Welcome to WikiProject Devon

This is a collaboration area and group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of the English county of Devon.

Located in the south west of the United Kingdom, Devon's county town is Exeter and its largest city is Plymouth.

Scope

• Articles about all subjects related to Devon, with special emphasis on geography (settlements, landmarks, etc.)
• People are included, but not those whose only connection with the county is that they were born or died here.

Goals

• On a day-to-day basis, keep articles on Devon free from vandalism and ensure that they are not degraded by sub-standard edits. The list of recent changes below shows the edits that have been made recently to articles under this project.
• Improve existing articles by editing them. This includes the addition of new referenced content, copyediting (improvements to style, grammar, layout, spelling, etc.), and dealing with problem tags – see the list here (warning: there are a lot!).
• Identify omissions in the coverage of Devon. Suggestions for new articles can be made on this project's Talk page, but the bold way is to write a new article yourself.
• Identify existing or newly-created articles that should be included in this project and assess them, as described below.
• The ultimate aim is to improve all Devon-related articles towards Featured Article status. This will take a long time, but we work towards it by a gradual process of improvement through these stages: Stub > Start > Class C > Class B > Good Article > Featured Article. Only 5 steps from the most basic entry!

If you're new to Wikipedia and thinking of becoming an editor – welcome! Here are a few resources that will help get you up to speed on how things work around here.

• "Editing Wikipedia" is a downloadable PDF brochure that gives you a basic introduction to how to edit Wikipedia. You will learn what Wikipedia is and how it works, how to navigate Wikipedia, how and why you should contribute to Wikipedia, important rules that keep Wikipedia reliable, how to edit with VisualEditor and using wiki markup, how to add content, and etiquette for interacting with other contributors.
• Wikipedia:Tutorial is a web-based introduction.
• Help:Getting started provides links to several other resources that are useful to new editors.
• When it all seems too complex, The Teahouse is a friendly place to help new editors become accustomed to Wikipedia culture, ask questions, and develop community relationships.
• The Talk page of this project is the place to ask any questions about editing Devon articles.
• When you've created a user account (see WP:REGISTER for why this is a good idea), feel free to sign our informal list of participants.

• In common with many other WikiProjects, we use a quality assessment of Stub to FA and an importance scale of Low to Top.
• See the table to the right and WikiProject Devon/Assessment for more information.

This project broadly follows the guidelines of its parent, the UK Geography WikiProject, on how to write about settlements.

Articles to be split

• 28 Jun 2024 – Murders of Kate Bushell and Lyn Bryant (talk ·  · hist) is proposed for splitting by Icaldonta (t · c); see discussion

Articles for creation

• 11 Mar 2025 – Draft:Jane Marchand (talk ·  · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Timloubot (t · c)

A long list of articles with clean-up tags that need fixing is available on Toolforge at clean-up listing for Devon.

Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Article requests : • Geology of Devon – this is currently a short section in the main Devon article, but it needs its own page, like Geology of Somerset or Geology of Cornwall. • Some villages and parishes still need articles. See the redlinks at Template:Devon parishes – as of 15 Jul 2019, there are 5 outstanding. • Several Dartmoor tors are notable enough for their own articles. • Several minor rivers should have articles, see the relevant redlinks in the lists here and here. See the guidance for writing these articles here. • Some District councils (see Template:Local authorities in Devon - most of these are redirects to the District). Cleanup : • List of people from Devon – see its Talk page. Expand : • Many of the village and parish articles are very short and need considerable expansion. Some examples are Brushford, Romansleigh, Dartmoor Forest and Brixton, but there are many more. • Devon (UK Parliament constituency) – the lists of MPs are incomplete. A good source is the articles in the Transactions of the Devonshire Association (1912–1918 and 1925) by J. J. Alexander. Links to online copies of the Transactions are here. • Valley of the Rocks. Other : • Ensure that any relevant new articles (see the list below) are tagged with {{WikiProject Devon}} on their talk page.

(Edit the tasklist )

• Check out wanted images, where your photographs may come in handy!

Also browse the following categories for a list of Devon articles with specific requirements. Please deactivate the relevant parameter in {{WikiProject Devon}} banner on the article's talk page upon resolution:

• Category:Devon articles needing attention‎ for articles in need of a general cleanup such as copy editing or finding sources.
  • Category:Devon articles needing expert attention for articles that require specific knowledge for its improvement in which WikiProject Devon members will be more qualified to help.
• Category:Devon articles needing infoboxes: check out Wikipedia:List of infoboxes and use Ctrl+F to find a suitable infobox or copy one from a similar article.
• Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Devon: the category contains instructions on how to help. Please remove {{Image requested}} from the talk page once an image has been added to the article.

See the Featured Content page for some of our content (articles and photos) that has gained recognition within Wikipedia.

• A list of relevant books and internet resources. (under construction)

This section contains templates used by or applicable to the project. Note that new stub templates should be proposed before creation at WP:WSS/P

Devon Unassessed

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Devon, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Devon on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.DevonWikipedia:WikiProject DevonTemplate:WikiProject DevonDevon ??? This article has not yet received a rating on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. ??? This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

All entries of Devon towns and villages should have the above template placed on their talk pages. A list of categories whose articles should be tagged is available at Category:Devon. Sometimes, you will see a UK geography WikiProject template already there; in these cases, add our template after theirs. You can add the template using the following code:

{{WikiProject Devon|importance=}}

Additional parameters can be added for articles in need of help and when activated will populate the article in its relevant category.

{{WikiProject Devon|importance=|needs-infobox=yes|attention=yes|needs-photo=yes}}

See WikiProject Devon for further examples and details of the suggestions parameter.

To add this userbox to your user page use {{User WPDevon}}.

		The WikiProject Devon Barnstar of Merit
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		this WikiAward was given to {{subst:PAGENAME}} by ~~~ on ~~~~~

To use this barnstar, simply add {{subst:Devon Barnstar|message ~~~~}} to the talk page of the user you wish to reward. Make sure you include a message which indicates why they are receiving the award.

{{Devon}} is placed at the bottom of all the articles linked in the template to help readers "navigate" between the most important articles of Devon.

• Category:Devon and numerous sub-categories

We maintain an informal list of editors interested in Devon. Please feel free to add yourself to the list and to indicate any areas of particular interest. You're not committing yourself to anything!

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