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Welcome to WikiProject Northamptonshire (or Northants)! This is a collection of editors helping to expand coverage and make pages better in the county. If you would like to help or join the Project you do not have to live in Northamptonshire to join, so feel free to do so!

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WikiProject Northamptonshire
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Assessment

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This is updated every 3 days by WP 1.0 bot
  • Uses an importance scale of Low to Top.

Article Alerts

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Alerts for articles related to Northamptonshire are located at Wikipedia:WikiProject Northamptonshire/Article alerts

Aims

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The primary objective of this project is to improve coverage on Northamptonshire pages to the best possible quality. This means improving pages such that pages have more than just a few lines ( stubs). Below are our detailled objectives:

  • To have a page on all settlements in Northamptonshire.
  • To ensure all pages have at least ten lines, and expand pages with little information.
  • Create guidelines (style and otherwise) for articles about Northamptonshire.
  • Add suitable images by making or finding
  • Bring the Northamptonshire page to 'Good Article' quality
  • Add suitable maps by making or finding
  • To Improve all articles relating to Northamptonshire
  • To tag all Northamptonshire articles.
  • Complete the incomplete infoboxes (add coordinates)
  • Add some references
  • Add categories
  • Our biggest aim is to get Northampton, Wellingborough, Kettering, Corby and Rushden to 'Good Article' quality

Participants, Members

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Feel free to add yourself here; please indicate your particular interest.

  1. 2006toyotacorrola (talk · contribs) born and live here, a transport enthusiast but also might contribute in other places.
  2. Naray14 (talk · contribs) Born and raised in East Northamptonshire. Have moved away but I'm still interested in the area and hope to contribute to some of our pages.
  3. Likelife (talk · contribs)-From Wellingborough, want to make Wellingborough and other information on transport better, but I will edit other pages any way.
  4. Jeni (talk · contribs) - Generally working on village articles. Jeni (talk) 13:20, 4 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Kudpung (talk · contribs) - Lived in Corby for a couple of years. Work on articles for schools, and towns.--Kudpung (talk) 12:42, 5 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  6. Jolly Ω Janner, help out here especially with setting up the assessment department. 13:03, 5 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  7. Grev02 (talk · contribs) - Come from Kettering, live in Brighton. I've been adding to Kettering's history section as it appeared no one else in Kettering had bothered!
  8. TheSmuel (talk · contribs) - Non-native, living and working Kettering.
  9. ReformatMe (talk · contribs) - Wellingburian living in both Wellingborough and Twywell. Will be working on geographical information and expanding information on some of villages.
  10. Bogbumper (talk · contribs) - grew up in the county; will try to help out where I can
  11. Fortnum (talk · contribs) - Born and brought up in North Northamptonshire: will be working on villages in North and East Northamptonshire
  12. Majabl (talk · contribs) - Northamptonian by birth and by residence. Spent most of my growing up in in Daventry district.
  13. Buchebroc (talk · contribs) - Resident in Bugbrooke for more than 30 years. Would like to enhance Bugbrooke entry as there is a lot of relevant material still absent.
  14. Thanks, DotComCairney 21:07, 19 October 2009 (UTC) - I've lived in Corby all my life, I'm currently studying at The Kingswood School, i'm an all round nerd and i'm in love with the word Huzzah.[reply]
  15. [[ACEOREVIVED (talk) 22:15, 22 March 2012 (UTC)]]. I have lived in Northamptonshire since 1993, although my roots are actually in Hertfordshire. I have lived in both Far Cotton and Kingsthorpe in Northampton, and I know Northampton itself quite well, so feel able to join this WikiProject group.[reply]
  16. Noddyt (talk · contribs) - Lifelong Northamptonshire resident. Particular interests are Early Medieval Nene Valley, the Hamfordshoe (Anduedeshoe) and Huxloe (Suþnaveslund) Hundreds, pre-Christian evidence and Christian conversion period.
  17. StanwickRes (talk · contribs) - My interests are photography and history, especially heritage.
  18. Leeds01 used to live at The Rectory, Milton Malsor, Northants and, feeling very much attached, wants to upgrade the page to the utmost.
  19. User: Vorbee - I have lived in Northamptonshire since 1993. Vorbee (talk) 17:43, 24 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  20. G-13114 (talk · contribs) - I'm not native to the county, but I've worked on a number of Northants related articles such as Daventry. G-13114 (talk) 01:26, 9 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  21. Beetricks (talk · contribs) - a Northampton native. I live there. –beetricks ~ talk · email 19:34, 19 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  22. Bearas (talk · contribs) - working in Northamptonshire since 2020 and fully moved to Northampton in 2023 - Bearas (talk) 05:34, 29 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  23. DimensionalFusion (talk · contribs) - Transport enthusiast DimensionalFusion (talk) 12:22, 10 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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To do list

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There is lots to do but the most important things are:

Talk Page

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The talk page is the place to talk about this project, and to centralise discussions that involve two or more articles.

Current Progress

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Categories

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Go to Category Northamptonshire for all Categories in Northants

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