Wikipedia talk:WikiProject River Thames

Tasks to be completed before project can "go live"

 * create Template:Thames-stub ✅ nancy  talk 11:49, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
 * create Category:Thames stubs ✅ nancy  talk 11:54, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Stub templates deleted - use WPThames with the |class=stub qualifier instead. nancy  talk 06:28, 24 August 2008 (UTC)


 * create Template:WPThames for article talk page ✅ nancy  talk 13:25, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
 * create article class categories (Start-class, B-class, GA-class or A-class articles) ✅ and linked in to Template:WPThames nancy  talk 14:12, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
 * create project member userbox(es) (not done yet but gone live anyway)

WikiProject UK Waterways
You may also want to engage in dialogue with the people at the well-established WikiProject UK Waterways...Paulbrock (talk) 16:54, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

Article tagging progress
Have made good headway with tagging article talk pages with WPThames & it also seems to have served as a mini-recruitment drive. Have found that using AWB to run through by category speeds the process slightly, especially if you configure it to skip talk pages that are already tagged. Categories completed so far are: Category:Islands in the River Thames, Category:Bridges across the River Thames, Category:River Thames and Category:Locks on the River Thames.

Looking at the sub cats of River Thames there are few obvious ones still to do including Category:Ports and harbours of the Thames Estuary, Category:Thames Path, Category:Tributaries of the River Thames, Category:London River Services. nancy (talk) 07:58, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Islands
I think we are just about there with Islands in the River Thames. However there are a few queries I have.
 * Is Nickcroft Ait the same as Lion island? (Thacker has it at about the same place)
 * Dumsey Eyot and Truss's Island are both minor promentaries and probably not worth inclusion
 * I may be confused with the photos between Holm Hollyhock and Church Island.
 * I missed Firework Ait - perhaps it was too small or perhaps I confused it with Deadwater.
 * There are one or two unidentified islands not included - one between Rod and Henley Bridge, one below Mapledurham Lock, and a few from Goring to Wallingford.

Regards Motmit (talk) 08:26, 4 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Neither of my maps (both quite recent) show Nickcroft Ait at all so I think the possibility that it is an alternative name is quite strong. Motmit, do you have a map with Nickcroft marked? nancy (talk) 12:06, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Only Thacker p 375 where "Nickcroft Ait" is written along the top of the old navigation behind Ham Island. The nearest island (or possibly two) looks to be about the point of your Lion as shown on OS. Regards Motmit (talk) 12:34, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
 * PS Hope you like the boat slide Motmit (talk) 12:34, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
 * I'd say remove Nickcroft from the Islands lists for now and if we find some more evidence consider adding it to Lion Island as an alternative name and creating Nickcroft Ait as a redirect.
 * Yes, loved the boat slide picture. And the beautiful boat in the shot - is she yours? nancy (talk) 13:56, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

It does need references
There is always a danger with such lists that they are deleted for lack of referencing, so I added a segment to hold them when I added in Benn's Island. I can't find s huge amount that isn't in the Hampton Sailing Club website, but it has leased the spot since 1945.

We can't rely on the contents being bluelinks as a defence against a deletion nomination. Fiddle Faddle (talk) 23:35, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

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 * It's not absolutely clear but I think that the articles concerned are River Thames, Palace of Westminster, Tower Bridge and Kingston upon Thames. There may be more. nancy (talk) 17:19, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

Ait merge proposal
An editor has proposed merging Ait with Inland island (a redirect to List of islands in lakes). No rationale for the merge has been put forward but I have started a discussion on Talk:Ait. Nancy talk  11:05, 9 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Life is too short. No consensus for merge, so I have removed tags.  Fiddle Faddle (talk) 23:11, 9 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Jolly good. A positive outcome for one of the first WP:THAMES collaborations (minor though it may have been) - may there be many others....    Nancy  talk  14:54, 11 December 2008 (UTC)


 * I think we do have to take a draconian view sometimes. To me the proposal was "silly" and also imperfect apart from that!  So I was bold.  Pretty much always boldness pays off.
 * We have had a second co-operation, but by serendipty! Look at Benn's Island.  I created it and two of us managed to work in it by luck at the same time and with no edit conflicts that affected me, at least!  Fiddle Faddle (talk) 15:26, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Environment Agency
The Environment Agency has to be one of the most important articles relating to the Thames, given both flooding and navigation responsibilities. I have been working on trying to improve the article which was as amorphous as the body itself, but have encountered a few difficulties. Could other members keep an eye on it and help develop it, as it still has some way to go as an informative neutral article. Regards Motmit (talk) 13:56, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

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Rating Thames articles
A couple of us have been working through the Thames articles to rate importance and quality. This generates the useful matrix on the Project page which highlights articles that need work eg "Important articles that are still stubs". However we now have a large number of items in the low category many of which are peripheral - eg pubs, docks adjacent public parks etc. Meanwhile the High importance group has only about 35 articles. I have suggested moving everything that is Thames specific up a notch so that there is a more even spread, and so that for example small islands, footbridges and trib streams are not lost with the odds and end in "low". I attach Nancy's response to my suggestion and wonder what others think.


 * I thought the very same thing this morning; I was going through mopping up all the unrated (think I've cleared them - will know for sure when the bot runs tonight) and noticed that we were a bit "bottom heavy". I absolutely agree with your rationale re. Thames specific stuff being moved up a notch or two. I noticed that there were quite a few low importance bridges for example which should at least be mid & some - particularly the London ones - could arguably be high. Agree also that locks should at a minimum be mid with some exceptions - e.g. I would put Teddington as high.


 * Any further thoughts on rating quality and importance welcome. Motmit (talk) 20:06, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for bringing this up Motmit. As of last night the distribution of project articles by importance is: 6 x Top (of which 4 are lists), 32 High, 242 Mid and 365 Low which does suggest that we've been too modest in our ratings. Perhaps the way forward is to come up with some loose guidelines for default importance ratings? As a starting point for the discussion what are your opinions on the following which is roughly based on Motmit's concept of things being "Thames specific" vs peripheral. Other specific categories we might want to consider include docks/ports/marinas/piers/wharves, boating clubs/races/regattas and canals. Best, Nancy  talk  07:49, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
 * 1) Bridges - minimum/default importance = High (road) Mid (foot). There are currently around 40 bridges rated as Low
 * 2) Locks - minimum/default importance = High. They are currently all rated Mid with the exception of Teddington
 * 3) Islands, aits & eyots - minimum/default importance = Mid. |Island*|Eyot*|Gulls*&quality=Assessed&importance=&score=&pagenameWC=on&showExternal=on&limit=400&offset=1&sorta=Importance&sortb=Quality Over 70 are currently rated Low
 * 4) Tributaries & backwaters - minimum/default importance = Mid. |Stream*|Backwater*&quality=Assessed&importance=&score=&pagenameWC=on&showExternal=on&limit=700&offset=1&sorta=Importance&sortb=Quality There are about 30 categorised as Low at the moment


 * I'd agree that there shouldn't be any low-importance bridges, but would quite strongly disagree that all road bridges should be considered high-importance; treating Tadpole Bridge and Chelsea Bridge as being of equal importance would be just as perverse as the current setup in which Hampton Ferry is rated as higher-importance than Hammerton's Ferry. The current high/mid/low ratio seems fairly similar to that at the comparable WikiProject London Transport/Assessment. There's always going to be an issue, as what seems "high importance" to someone in Tilbury is never going to seem the same as to someone in Cricklade. I do agree that there should be no low-importance islands or tributaries, though. – iride  scent  15:39, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Valid point regarding the road bridges. Perhaps revise default to "mid" for all fixed crossings.  Nancy  talk  17:31, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Seems we are in general agreement on the main components. One important area is the riverside settlements which would perhaps be high or medium, with riverside parks etc as low. Canals probably high. Motmit (talk) 19:27, 7 April 2010 (UTC)


 * Might it be worthwhile getting the bot to generate a list similar to that at WikiProject London Transport/Favourite pages, to give some idea of what pages are getting the most traffic? Obviously, London, Oxford, River Thames, The Boat Race and London Bridge will dominate, but there will almost certainly be surprises if the London Transport list is anything to go by.
 * My gut reaction would be:
 * Top importance for River Thames, Thames Gateway, Thames Estuary, London, London Bridge, Tower Bridge, List of crossings of the River Thames, Tributaries of the River Thames, Islands in the River Thames, Thames Path, Port of London and maybe Thames Head even though there's little to be said about it;
 * High importance for all counties through which the river flows;
 * All river crossings (bridges, tunnels and ferries) a minimum of mid importance, with all road bridges and tunnels between the estuary and Reading as a minimum of high importance;
 * All docks and wharves a minimum of mid-importance, with all excavated docks past or present (Port of Tilbury, Surrey Commercial Docks, Brentford Dock etc) as high-importance;
 * All islands a minimum of mid-importance;
 * The Lea and the Medway as high importance, all other tributaries as mid-importance;
 * Towns and villages at a minimum of mid importance;
 * All railway stations, except those built specifically because of the river such as Tilbury Riverside railway station and Brentford Dock railway station (why is that a redlink?), to be low-importance—even London Bridge station itself;
 * Miscellaneous riverside stuff—pubs, buildings, rowing clubs etc—judged on its relationship to the river. If it wouldn't exist without the river, a minimum of mid importance, otherwise, low importance. Canary Wharf or Fulham Palace, for instance, are undoubtedly highly important, but were the Thames to dry up tomorrow it wouldn't affect them in the least, and thus they aren't important as regards this project. Jesus College Boat Club (Oxford) is completely insignificant in the broad scheme of things, but is intimately connected with the Thames, and thus of a higher degree of importance in this particular context. – iride  scent  14:04, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Looks sound to me. Also I have put in a request for a list of popular pages to be generated which we'll be able to see when this link WikiProject Thames/Popular pages turns blue - may not be until the start of next month. Nancy  talk  15:17, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

Shipbuilding on the Thames
I'd started to work on various articles exploring Shipbuilding on the River Thames, giving references for every item and not doing any original research. I've tried to use the facts and not just the text from my sources, but I'm not a writer. Also I had begun to think that if I wanted to see these articles on Wikipedia I'd have to write all of them, as nobody else seems to be doing any. Then today, instead of correcting and contributing to them, Nancy is ripping apart and deleting my articles on the grounds of copyright violation. This saddens me, but at this point I feel it would be easier for me to let go of this project than to go back to the beginning and start revising it all on my own, let alone to attempt further articles that I'd been intending to contribute. --Robkam (talk) 21:10, 6 April 2010 (UTC)


 * I think Nancy explained the situation pretty clearly on your talk page. " You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of article content such as sentences or in this case, whole paragraphs/sections. "
 * If there are parts of that which you don't understand after reading WP:COPYVIO, please feel free to ask. Nobody wants to discourage you from contributing to the encyclopaedia, but we must all follow the policies and the copyright law.  David Biddulph (talk) 22:03, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

Motorway Traffic/Bridges
I recently edited a couple of arictles referring to the number of bridges carrying motorway traffic over the Thames after noticing an 'error' whilst using Google Earth. I've had it editted back pretty quickly by members of this Project.

I contend there are not four bridges carrying motorway traffic over the Thames. If you define motorway traffic as that on a motorway then there are three. If you include those where traffic would be directed to go from motorway to motorway as an expected part of a reasonable signposted journey then there are more which would include the QE2 bridge, the A404 Bypass Bridge near Marlow and at least one smaller bridge on the A419 near Cricklade and possibly one on the A34 near Wolvercote. 62.56.62.42 (talk) 21:17, 5 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Dartford Crossing, Runnymede Bridge, the M3 at Chertsey and the M4 at Maidenhead. Four. Five if you count Runnymede as two separate bridges, but that's being really pedantic. – iride  scent  21:25, 5 May 2010 (UTC)


 * I think the point the IP is trying to make is that technically the QEII/Dartford Bridge is not a motorway bridge, I've only crossed it a couple of times, but I'm pretty sure there are end of motorway signs as you approach it, and start of motorway signs as you leave it. This allows prohibited traffic to cross the Thames without having to go way upstream.  David Underdown (talk) 21:31, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Exactly - it is to address this point, which has been raised before, that the articles refer to motorway traffic rather than bridges. But we dont want to go on a pedantic expedition to complicate things even more Motmit (talk) 21:37, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

In which case it would make sense to change it to motorway bridges, because as soon as you include the A282 as carrying motorway traffic you've opened the floodgates as it were. Certainly some of my examples are increasingly tenuous, but the A404 example isn't. If you were to count the former, what is the case for not including the latter (a key link between the M40 and M4/A404(M) 62.56.62.42 (talk) 21:48, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Tributaries of the River Thames
Tributaries of the River Thames does not seem to include the Mardyke (which joins the Thames at Purfleet). Is there a reaon for this, or has it simply been missed? Rjm at sleepers (talk) 06:53, 26 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Think it's just been missed—it's certainly a "genuine" tributary. It may just be that when Motmit set this up the intention was only to list tributaries that had their own Wikipedia articles. – iride  scent  07:31, 26 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Ta. I'll do an article and add it in. I couldn't spot the order that tributaries are lited - is it geographic? (BTW, does Bill Meroy Creek qualify? Rjm at sleepers (talk) 07:53, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
 * It looks like they're ordered sea-to-source, which would put the Mardyke between the Darent and the Ingrebourne. – iride  scent  08:27, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Ta. I've added it to the list, but I don't know what goes in the various boxes. Can anyone help? Rjm at sleepers (talk) 09:49, 26 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Confluence = Name of the place where it joins the Thames (presumably Purfleet in this case)
 * Average Discharge (m3/s) = Flow rate at the confluence (that is, how much it pumps into the Thames each second); the Environment Agency probably has a figure for this
 * Source = Where it starts (sometimes harder to find than you'd think)
 * Length = Likewise, often harder to find than you'd think
 * Tributaries = I doubt it has any
 * Catchment = Don't worry about this, the figures don't exist for most minor rivers; it's the area from which rainwater ultimately flows into this river, rather than directly into the Thames. Landscaping and drainage has rendered most of these figures meaningless, anyway. – iride  scent  17:07, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks Irid for very accurate response. The list was created from the tribs I knew about at the time - mainly those with articles. Please anyone add more if you know of any - even with redlinks - there are one or two backwaters I know of missing as well. As for the technical stuff, most of this was added originally to the articles by Mertbiol who seems know how to get at it. Part of the impetus to creating this was  a persistent bore who kept insisting that the Wey was the largest tributary - which it clearly is not on any measure. Regards Motmit (talk) 18:41, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
 * I've added flow rate and catchment area. These are from the guaging station at Stifford (slightly up stream of the place it meets the Thames). Does this matter? Rjm at sleepers (talk) 08:16, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

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Lea RM

 * Oh and see Talk:River Lee (England) for the main move request. The previous discussion was never concluded. Simply south...... 16:24, 26 January 2011 (UTC)


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Templates coloured: River Island and Confluence
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Battersea Power Station
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Proposed deletion of Thames Valley


The article Thames Valley has been proposed for deletion&#32;because of the following concern:
 * Page is not notable. The area is synonymous with part of the M4 Corridor, listed on the disambiguation page. As a precedent, similar areas do not have their own articles. Once deleted, Thames Valley (disambiguation) should be moved here instead.

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Dissidentplasterer (talk) 15:53, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

Requested move 10 April 2019

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: Moved. (non-admin closure) samee  converse  21:10, 18 April 2019 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Thames → WikiProject River Thames – For the same reason as Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Isle of Wight the main article is at River Thames and that's its name. I renamed Commons:Category:Thames to Commons:Category:River Thames.  Crouch, Swale  ( talk ) 21:28, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Support, assuming the members are OK with the change. --Comment by  Selfie City  ( talk about my  contributions ) 22:45, 10 April 2019 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

Request for information on WP1.0 web tool
Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.

We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma (talk) 04:24, 27 October 2019 (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.

- &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b}

This is a one time notice and can't be unsubscribed from. Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:02, 29 April 2022 (UTC)