Wikipedia:WikiProject Devon

Welcome to WikiProject Devon

This is a collaboration area and group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of the English county of Devon.

Located in the south west of the United Kingdom, Devon's county town is Exeter and its largest city is Plymouth.

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.

Shortcut

WP:DevonWP:Devon

Goals

On a day-to-day basis, keep articles on Devon free from vandalism and ensure that they are not degraded by sub-standard edits. The list 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 new referenced content, copyediting (improvements to style, grammar, layout, spelling, etc.), and dealing with problem tags – see the list here (warning: there are a lot!).
Identify omissions in the coverage of Devon. Suggestions for new articles can be made on this project's Talk page, but the bold way is to write 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 towards Featured 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
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		2	3	3			8
FL				4			4
GA	1	3	11	20			35
B	4	12	24	112		31	183
C	5	20	92	459		30	606
Start	3	6	144	1,784		44	1,981
Stub		1	7	1,628		31	1,667
List		4	25	69			98
Category					712		712
Disambig					16		16
File					17		17
Portal					1		1
Project					4		4
Template					51		51
NA			2	76	105		183
Other					4		4
Assessed	13	48	308	4,155	910	136	5,570
Unassessed			1	1		11	13
Total	13	48	309	4,156	910	147	5,583
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 22,941			Ω = 5.12

This is updated every 3 days by WP 1.0 bot

New to Wikipedia?

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.

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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.
The Talk page of this project is the place to ask any questions about editing Devon articles.
When you've created a user account (see WP:REGISTER for why this is a good idea), feel free to sign our informal list of participants.

Assessment

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 and WikiProject Devon/Assessment for more information.

Guidelines

This project broadly follows the guidelines of its parent, the UK Geography WikiProject, on how to write about settlements.

Article alerts

Redirects for discussion

30 Jun 2025 – Somewhere on the Waterloo to Weymouth route (talk · edit · hist) →South West Main Line was RfDed by Rusalkii (t · c); see discussion

Good article nominees

11 Jun 2025 – Ollie Watkins (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by 86.26.136.198 (t · c); start discussion

Articles to be split

28 Jun 2024 – Murders of Kate Bushell and Lyn Bryant (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Icaldonta (t · c); see discussion

To do

A long list of articles with clean-up tags that need fixing is available on Toolforge at clean-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, like Geology of Somerset or Geology of Cornwall.
• Some villages and parishes still need articles. See the redlinks at Template:Devon parishes – as of 15 Jul 2019, there are 5 outstanding.
• Several Dartmoor tors are notable enough for their own articles.
• Several minor rivers should have articles, see the relevant redlinks in the lists here and here. See the guidance for writing these articles here.
• Some District councils (see Template: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 are Brushford, Romansleigh, Dartmoor Forest and Brixton, but there are many more.
• Devon (UK Parliament constituency) – the lists of MPs are incomplete. A good source is the articles in the Transactions of the Devonshire Association (1912–1918 and 1925) by J. J. Alexander. Links to online copies of the Transactions are here.
• 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 tasklist here)

Check out wanted 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 out Wikipedia: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.

New articles

This list was generated from these rules. Questions and feedback are always welcome! The search is being run daily with the most recent ~14 days of results. Note: Some articles may not be relevant to this project.

Rules | Match log | Results page (for watching) | Last updated: 2025-06-30 20:57 (UTC)

Note: The list display can now be customized by each user. See List display personalization for details.

Bursdon Moor (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Aizoaceae2 (talk · contribs · new pages (1)) started on 2025-06-29, score: 40

Draft:Dillon O'Brien (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) by 420BenDover (talk · contribs · new pages (1)) started on 2025-06-24, score: 25

Andrew Oluwabori (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by L3g3nd2026 (talk · contribs · new pages (3)) started on 2025-06-17, score: 30

Anna Best (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Citystreets (talk · contribs · new pages (2)) started on 2025-06-20, score: 40

HMS Solebay (1742) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Pickersgill-Cunliffe (talk · contribs · new pages (3)) started on 2025-06-19, score: 50

Statute Law Revision Act 1873 (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Hughbe98 (talk · contribs · new pages (14)) started on 2025-06-19, score: 30

Sabrina Lund (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Michael Psaila (talk · contribs · new pages (0)) started on 2025-06-12, score: 40

Recent changes

List of abbreviations (help):

D: Edit made at Wikidata
r: Edit flagged by ORES
N: New page
m: Minor edit
b: Bot edit
(±123): Page byte size change

Featured content

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

Resources

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

Templates

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

Talk page template

Devon Unassessed

	Devon portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Devon, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Devon on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.DevonWikipedia:WikiProject DevonTemplate:WikiProject DevonDevon
???	This article has not yet received a rating on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the project'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 at Category:Devon. Sometimes, you will see a UK geography WikiProject template already there; in these cases, add our template after 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}}

See WikiProject Devon for further examples and details of the suggestions parameter.

Project userbox

This user participates in
WikiProject Devon.

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

Barnstar

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

To use this barnstar, simply add {{subst:Devon Barnstar|message ~~~~}} to the talk 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.

Interested in Devon?

We maintain an 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!

Associated projects

Parent	Neighbouring areas	Overlapping
WikiProject Cities WikiProject UK geography WikiProject England	WikiProject Cornwall WikiProject Dorset WikiProject Somerset	WikiProject UK Railways WikiProject UK Roads WikiProject UK Waterways WikiProject UK Trams

v t e Ceremonial county of Devon
Devon Portal
Unitary authorities	Plymouth Torbay
Boroughs or districts	East Devon Exeter Mid Devon North Devon South Hams Teignbridge Torridge West Devon
Major settlements (cities in italics)	Ashburton Axminster Bampton Barnstaple Bideford Bovey Tracey Brixham Buckfastleigh Budleigh Salterton Chagford Chudleigh Chulmleigh Colyton Crediton Cullompton Dartmouth Dawlish Exeter Exmouth Great Torrington Hatherleigh Holsworthy Honiton Ilfracombe Ivybridge Kingsbridge Kingsteignton Lynton Moretonhampstead Newton Abbot North Tawton Northam Okehampton Ottery St Mary Paignton Plymouth Plympton Plymstock Salcombe Seaton Sidmouth South Molton Tavistock Teignmouth Tiverton Topsham Torquay Totnes See also: List of civil parishes in Devon
Rivers	Ashburn Avon Axe Barle Bovey Bray Burn Clyst Creedy Culm Dart East Dart West Dart Erme Exe Heddon Lemon Lew Lumburn Lyd East Lyn West Lyn Meavy Mole Okement East Okement West Okement Otter Plym Sid Swincombe Tamar Tavy Taw Teign Thrushel Torridge Walkham Wallabrooke East Webburn West Webburn Wolf Yealm
Topics	Flag Devon County Council Parliamentary constituencies Economy Places Towns by population SSSIs Country houses Grade I listed buildings Grade II* listed buildings Scheduled monuments Bridges History Schools Museums Lord Lieutenants High Sheriffs Notable people Dartmoor Exmoor South Devon AONB Tamar Valley AONB Jurassic Coast South West Coast Path Two Moors Way North Devon's Biosphere Reserve