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Banksia rosserae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Magnoliophyta
Class:	Magnoliopsida
Order:	Proteales
Family:	Proteaceae
Genus:	Banksia
Subgenus:	Banksia subg. Banksia
Section:	Banksia sect. Banksia
Series:	Banksia ser. Cyrtostylis
Species:	B. rosserae
Binomial name
	Banksia rosserae; 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 arid zone.

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WP:WA

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 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), 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

WikiProject Western Australia maintains and improves articles within the Western Australia category structure.

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: {{WesternAustralia-stub}}. Continue to use {{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. Hesperian 11:26, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Participants

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 {{User WPWA}} or {{User WikiProject Western Australia}} userbox.

Callophylla
Daniel.Bryant
Fred.e
Ghostieguide
Gnangarra
Grant65 (thanks Hesp)
Hesperian
Hossen27
Longhair -- why not. I plan to visit one day anyway :)
--M W Johnson 23:12, 17 December 2006 (UTC) Yay![reply]
Moondyne
Nachoman-au
Orderinchaos78 Fantastic idea!
RaNdOm26
Renesis13
SatuSuro
Fancyfootwork
Rolinator
Smbarnzy
Yungur

Meetup

WA Meetup

Quality articles

Featured Western Australia content

Banksia brownii (this was WP:TFA on December 24)
Yagan

Good article Western Australia content

Article Improvement

Templates and categories

Copy and paste the template

on the talk page of WA articles. Instructions are at Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia/Project banner.

Add the template to new or short articles

to an article's main page. It will then appear in the category:

[[Category:Western Australia stubs]]

'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

Requested photographs in Western Australia

Requested photographs in Perth

Articles improved by this project

~~Convictism in Western Australia~~ 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. Hesperian 23:26, 2 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Congrats and thanks.. Made it.Ghostieguide 12:41, 8 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]