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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Yungur (talk | contribs) at 11:28, 17 January 2007 (Requests for improvement). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

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

To improve iconic and high-profile Western Australian articles to FA quality. e.g.

Guidelines

  • Policy guidelines of
  • The guidelines of overlapping WikiProjects can be applied to the specific articles. See overlap below

Project scope

WA Delinquent: Juvenile Motorbike Frog

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]

Articles and miscellanea for deletion/renaming

Here is the place to alert participants of current debates on WA articles. The entry should be removed once the discussion is closed.

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Participants

Secessionist 'How To Vote' card, 1933
• Yes —Moondyne

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.

Meetup

WA Meetup

Quality articles

File:Argyle mine false color.jpg
A false-color NASA image of the Argyle mine. Blue colours show the location of the mine and its depressed elevation as a result of the open pit mining technique.
Featured Western Australia content
Good article Western Australia content

Article Improvement

Templates and categories

Copy and paste the template

{{WP Australia|WA=yes}}

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

Add the template to new or short articles

{{WesternAustralia-stub}}

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

'Wikipedia:Notability'

Close monitoring of the cleanup project is needed to maintain a close understanding of what is happening in this area.

Requests for improvement

Or add to this list below by clicking 'edit' :

I can't believe we don't have an article on...!

Requested photographs of Western Australia

For Western Australia-related articles needing a photograph, use {{reqphotoin|Western Australia}} in the talk page. These will appear in this category;

See also

Articles improved by this project

Categories

That might have potential candidate articles or subjects in Western Australia which may not be obvious or apparent to a new editor.

Lists

    • here are some:-


    • However some are subsumed into articles such as:

Oddities

  • Contenders for oddest and oldest articles about Western Australia
Wikipedia:WikiProject Victoria
Wikipedia:WikiProject Tasmania
  • Cousin:
Wikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand