikibanner, full details of the above at {http://wikiconferenceuk2011.eventbrite.com/} Jezhotwells (talk) 00:45, 22 March 2011 (UTC)

Project Template
Can someone please create a project tag and we can place of Gloucestershire related article please?

Gavbadger (talk) 17:51, 29 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Template now avaliable. Gavbadger (talk) 22:44, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

Where am I?
Can anyone help me identify the water tower in this photo? I'm fairly certain it's between Chedworth and Bristol (probably via Cirencester), but really don't know where. It seems to be about 40mins drive from Chedworth. -mattbuck (Talk) 02:42, 28 August 2012 (UTC)

1874 church by Ponton & Gough
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:William Venn Gough. -- Trevj (talk) 11:37, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal
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Harej (talk) 16:57, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

List of public art
Please populate List of public art in Gloucestershire; see for a guide. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:17, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

Revealing Local History at Gloucester Archives 21 November 2015
I have been asked to act as a trainer for Wikimedia UK at an event at Gloucester Archives on 21 November 2015 about Revealing Local History. It is a joint event with Victoria County History (VCH) and British History Online (BHO) - (see Meetups/UK/Gloucester Archives Nov 2015 for the outline). Would any local wikipedians be interested in joining me at the event and helping others learn to improve the coverage of Gloucestershire on wikipedia?&mdash; Rod talk 16:03, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Just in case anyone was meaning to attend, this event has now been cancelled, due to the small number of people expressing an interest.&mdash; Rod talk 13:46, 19 November 2015 (UTC)

The West Country Challenge
We're planning on running WikiProject England/The West Country Challenge in the summer. It is based on the WikiProject Wales/Awaken the Dragon model, a very successful contest/editathon which saw the improvement and creation of over 1000 articles and 65 Good and Featrued articles. If you'd like to replicate this success for your county, please sign up at the contest page in the participants section. It is intended for both people who might compete in it and for those just interested in independently contributing.♦ Dr. Blofeld  15:16, 7 May 2016 (UTC)

South Gloucestershire
More eyes would be welcome at South Gloucestershire, South Gloucestershire Council and South Gloucestershire (UK Parliament constituency). In particular if anyone has definitive sources for the boundaries of the constituency (there used to be some unsourced content but it has been removed), that would be appreciated. Pam D  07:04, 11 May 2016 (UTC)

The West Country Challenge
Would you like to win up to £250 in Amazon vouchers for participating in The West Country Challenge?

The The West Country Challenge will take place from 8 to 28 August 2016. The idea ito create and improve articles about Bristol, Somerset, Devon, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, Dorset, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire.

The format will be based on Wales's successful Awaken the Dragon which saw over 1000 article improvements and creations and 65 GAs/FAs. As with the Dragon contest, the focus is more on improving core articles and breathing new life into those older stale articles and stubs which might otherwise not get edited in years. All contributions, including new articles, are welcome though.

Work on any of the items at: or other articles relating to the area.
 * Core articles
 * Missing article hotlist
 * Missing photograph hotlist

There will be sub contests focusing on particular areas:
 * Bristol (Day 1-3)
 * Cornwall and Scilly (Day 4-6)
 * Devon (Day 7-9)
 * Dorset (Day 10-12)
 * Gloucestershire (Day 13-15)
 * Somerset (Day 16-18)
 * Wiltshire (Day 19-21)

To sign up or get more information visit the contest pages at WikiProject England/The West Country Challenge.&mdash; Rod talk 15:48, 18 July 2016 (UTC)

West of England Combined Authority & West of England mayoral election, 2017
Two newish articles of relevance to this wikiproject have been created at West of England Combined Authority and West of England mayoral election, 2017. As more information becomes available the articles will need updating (possibly including articles for the candidates which don't yet have one). Any help appreciated.&mdash; Rod talk 20:14, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

Cheltenham Park Hotel listed at Requested moves
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Filton Triangle depot listed at Requested moves
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The Wave: Bristol listed at Requested moves
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Bristol meetup
I am organising a meetup in Bristol for this summer - provisionally Saturday 1 September 2018, and you are invited (everyone is welcome). For details see Meetup/Bristol/3 to join the discussion, including expressing preferences about dates and venues, see the talk page at m:Talk:Meetup/Bristol/3. Thryduulf (talk) 19:32, 30 June 2018 (UTC)

Evenlode (parish) listed at Requested moves
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South West England (European Parliament constituency) listed at Requested moves
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Government Communications Headquarters listed at Requested moves
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Article importance rating
I am currently looking at moving house into Gloucestershire (Cotswold District) so have added myself to the project. I have started working on a few listed building articles and have gone through the 50 or so articles attached to this project which didn't have a quality rating. I was looking for some discussion about how the importance of topics and articles is rated. but I can't find it. I don't know how active this project currently is but any thoughts on the most important articles would be great.&mdash; Rod talk 15:11, 24 October 2019 (UTC)

Hartpury College listed at Requested moves
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Can/should tiny hamlets be redirected to their parish?
I have been doing some work on the Cleanup list for WikiProject Gloucestershire and noticed several very short unreferenced articles for hamlets (eg Shadwell, Gloucestershire, Baker's Hill, Calcott's Green). These do not really have any conent apart from that the place exists. I have been looking for sources to add content and references but not really finding anything useful. In WikiProject Somerset we redirected these articles to the article about the parish in which they sit and added any useful to the wider parish article. Would members of this wikiproject see this as an appropriate way forward?&mdash; Rod talk 15:16, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

St Mary's Church, Kempley
The dendrochronology test that dated the oak roof back to the 12th century is mentioned in my draft article on the English Heritage inspector, Francis P Kelly, who was responsible for requesting the dendro test in 1999. Would appreciate any input to help the article get accepted for publication. Many thanks in advance, and best wishes - CourtauldGill (talk) 19:23, 7 August 2020 (UTC)

Cam Congregational Church
Would someone from this WikiProject mind taking a look at Cam Congregational Church and assessing it for notability, etc.? It's a new created article that didn't go through the WP:AFC process. Perhaps the church buidling itself is notable per WP:NBUILDING, but there's lots of unsourced content in the article so that's not really clear. -- Marchjuly (talk) 13:58, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
 * I have added a few wikilinks & references. I think it has enough history (and sources) to be notable, but I would agree there is signifcant content which is unsourced - perhaps the orginal editor has sources for this.&mdash; Rod talk 14:45, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Thank you for looking at this . Perhaps this is indeed an example where less might better (at least from a Wikipedia standpoint), particularly if reliable sourcing can’t be found. I’ll post something about this on the article’s talk and see if the article’s creator can clarify where they found that information. — Marchjuly (talk) 20:22, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

Parishes project
I have started a project for missing civil parishes at User:Crouch, Swale/Missing parishes. The missing parishes in Gloucestershire are:


 * Hanham Abbots
 * Leckhampton with Warden Hill
 * Longney and Epney
 * Pilning and Severn Beach
 * Rudford and Highleadon
 * Ruspidge and Soudley
 * Stoke Lodge and The Common
 * Westcote, Gloucestershire
 * Whiteshill and Ruscombe

And these exists as a redirect only but should have separate articles: A total of 13, see User:Crouch, Swale/Missing parishes (2).  Crouch, Swale  ( talk ) 22:03, 1 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Downend and Bromley Heath
 * Dyrham and Hinton
 * Sodbury, unsure if this needs an article
 * Wick and Abson
 * Pinging participants to get more input .  Crouch, Swale  ( talk ) 17:41, 21 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Afternoon Crouch, Swale,
 * Just to let you know that the villages of Epney and Longney have been Wikkpedia gages since August 2016, so the Longney and Epney page could be a possible redirect but not sure to which village. D Eaketts (talk) 15:53, 22 April 2022 (UTC)
 * "Longney" parish was renamed "Longney and Epney" so it has a distinct name so should have a separate article but if it did redirect it would probably be to Longney since that was its old name.  Crouch, Swale  ( talk ) 16:16, 22 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Something that i didn't know as i live a few miles from these villages, i will definitely have to look at this parishes history. D Eaketts (talk) 16:54, 22 April 2022 (UTC)
 * See here the CP and its council were renamed, when a parish is renamed so that it no longer matches the name of a settlement then we start a separate article on the parish.  Crouch, Swale  ( talk ) 17:05, 22 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the links. D Eaketts (talk) 17:20, 22 April 2022 (UTC)

RM Sezincote (settlement) → Sezincote
An editor has requested for Sezincote (settlement) to be moved to Sezincote. Since you had some involvement with Sezincote (settlement), you might want to participate in the move discussion (if you have not already done so).

The alternative suggestion of Sezincote (parish) has also been made and a question has been raised as to there is a settlement extending beyond Sezincote House. Additional input may help to reach a consensus. Havelock Jones (talk) 18:18, 8 November 2021 (UTC)

User script to detect unreliable sources
I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like and turns it into something like
 * John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.
 * John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.

It will work on a variety of links, including those from cite web, cite journal and doi.

The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.

Do note that this is not a script to be mindlessly used, and several caveats apply. Details and instructions are available at User:Headbomb/unreliable. Questions, comments and requests can be made at User talk:Headbomb/unreliable.

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Project-independent quality assessments
Quality assessments by Wikipedia editors rate articles in terms of completeness, organization, prose quality, sourcing, etc. Most wikiprojects follow the general guidelines at Content assessment, but some have specialized assessment guidelines. A recent Village pump proposal was approved and has been implemented to add a class parameter to WikiProject banner shell, which can display a general quality assessment for an article, and to let project banner templates "inherit" this assessment.

No action is required if your wikiproject follows the standard assessment approach. Over time, quality assessments will be migrated up to WikiProject banner shell, and your project banner will automatically "inherit" any changes to the general assessments for the purpose of assigning categories.

However, if your project has decided to "opt out" and follow a non-standard quality assessment approach, all you have to do is modify your wikiproject banner template to pass WPBannerMeta a new custom parameter. If this is done, changes to the general quality assessment will be ignored, and your project-level assessment will be displayed and used to create categories, as at present. Aymatth2 (talk) 14:18, 11 April 2023 (UTC)

Wickwar Town Hall
Hi - It would be great if someone could take a photo of Wickwar Town Hall and upload it to wikimedia commons. Many thanks, Dormskirk (talk) 08:14, 18 September 2023 (UTC)

B-checklist in project template
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Council § Determining the future of B-class checklists. &#x0020;This project is being notified since it is one of the 82 WikiProjects that opted-in to support B-checklists (B1-B6) in your project banner. DFlhb (talk) 11:44, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

Proposed county infobox template change
A discussion is ongoing at Template talk:Infobox English county which is likely of interest to this project. The original proposal is for straight removal of the ethnicity field from the template; the population field would remain. This and a modified proposal would have the same effect on Gloucestershire. A result of the change, if consented to, is the restriction of demographics, other than population to the local authority administrative sections of the county infoboxes. It has no effect on editors placing reliably sourced statistics in the body of the article. 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 16:18, 15 December 2023 (UTC)

Discussion at WT:UK § Rudford and Highleadon
You are invited to join the discussion at WT:UK § Rudford and Highleadon. -- Marchjuly (talk) 01:11, 24 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Perhaps someone from this WikiProject could take a look at this discussion at WT:UK? Lots of the newly created stubs would seem to fall under the purview of this project, and perhaps the person creating them would be a good edition to the project. -- Marchjuly (talk) 01:14, 24 June 2024 (UTC)