Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Sussex/Archive 1

template
I upgrade your template for you all - tag any relevant talk apges with it. you get to rate teh article (on the normal scale), judge its importance to you at "WikiProject Sussex" and note weather the article has "sufficent inline refs" (or hwoever you want to interprit that). Pickle 21:19, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Guidelines
Hello WikiProject Sussex participants,

Just a line that I've added som trans-WikiProject guidelines for settlement articles to this project's mainspace. WP:UKCITIES are guidelines from the "mother" WP:UKGEO project based on those at WP:CITIES (A "global" WikiProject for settlements that is US driven). They have been employed by a number of articles to standardise content, obtain a consistent style and approach and drive them towards good and featured article status with considerable success, and are so far also endorssed by WikiProject Greater Manchester, WikiProject Cheshire, WikiProject Yorkshire, WikiProject Sheffield, WikiProject Kent, Wikipeadia:WikiProject Somerset amongst many others.

It is in this capacity I've considered it a fair rationale to add these. I hope it's not contentious in any way! Best of luck with the project! -- Jza84 · (talk) 11:04, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Museums in Sussex
Could I ask for some help accessing local knowledge, from members of this wikiproject, on the behalf of the new WikiProject Museums? We are currently trying to identify articles within the Museum projects scope (& develop guidelines to help improve them etc). There is a List of museums in Sussex. Could you take a look at the list for your local area and see if any are missing or create articles for any red links. Could you also add the new project banner " " to the Talk pages of the articles, so that we can identify those in need of work etc. Any help appreciated &, if anyone is interested you are welcome to join the project or discuss Museum related articles on the Project Talk Page.&mdash; Rod talk 14:14, 7 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi Rod, I have added your project banner to Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, Marlipins Museum, Petworth Cottage Museum and Weald and Downland Open Air Museum. I may well get around to creating articles for the red links. Regards The Menace (talk) 13:41, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks thats great.&mdash; Rod talk 14:41, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Front page redesign
I think we can admit that this project is inactive. For example, we have 266 articles flagged compared with Kents 1381. In the last few days I have been fixing the Sussex project templates which had a few bugs. It was the museum request above that reminded me that this project exists.

I propose that we can tidy up the main page, by removing the bits that imply an active project, such as ToDo lists and Collaboration of the week. This way, it will not look abandoned, discouraging new members. Test revamp deleted

MortimerCat (talk) 19:05, 10 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi MortimerCat, I completly agree about the project being inactive, hopefully we might be able to get it up and running again and encourage more members to join. Your revamp is much better, the current project page just looks cluttered and may confuse any potential members. Regards.... The Menace (talk) 19:35, 10 April 2008 (UTC)


 * I was quite excited when I first discovered WikiProjects, but that slowly turned to disappointment as I realised that they are mostly maintained by a single person! Thats why I think a project should not oversell itself. It would be great to have collaborations of the week but you need a quite a few active members. MortimerCat (talk) 20:57, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Photograph request
I have added a new parameter to the Sussex project template needs-photo=yes A useful category for any Sussex based keen photographers, like myself, looking for targets to shoot. The full list of parameters reproduced below. MortimerCat (talk) 22:03, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

 

They will appear in the category Category:Sussex-related articles requiring photo

New front page & Membership drive
I am not sure about my redesign, but as Wikipedia says "Be bold" I went for it. Its not really a redesign, I just removed all the extraneous stuff, plus fixed a lot of the links and wording. Some of the project pages were pointing to the London Underground!

For the next few weeks, whilst in the mood, I will be active on the project, assessing and commenting on the Sussex project articles. I finally did the two that were requested last year. I don't think we should do a mass "adding the Sussex template" drive unless we get a few active members. If any one wants to help out, I think the priority should be the existing Sussex flagged articles. MortimerCat (talk) 21:31, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
 * It certainly is an improvemnet from the last design. As for getting a few more active members, I noticed one WikiProject similar to ours (can't remember which one it was), obviously went through articles looking at who had made significant contributions and left an invitation message on their talk page, do you think it's worth doing this? Regards. The Menace (talk) 11:46, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Before we start spamming people we need something for our new members to do. A long list of names is lovely but does not achieve much. In my experience, collaborating on a single article does not work well. Half the members are not interested in the chosen subject, half the members do not have ready access to any information, half the members prefer to work on their own pet project, half the members are too busy that week. (Thats 200% of the members not able to participate).

I would be in favour of a recruiting campaign if we can find a large and worthwhile task for members to do. Something where we could provide all the information initially so members could start straight away. For example, adding an infobox to all the Sussex villages, populating it with facts from various websites that we provide links to. I have no idea if such a task exists. MortimerCat (talk) 17:38, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Worthing No. 2
I just came across a new page Worthing No. 2. Looks like a copy of Worthing. Can someone from this project please investigate and determine if this is legit or garbage. Derek Andrews (talk) 15:00, 25 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Already deleted. MortimerCat (talk) 22:08, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

East Sussex Sub-project
As per WikiProject UK geography/How to write about settlements Hamlets that are within another parish or council ward could have their own articles, but if there is no more than a couple of paragraphs that could be said about the hamlet it may be best practice to merge the articles.

It has been noticed that there are numerous one line articles about individual hamlets within East Sussex. Over the last few days, a few have been merged into the Civil Parish article. There have been no protests so I thought I would announce this as a general Sussex Project.

East Sussex has three districts, Wealden, Hastings and Lewes (district). These are showing the official Parishes as per the councils website. Category:Villages in East Sussex is a good place to find the one liners.

First stage is to add the to the one-liner. Unfortunately, you need to replace PARISH with the actual parish link. Heres a good site Election maps. Do a local authority search for Wealden, Lewes or Rother to get the district. Find the hamlet, and turn on the Parish layer.

There are some villages, whilst not parishes, that do have large articles such as Glynde and Nutley, East Sussex. These, of course, we will not merge, we would use the template instead.

More to follow MortimerCat (talk) 06:40, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Research source
I've found this website which seems to be a good source of material for Kent, Sussex and Surrey articles. Mjroots (talk) 18:44, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

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Monarch's Way
Hi, Can I ask for some help, from the experts in this WikiProject, with the Monarch's Way article. It is a 615 mi long-distance footpath in England that approximates the escape route taken by King Charles II in 1651 after being defeated in the Battle of Worcester to Shoreham-by-Sea and passes through the area covered by this WikiProject. The article is a stub at present but some of us are trying to expand it and give details of the route (along the lines of the South West Coast Path which is currently a GA). We are using Talk:Monarch's Way as a communal sandbox for this and if anyone was able to add description, settlements, places of interest etc along the route for their local area this would be really helpful.&mdash; Rod talk 12:56, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Sussex-related
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Wadhurst
The Wadhurst History Society's website has much info on the town if anyone wants to improve the article. Mjroots (talk) 03:53, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Missing geographical coordinates
Many Sussex articles are missing geographical coordinates. Finding the latitude and longitude of locations, and entering coordinates into articles is straightforwards, and explained at Geocoding how-to for WikiProject members. Having coordinates on articles mean that they turn up in GoogleMaps, MultiMap and other such places which link to wikipedia based on geo-coordinates.

It is now possible to get lists of Sussex articles that have no geographical coordinates via CatScan, for example:


 * Sussex articles missing geo-coordinates.

Alternatively, if CatScan is down or very slow, you can find them by looking through Category:United Kingdom articles missing geocoordinate data.

The articles in the lists above are currently marked with coord missing templates, which need replacing with filled in coord templates containing their latitude/longitude data (or else have lat&long entered into the infobox).

There are about 101 articles missing coords - I hope you'll consider adding coordinates so as to make Sussex articles more visible on the web. thanks --Tagishsimon (talk) 20:15, 21 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Update. Articles needing coordinates have been placed into a category. ' articles in Category:East Sussex articles missing geocoordinate data, and ' articles in Category:West Sussex articles missing geocoordinate data do not have geographic coordinates. Coords are useful for making the article appear on Google Maps & many other mapping services; and they allow our users to click through to see the article subject location on a map. There's a short guide to on how to add geocodes to articles ... it really is very easy to do. I hope you'll take some time to ensure that Sussex is as well represented as it can be on wikipedia by fixing up the listed articles. thanks --Tagishsimon (talk) 23:25, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

Hellingly Hospital Railway
I've opened a peer review on Hellingly Hospital Railway – if anyone has any comments and/or suggestions, do feel free! Although it's short, and on a very obscure topic, I think this is actually quite a good article in striking the balance between "what would the general reader want to know?" and "don't oversimplify to the point of putting off people with specialist knowledge". Any comments welcome… – iride scent  20:51, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

Wikiproject alerts
I have just seen this on The Wikipedia Signpost. Does anybody else agree that we should subscribe? --Charles (talk) 22:51, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I agree, go for it! ++ MortimerCat (talk) 23:02, 24 February 2009 (UTC)


 * I have hopefully set it up. It needs a few days to come through.--Charles (talk) 09:39, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

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Local chapter for the Wikimedia Foundation
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WikiProject Greater South East
I am proposing to merge a number of low or moderately active projects in south east England. The discussion is here: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject England MRSC (talk) 21:42, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

Bodiam Castle
Hi, I'm currently rewriting the article on Bodiam Castle as was wondering if anyone from this project had any images that could be used in the article. There are a host of nice pictures of the exterior, but Wikipedia Commons has just one shot of the interior. There's this image which is good as an idea of a photograph, but unfortunately the resolution isn't great, the colours are a bit off, and when the camera stitched the images together to create a panorama, the image on the right was offset so now there's an odd kink. Any help in illustrating this article on one of the most striking castles in England would be gratefully received! Nev1 (talk) 00:26, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
 * There are a couple on Geograph which can legally be copied to Commons if they are any use. Happy new Year!--Charles (talk) 11:26, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the pointer (I'd forgotten about geograph), it led to a some decent pics. Nev1 (talk) 19:58, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

I intend to nominated Bodiam Castle at WP:FAC in the next few days, so is someone (or more than one!) could read through the article and give me some feedback, either here's or on the article's talk page, I would be very grateful. Thanks, Nev1 (talk) 02:31, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

Help with vandals
Well, Bodiam made to FA. At some point it will be on the main page, but on 24th February I expect there to be a spike in views and possibly vandalism. This is because the castle article will be on the main page then, and a picture of Bodiam is one of the two lead images. Any assistance looking after the Bodiam article would be greatly appreciated. Cheers, Nev1 (talk) 12:57, 23 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Congratulations on FA status. I will keep an eye out.--Charles (talk) 13:50, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

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History of Sussex
I have just added the Sussex Template to the History of Sussex page as it seemed a bit of an orphan! Mind you I think that I would have done everyone a favour by blanking it! It is somewhat of a mess. Wilfridselsey (talk) 17:38, 29 July 2010 (UTC)


 * I'd be sorely tempted to just merge the relevant parts into Sussex and get rid of it, unless and until the history section becomes unmanageably large. For long articles like History of London it makes life easier splitting it off to a separate page, but a lot of this would fit better in the relevant sections of the parent article. – iride  scent  17:51, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

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WikiProject cleanup listing
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Eastbourne is going through a GAR
Details here: Talk:Eastbourne/GA1. SilkTork  *Tea time 23:11, 2 July 2011 (UTC)

Notes on the churches in the counties of Kent, Sussex, and Surrey (1852) by Arthur Hussey
At English Wikisource, I have added the work Notes on the churches in the counties of Kent, Sussex, and Surrey by Arthur Hussey which contains an extensive notes section on the parish churches of the county. It has been a finicky work, however, I think that the detail and the images make it worthwhile. I hope that people are able to make use of the work for the village histories. — billinghurst  sDrewth  13:26, 13 September 2011 (UTC)


 * That looks interesting, and I've already added one of the images to the Bodiam article. It might be worth contacting Hassocks5489 in case they don't see this message here as they've written articles on Sussex's churches. Nev1 (talk) 13:41, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

merge of request photo categories
There is currently three categories requesting images related to this project. These are Category:Sussex-related articles requiring photo, Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in East Sussex and Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in West Sussex. I would like to suggest one of two solutions to this overlapping of categories: I have added pictures to a good number of articles in the last day so there are not too may requests still open. Any comments or preferences?--Traveler100 (talk) 08:39, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
 * 1) Move requests in Category:Sussex-related articles requiring photo to either Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in East Sussex or Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in West Sussex.
 * 2) Move contents of all three to Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Sussex.

It may be best to keep the East/West categories to match others in the Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in England and ditch the Sussex-related articles cat. MilborneOne (talk) 10:29, 19 August 2012 (UTC)


 * OK after adding images to a couple of hundred articles with requests I have moved the remainder to the East and West Sussex categories. Note there are a number of SSSI requests where I think there may be good photo on commons but not know the places to the detailed required someone local needs to check. Have removed the parameter need-photo from the project template.--Traveler100 (talk) 16:33, 24 August 2012 (UTC)

Radio stations.
I was about to suggest merging Bright 106.4 FM into Media Sound Holdings but then noticed Splash FM, Sovereign FM and Arrow FM (Hastings) have almost the same content. Are these all the same radio station or was a copy and paste done and then not edited to specifics?--Traveler100 (talk) 20:33, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
 * I don't know much about these but it looks like they are all the same company and might be better merged into one article. I am not volunteering to do it though. --Charles (talk) 20:35, 30 August 2012 (UTC)

St Pancras Church (Kingston near Lewes)
Greetings. I have just created this page St Pancras Church (Kingston near Lewes). It is listed and dates back to the 13th century, so there is plenty of room for extension. I would greatly appreciate it if you chipped in and added REFERENCED info. Thanks.Zigzig20s (talk) 11:09, 26 May 2013 (UTC)

New article: Betley Bridge
From AfC. Feel free to improve it. Northamerica1000(talk) 11:46, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

Please help get Sussex ready for the start of the Wiki Loves Monuments competition on 1st September
This September the UK is taking part for the first time in the international photography competition Wiki Loves Monuments. Participants will be invited to submit pictures of listed buildings of significant importance (grades I or grade II*), as recorded by English Heritage. The main external website for competitors can be found here, and you can leave a message there if you have queries about competing. Do please join in, and let people in your local area know of this excellent way in which both existing and new Wiki users can help improve the encyclopaedia by contributing photographs of local listed structures. What about organizing a local Wikimeet to attract new people?

In preparation for the start of the competition on 1st September there is still quite a lot of work to do, and we would like to ask for the help of members of this wikiproject. Your local and expert knowledge will be invaluable in ensuring that the lists of eligible buildings are up to date and correctly formatted. If you look at Listed buildings in the United Kingdom you will see how many structures are included. If you then follow the link to Listed buildings in England, you can get to the detailed lists for your area. Alternatively have a look at the WLM planning table. Can you help to ensure that the lists for your area are up to date and well presented?

Some of the lists have been semi-automatically generated from data provided by English Heritage. These use pre formatted templates (eg EH header) which will make it much easier for competition participants to upload their photographs to Commons as an automated process. Please don't change the template structure, as we need to ensure that the templates are properly compatible with the WLM standards that are in use worldwide. The format will allow a bot automatically to collect the information and to put it into the international Monuments Database.

The data still needs the attention of local editors:
 * The "title" may need wikilinking to a suitable article name (whether we currently have that article or not). If there are several buildings in one street all of the wikilinks point at an article about the street; however each entry has a separate line in the list.
 * The "location" column looks and sorts better if just the parish or town is included (& wikilinked).
 * The "date completed" column sometimes has eg "C19" for 19th century, and "C1850" for c. 1850 when the date is uncertain - these need to be corrected manually.
 * The "grid ref & lat & long" (which is occasionally missing) may be given to 8 characters — only 6 (grid ref) or 5 (lat & long) are really needed.
 * Clicking on the "list entry number" should take you to the data sheet for that entry on the English Heritage database which can be checked if needed for details.
 * The image column should have a picture added if we already have a suitable image on Commons. (N.B. if you are going to be taking photos yourself for inclusion in the competition don't upload them until September)
 * References may be added according to normal WP practice.

For further information, please see [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2013_in_the_United_Kingdom Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 in the United Kingdom. ]

If you have any queries, please post them not below but on the Organizers' help page on Commons.

Anything you can do to help improve these lists will be much appreciated. '''The final deadline for cleaning up is 31st August.

--MichaelMaggs (talk) 14:45, 9 August 2013 (UTC)

Swanborough Manor
Hello. Can someone please drive to Iford and take pictures of Swanborough Manor? I also moved an unreferenced passages to the talkpage, as there is no citation. It would be great if you could help me expand this page.Zigzig20s (talk) 10:25, 25 September 2013 (UTC)

War Pigeon - notable to county research - yes or no?
I've added the Sussex project banner to Commando (pigeon) per Talk:All_Alone_(pigeon) in which I have no interests, the relevant banner had been added by someone else. Please write at All Alone's article whether you support or object to a county category added to the elite war pigeons who received the Dickin medal in principle, having read the Wikipedia policies linked to there.

Such questions may be fraught I suspect, and then I will know for some of the other article assessments I am doing for WP:SURREY - Adam37   Talk  18:16, 22 October 2013 (UTC)

RfC on Ian Gow
Please direct your attention to Talk:Ian_Gow, where the question is whether the make of Ian Gow's car (the one he got blown up in) is relevant enough to warrant inclusion in the article. There's an ongoing dispute, going on for over three years, and an RfC (that is, you) might could help settle that. Thanks in advance, Drmies (talk) 14:47, 20 May 2014 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal
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Old maps and views of the South-East
As you might have seen in the Signpost last week, there's currently a drive to go through the million 19th century images released by the British Library last year, and identify all the maps, with a view to their being georeferenced by BL volunteers, and then uploaded to Commons early next year. After the first week, over eight thousand new maps have been identified, with 40% of the target books looked at -- see the status page for the latest figures, and more information.

A part that may specifically interest this project is
 * c:Commons:British Library/Mechanical Curator collection/Synoptic index/England - South East

which currently shows pink templated links for 309 Flickr book pages still to be looked at. (Though there are lots of other parts of England, and indeed of the world, still to be looked through as well).

Any help looking through these would be very much appreciated -- as well as the maps (and ground plans) for tagging, you may well also find other interesting or useful non-map views that may be worth considering or uploading for articles on Sussex and elsewhere in the South-East. (If uploading, please use the ingestion template described here, which sets up some appropriate image templates and categories).

Thanks, Jheald (talk) 21:32, 8 November 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject X is live!


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Hastings Line FAC2
I've re-nominated the Hastings Line article for FAC. It failed last time due to a lack of reviews, so I'd appreciate some support this time round please. Mjroots (talk) 12:03, 20 July 2015 (UTC)

Photo request
Is there anyone in the Shoreham-by-Sea area that can take a photograph or two of the footbridge near Shoreham Airport with the floral tributes to the victims of the 2015 Shoreham Airshow crash? Mjroots (talk) 17:34, 24 August 2015 (UTC)

I'm also looking for a better photo of the main entrance to Rikkyo School in England (There are some on Geograph but there's an angle I'd like) WhisperToMe (talk) 12:53, 10 May 2016 (UTC)