Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Wales

Wikimedia in Wales 2026

I'm the Wales programme coordinator at Wikimedia UK. I've been in post almost a year now and I'm planning my work for 2026. I'd love to know what sorts of events / activities / projects or other ideas editors based in Wales, who edit in Welsh or who regularly edit about topics related to Wales might like to see (or might like some help from Wikimedia UK with).

I've made a (brief!) survey in English or Welsh which is probably the easiest way to input however if surveys don't work for you for any reason you're welcome to message me via Wiki or email me (gemma.coleman@wikimedia.org.uk) to let me know your ideas or to arrange a chat about an idea you'd like Wikimedia UK's help with. Gemma Coleman (WMUK) (talk) 17:06, 14 January 2026 (UTC)

Just to flag I'll be closing the survey shortly (it's really pretty short!) so if you want to input on our activities in Wales for the rest of 2026, please fill it in or email me this week if you can. Diolch! Gemma Coleman (WMUK) (talk) 16:18, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

Welsh Not

Hello all, I would appreciate some outside opinions on a dispute on the article Welsh Not. An editor feels the article is over reliant on a recent book about the subject (See:Talk:Welsh_Not#Over_reliance_on_a_single_source?). They have made a series of edits to the article which I think are promoting their own views about the subject, including insisting a verifiability tag they added be kept although I have added additional sources where they requested them. I am heartbroken that this has happened to an article on such an important subject which I have done so much work on and want a solution to be reached ASAP. Llewee (talk) 22:23, 19 April 2026 (UTC)

RfC: "Terminology update: 'De facto' ruler status vs. 'pretender' in new national curriculum and recent historiography

Input is requested at Link to the RfC discussion. I’d like to summarize this proposal to help us reach a consensus. I suggest a minor edit to the infobox to include “Prince of Wales (de facto)” with “Reign: 1404-1409” and “Contended: Henry of Monmouth (de jure). I believe that by acknowledging both Owain’s de facto reign and Henry’s de jure contention, this edit avoids a one-sided narrative and ensures the article remains neutral and reflects authoritative and significant modern academic consensus and historiography as required by the Neutral Point of View (NPOV) policy. Given wikiproject Wales’ focus on Wales and Welsh history, and the recent national curriculum and historiography updates on the terminology of Owain’s rule from the new WJEC Welsh GCSE curriculum and Gideon Brough (PhD), your input would be very helpful in building a consensus. Thanks! KCD-2026 (talk) 17:41, 8 May 2026 (UTC)

@KCD-2026:There seems to be not much input on the subject, and this is something I have encountered before, the advice given to me was to force a consensus debate by reverting the article over three times in an edit war in one day, and then you can go the administrator noticeboard for a broader consensus.

Sorry, can't help otherwise. Cltjames (talk) 12:51, 10 May 2026 (UTC)

Standardising MSs in infoboxes.

Since the election a few days ago, many places have now triple the MSs representing their local areas. I've started updating infoboxes of some places, particularly Caerphilly County Borough, Newport, and Cardiff. Seeing as some of these places now have twelve MSs in two constituencies, it's quite clunky to concisely include them in infoboxes, especially if detailing where they represent. How best do we remedy this?

Ive done this in two different ways where Caerphilly and Cardiff are concerned; in Caerphilly I listed all twelve members, their parties, and an initialism of the constituency each member represents (as an example: Delyth Jewell (PC) (BG-C-Rh); whereas in Cardiff I've just detailed that there are six MSs in each constituency. With the former, it's quite messy. With the latter, it just links to the two constituencies and doesn't provide anymore detail than that.

Where Newport is concerned, I've simply listed every MS and their parties as they're only covered by one constituency and thus 6 MSs. This is fine, except it looks inconsistent when compared to other local authorities.

Before I give myself or others more work than I have to, what's the preferred method here? FracaWicro (Talk-Sgwrs) 09:03, 11 May 2026 (UTC)

I don't believe the abbreviations would be easily understood, and clutters it a bit more. Although as now there are many MSs covering multiple areas, may not really be worthy or reasonable to mention each one? I had standardised the previous regional ones as just "+4 regional members" and only listed the local ones. Wrexham CB covers three constituencies so has 18 MSs, which is going to be too much for the infobox, so might be better so just point to the constituencies for consistency, following Cardiff?

Each article should have a section on it explaining it in more detail without the constraint of an infobox, a section link could point to that section from the infobox. DankJae 21:25, 13 May 2026 (UTC)

First female archdruid?

We have two articles which say that their subject was the first female archdruid, Christine James (2013) and Sian Owen (2011). On the face of it, Owen would have the correct claim on the dates, but both statements are sourced. Can anyone unpick this? Thanks.

Both are correct - James was first of Wales, Owen first of Anglesey. Tony Holkham (Talk) 07:55, 15 May 2026 (UTC)

Addition of an article

I've added the article about Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc) as being within the scope of the project. Comments invited. John Desmond (talk) 11:55, 28 May 2026 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Battle of Orewin Bridge#Requested move 1 June 2026

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Battle of Orewin Bridge#Requested move 1 June 2026 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. ASUKITE 16:12, 9 June 2026 (UTC)