Wiki143:WikiProject British crime

This project is defunct and kept as a historical record. Consider using Wikipedia:WikiProject United Kingdom and Wikipedia:WikiProject Crime and Criminal Biography to categorise articles, organise improvement drives, and request assistance.

Welcome to WikiProject British crime.

Purpose

To organise and generally improve all pages relating to British crime. This would bring up to date a lot of media attention articles and some high-profile British crimes without pages.

Additionally, this would help to categorize the British crimes more effectively.

If you are in any way interested in starting or joining in this project, please add your name below.

Templates used by the project include:

• Template:Tl, a userbox which can be added to member user pages as a shortcut to this project page.
• Template:Tl (or Template:Tl), a project banner which can be added to the top of the talk pages of related articles.
• Template:Tl, a formal invitation to members who contributed and/or are interested in British crime related subjects.

Interested Wikipedians

• Ghostieguide 22:17, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
• MadMax 19:06, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
• Fys. “Ta fys aym” 10:18, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
• England Gangs 19:31, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
• Lucy-marie 20:13, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
• Marlinspike 11:26, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
• mr. boniface 23:32, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
• AlexWilkes 13.52, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
• Mr. Bridger 19:50, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
• Grosscha "Max", 20:06, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
• Phildav76 21:42, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
• SqueakBox 19:18, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
• Fredd the Redd 20:04, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
• Albinonerd13 18:38, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
• Keristrasza 15:56, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
• Moplord359 22:35, 29 August 2009
• Biggleswiki 12:35, 16 December 2010
• ChessMaster2011 08:22, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
• Paul MacDermott (talk) 20:26, 14 May 2013 (UTC)
• Autarch (talk) 19:50, 30 April 2017 (UTC)
• Maternalistic Lioness (talk) 18:27, 28 September 2019 (UTC)
• BK927 (talk) 22:09, 16 April 2021 (UTC)
• Moondragon21 (talk) 12:02, 15 August 2022 (UTC)
• Cameron Dewe (talk) 11:55, 4 September 2022 (UTC)

Honorary members

• 84.203.43.186/87.198.194.177 for extensive contributions to the Clerkenwell crime syndicate.
• User:Necrothesp for contributing Philip Lawrence and Massacre of Braybrook Street as well as numerous law enforcement related articles

Recent articles

For members who have recently contributed British crime related articles, please feel free to leave the article's name and your signature (ex. [[article name]] by ~~~~) in order to list your contribution to the project.

for prior contributions see Archive (2006)

1. REDIRECT Template:Archives

• User:Moplord359/Yorkshire Bombing of 1987 by Moplord359 22:45, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
• Sara Thornton case by Paul MacDermott (talk) 10:56, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
• Murder of Jacqueline Thomas by Paul MacDermott (talk) 12:52, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
• Philip Smith (criminal) by Paul MacDermott (talk) 11:47, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
• Jimmy Moody [criminal]byBullseye30 (talk) 20:03, 31 October 2013 (UTC)
• Death of Phoenix Netts (Formerly Forest of Dean unidentified body) Autarch (talk) 04:29, 20 May 2020 (UTC)
• EasyJet hack Autarch (talk) 16:23, 20 May 2020 (UTC)
• 2018 British Airways cyberattack Autarch (talk) 17:38, 20 May 2020 (UTC)
• 1969 theft of C-130 Autarch (talk) 03:16, 21 May 2020 (UTC)
• Pottery Cottage murders --DSQ (talk) 21:51, 11 August 2020 (UTC)
• Murder of Tulay Goren --DSQ (talk) 21:51, 11 August 2020 (UTC)
• Tesco blackmail plot by Autarch (talk) 22:34, 23 August 2020 (UTC)
• 2007 Tesco blackmail campaign by Autarch (talk) 00:44, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
• Murder of Ellie Gould by This is Paul (talk) 18:29, 17 September 2020 (UTC)
• Murder of Esther Brown by Moondragon21 (talk) 20:14, 15 October 2021‎ (UTC)
• Murder of Carole Packman by Moondragon21 (talk) 12:00, 15 August 2022 (UTC)
• Bluestone family murders by Moondragon21 (talk) 21:22, 3 September 2022‎ (UTC)
• Murders of Ann Lee and Margaret Johnson by Frazerrex (talk) 08:13, 20 November 2022 (UTC)
• Murder of Una Crown by Moondragon21 (talk) 20:40, 4 April 2023‎ (UTC)
• Murder of Claire Holland by Moondragon21 (talk) 03:26, 15 April 2023‎ (UTC)

Categories

Crime in the United Kingdom

Criminal law of the United Kingdom

English criminal law

Criminal law of Northern Ireland

Penal system in the United Kingdom

Scottish criminal law

British criminals

English criminals

Jersey criminals

Manx criminals

Scottish criminals

Welsh criminals

Convicts transported to Australia

Fugitives wanted by the United Kingdom

no subcategories

British crime writers

British crime fiction writers

English crime writers

British non-fiction crime writers

Article assessment

• The Template:Tl (or Template:Tl) template has a class= parameter that provides an article assessment rating:

{{WP British crime| class=??? }}

The following values may be used for the parameter. Please note that you must type them exactly as below as they are case-sensitive:

• FA (adds articles to Category:FA-Class British crime-related articles)
• A (adds articles to Category:A-Class British crime-related articles)
• GA (adds articles to Category:GA-Class British crime-related articles)
• B (adds articles to Category:B-Class British crime-related articles)
• C (adds articles to Category:C-Class British crime-related articles)
• Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class British crime-related articles)
• Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class British crime-related articles)
• FL (adds articles to Category:FL-Class British crime-related articles)
• List (adds articles to Category:List-Class British crime-related articles)
• NA (for pages where assessment is unnecessary, such as templates; adds items to Category:Non-article British crime-related pages)

If a rating is not assigned, the article will be filed in Category:Unassessed British crime-related articles. The class should be assigned according to the grading scheme. A list of Unassessed and In dispute articles can be discussed at Wikipedia:WikiProject British crime/Assessment.

See also:

• List of British crime-related articles by quality | Log (updated daily).

Legend

Need: The article's importance, regardless of its quality

class="import-top " style="text-align:center; color:inherit; background:Template:Importance/colour; " |Top	Subject is a must-have for a print encyclopaedia
class="import-high " style="text-align:center; color:inherit; background:Template:Importance/colour; " |High	Subject contributes a depth of knowledge
class="import-mid " style="text-align:center; color:inherit; background:Template:Importance/colour; " | Mid	Subject fills in more minor details
class="import-low " style="text-align:center; color:inherit; background:Template:Importance/colour; " | Low	Subject is peripheral knowledge, possibly trivial

Quality: current article quality as per the grading scheme

class="assess-fa " style="color:inherit; background: Template:Class/colour; text-align: center; " | Template:Class/icon FA	Featured article
class="assess-a " style="color:inherit; background: Template:Class/colour; text-align:center; " | Template:Class/icon A	Article is well written, reasonably complete and referenced; possible featured article candidate.
File:Symbol support vote.svg GA	This is a good article
class="assess-b " style="color:inherit; background: Template:Class/colour; text-align: center; " | B	A well written article which can still be expanded; however, may be missing basic formatting, inline citations, infoboxes, etc.
class="assess-start " style="color:inherit; background: Template:Class/colour; text-align: center; " | Start	Article has substantially more information; however, significant editing is needed for clean up and formatting.
class="assess-stub " style="color:inherit; background: Template:Class/colour; text-align: center; " | Stub	Article has little content with the exception of basic information and is generally less than a paragraph long.

Featured articles

• File:Featured article star.svg Guy Fawkes
• File:Featured article star.svg Jack the Ripper
• File:Featured article star.svg John Martin Scripps
• File:Featured article star.svg Murder of Joanna Yeates

Good articles

• File:Symbol support vote.svg 1990 Strangeways Prison riot
• File:Symbol support vote.svg Ipswich serial murders
• File:Symbol support vote.svg Lady in the Lake trial
• File:Symbol support vote.svg Murder of Alesha MacPhail
• File:Symbol support vote.svg Murder of Amanda Dowler
• File:Symbol support vote.svg Murder of Ross Parker
• File:Symbol support vote.svg Murder of Suzanne Capper
• File:Symbol support vote.svg Murder of Teresa de Simone
• File:Symbol support vote.svg Murder of Tom ap Rhys Pryce
• File:Symbol support vote.svg Murder of Victoria Climbié
• File:Symbol support vote.svg Piers Gaveston, 1st Earl of Cornwall

Former featured or good articles or candidates

• File:Symbol b class.svg 7 July 2005 London bombings
• File:Featured article star - cross.svg Jonathan Wild

Resources

Projects

• MurderUK.com missing topics list (Abbot-Young) - 117 articles left

Related WikiProjects

• WikiProject Australian crime
• WikiProject Crime and Criminal Biography
• WikiProject Irish Republican Army
• WikiProject Law (see WikiProject Australian law and WikiProject Canadian law)
• WikiProject Law Enforcement
• Organized crime task force
• WikiProject Piracy
• WikiProject Terrorism
• WikiProject Terrorism and counter-terrorism

Bibliography

• Avison, Howard N. and Frederick Hemming McClintock. Crime in England and Wales. London: Heinemann Educational, 1968. Template:ISBN
• Donaldson, William. Brewer's Rogues, Villains, and Eccentrics: An A-Z of Roguish Britons Through the Ages. London: Sterling Publishing Company, 2004. Template:ISBN

External links

• MurderFiles.com
• Murder in the UK
• Real-Crime.co.uk
• Black Kalendar
• Unsolved Murders
• British Executions

Tools

Main tool page: toolserver.org

• Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
• Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
• Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
• Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.