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To-do: E · H · W · RUpdated 2012-11-18

Add direction and distance from Charing Cross to the infobox of all locality articles {{Infobox UK place}}
Fill in details for Category:London articles missing geocoordinate data
Finish article assessment for Category:Unassessed London-related articles
Apply style and layout guidelines to articles in category London-related articles requiring clean-up
Correct factual accuracy of articles in category London articles needing expert attention
Find images for Category:Misplaced Pages requested photographs in London
Orphaned articles in London

Welcome to the London WikiProject. We are a user group dedicated to improving and expanding Misplaced Pages's coverage of articles related to the Greater London area. If you are wondering what you can do to help, visit Call for Editors for a list of articles that are in need of assistance.

Aims

Our aims in the short term, are to achieve the following:

Obtain FA status for the Vital-classified article, London
Obtain GA status for City of London, City of Westminster and Greater London
Restore former featured articles to GA/FA: London Underground, Moorgate, Palace of Westminster
Maintain Portal:London
Obtain GA status for 22 districts (11 largest, 11 most viewed): Misplaced Pages:WikiProject London/London districts task force
Obtain FL status for List of people from London daughter articles

Our aims in the mid-term, are to achieve the following:

Obtain GA status for all other London borough articles
Identify articles in all London-related categories for priority
Obtain FA status for City of London, City of Westminster, Greater London and 22 districts
Expand districts task force to a further tier of districts

Our long term aims for the project are:

Obtain FA status for all London borough articles
Expand districts task force to all districts

Requested articles

Further information: Misplaced Pages:WikiProject London/Call for Editors § Requested articles

Resources

Project pages

Article alerts	Automated alerts for status changes to London-related articles.
Articles/Featured	An editor-maintained list of our featured articles.
Articles/Good	An editor-maintained list of our good articles.
Assessment	Automated statistics about London-related tagged articles. Also explains our article rating system.
Call for Editors	Articles in need of attention.
Categories	Explanation of the categorisation of London-related articles.
Cleanup listing	Automated listing of articles tagged for cleanup or other problems
Naming conventions	How we decide the names of articles.
Participants	Who is involved in the project.
Popular pages list	Automated list of popular pages
Templates	Templates for use on articles relating to the project.

Article assesment

Further information: Misplaced Pages:WikiProject London/Assessment

London-related articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	5	15	52	139			211
FL		2	4	28			34
FM					53		53
A		1	1				2
GA	5	34	104	474			617
B	20	80	215	954		31	1,300
C	15	96	425	3,329		85	3,950
Start	4	67	591	12,874		211	13,747
Stub			75	8,572	39	124	8,810
List	3	21	94	558		16	692
Category					4,947		4,947
Disambig					57		57
File					478		478
Portal					25		25
Project					63		63
Redirect			22	419	712		1,153
Template					404		404
NA					6		6
Other					66		66
Assessed	52	316	1,583	27,347	6,850	467	36,615
Unassessed		1		102		473	576
Total	52	317	1,583	27,449	6,850	940	37,191
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 142,297			Ω = 4.98

Associated projects

Parent	Neighbouring areas	Overlapping	Similar	Daughter
WikiProject Cities WikiProject UK geography WikiProject England	WikiProject Berkshire WikiProject Buckinghamshire WikiProject Hertfordshire WikiProject Kent WikiProject Surrey	WikiProject UK Railways WikiProject UK Roads WikiProject UK Waterways WikiProject UK Trams	WikiProject New York WikiProject Greater Manchester	WikiProject London Transport

Relevant policies and guidance

Misplaced Pages:WikiProject UK geography/How to write about settlements

External sources

WikiProject Resource Exchange
Shared Resources Resource Request Free image resources Free online resources Free sound resources Public domain resources Public domain image resources Non-PD resources Bibliographies Maps
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Familia: find information about places in the UK
City of London Churches site
Clive's UndergrounD Line Guides
DMOZ category for the Underground
Dickens's Dictionary of London (1879) – public copy of Dickens's Dictionary of London by Charles Dickens, Jr
London neighbourhood statistics (unfortunately, these are m:Crown Copyright, so we can't just copy them)
Transport Statistics for London: 1999 (Crown Copyright, too - and apparently not online any longer at DfT or TfL).
London Travel Report 2007 (largely Crown Copyright)
London Health Observatory statistics for each area in London (Crown Copyright again).
London Mortality Data: 1850 to 1900
London Population Data: 1850 to 1900
London population statistics by ethnic group from the GLA
Victoria County History: Middlesex (British History online) Collected primary sources on London History
A collection of British Historical Population Reports (1801-1937) Essex Uni
ward profiles (demographic data etc from the 2001 census) are available from the website of every London Borough. You mayb have to search to find them but they will exist.
London Councilsprovide London Facts including: Key facts about London and London Statistics

Tools

Main tool page: toolserver.org

Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.

External watchlist

Wikiproject Watchlist - WikiProject London

Misplaced Pages key policies and guidelines (?)

Five pillars
- Ignore all rules

Content (?)

P	Verifiability No original research Neutral point of view What Misplaced Pages is not Biographies of living persons Copyright (Copyright violations) Image use Article titles
G	Notability Autobiography Citing sources Reliable sources Medicine Do not include copies of lengthy primary sources Plagiarism Don't create hoaxes Fringe theories Patent nonsense External links

Conduct (?)

P	Civility Consensus Harassment Vandalism Ignore all rules No personal attacks Ownership of content Edit warring Dispute resolution Sockpuppetry No legal threats Child protection Paid-contribution disclosure
G	Assume good faith Conflict of interest Disruptive editing Do not disrupt Misplaced Pages to illustrate a point Etiquette Gaming the system Please do not bite the newcomers Courtesy vanishing Responding to threats of harm Talk page guidelines Signatures

Deletion (?)

P	Deletion policy Proposed deletion Biographies Criteria for speedy deletion Attack page Oversight Revision deletion

Enforcement (?)

P	Administrators Banning Blocking Page protection

Editing (?)

Editing policy

Article size Summary style Be bold Disambiguation Hatnotes Broad-concept article Understandability
Style	Manual of Style Contents Accessibility Dates and numbers Images Layout Lead section Linking Lists
Classification	Categories, lists, and navigation templates Categorization Template namespace

Project content (?)

G	Project namespace WikiProjects User pages User boxes Shortcuts Subpages

WMF (?)

P	Universal Code of Conduct Terms of Use List of policies Friendly space policy Licensing and copyright Privacy policy

List of all policies and guidelines
- P: List of policies
- G: List of guidelines
Summaries of values and principles

v t e WikiProject Council
WikiProject guides	WikiProject Council Talk Guidelines/Intro WikiProjects Task forces Technical notes Assessment FAQ Work via WikiProjects
Directories and summaries	Directory Proposals Deletion Signpost Shortcuts Popular pages Database reports Watchers
Culture and the arts	Arts Music Performing Plastic Visual Broadcasting Crafts and hobbies Entertainment Games and toys Food and drink Internet culture Language and literature Biography Linguistics Media Philosophy and religion Sports
Geographical	Bodies of water Cities Countries Africa Americas Asia Europe Oceania Landforms Maps Parks, conservation areas and historical sites
History and society	History and society Business and economics Education Military and warfare Politics and government Transportation
Science, technology and engineering	Science Biology Chemistry Economics Geosciences Information science Mathematics Medicine Meteorology Physics Space Technology Time
Misplaced Pages assistance and tasks	Contents systems Maintenance Files Article improvement and grading Classroom projects WikiProjects

v t e London
WikiProject London (Discussion)	Alerts Recognised content Assessment Categories Cleanup listing Call for Editors Naming conventions Participants Popular pages list Templates Public art task force
London Portal (Discussion)	Featured article list Featured biography list Featured picture list Did You Know? Suggest a Did You Know?

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

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