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==Policy==

===General goals===
* To coordinate and improve articles related to [[Western Australia]];
* To foster collaboration between editors in the [[:Category:Wikipedians in Western Australia]];
* To establish appropriate linkages with the Wikipedia Australia project and portal;
* To ascertain and identify the Western Australian component of other Wikipedia projects;
* ''To seek peer review and collaboration of editors in other [[Wikiprojects|Wikipedia projects]].'' (proposed goal)

===Specific goals===
* Improve [[Western Australia]] page or other similar WA articles to [[featured article]] (FA) status.

* Other possible candidates for FA:
** Emblems: [[Flag of Western Australia]], [[Numbat]] (faunal emblem), ''[[Anigozanthos manglesii]]'' (Mangles Kangaroo Paw) (floral emblem), [[Black Swan]] (ornithological emblem), [[Gogonasus]] (fossil emblem)?
** People: [[John Forrest]], [[C. Y. O'Connor]], [[Moondyne Joe]]
** History: [[Batavia (ship)|''Batavia'' (ship)]], [[Swan River Colony]]
** Places: [[Shark Bay]], [[Fremantle Prison]], [[Murujuga]]
** Flora and fauna: ''[[Ozraptor]]'', the only named Western Australian dinosaur

===Guidelines===
*Policy guidelines of 
:*image use,
:*templates, category, 
:*point of view ([[WP:NPOV]]) and bias ([[WP:CSB]]),
:*notability, and 
:*article structure 
:*can be drawn from the relevant wikipedia project.
*The guidelines of overlapping WikiProjects can be applied to the specific articles. ''See overlap below''

===Project scope===
[[Image:Litoria moorei juvenile.JPG|thumb|WA Delinquent:  Juvenile Motorbike Frog]]
WikiProject Western Australia maintains and improves articles within the Western Australia category structure.
<categorytree>Western Australia</categorytree>

==Announcements==

* WikiProject Western Australia is underway! Please help the development of this project by contributing to the talk page.
* WikiProject Western Australia participants are encouraged to work out a time and place for our first meetup (see below).
* We now have our own stub: '''{{tl|WesternAustralia-stub}}'''. Continue to use {{tl|WesternAustralia-geo-stub}} for stubs on geographic places in Western Australia; all other stubs in the Western Australia category tree should use the new stub. [[User talk:Hesperian|Hesperian]] 11:26, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

==Participants==
[[Image:Westraliasecession3.jpg|thumb|right|Secessionist 'How To Vote' card, 1933]]
Add your name here to join. You might also like to place your user page in [[:Category:WikiProject Western Australia members]], manually or through display of the {{Tl|User WPWA}} or {{Tl|User WikiProject Western Australia}}
userbox.
* [[User:Callophylla|Callophylla]]
* [[User:Daniel.Bryant|Daniel.Bryant]]
* [[User:Fred.e|Fred.e]]
* [[User:Ghostieguide|Ghostieguide]]
* [[User:Gnangarra|Gnangarra]]
* [[User:Grant65|Grant65]] (thanks Hesp)
* [[User:Hesperian|Hesperian]]
* [[User:Hossen27|Hossen27]]
* [[User:Longhair|Longhair]] -- why not. I plan to visit one day anyway :)
*--'''[[User:M Johnson|<font color = "darkblue">M</font>]] [[User Talk:M Johnson|<font color = "darkgreen">W</font>]] [[Special:Contributions/M Johnson|<font color = "darkyellow">Johnson</font>]]''' 23:12, 17 December 2006 (UTC)    Yay!
* [[User:Moondyne|Moondyne]]
* [[User:Nachoman-au|Nachoman-au]]
* [[User:Orderinchaos78|Orderinchaos78]] Fantastic idea!
* [[User:RaNdOm26|RaNdOm26]]
* [[User:Renesis13|Renesis13]]
* [[User:SatuSuro|SatuSuro]]
* [[User:Fancyfootwork|Fancyfootwork]]
* [[User:Rolinator|Rolinator]]
* [[User:Smbarnzy|Smbarnzy]]
* [[User:Yungur|Yungur]]

===Meetup===
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Western Australia/WA Meetup|WA Meetup]]

==Quality articles==
{{Taxobox
|color=lightgreen
|name=''Banksia rosserae''
|image = Banksia rosserae flower.jpg
|regnum=[[Plant]]ae
|divisio=[[flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
|classis=[[dicotyledon|Magnoliopsida]]
|ordo=[[Proteales]]
|familia=[[Proteaceae]]
|genus=''[[Banksia]]''
|subgenus=[[Banksia subg. Banksia|''Banksia'' subg. ''Banksia'']]
|sectio=[[Banksia sect. Banksia|''Banksia'' sect. ''Banksia'']]
|series=[[Banksia ser. Cyrtostylis|''Banksia'' ser. ''Cyrtostylis'']]
|species='''''B. rosserae'''''
|binomial=Banksia rosserae
|binomial_authority=Olde & Marriott
'''''Banksia rosserae''''' is a recently described species of ''[[Banksia]]''. Endemic to inland [[Western Australia]], it is the only ''Banksia'' species to occur solely within the [[desert|arid zone]].
}}

;[[WP:FA|Featured]] Western Australia content
* ''[[Banksia brownii]]'' (this was [[WP:TFA]] on December 24)
* [[Yagan]]

;[[WP:GA|Good article]] Western Australia content
*[[Fremantle Prison]]
*[[Argyle diamond mine]]
*[[Convict era of Western Australia]]

==Article Improvement==
===Templates and categories===
Copy and paste the [[Help:Template|template]]''
::<nowiki>{{WP Australia|WA=yes}}</nowiki>
on the '''talk page''' of WA articles. Instructions are at [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia/Project banner]]. 

Add the ''template'' to new or short articles
::<nowiki>{{WesternAustralia-stub}}</nowiki>
to an article's '''main page'''. It will then appear in the category:
::<nowiki>[[Category:Western Australia stubs]]</nowiki>

==='Task forces'===
''Propose a subject for specific attention within this project''
* Geography, WA
* Politics
* Biota

===Requests for improvement===
Or add to this list below by clicking 'edit' :
* [[Murujuga]] fmr Burrup Page. Current events raise profile here and overseas.
* [[May Gibbs]] taught and inspired in WA
* [[New Norcia, Western Australia]] - B-class article at present.
* [[Busselton, Western Australia]] - B-class article at present.
* [[Aquinas College, Perth]] - B-class, opinions on article requested as considering [[WP:GA]]
* [[Whadjuk]] - good article potential, needs work (not a great deal actually!) and sourcing

====Requested photographs of Western Australia====
*[[:Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Western Australia|Requested photographs in Western Australia]]
:*[[:Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Perth|Requested photographs in Perth]]

====Articles improved by this project====
* <s>[[Convictism in Western Australia]]</s> Your urgent attention is needed all, Going through GA nom at the moment, Almost there, Please help push it over the line.
** Sorry guys, I wrote this and have all the refs. I was kinda sorta aware that you were pushing for GA, and should have stepped up to do the ref inlining by now. I'll do it this week. [[User talk:Hesperian|Hesperian]] 23:26, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
Congrats and thanks.. Made it.[[User:Ghostieguide|Ghostieguide]] 12:41, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

==Related WikiProjects==
{{sisterlinks|Western Australia}}
* Parent: [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia]]
* Child: [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Perth]]
* Sister: 
:[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Victoria]]
:[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Tasmania]]
* '''Overlap''':
** [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian biota|WikiProject Australian biota]] for WA plants
*** [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Banksia|WikiProject Banksia]] for a mostly Western Australia plant genus
** [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian crime|WikiProject Australian crime]] for WA crime
** [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian history|WikiProject Australian history]] for WA history
** [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian history/Exploration|WikiProject Australian history/Exploration]] for WA exploration
*** [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian maritime history|WikiProject Australian maritime history]] for WA maritime history
**** [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Shipwrecks]] - WA has a ''huge'' shipwreck heritage
*** [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Australian military history task force|WikiProject Military history/Australian military history task force]] for WA military history
** [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian law|WikiProject Australian law]] for WA law
** [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian places|WikiProject Australian places]] for WA geography
** [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian politics|WikiProject Australian politics]] for WA politics
** [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian sports|WikiProject Australian sports]] for WA sports
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