Wikipedia:WikiProject Kent

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WP:KENT

A WikiProject dedicated to the ceremonial English county of Kent in the United Kingdom. The project's scope extends to those places that are not in the ceremonial county but are in the historic county.

This page and its subpages contain suggestions on formatting and layout of articles, which can be discussed at the project's talk page. Anyone who is interested in contributing, please sign up.

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Did you know

10 Oct 2024 – St Mary's Church, Chislehurst (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Cardofk (t · c); see discussion

Proposed deletions

31 Oct 2024 – Sevenoaks Preparatory School (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by KylieTastic (t · c): Just another run-of-the-mill school with no sources to show any notability. All of the main sources failed verification and I failed to find anything to indicate the school was notable with a WP:BEFORE check.

Redirects for discussion

21 Oct 2024 – Crapulinsky (talk · edit · hist) →Napoleon III was RfDed by Nickps (t · c); see discussion

Good article nominees

02 Sep 2024 – Redhill–Tonbridge line (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Mertbiol (t · c); start discussion

Requested moves

23 Oct 2024 – Dave Crocker (talk · edit · hist) move request to Dave Crocker (lawn bowler) by BarrelProof (t · c) was moved to Dave Crocker (lawn bowler) (talk · edit · hist) by Yovt (t · c) on 31 Oct 2024; see discussion

Articles to be split

09 May 2024 – Michael Crawford (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by 2601:1C1:8200:260:1D7B:1660:F08F:1EAE (t · c); see discussion

Articles for creation

31 Oct 2024 – Draft:Marlborough Road Annexe (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Sunolafjagtenben-hur (t · c)

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Announcements

12 September 2015 -Walmer Castle is promoted to Good Article class
10 September 2015 - Upnor Castle is promoted to Good Article class
4 September 2015 - Hastings Line is promoted to Featured Article class
18 July 2015 - Faversham is promoted to Good Article class

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Things you can do

Join the Kent WikiProject - Help work on the tasks list

Here are some Kent related tasks you can do:

Clean up an article: Here are automatically generated lists of articles needing cleanup sorted alphabetically and by category.
Edit the Top and High importance articles.
Refine/polish: Ashford, Royal Tunbridge Wells, Canterbury
Expand:: List of churches in Kent, Maidstone Borough Council
NPOV: K College
Citation needed: Unreferenced Kent articles
Cleanup/Copyedit: Kingdom of Kent
Expert attention: Channel Tunnel, Bromley Civic Society
Stubs: see Kent geography stubs articles

Note: These articles may overlap with those on other related lists. If you would like to make a change, either do so yourself, or make a suggestion.

 clean-up listing for Kent

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Guidelines

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Article ratings

The project categorizes articles according to the WP 1.0 criteria:

Featured Articles: need little or no work
'A' class: need a very small amount of work, followed by FA nomination
Good Articles: a little more work required
'B' class: mostly complete and without major problems, but requires some further work to reach GA
'C' class: a lot of work done, but is missing content, may contain irrelevant material
Start class: short, lacks details, key facts, illustration, etc.
Stub class: very short, lacking important details

Please place the {{WikiProject Kent}} template on the Talk page of all Kent related articles using the syntax

{{WikiProject Kent|class=|importance=}}

class can be (FA, A, GA, Articles have to be nominated and assessed to achieve GA status or higher) B, Start, Stub, (NA for Non-articles such as Templates or Disambiguation pages) or left unused for Unassessed
importance can be Top, High, Mid, Low, No or left unused for Unknown

This template will place articles within the Category:WikiProject Kent articles and also within the relevant categorys relating to quality and importance.

Note Please use the WP 1.0 criteria as shown on the instructions page and the importance grade relates to Kent and how useful the page is to an outsider researching the county, for example the Kent article could be rated "Top" for our grading, "Mid" for Englands grading and "No" for Scotlands.

Requests for reassessment

As per the discussion on the talk page, Stubs for reassessment (strike once reassessed):-

Substantial work has been done on St John's Jerusalem ~~which hopefully should lift it above the current start class rating~~. Any feedback would be welcome, notwithstanding the substantial amendments to the content, layout and citations of the article. Stellas4lunch (talk) 20:30, 12 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Significant effort has been spent on Slade Green in Historic Kent. Please rate appropriately, but to be honest I suspect this page contains more research effort than some published books.
Coldred has been expanded past a stub.

Statistics

Kent articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	1	1	8	49			59
FL			3	11			14
GA		4	9	49			62
B	4	10	30	143		13	200
C	1	23	65	289		54	432
Start		26	124	1,240		154	1,544
Stub		1	32	1,106		84	1,223
List		1	37	41		11	90
Disambig					5		5
Template					72		72
NA		2	5	53	935		995
Assessed	6	68	313	2,981	1,012	316	4,696
Unassessed				1		66	67
Total	6	68	313	2,982	1,012	382	4,763

Archived statistics

Cities & Towns in Kent

The following table is a list of Towns in Kent giving details on how you may help. Please amend as necessary.

**How you can assist with Category:Towns in Kent**
Town	Infobox	Pictures	Status (Unofficial)	Please help to...
Ashford	Done	Done	GA	Tidy prose and check layout is the best possible
Broadstairs	Done	Done	B	Landmark section to be turned into prose. Add sources.
Canterbury	Done	-	GA	Prose fixes and minor expansion
Chatham	Done	Done	C	Cite sources
Cranbrook	Done	Done	C	General expansion of all sections, especially history/economy
Dartford	Done	Done	C	Needs additional citations for verification. Education and notable people sections turn to prose
Deal	Done	Done	C	Major points need appropriate inline citations then would upgrade to B
Dover	Done	Done	B	Citations needed then could be re-assessed for GA
Edenbridge	Done	Done	C	All areas
Faversham	Done	Done	GA
Folkestone	Done	Done	B	Tidy up and inline citations
Fordwich	Done	Requested	Start	All areas.
Gillingham	Done	Done	C	Copy editing, cite sources
Gravesend	Done	Done	B	Cite sources
Herne Bay	Done	Done	FA
Hythe	Done	Done	C	Major points need appropriate inline citations
Lydd	Done	Done	C	Cite sources and copy editing.
Maidstone	Done	Done	C	Cite sources, general copy editing.
Margate	Done	Done	C	Tidy up, additional citations for verification.
Minster, Swale	Done	Done	Start	All sections
New Romney	Done	Done	C	Citations, copy editing
Northfleet	Done	Requested	Start	Reorganisation of sections
Paddock Wood	Done	Done	Start	Expansion of existing copy
Queenborough	Done	Requested	Start	Adding Modern town sections
Rainham	Done	Requested	Start	General work
Ramsgate	Done	-	B
Rochester	Done	Done	C	General tidy. New page done: History of Rochester, Kent
Royal Tunbridge Wells	Done	Done	GA	Improve
Sandwich	Done	Requested	C	Cite source, add sections
Sevenoaks	Done	Done	C	Rewrite needed, inline citations needed
Sheerness	Done	Requested	FA
Sittingbourne	Done	Done	C	Modern town and brick making need expanding
Snodland	Done	Done	C	General expansion of all sections, especially history/economy
Southborough, Kent	Done	Requested	C	Restructure- expand all sections-
Strood	Done	-	B	Turn list of floods into prose.
Swanley	Done	Done	C	Inline citations needed. Expand short sections
Tenterden	Done	Done	C	Inline citations, copy editing
Tonbridge	Done	Done	C	Dead links need fixing, citations on unsourced statements
West Malling	Done	Requested	Start	General restructure and expansion
Westerham	Done	Done	Start	General restructure and expansion
Westgate-on-Sea	Done	Done	FA
Whitstable	Done	Done	B	Demoted from FA in 2009