Wikipedia:UK Wikipedians' notice board/Complete to do list
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General tasks
- Make sure population figures are present and up-to-date on place articles, using https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/reports/localarea
- Contribute to UK topics on the current COTW, The Seventies (currently, The Seventies in Television - UK is extremely lacking).
- Please remove Redlinks from this list once the articles have been created. Feel free to add more of your own.
Biographies
=Academics, curators, scientists, etc=
A-B:
Clive Barker (academic) [http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2005/apr/19/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries] -
C:
D-H:
J-L:
M-R:
P-R:
Margaret Reynolds (also known as Peggy Reynolds) -
Michael Rustin (aka Mike Rustin)
S:
Andrew Smithers economist -
Philip Steadman urban and built form studies -
David Brian Stephenson (climate scientist/statistician - academic)
T-W:
=Actors=
=Agents (for performers & writers)=
=Aristocracy=
William (Bill) Shand Kydd brother of Peter Shand Kydd and former amateur jockey
=Broadcasting=
==TV & radio directors, producers & executives==
A-D:
Andy Allan (television executive) -
Stuart Allen (television producer/director, 1931–2019) -
Cyril Bennett (television executive) -
Glenwyn Benson (former controller of BBC Factual) -
Frances Campbell (Radio producer for BBC Scotland){{cite news|url=https://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/frances-campbell-1-1156044|title= Frances Campbell|work=The Scotsman|date=21 February 2008|accessdate=11 March 2018}} -
Joanna Carr (BBC Head of Current Affairs) -
Lorna Clarke (executive) (BBC controller of pop music, appointed July 2019) -
Rachel Corp (editor ITV News, CEO of ITN from September 2022) -
Doreen Davies{{cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/register/doreen-davies-obituary-j9r9wszhp|title=Doreen Davies|work=The Times|date=26 August 2020|access-date=26 August 2020|url-access=subscription}} (former head of BBC Radio 1) -
Heidi Dawson (Controller Radio 5 Live from September 2019) -
E-H:
Nick Elliott (producer) (former LWT/ITV drama head) -
Owenna Griffiths (editor, Today programme, BBC Radio 4) -
Phillippa Giles (television drama producer) -
Derek Granger (Granda TV producer, former drama critic) -
Gillian Greenwood (South Bank Show, Omnibus)
John Heuston (first BBC Television foreign news editor){{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2020/08/01/john-heuston-first-foreign-news-editor-bbc-television-obituary/|title=John Heuston, the first Foreign News editor at BBC Television – obituary|work=The Daily Telegraph|date=1 August 2020|access-date=1 August 2020}} -
Polly Hill (television executive) (head of ITV Drama, former head of BBC Drama)
I-L:
Bryan Izzard (long associated with London Weekend Television) -
Anthony Joly de Lotbiniere (BBC documentary film maker) -
Michael Latham (TV producer) -
Jim Lloyd (broadcaster)/Jim Lloyd (folk music) (former presenter of Folk on 2, Radio 2) -
Pamela Lonsdale (ITV children's television producer (Rainbow))
M-R:
Bryant Marriott (Controller of BBC Radio, 1984–1990) -
Margaret Matheson (some credits as Margaret Hare) -
Graeme Muir (BBC producer, later controller) -
S-W:
Jon Scoffield (1932–2018; TV director/productor, later executive at Central){{cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/register/jon-scoffield-obituary-v7r82w75l|title=Jon Scoffield obituary|work=The Times|date=13 June 2018|accessdate=13 June 2018|url-access=subscription}} -
Anne Sloman (BBC) -
Mary Somerville (broadcaster) (1897–1963) -
Charles Stewart-Smith, Managing Director of Teneo, co-founder of Luther Pendragon, former Editor of News at Ten on ITN, also worked on Newsnight and Today programme -
Jonathan Wall (Controller of BBC Sounds, appointed in July 2019) -
Lady Jane Wellesley (TV producer) -
Esme Wren (former Newsnight editor/head of Channel 4 News since 2022)
==Presenters & announcers==
Paul Allen (BBC R3/R4 presenter) -
Janice Forsyth (broadcaster) (BBC Scotland) -
Penny Gore (BBC Radio 3/Channel 4) -
John Holmstrom (announcer) (former BBC Radio 3) -
Margaret Reynolds (academic) (aka, as broadcaster, Peggy Reynolds) -
Cormac Rigby (former BBC Radio 3 chief announcer -
==Regulators==
=Business people=
Guy Bartholomew, former Chairman Daily Mirror -
Cedric Brown (ex-chief executive of British Gas) -
Howard Collins (manager) - former Chief Operating Officer of the London Underground, awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2013 New Years Honours. [http://www.transport.nsw.gov.au/media-releases/london-underground-boss-run-sydney-trains] - Nick Hugh (CEO of Telegraph Media Group since June 2017) -
Michael Ivens (Aims of Industry) - Caroline Marland - George Russell (businessman), Chairman of Camelot Group from 1995-2002, also formerly chaired venture capital firm 3i, ITN, and Northern Development Company
=Charity workers=
Rachel Griffin (former director of the Suzy Lamplugh Trust)
=Disability rights=
=Feminists=
=Film Industry=
Romaine Hart (film distributor/exhibitor)
=Information technology (online, social media, etc)=
Joanna Geary (formerly on Guardian staff, now with Twitter UK)
=Justice system & legal professionals=
==Barristers, judges & solicitors==
Mark Lewis (solicitor) (specialises in libel cases, Mark Lewis (lawyer) is a redirect) -
Thomas Richard Atkin Morison High Court Judge, Queen’s Bench Division 1993-2007. President, Employment Appeal Tribunal,
1996-1999 -
Charlotte Proudman (human rights barrister)
==Convicted criminals==
Russell Causley, born Russell Stewart Packman, has been imprisoned for murdering his wife Carole Packman who has not reliably been seen alive or dead since 1985. Russell has also been convicted for faking his own death for insurance fraud while with his mistress Patricia Causley. Carole and Russell's daughter, Sam (Samantha Gillingham), features prominently in the Mark Williams-Thomas documentary series The Investigator: A British Crime Story.[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5900164/][https://www.netflix.com/title/80144146] The associated events and persons have been broadly reported on and included in multiple documentaries: eg. [https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Russell+Causley+-+Patricia+Causley+-++Carole+Packman+murder+-+UK&ia=web web search] -
Robert Clyde (serial sex offender, convicted 2013, died 2017) -
Asdrit Kapaj (known as the Wimbledon Prowler, convicted of multiple burglaries in 2019) -
Ian Paterson (redirect only; breast cancer surgeon convicted on 17 counts of wounding with intent in 2017 and sentenced to 15 years imprisonment){{cite news|last=Topping|first=Alexandra|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/may/31/breast-surgeon-ian-paterson-sentenced-for-carrying-out-needless-operations|title=Breast surgeon Ian Paterson jailed for 15 years for carrying out needless operations|work=The Guardian|date=31 May 2017|accessdate=5 June 2017}} -
Margaret Paterson (former Scottish brothel keeper imprisoned in 2013, known as Madam Moneybags) - Michael Wheatley (armed robber, redirect only)
==Human rights==
Jodie Ginsberg (Index on Censorship CEO) -
Naomi McAuliffe (Amnesty) -
Andrew Puddephatt (ex-head of Liberty and Charter 88) -
Meena Varma (Director of Dalit Solidarity Network UK - http://www.ethicaltrade.org/in-action/people/meena-varma ) -
John Wadham (solicitor) (ex-head of Liberty, former legal director of EHRC)
==Murder victims==
Murder of Rolan Adams (Rolan Adams was a 15 year-old murder victim fatally attacked by a white gang in Greenwich in February 1991; a racially motivated crime which gained attention at the time)
=LGBT Rights=
Jayne Margaret Ozanne (Gay evangelical LGBT campaigner)
=Medicine, health & social work=
(Lady) Elizabeth Shore (physician & civil servant;{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2022/03/11/lady-shore-senior-civil-servant-championed-cause-women-medicine/|title=Lady Shore, senior civil servant who championed the cause of women in medicine – obituary|work=The Telegraph|date=11 March 2022|access-date=11 March 2022}} existing link is a redirect) -
Kirstie Tancock (cystic fibrosis sufferer/organ donor campaigner)
=Military=
=Music=
Laurie Morgan (jazz musician) (1926–2020)
=Politicians, political aides & advisors=
Simon Fletcher (political aide) -
Penny Kemp (former chair of the Green Party of England and Wales) -
Sara Morrison (former vice-chairman of the Conservative Party) -
Sir Bernerd Zissman - 81st Lord Mayor of Birmingham, see List of Lord Mayors of Birmingham
=Sports=
Ian Harold Brown (racing driver) - Martin Glenn (chief executive of The Football Association since 2015)
=Theatre (directors, producers, choreographers, etc)=
=Trade Unionists=
=Writers & journalists=
A:
Arifa Akbar (Guardian chief theatre critic) -
Paul Allen (journalist) (theatre critic/broadcaster) -
Charles Arthur (journalist)/(writer) -
B:
Melissa Bell (English journalist) (British born, works for CNN) -
Marjorie Bilbow (1919–1990) -
Peter Black (journalist) (TV critic) -
Heidi Blake (New Yorker writer from 2022, ex-BuzzFeed, Sunday Times, Telegraph) -
Sarah Boseley (former Guardian health editor) -
Tania Branigan (foreign news leader writer, Guardian) -
Georgina Brown (Mail on Sunday theatre critic from 1990s to 2017) -
Larisa Brown (Times Defence editor/Sunday Times diplomatic & security correspondent) -
C:
Helen Chappell (former Guardian and New Society contributor) -
Kate Connolly (Berlin correspondent for The Guardian/Observer) -
Steve Connor (journalist)/(writer) (former science editor of The Independent) -
Polly Curtis (former managing director, PA Media)
D-E:
Marcelle D'Argy Smith (Cosmopolitan & other publications) -
Sean Day-Lewis (1931–2022{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2022/06/17/sean-day-lewis-journalist-author-spent-three-decades-telegraph/|title=Seán Day-Lewis, journalist and author who spent three decades with the Telegraph and wrote a biography of his father Cecil – obituary|work=The Telegraph|date=17 June 2022|access-date=17 June 2022}} redirect) -
Emma Duncan (deputy editor of The Economist, Times columnist) -
Barbara Ellen (journalist)/Barbara Ellen (writer) -
Cath Elliott (blog Orwell Prize short listed in 2011) -
F:
John Finch (dramatist)/John Finch (playwright)/John Finch (writer) -
Clare Foges (David Cameron's former speechwriter) -
Liz Fraser (writer) (specialises in family/parenting issues) -
G:
Owen Gibson (deputy editor of The Guardian) -
Martha Gill (writes for New Statesman, Times (former leader writer), Sunday Times, Evening Standard) -
Emma Graham-Harrison (Guardian foreign correspondent) -
H:
Natalie Hanman (Guardian head of environment, assistant editor) -
Max Harrison ([https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Harrison de:wikipedia]) -
Sarah Hemming (Financial Times theatre critic) -
Tim Hilton (art critic) -
I-J:
Clive Irving (founded Sunday Times 'Insight') -
William Ivory (dramatist) -
Lydia Jackson Jiburtovich (aka Elisaveta Fen) -
Alan G. Jamieson (author of books such as Lords of the Sea: A History of the Barbary Corsairs, Faith and Sword: A Short History of Christian-Muslim Conflict (Globalities)) -
Paul Johnson (Guardian journalist) (deputy editor until end of 2019)
K:
Wesley Kerr (ex-BBC) -
Melissa van der Klugt (worked for Times & BBC) -
L:
Olivia Lichtenstein (novelist, ex-BBC producer) -
Julia Llewellyn Smith (author as Julia Llewellyn) -
Jackie Long (journalist) (Newsnight, Channel 4 News) -
M:
Arwa Mahdawi (Guardian columnist; born in London, though based in NYC) -
Kate McCann (journalist) (redirect, now at TalkTV, formerly at the Telegraph and Sky) -
Carol Midgley (The Times) -
Merope Mills (editor Saturday magazine for The Guardian) -
N-O:
William Oddie (ex-Catholic Herald editor) -
Ellie Mae O'Hagan (redirect) -
P-Q:
Bruce Page (former New Statesman editor, Sunday Times Insight editor){{cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/bruce-page-obituary-8l6nf6zj0|title=Bruce Page obituary|work=The Times|date=14 March 2022|access-date=14 March 2022|url-access=subscription}} -
Hannah Jane Parkinson (Guardian) -
Martin Pawley (writer on architecture) -
Catherine Philp (diplomatic correspondent, Times) -
Alan Philps (foreign correspondent) -
Anthony Quinn (writer)/((journalist))
R-S:
Gordon Rayner (journalist) (Associate Editor of The Daily Telegraph) -
Helen Rumbelow (Times feature writer) -
Susanna Rustin (Guardian leader writer) -
Emine Saner (Guardian feature writer) -
Kirsty Scott (novelist, ex-Guardian journalist)-
Christopher Silvester/Christopher Sylvester -
Jake Wallis Simons (appointed editor of The Jewish Chronicle in December 2021) -
Judith Simons (Daily Express journalist, member of The Beatles inner circle) -
Emma Simpson (BBC Business journalist) -
Anita Singh (Telegraph journalist) -
T:
Helen Thomas (UK journalist) (Financial Times) -
Caroline Tisdall (art historian) -
Ann Tusa (historian) -
U-Z:
Judy Wade (royal reporter, Sun & Hello! magazine){{cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/register/judy-wade-obituary-7vjt99bvz|title=Judy Wade obituary|work=The Times|date=18 August 2020|access-date=18 August 2020|url-access=subscription}} -
Christopher Wain (ex-BBC & ITN) -
David Walter (British journalist) -
Lucy Ward (journalist)/Lucy Ward (writer) (former Guardian journalist, author The Empress and the English Doctor) -
W. J. Weatherby (c.1930–1992){{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-w-j-weatherby-1539529.html|title=Obituary: W. J. Weatherby|work=The Independent|date=10 August 1992|accessdate=1 August 2018}} -
Libby Wiener (ITN) -
Richard Winnington (film critic, 1903–53) -
Judith Woods (journalist)/(writer) (Telegraph columnist & feature writer)
Business and industry
=Companies=
Cine-Tele Sound (known as CTS) - former recording studios in Bayswater (from 1956), later Wembley (from 1972), London
Education
Rose Report (education) (primary school curriculum)
Geography
=Landforms / physical geography=
==Needs expansion==
=Lists of places=
See also List of places in England, List of places in Northern Ireland, List of places in Scotland and List of places in Wales for other red links. If creating a stub, please add
==Uncreated==
==Needs expansion==
List of places in Argyll and Bute -
List of places in Ceredigion -
List of places in County Antrim -
List of places in County Armagh -
List of places in County Down -
List of places in County Fermanagh -
List of places in County Londonderry -
List of places in County Tyrone -
List of places in Derbyshire -
List of places in Dumfries and Galloway -
List of places in East Ayrshire -
List of places in Gloucestershire -
List of places in Greater Manchester -
List of places in Herefordshire -
List of places in Huntingdonshire -
List of places on the Isle of Wight -
List of places in Lancashire -
List of places in Leicestershire -
List of places in Lincolnshire -
List of places in Merseyside -
List of places in Midlothian -
List of places in Monmouthshire -
List of places in Northamptonshire -
List of places in North Ayrshire -
List of places in North Lanarkshire -
List of places in Northumberland -
List of places in Oxfordshire -
List of places in Pembrokeshire -
List of places in Perth and Kinross -
List of places in the Scottish Borders -
List of places in Shropshire -
List of places in South Lanarkshire -
List of places in Staffordshire -
List of places in Stirling (council area) -
List of places in the Tayside region of Scotland -
List of places in Tyne and Wear -
List of places in Vale of Glamorgan -
List of places in Warwickshire -
List of places in West Dunbartonshire -
List of places in the Western Isles -
List of places in West Lothian -
List of places in the West Midlands -
=Waterways=
==Uncreated==
==Needs expansion==
History
=Political movements=
Media
=Organisations & Statutory bodies=
Broadcasting Standards Commission (currently a redirect to Ofcom; the article merely mentions the predecessor)
=Publications=
Films and Filming (redirect) -
=Television programmes=
A Time to Dance (1992 serial based on a Melvyn Bragg novel) - Ireland: A Television History (1981 documentary series) - Lay Down Your Arms (television play) (Dennis Potter entry in ITV Sunday Night Theatre, 1970)
Organisations & Institutions
=Charities/vol. orgs/youth orgs/other organisations=
Defence/Military/Security
L109A1 - a British Armed Forces grenade, currently a redirect.
Modernising Defence Programme - see [https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2018-01-25/debates/002ED98B-7B42-424B-8213-7EC5650664BC/ModernisingDefenceProgramme] and [https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2018-07-19/HCWS883/] and [https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/765879/ModernisingDefenceProgramme_report_2018_FINAL.pdf Publication]
National Security Capability Review (NSCR) - see [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-security-capability-review-nscr]
National Shipbuilding Strategy - see [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-shipbuilding-strategy]
Mk 11 depth charge or Mk11 depth charge, a depth charge used by the Royal Navy, see for example [https://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2012-10-23e.123577.h&s=%22royal+navy%22+%22depth+charge%22#g123577.r0 this] and [https://www.indrastra.com/2015/06/Anti-Submarine-Air-Armament-Decoded-by-Rear-Admiral-Dr-S-Kulshrestha-retd-INDIAN-NAVY.html this]
Submarine Delivery Agency a separate agency created from Defence Equipment and Support, see for example [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/submarine-delivery-agency-sda-corporate-plan-financial-year-2018-to-2019]
Politics (including Commissions, departmental responsibilities, etc)
=Parliament (Westminster)=
Deputy Prime Minister's Questions--should be a separate article, not a redirect
=Political parties or groups=
==Far-left==
=Public policy=
Restaurants, public houses, clubs
Fives Club, Drinking Society at Durham University
Sport (professional & amateur)
Theatre plays
Who’s The Daddy? (2005 farce by Toby Young and Lloyd Evans)
Transport
Badington Airport (source? doesnt appear to exist) -
Chatham Dockyard Union Flag (the short-lived British Airways tailfin flag)
[[Wikipedia:Find or fix a stub|Stubs]]
For a complete list of stubs see :Category:United Kingdom stubs and :Category:United Kingdom geography stubs.
Aberlour -
Airth -
Alyth -
Ardgour -
Bathgate -
Carluke -
Cheriton -
Clogher -
Crumlin -
Cullen -
Dromore -
Galston -
Hailsham -
Hawley -
Hayle -
Hedon -
Heswall -
Horwich -
Leven -
Maybole -
Middleton, Greater Manchester -
Radnor -
Shildon -
Swanley -
Tayport -
Tranent -
Turriff -
Whitburn -
Anne Bulford (BBC deputy Director General, appointed July 2016) -
Ken Hom -
Sue Margolis (novelist) -
Lionel Martin (founder of Aston Martin) -
Brian Souter (chairman of Stagecoach Group) -
Royal Meteorological Society -
Makro -
Chessington World of Adventures -
Tots TV -
[[:Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in the United Kingdom|Articles needing images]]
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Please remove articles from the list once pictures have been found. Feel free to add more of your own on the requested photographs page.
On [[Wikipedia:Cleanup|Cleanup]]
Please remove articles from this list once they have been cleaned up.
Chartered Institute of Management Accountants -
Derbyshire lead mining history -
Elizabeth Cecil, 16th Baroness de Ros -
Experian -
History of the Scots language -
Privatisation of British Rail -
Redhill -
On [[Wikipedia:Requests for expansion|requests for expansion]]
UK deaths in custody (mainly a statistical list as of September 2017, issue as a whole significantly underdeveloped) -
[[Wikipedia:Orphaned articles|Orphans]]
Note: there may be a very good reason why some of these are orphaned articles, and careful consideration needs to be made on their encyclopedic quality before they get linked in to other articles. Please remove from this list once they have been dealt with.
Awayday -
British Empire Economic Conference -
City and Guilds College Union -
English Catholic parish histories -
Hospital Radio Tunbridge Wells -
Ipstream -
Line of Succession to the British throne/Draft -
List of English Renaissance Theatres -
Purvey -
Categories
=Places=
References
{{reflist}}
See also
The following may also link to stubs/redlinks
- Festivals in the United Kingdom
- List of British television channels
- List of British universities
- List of newspapers in the United Kingdom
- List of radio stations in the United Kingdom
- List of schools in the United Kingdom
- List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest by Area of Search
- National Trust Properties in England
- National Trust Properties in Northern Ireland
- National Trust Properties in Wales
- United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest
- Wikipedia:List of encyclopedia topics has a long list of UK places with no articles
- List of trade unions
- List of civil parishes in England - many redlinks (see county subpages)
- List of places in the United Kingdom