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Welcome to WikiProject Wiltshire. The aim of this project is to bring together editors working on Wiltshire-related articles with an aim of improving and expanding all aspects of the coverage of the English county of Wiltshire. Anybody with an interest in or knowledge of Wiltshire is free to join and help contribute to anything related to the project. If you would like to help, please join the participants list, post on the project's talk page or see the to do list below. This project was started on 18 September 2010.

Members

If you would like to join, please feel free and add your user name to the list. You may also wish to give a short description of your areas of interest in Wiltshire.

  1. {{User|Jaguar}} I can copyedit any articles if need be and I will do anything to improve this project. 18:18, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
  2. {{User|Redrose64}} - mainly railway-related articles 19:02, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
  3. {{User|Moonraker}} 03:25, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
  4. {{User|Bailo26}} 17:04, 19 April 2011 (UTC)
  5. {{User|BabbaQ}} 21:18, 19 April 2011 (UTC) If requested I can help with edits on Wiltshire related articles.
  6. {{user|Wire723}} Slowly adding articles to :Category:Civil parishes in Wiltshire and updating as I go, since August 2014; by August 2015 the category was complete, with 276 articles (260 Wiltshire parishes and 16 in Swindon). Also adding articles or sections for every Grade I listed church.
  7. {{user|Zachary Hawson}} 4 June 2015, adding slowly to various articles and improving election related items in particular.
  8. {{user|TangoTizerWolfstone}} 07:12, 11 March 2018 - done several pages for white horses and also contributed to other hill figure and landmark pages. Will continue to do so.
  9. {{user|Staruge}} 22:24, 25 June 2018 (UTC) Just adding what I can when I can
  10. {{user|Shaun Sheep}} 14:52, 07 December 2020 (UTC) Mainly editing articles relating to Swindon. Im a hertiage proffessional and archaeologist by training (and a member of the Wikipedia Archaeology Project) so can help with articles about the historic environment of Wiltshire more widely.
  11. {{user|Sebbys}} 17:23, 6 January 2024 (UTC) Just editing what I can
  12. {{user|Sgtnugg}} 17.51 26 June 2024 (UTC) Have good local knowledge, willing to edit any pages about my home county.

Retired members

  1. {{User|Hroðulf}} (or Hrothulf) With a couple of brief Wilts articles under my belt, I will be glad to pop in now and again 13:05, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
  2. {{user|LPG32}} 18:51, 24 September 2013 (UTC) I will sometimes pop in to edit locations around my local area.

Assessment

=Current status=

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This log shows new and changed assessments, and is updated by a bot every few days.

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Importance Criteria

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=Related projects=

==Parent projects==

==Local projects==

Templates

  • {{tl|WikiProject Wiltshire}} – for article talk pages.
  • {{tl|Wiltshire}} – navigational box for the end of key articles.
  • Other navigational boxes:
  • {{tl|SSSIs Wilts biological}}
  • {{tl|SSSIs Wilts geological}}
  • {{tl|Wiltshire-geo-stub}} – to sort stub articles.
  • {{tlu|Wikipedia:WikiProject Wiltshire/userbox}} - copy and paste link for userbox.
  • {{tl|WP Wiltshire invite}} - to invite new members who are interested in joining the project.

=Navboxes=

Add these navboxes to the end of an article for a box with a listing of various things (i.e. settlements, rivers, landmarks).

  • {{tl|South West Wiltshire}}
  • Other former districts are yet to come, please see this archived discussion for more information.

=Barnstar=

{{Wiltshire Barnstar}}

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

New articles

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Resources

=Online books and journals=

  • John Aubrey, [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4934 The Natural History of Wiltshire] (c. 1695, full text at gutenberg.org)
  • John Britton, [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=zCADAAAAYAAJ The Beauties of Wiltshire: Volume 2] (1801, full view)
  • Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement, [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=DhUAAAAAQAAJ General view of the agriculture of Wiltshire] (1811, full view)
  • Board of Agriculture, [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=dcdMAAAAYAAJ General View of the Agriculture of Wiltshire] (1813, full view)
  • James Waylen, [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=nF0vAAAAMAAJ Chronicles of the Devizes] (1839, full view)
  • John Yonge Akerman, [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Qx59xzCqA8EC A glossary of Wiltshire words] (1842, full view)
  • John Yonge Akerman, [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=nKNbAAAAQAAJ Wiltshire Tales] (1853, full view)
  • James Waylen, [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=mU2_n2vqkPkC A history, military and municipal, of the town (otherwise called the city) of Marlborough and more generally of the entire hundred of Selkley] (1854, full view)
  • [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=0uUNAAAAQAAJ Post Office Directory of Hampshire, Wiltshire, and Dorsetshire] (1855, full view)
  • James Waylen, [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ubYHAAAAQAAJ The highwaymen of Wiltshire] (1856) (snippet view)
  • [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=OgsHAAAAQAAJ A handbook for travellers in Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, and Somersetshire] (John Murray, 1856) (full view)
  • [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=FDBLAAAAMAAJ A handbook for travellers in Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, and Somersetshire] (John Murray, 1859) (full view)
  • James Waylen, E. H. Goddard, [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=yS-gAAAAMAAJ A history, military and municipal of the ancient borough of the Devizes] (1859, full view)
  • Edward Kite, [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=8D4uAAAAYAAJ Monumental Brasses of Wiltshire] (1860, full view)
  • William Henry Jones, [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=b_8HAAAAQAAJ Domesday for Wiltshire] (1865, full view)
  • H. Rider Haggard, Rural England (Longman's, 1906), [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=clxbQ5rcAhUC&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false Wiltshire]
  • John C. Longstaff, [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=YGsPLT4ZnDAC Notes on Wiltshire Names] (1911, reprinted 2009)
  • Frank R. Heath, [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=zQHkhRLinSMC Wiltshire] (1911, snippet view)
  • Geoffrey Boumphrey, [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=GMI8AAAAIAAJ Wiltshire] (1963)
  • G. D. Ramsay, [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=F6GHiG-g_TYC The Wiltshire woollen industry in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries] (1965, preview)
  • Maurice Henry Hewlett, [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=5QG0NI2oeh0C Wiltshire essays] (1969, preview)
  • John Sadler, [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=iIB8St_0TiEC Wiltshire Parish Registers] (2009, preview)
  • John Yonge Akerman, [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=UyasAAWV940C Wiltshire] (2009, preview)
  • The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, published regularly since 1854: the best-organised collection of scans is at the [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/12272 Biodiversity Heritage Library]

=Libraries and archives=

  • http://www.swindon.gov.uk/swindoncollection The Swindon Collection and other resources at Swindon Central Library

=Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre=

These sites, co-ordinated at the Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre in Chippenham, should be useful for researching history and archaeology.

  • http://www.wshc.eu
  • http://wiltshirestudies.wiltshire.gov.uk/ Wiltshire Studies Collection online catalogue.
  • http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/projArch/EUS/wiltshire_eus_2009/index.cfm Wiltshire Extensive Urban Survey, 2009 (maps and report for download)
  • http://history.wiltshire.gov.uk/smr/ Wiltshire and Swindon Sites and Monument Record
  • http://history.wiltshire.gov.uk/heritage/ Wiltshire Wills online catalogue
  • http://history.wiltshire.gov.uk/museums/ Wiltshire Treasures online catalogue of artifacts in museums and collections
  • http://www.wshc.eu/about-wshc/archaeology.html Archaeology Service
  • http://www.wiltshirebuildingsrecord.org.uk/ Wiltshire Buildings Record

=Tools=

:Main tool page: toolserver.org

Categories

Main category: Wiltshire

Guidelines

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