Wikipedia:WikiProject Devon

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!
Devon articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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Quality | Importance | ||||||
Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
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2 | 3 | 3 | 8 | |||
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4 | 4 | |||||
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1 | 3 | 11 | 20 | 35 | ||
B | 4 | 12 | 24 | 112 | 31 | 183 | |
C | 5 | 20 | 92 | 458 | 30 | 605 | |
Start | 3 | 6 | 144 | 1,784 | 43 | 1,980 | |
Stub | 1 | 7 | 1,628 | 31 | 1,667 | ||
List | 4 | 25 | 69 | 98 | |||
Category | 712 | 712 | |||||
Disambig | 16 | 16 | |||||
File | 17 | 17 | |||||
Portal | 1 | 1 | |||||
Project | 4 | 4 | |||||
Template | 51 | 51 | |||||
NA | 2 | 76 | 105 | 183 | |||
Other | 4 | 4 | |||||
Assessed | 13 | 48 | 308 | 4,154 | 910 | 135 | 5,568 |
Unassessed | 1 | 1 | 11 | 13 | |||
Total | 13 | 48 | 309 | 4,155 | 910 | 146 | 5,581 |
WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 22,941 | Ω = 5.12 |
New to Wikipedia?
[edit]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.
Assessment
[edit]- 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.
Guidelines
[edit]This project broadly follows the guidelines of its parent, the UK Geography WikiProject, on how to write about settlements.
Article alerts
[edit]Good article nominees
- 11 Jun 2025 – Ollie Watkins (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by 86.26.136.198 (t · c); start discussion
Articles to be split
- 28 Jun 2024 – Murders of Kate Bushell and Lyn Bryant (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Icaldonta (t · c); see discussion
To do
[edit]A long list of articles with clean-up tags that need fixing is available on Toolforge at clean-up listing for Devon.
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Here are some tasks awaiting attention:
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(Edit the tasklist here)
- 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.
New articles
[edit]This list was generated from these rules. Questions and feedback are always welcome! The search is being run daily with the most recent ~14 days of results. Note: Some articles may not be relevant to this project.
Rules | Match log | Results page (for watching) | Last updated: 2025-06-23 20:45 (UTC)
Note: The list display can now be customized by each user. See List display personalization for details.
- Andrew Oluwabori (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by L3g3nd2026 (talk · contribs · new pages (2)) started on 2025-06-17, score: 30
- Anna Best (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Citystreets (talk · contribs · new pages (2)) started on 2025-06-20, score: 40
- HMS Solebay (1742) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Pickersgill-Cunliffe (talk · contribs · new pages (2)) started on 2025-06-19, score: 50
- Statute Law Revision Act 1873 (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Hughbe98 (talk · contribs · new pages (14)) started on 2025-06-19, score: 30
- Sabrina Lund (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Michael Psaila (talk · contribs · new pages (0)) started on 2025-06-12, score: 40
- Piles Copse (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Aizoaceae2 (talk · contribs · new pages (2)) started on 2025-06-15, score: 70
- Stavroula Foteinopoulou (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by David Eppstein (talk · contribs · new pages (27)) started on 2025-06-14, score: 30
- Lady's Wood and Viaduct Meadow (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Aizoaceae2 (talk · contribs · new pages (2)) started on 2025-06-13, score: 100
- List of military engagements of the English Civil War (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Moondragon21 (talk · contribs · new pages (216)) started on 2025-06-13, score: 30
- Holly Seddon (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by JonAndrews11 (talk · contribs · new pages (1)) started on 2025-06-10, score: 30
- Draft:Roger Jarvis Ephraums (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) by Jephraums (talk · contribs · new pages (1)) started on 2025-06-13, score: 40
Recent changes
[edit]List of abbreviations (help):
- D
- Edit made at Wikidata
- r
- Edit flagged by ORES
- N
- New page
- m
- Minor edit
- b
- Bot edit
- (±123)
- Page byte size change
24 June 2025
- diffhist m William de Tracy 15:57 +6 Zinderboff talk contribs (Word) Tag: Visual edit
- diffhist Shaugh Prior 15:36 +3 Deor talk contribs (d/m/s for coords)
- diffhist Joshua Reynolds 14:52 +27 DonBeroni talk contribs (Copyedited lede and infobox)
- diffhist Dawlish 13:01 +232 GN10Gaming talk contribs (→Climate) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- diffhist Sharron Davies 12:46 +35 Billsmith60 talk contribs (Template and Intro. Olympic silver not mentioned!)
- diffhist Dawlish 12:45 +1,404 GN10Gaming talk contribs (→Climate) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- diffhist Heavitree 12:24 +409 GN10Gaming talk contribs (→Climate) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- diffhist Muse (band) 12:12 +3 CallMeHyphen talk contribs (→2022–2024: Will of the People: WOTP "era" could still be counted as ongoing - Muse have not announced a new album and until we hear any further news, Unravelling stands as a standalone single.)
- diffhist Torquay 11:40 +2 GN10Gaming talk contribs (→Geography) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- diffhist Torquay United F.C. 11:20 0 TQY LEE talk contribs (→Current squad) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- diffhist Torquay United F.C. 11:19 +54 TQY LEE talk contribs (→Current squad) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- diffhist Torquay 11:08 +409 GN10Gaming talk contribs (→Geography) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- diffhist Torquay 11:03 −2 GN10Gaming talk contribs (→Geography) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- diffhist Rousdon 10:22 +39 Keith D talk contribs (Add BOT tag) Tag: AWB
- diffhist Rose Ash 10:20 +39 Keith D talk contribs (Add BOT tag) Tag: AWB
- diffhist Romansleigh 10:19 +39 Keith D talk contribs (Add BOT tag) Tag: AWB
- diffhist Rockbeare 10:18 +39 Keith D talk contribs (Add BOT tag) Tag: AWB
- diffhist Roachill 10:17 +39 Keith D talk contribs (Add BOT tag) Tag: AWB
- diffhist Ringmore 10:17 +39 Keith D talk contribs (Add BOT tag) Tag: AWB
- diffhist Rewe, Devon 10:14 +39 Keith D talk contribs (Add BOT tag) Tag: AWB
- diffhist Raymond's Hill 10:12 +39 Keith D talk contribs (Add BOT tag) Tag: AWB
- diffhist Rattery 10:11 +39 Keith D talk contribs (Add BOT tag) Tag: AWB
- diffhist George Carew, 1st Earl of Totnes 10:00 +72 Dimadick talk contribs (→External links)
- diffhist Plymouth Argyle F.C. 07:42 +1 86.26.224.187 talk (→Current squad) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- diffhist James Brooke 06:44 −44 MatSallehSesat talk contribs (→Reign: - had to erase the misquote - it was Charles Brooke that said "only Dyaks can kill Dyaks." not James - Ten Years in Sarawak vol 1 pg 188)
- diffhist m Dartmoor Training Area 02:07 −3 SirOlgen talk contribs (→Training today: LINT missing end tag fix - remove unnecessary italics from citation title)
- diffhist List of places in Devon 00:44 +16 ShelfSkewed talk contribs (→L: dab link)
23 June 2025
- diffhist Shoalstone Pool 23:45 +269 Yadsalohcin talk contribs (L/c 'p' in pool except when as part of name; punctuation; add ref; split off section for history)
- diffhist Shoalstone Pool 23:35 +42 Yadsalohcin talk contribs (Check and expand refs)
- diffhist Ealdred (archbishop of York) 22:29 −90 Ealdgyth talk contribs (that's a really bad image - and which one is Ealdred? Who's the other guy? revert unclear image) Tag: Undo
- diffhist Peter Cook 22:28 −6 Joe Vitale 5 talk contribs (→Personal life, health and death: According to her article, she wasn’t a model) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
- diffhist Ealdred (archbishop of York) 21:58 +90 Anatol Svahilec talk contribs (wikidata image) Tag: Reverted
- diffhist Thomas Luny 21:38 −4 DonBeroni talk contribs
- diffhist Exmouth 21:13 −518 GhostOfNoMan talk contribs (→Notable people: Does not seem notable; one ref is LinkedIn and the other is a short CoC piece about appointment as CEO. No major coverage in reliable sources. Neither ref mentions Exmouth.) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
- diffhist Exmouth Community College 21:07 +8 GhostOfNoMan talk contribs (→Ofsted) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
- diffhist Peter Cook 20:34 −26 23.146.243.216 talk (→Filmography)
- diffhist Peter Cook 20:32 +7 23.146.243.216 talk
- diffhist Peter Cook 20:29 −138 23.146.243.216 talk (→Death)
- diffhist Plymouth Argyle F.C. 20:29 +1 Scalar.9g talk contribs (→Current squad)
- diffhist Peter Cook 20:26 −4 23.146.243.216 talk (→Personal life)
- diffhist Peter Cook 20:25 −64 23.146.243.216 talk (→Personal life)
- diffhist Plymouth Albion R.F.C. 19:57 +15 Jgjsmith006 talk contribs (→Current standings)
- diffhist m William Trevor 19:38 −4 Οἶδα talk contribs (Undid revision 1240939022 by Themashup (talk))
- diffhist William Trevor 19:37 −4 Οἶδα talk contribs (Undid revision 1240937021 by Themashup (talk)) Tag: Undo
- diffhist William Trevor 19:34 −49 Οἶδα talk contribs (Undid revision 1240940383 by Themashup (talk)) Tag: Undo
- diffhist Brightley Priory 19:17 +3 Lexington63 talk contribs (grammar) Tag: Visual edit
- diffhist South Brent 18:42 +3 Deor talk contribs (d/m/s for coords)
- diffhist m RAF Harrowbeer 17:37 0 Chris the speller talk contribs (→Location: replaced: widely-held → widely held) Tag: AWB
- diffhist Joe Cornish (photographer) 15:05 −3 Björtstraumur talk contribs Tag: Manual revert
- diffhist Joe Cornish (photographer) 15:05 +3 Björtstraumur talk contribs Tags: Manual revert Reverted
Featured content
[edit]See the Featured Content page for some of our content (articles and photos) that has gained recognition within Wikipedia.

Resources
[edit]- A list of relevant books and internet resources. (under construction)
Templates
[edit]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
Talk page template
[edit]![]() | Devon Unassessed | |||||||||
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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.
Project userbox
[edit]![]() | This user participates in WikiProject Devon. |
To add this userbox to your user page use {{User WPDevon}}.
Barnstar
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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.
Navigation
[edit]{{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.
Categories
[edit]- Category:Devon and numerous sub-categories
Interested in Devon?
[edit]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!