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Welcome to the Wales WikiProject. We are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of articles related to Wales.
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[edit] Goals
- The goal of this WikiProject is to provide complete coverage on subjects related to Wales, by creating, expanding, and maintaining articles on people, places, and things resident or native to Wales.
[edit] Scope
- This project proposes to work with all pages related to Wales, its history, geography, and people. These should all be included in the Category:Wales or one of its subcategories.
[edit] Guidelines
We shall try to follow the Wikipedia:Manual of Style for our articles.
[edit] Open tasks
All members should always feel free to patrol the recent changes list to note improvements, other changes, or vandalism of articles within the scope of this project.
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[edit] Members
Please feel free to add yourself to the /Members page and to indicate any areas of particular interest.
[edit] Userbox
All members should feel free to add {{User WikiProject Wales}} to their userpages to identify themselves as members of the project.
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[edit] Articles
[edit] Article alerts
- Articles for deletion
- 3 Jul 2009 – British Isles naming dispute (talk) nominated for deletion by SmackBot; see discussion.
- Featured article candidates
- 28 Jun 2009 – Senedd (talk) is nominated by Seth Whales.
- Featured article reviews
- 6 Jul 2009 – Doctor Who (talk) is demoted.
- Peer review
- 29 Jun 2009 – Peer review for Senedd (talk) closed.
- Requested moves
- 3 Jul 2009 – Move requested from Mynydd Llandegai (talk) to Mynydd Llandygai by D22; see centralized discussion.
- 3 Jul 2009 – Move requested from Llandegai (talk) to Llandygai by D22; see discussion.
- Did you know
- 3 Jul 2009 – A fact from St Michael's Church, Manafon (talk) appeared on the main page.
- 28 Jun 2009 – A fact from St Mary's Church, Mold (talk) appeared on the main page.
- 26 Jun 2009 – A fact from St Deiniol's Church, Hawarden (talk) appeared on the main page.
- 25 Jun 2009 – A fact from Saint Afan's Church, Llanafan (talk) appeared on the main page.
- Copyright problems
- 28 Jun 2009 – Biosciences and Tower Building (talk) was tagged as a possible copyright infringement.
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Featured articles
Articles on Wales-related subjects, not necessarily improved to Featured Status by this WikiProject.
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Culture and society
Wales national rugby union team · List of county courts in England and Wales · List of former county courts in Wales
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Engineering and technology
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Education
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Geography
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History
Slate industry in Wales · King Arthur
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Landmarks
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Notable Welsh people
Alfred Russel Wallace · Asser · John Dee · Llywelyn the Great · Rhys ap Gruffydd · Sasha (DJ) · Tom Pryce
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Peer review/Featured article candidates (FAC)
The following articles are in review as Featured article candidates:
The following articles are currently undergoing a Peer Review:
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Good articles (GA)
The following articles have either been recognized as good articles or are currently under review for good article status:
Art, architecture and archaeology
Economics and business
- Culture and society
Education
- Engineering and technology
Food and drink
- Geography
- History
Language
Mathematics
Music
Politics and government
Religion
War and military
[edit] New articles
Please feel free to list your new Wales-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Page. Please also make sure that each new article created is put into one of the categories for Wales, so that the articles will appear there. Also, if possible, add each new article to the page Wikipedia:WikiProject Wales/Articles (still under construction) so that they can be viewed for recent changes.
- Cardiff Amateur Athletic Club
- Christ Church, Bala (stub)
- Holy Trinity Church, Greenfield (stub)
- St John's Church, Trofarth (stub)
- St Bueno's Church, Penmorfa (stub)
- St Matthew's Church, Buckley
- St Michael's Church, Manafon
- St Michael's Church, Trelawnyd
- St Berres' Church, Llanferres
- St Mary's Church, Cilcain
- List of windmills in Anglesey
- List of windmills in Wales
- St Garmon's Church, Llanfechain
- St Mary's Church, Bettws Gwerfil Gogh
- St Mary's Church, Mold
- St Deiniol's Church, Hawarden
- St Chad's Church, Holt
- Saint Afan's Church, Llanafan
- St Garmon's Church, Llanarmon-yn-Iâl
- St Dunawd's Church, Bangor Is-coed (part of a series of John Douglas churches).
- St Deiniol's Church, Criccieth (stub)
- Holywell Workhouse Chapel (stub)
- Wayne O'Connor
- Chris Dicomidis
- St David's Welsh Church, Colwyn Bay
- St Matthew's Church, Saltney
- St John the Baptist's Church, Old Colwyn
- St Ethelwold's Church, Shotton
- All Saints Church, Deganwy
- Christ Church, Bryn-y-Maen
- Christ Church, Rossett
- St David's Welsh Church, Rhosllannerchrugog
- St John the Evangelist's Church, Mold
- Church of St Mary the Virgin, Halkyn
- St Bartholomew's Church, Sealand
- St Paul's Church, Colwyn Bay
- Kristian Baller
- Dafydd Lockyer
- Matthew Nuthall
- Nathan Strong
- Gavin Dacey
- Pen Llystyn
- Cadwalader's Ice Cream
- Old Bridge, Pontypridd
- John Jenkins (Ifor Ceri)
- Ceint railway station
- Rhyd-y-Saint railway station
- Pentraeth railway station
- Llanbedrgoch railway station
- Hughes of Gwerclas
- Wales-England border
- Parc Cwm long cairn
- Charles Taylor (rugby player)
- Banc Ty'nddôl sun-disc
- Sunday Closing (Wales) Act 1881
- Ynysddu
- Elvis Rock - The rock with Elvis inscribed on it on the A44.
- Thomas Johnes
- Great Little Trains of Wales
- River Clun
- Cwm Ystwyth Lead Mine
- Trawsgoed
- St Lythans burial chamber
- Llanfihangel y Creuddyn
- Hafod Estate
- Pen y Bryn
- Cwm Ystwyth
- Pont-rhyd-y-groes
- Gladys Morgan
- Geoff Eales
- Dai Dower
- John Edward Daniel
- Daniel Evans (Daniel Ddu o Geredigion)
- Betsan Powys
- Tinopolis,
- Glasbury putting a previously deleted Welsh town back on the map
- Welsh placenames
- Cardiff International Pool
- Dewi Morgan, ‘Dewi Teifi’ (1877–1971), bard, scholar and journalist.
- Tom Macdonald (1900-1980), journalist and novelist
- Frederick Charles Davies, ‘Tenby Davies’ (1884-1932), half-mile world champion runner.
- Politics of Wales - not new, but revised "Establishing National Institutions" needs reviewed since I edited it.
- Academi - not a new article, but one I got moved from a very poor English translation of its real Welsh name. Still a very poor article, perhaps a colaboration of the week in future?
- Llanpumsaint not new - I enlarged the article on my home village (was previously only 1 sentence long!)
- Saint Ceitho a translation of the welsh article entitled 'Ceitho'
- Llanbabo a village and important tomb in Anglesey.
[edit] Did you know (DYK?)
- ... that the poet R. S. Thomas was rector of St Michael's Church, Manafon, (pictured) in Powys, Wales between 1942 and 1954?
- ...that the first patron of St Mary's Church, Mold (pictured) was Lady Margaret Beaufort, the mother of Henry VII?
- ... that St Deiniol's Church, Hawarden, Wales, contains monuments to W. E. Gladstone, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and his family?
- ... that Saint Afan's Church, Llanafan (pictured), near Aberystwyth, Wales, was originally founded by Saint Afan in the 6th century?
- ... that Richard Summers, Edward Peake, Godfrey Darbishire and Richard Williams were all single cap Wales rugby union players after the team (pictured) was humiliated by England in its first international match?
- ... that Evan Vaughan Anwyl has proven patrilineal descent back to Owain Gwynedd , who claimed to be King of Wales?
- ... that the Welsh priest Wallis Thomas led church services long after his 90th birthday and was described as the oldest working priest in Britain?
- ... that Herbert Armitage James (pictured), who was headmaster of Rugby School for 14 years, had one of the best stamp collections in England?
- ... that a copy of Diana, Princess of Wales' wedding dress, made by David Emanuel, sold at auction in 2005 for £100,000, twice the original estimate?
- ... that Parkmill in Gower, South Wales, is now the home of La Charrette, the smallest cinema in Wales (pictured)?
- ... that David Powel compiled and published the first printed history of Wales in 1584, which popularized the legend that Prince Madoc discovered America in about 1170?
- ... that it took over 50 years to complete the foundation of Jesus College, Oxford, as one Principal lost the draft statutes and the next one kept the replacement copy in his study for several years?
- ... that the Welsh inventor Edwin Stevens devised the world's first wearable electronic hearing aid?
- ... that Welsh politician David Lloyd George (pictured) said that he would prize no honour more highly than his Honorary Fellowship of Jesus College, Oxford?
- ... that William David Davies was the first Welsh non-conformist to obtain a Bachelor of Divinity degree from the University of Oxford?
- ... that Gwilym Davies was the first person to broadcast in Welsh, on Saint David's Day in 1923?
- ... that the Banc Ty'nddôl sun-disc, a gold ornament (pictured) discovered at Cwmystwyth, is over 4,000 years old, making it the earliest gold artifact discovered in Wales?
- ... that the Sunday Closing Act of 1881, which restricted the opening of public houses in Wales, was the first legislation for over three centuries to recognise that country as distinct from England?
- ... that Thomas Johnes planted three million trees to make his Hafod Uchtryd estate (pictured) picturesque?
- ... that William Wroth founded the first independent chapel in Wales in 1639, after he refused to obey King Charles' instruction to allow sports to be played on Sundays?
- ... that in 2000, an ammonia discharge into a tributary of the River Clun (pictured) in Wales killed its entire population of European bullhead?
- ... that Sir Trevor Williams of Llangybi in Wales changed sides between Royalists and Parliamentarians four times in the English Civil War, before being imprisoned for the crime of scandalum magnatum?
- ... that Trawsgoed Estate, owned by the Vaughan family since the year 1200, was home to the second largest lead mine in Britain?
- ... that jazz pianist Geoff Eales played the French Horn with the National Youth Orchestra of Wales and piano with the BBC Big Band ?
- ... that according to local tradition, on Midsummer's Eve the capstone of the Neolithic St Lythans burial chamber (pictured) in Wales spins round three times, then all the stones bathe in a nearby river?
- ... that the parish church at Penterry stands isolated in a field near Chepstow in Wales, with a nearby plague pit thought to hold the remains of many villagers who perished in the Black Death?
- ... that by the time the Wye Valley Railway opened in 1876, a Welsh wireworks it was intended to serve had already closed down?
- ... that the National Youth Orchestra of Wales founded in 1945, has the distinction of being the first national youth orchestra in the world and is Europe’s longest-standing national youth orchestra?
- ... that the parish church of St. Mary in Chepstow, Wales, was founded as a Benedictine priory in 1072 and retains its original Norman doorway (pictured)?
- ... that Stereo Type, by the Welsh composer Guto Puw, was written for the combination of amplified typewriters and tape and was premiered in a shopping centre in Bangor, Gwynedd?
- ... that the military theories of the 18th-century Welsh soldier Henry Lloyd were studied by George Washington and George S. Patton?
- ... that William Thomas Havard, who was bishop of two Welsh dioceses (St Asaph, then St David's), once represented Wales in an international rugby union match?
- ... that the endowment by Edmund Meyrick, a Welsh cleric and philanthropist who died in 1713, is still awarding scholarships to students at Jesus College, Oxford in England after nearly three centuries?
- ... that Welsh lawyer Edward Wynne was, in 1714, the first landowner to grow turnips on Anglesey?
- ... that attempts to merge Cardiff Rugby Football Club and Cardiff Cricket Club to form Cardiff Athletic Club began as early as 1892, but were unsuccessful until 1922?
- ... that the Welsh Tractarian priest John David Jenkins, known as the "Rail men's Apostle", became President of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants?
- ... that legend has it that anyone who spends a night at Tinkinswood on the evenings before May Day, St John's Day (23 June), or Midwinter Day would either die, go mad, or become a poet?
- ... that the Welshmen Edward Edwards, Griffith Griffith, Owen Owen, Richard Richards, Robert Roberts and Thomas Thomas (and his son Thomas Thomas) were all educated at Jesus College, Oxford?
- ... that the Millennium Stadium Charitable Trust's income comes from a levy that is paid on every ticket that is purchased for public events at the Millennium Stadium in Wales?
- ... that when Teddy Morgan led Wales in their national anthem before the 1905 rugby union match, it was the first time a national anthem had been sung before a sporting event?
- ... that according to legend, water from a holy well in Penrhys, Wales can be used to cure rheumatism and poor eyesight?
- ... that it took William Edwards four attempts to build the Old Bridge at Pontypridd in Wales?
- ... that Christ Church, Rossett, Wrexham County Borough, Wales (pictured), was designed in 1886 but not built until 1891–92?
[edit] Formerly recognized content
Former featured articles
Delisted Good Articles
[edit] Departments
[edit] Collaboration and review
- Assessment - rates articles for both quality and importance to this project.
- I'd like to nominate Silyn Roberts - a notable person, with lots left to say about him. Deb 12:40, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Templates
[edit] Project banner
- {{WikiProject Wales}} should be placed on the talk pages of relevant articles to put them under the project's radar, it looks like this:
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[edit] County navboxes
Principal Areas of Wales (County) templates are nearly complete. Here is a sample for {{Ceredigion}}:
[edit] Language
- {{lang}}, for marking up non-English words or phrases. e.g {{lang|cy|Caerdydd}}.
[edit] Stubs
- {{Wales-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to Wales; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
- {{Wales-struct-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to buildings and structures in Wales; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
- {{Wales-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to the geography of Wales; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
- {{Anglesey-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to the geography of Anglesey; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
- {{Gwynedd-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to the geography of Gwynedd; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
- {{Conwy-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to the geography of Conwy; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
- {{Denbighshire-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to the geography of Denbighshire; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
- {{Flintshire-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to the geography of Flintshire; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
- {{Wrexham-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to the geography of Wrexham; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
- {{Powys-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to the geography of Powys; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
- {{Ceredigion-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to the geography of Ceredigion; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
- {{Carmarthenshire-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles related to the geography of Carmarthenshire; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
- {{Pembrokeshire-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles related to the geography of Pembrokeshire; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
- {{NeathPortTalbot-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles related to the geography of Neath Port Talbot; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
- {{Bridgend-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles related to the geography of Bridgend; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
- {{RhonddaCynonTaff-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles related to the geography of Rhondda Cynon Taff; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
- {{ValeofGlamorgan-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles related to the geography of the Vale of Glamorgan; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
- {{Merthyr-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles related to the geography of Merthyr Tydfil; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
- {{Cardiff-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles related to the geography of Cardiff; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
- {{Swansea-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles related to the geography of Swansea; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
- {{Torfaen-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles related to the geography of Torfaen; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
- {{Monmouthshire-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles related to the geography of Monmouthshire; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
- {{Caerphilly-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles related to the geography of Caerphilly; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
- {{Newport-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for articles related to the geography of Newport; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
- {{Wales-bio-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to Welsh people; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
- {{Wales-AM-stub}} - Stub notice for articles members of the National Assembly of Wales; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
- {{England-cricket-bio-stub}} - Stub notice for articles people from England and Wales involved in the sport of cricket; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
- {{England-international-cricket-bio-stub}} - Stub notice for articles related to English cricketers who have played in Test crickete, One-day Internationals, or international Twenty20 matches; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
- {{Wales-footybio-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to Welsh football (soccer) people; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
- {{Wales-footy-defender-stub}} - Stub notice for articles related to Welsh football (soccer) defenders; to be placed on the bottom of article pages.
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