Wikipedia:WikiProject London

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Add direction and distance from Charing Cross to the infobox of all locality articles {{Infobox UK place}} Fill in details for Category:London articles missing geocoordinate data Finish article assessment for Category:Unassessed London-related articles

Welcome to the London WikiProject. We are a user group dedicated to improving and expanding Wikipedia's coverage of articles related to the Greater London area. If you are wondering what you can do to help, visit Call for Editors for a list of articles that are in need of assistance.

Aims

Requested articles

Resources

Project pages

Article alerts	Automated alerts for status changes to London-related articles.
Articles/Featured	An editor-maintained list of our featured articles.
Articles/Good	An editor-maintained list of our good articles.
Assessment	Automated statistics about London-related tagged articles. Also explains our article rating system.
Call for Editors	Articles in need of attention.
Categories	Explanation of the categorisation of London-related articles.
Cleanup listing	Automated listing of articles tagged for cleanup or other problems
Naming conventions	How we decide the names of articles.
Participants	Who is involved in the project.
Popular pages list	Automated list of popular pages
Templates	Templates for use on articles relating to the project.

Article assesment

London-related articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	2	6	25	34		4	71
FL		2	2	3			7
GA	1	6	17	27		7	58
B	15	41	104	132		10	302
C		23	47	116		33	219
Start	7	88	340	1,535		142	2,112
Stub		9	115	2,720		1,025	3,869
List	1	6	23	106		7	143
NA	1		1	14	1,866		1,882
Assessed	27	181	674	4,687	1,866	1,228	8,663
Unassessed	1	35	210	3,157		2,545	5,948
Total	28	216	884	7,844	1,866	3,773	14,611

Associated projects

Parent	Neighbouring areas	Overlapping	Similar	Daughter
WikiProject Cities WikiProject UK geography WikiProject England	WikiProject Berkshire WikiProject Buckinghamshire WikiProject Hertfordshire WikiProject Kent WikiProject Surrey	WikiProject UK Railways WikiProject UK Roads WikiProject UK Waterways WikiProject UK Trams	WikiProject New York WikiProject Greater Manchester	WikiProject London Transport

Relevant policies and guidance

• Wikipedia:WikiProject UK geography/How to write about settlements

External sources

• Familia: find information about places in the UK
• City of London Churches site
• Clive's UndergrounD Line Guides
• DMOZ category for the Underground
• Dickens's Dictionary of London (1879) – public copy of Dickens's Dictionary of London by Charles Dickens, Jr
• London neighbourhood statistics (unfortunately, these are m:Crown Copyright, so we can't just copy them)
• Transport Statistics for London: 1999 (Crown Copyright, too - and apparently not online any longer at DfT or TfL).
• London Travel Report 2007 (largely Crown Copyright)
• London Health Observatory statistics for each area in London (Crown Copyright again).
• London Mortality Data: 1850 to 1900
• London Population Data: 1850 to 1900
• London population statistics by ethnic group from the GLA
• Victoria County History: Middlesex (British History online) Collected primary sources on London History
• A collection of British Historical Population Reports (1801-1937) Essex Uni
• ward profiles (demographic data etc from the 2001 census) are available from the website of every London Borough. You mayb have to search to find them but they will exist.
• London Councilsprovide London Facts including: Key facts about London and London Statistics