==Proposal for collaboration?==
As of May 2005 there are only three UK subdivision articles that are featured:
* Traditional_counties_of_England
* Dorset
* Bath
There are a lot of county articles that are stubs with an infobox and a list of settlements (just look at what we had for Wiltshire this morning!), which doesn't seem right to me. If I set up a collaboration of the month for this WikiProject and pick a county each month, would people help try and turn them into the great articles they should be? I'm willing to do quite a bit of work on them and have some experience having done Dorset up to featured, but hopefully we can get more involved. Joe D (t) 17:07, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
::As long as you make sure it doesn't turn into a bun fight between traditional counties and administrative counties, then I'm certainly willing to help! :) Owain 17:26, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
:::Well, I suggest we go for the articles whose page name is the common name of each county, that way if the county is administrative and ceremonial and traditional we'd have to mention everything.
We already have a policy about traditional/administrative counties etc Here. G-Man 20:36, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
:I've produced a list of English counties roughly ordered by quality of their Wikipedia entry to help get an idea of what needs to be done. Joe D (t) 17:44, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
OK, I've started a new Wikiproject at Wikipedia:WikiProject_UK_geography for all this. Joe D (t) 11:21, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
== UK-geo-stub split ==
Currently, there are separate geography stub categories for Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. A separate category for England has been mooted in the past, but it would contain some 3800 stub articles, considerably more than is regarded as optimum according to Wikipedia:_WikiProject_Stub_sorting guidelines (which roughly state that stub categories should have between 100 and 600 items to be of best use to editors).
In order to remedy this situation, all 3860 current unsubcategorised UK geography stubs have just been tallied to see whereabouts they refer to. Discussions are now underway with regard to splitting off regions or individual counties that have over 100 stub articles.
Understandably, given the confusion between traditional counties, ceremonial counties, and the split of city areas over the last few decades, this is a thorny issue. We at WP:WSS would welcome any input that this WikiProject's members may have, at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Stub_sorting/Criteria#Further_split_of_UK-geo-stub. Grutness...''wha?'' 03:19, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
== Lists of former districts ==
Any editors who were involved in this project may be interested in recently created List_of_rural_and_urban_districts_in_England, List_of_rural_and_urban_districts_in_Wales and List_of_hundreds_of_England_and_Wales. Warofdreams ''talk'' 14:36, 1 December 2005 (UTC)