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This is acollaboration area and group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of theEnglish county ofDevon.

Located in the south west of theUnited Kingdom, Devon'scounty town isExeter and its largest city isPlymouth.

Scope

• Articles about all subjects related to Devon, with special emphasis on geography (settlements, landmarks, etc.)
• People are included, but not those whose only connection with the county is that they were born or died here.

Goals

• On a day-to-day basis, keep articles on Devon free fromvandalism and ensure that they are not degraded by sub-standard edits. Thelist of recent changes below shows the edits that have been made recently to articles under this project.
• Improve existing articles by editing them. This includes the addition of newreferenced content,copyediting (improvements to style, grammar,layout, spelling, etc.), and dealing with problem tags – see the listhere (warning: there are a lot!).
• Identify omissions in the coverage of Devon. Suggestions for new articles can be made on this project'sTalk page, but thebold way is towrite a new article yourself.
• Identify existing or newly-created articles that should be included in this project and assess them, as described below.
• The ultimate aim is to improve all Devon-related articles towardsFeatured Article status. This will take a long time, but we work towards it by a gradual process of improvement through these stages: Stub > Start > Class C > Class B > Good Article > Featured Article. Only 5 steps from the most basic entry!

Devon articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		2	3	3			8
FL				4			4
GA		3	11	20			34
B	4	12	27	116		32	191
C	4	21	92	469		36	622
Start	4	5	142	1,802		56	2,009
Stub		1	7	1,616		39	1,663
List		4	25	70			99
Category					709		709
Disambig					16		16
File					17		17
Portal					1		1
Project					4		4
Template					53		53
NA			2	78	107		187
Other					3		3
Assessed	12	48	309	4,178	910	163	5,620
Unassessed	1					14	15
Total	13	48	309	4,178	910	177	5,635
WikiWork factors (?)		ω =23,135			Ω = 5.11

This is updated every 3 days byWP 1.0 bot

If you're new to Wikipedia and thinking of becoming an editor – welcome! Here are a few resources that will help get you up to speed on how things work around here.

• "Editing Wikipedia" is a downloadable PDF brochure that gives you a basic introduction to how to edit Wikipedia. You will learn what Wikipedia is and how it works, how to navigate Wikipedia, how and why you should contribute to Wikipedia, important rules that keep Wikipedia reliable, how to edit with VisualEditor and using wiki markup, how to add content, and etiquette for interacting with other contributors.
• Wikipedia:Tutorial is a web-based introduction.
• Help:Getting started provides links to several other resources that are useful to new editors.
• When it all seems too complex,The Teahouse is a friendly place to help new editors become accustomed to Wikipedia culture, ask questions, and develop community relationships.
• TheTalk page of this project is the place to ask any questions about editing Devon articles.
• When you've created a user account (seeWP:REGISTER for why this is a good idea), feel free to sign our informallist of participants.

• In common with many other WikiProjects, we use a quality assessment of Stub to FA and an importance scale of Low to Top.
• See the table to the right andWikiProject Devon/Assessment for more information.

This project broadly follows the guidelines of its parent, theUK Geography WikiProject, onhow to write about settlements.

Articles for deletion

• 28 Nov 2025 –Newton Abbot College(talk · edit · hist) AfDed byVitorperrut555(t · c) was closed asredirect byStar Mississippi(t · c) on 12 Dec 2025; seediscussion(9 participants;relisted)

Categories for discussion

• 10 Oct 2025 –Category:Disused railway stations in Plymouth, Devon(talk · edit · hist) was CfDed byLaundryPizza03(t · c); seediscussion
• 10 Oct 2025 –Category:Disused railway stations in Devon(talk · edit · hist) was CfDed byLaundryPizza03(t · c); seediscussion

Articles to be merged

• 01 Dec 2025 –Beer Heights Light Railway(talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging toPecorama byKlbrain(t · c); seediscussion

Articles for creation

• 09 Nov 2025 –Draft:Jeff Clements (designer)(talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC byBuC222(t · c) was declined byHtanaungg(t · c) on 13 Dec 2025
• 29 Oct 2025 –Draft:Canonsleigh(talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by86.165.23.127(t · c) was accepted toCanonsleigh(talk · edit · hist) byFermiboson(t · c) on 10 Dec 2025

A long list of articles with clean-up tags that need fixing is available onToolforge atclean-up listing for Devon.

Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Article requests : •Geology of Devon – this is currently a short section in the main Devon article, but it needs its own page, likeGeology of Somerset orGeology of Cornwall. • Some villages and parishes still need articles. See theredlinks atTemplate:Devon parishes – as of 15 Jul 2019, there are 5 outstanding. • SeveralDartmoor tors are notable enough for their own articles. • Several minor rivers should have articles, see the relevant redlinks in the listshere andhere. See the guidance for writing these articleshere. • Some District councils (seeTemplate:Local authorities in Devon - most of these are redirects to the District). Cleanup : •List of people from Devon – see its Talk page. Expand : • Many of the village and parish articles are very short and need considerable expansion. Some examples areBrushford,Romansleigh,Dartmoor Forest andBrixton, but there are many more. •Devon (UK Parliament constituency) – the lists of MPs are incomplete. A good source is the articles in theTransactions of the Devonshire Association (1912–1918 and 1925) by J. J. Alexander. Links to online copies of theTransactions arehere. •Valley of the Rocks. Other : • Ensure that any relevant new articles (see the list below) are tagged with{{WikiProject Devon}} on their talk page.

(Edit the tasklisthere)

• Check outwanted images, where your photographs may come in handy!

Also browse the following categories for a list of Devon articles with specific requirements. Please deactivate the relevant parameter in{{WikiProject Devon}} banner on the article's talk page upon resolution:

• Category:Devon articles needing attention‎ for articles in need of a general cleanup such as copy editing or finding sources.
  • Category:Devon articles needing expert attention for articles that require specific knowledge for its improvement in which WikiProject Devon members will be more qualified to help.
• Category:Devon articles needing infoboxes: check outWikipedia:List of infoboxes and use Ctrl+F to find a suitable infobox or copy one from a similar article.
• Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Devon: the category contains instructions on how to help. Please remove{{Image requested}} from the talk page once an image has been added to the article.

See theFeatured Content page for some of our content (articles and photos) that has gained recognition within Wikipedia.

• A list of relevant books and internet resources. (under construction)

This section contains templates used by or applicable to the project. Note that new stub templates should be proposed before creation atWP:WSS/P

	Devon
This article is within the scope ofWikiProject Devon, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage ofDevon on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can jointhe discussion and see a list of open tasks.DevonWikipedia:WikiProject DevonTemplate:WikiProject DevonDevon ??? This article has not yet received a rating on theproject's importance scale.

All entries of Devon towns and villages should have the above template placed on their talk pages. A list of categories whose articles should be tagged is available atCategory:Devon. Sometimes, you will see aUK geography WikiProject template already there; in these cases, add our templateafter theirs. You can add the template using the following code:

{{WikiProject Devon|importance=}}

Additional parameters can be added for articles in need of help and when activated will populate the article in its relevant category.

{{WikiProject Devon|importance=|needs-infobox=yes|attention=yes|needs-photo=yes}}

SeeWikiProject Devon for further examples and details of thesuggestions parameter.

This userparticipates in WikiProject Devon.

To add this userbox to your user page use{{User WPDevon}}.

To add a small topicon to the top of your user page — like ingood articles or protected articles — use{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Devon/Topicon}}

		TheWikiProject Devon Barnstar of Merit
		{{{1}}}
		this WikiAward was given to {{subst:PAGENAME}} by ~~~ on ~~~~~

To use thisbarnstar, simply add {{subst:Devon Barnstar|message ~~~~}} to thetalk page of the user you wish to reward. Make sure you include a message which indicates why they are receiving the award.

{{Devon}} is placed at the bottom of all the articles linked in the template to help readers "navigate" between the most important articles of Devon.

• Category:Devon and numerous sub-categories

We maintainan informal list of editors interested in Devon. Please feel free to add yourself to the list and to indicate any areas of particular interest. You're not committing yourself to anything!

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