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RNLI
Severn class lifeboat
Atlantic 75 class lifeboat

Welcome to the RNLI task force of the Water sports WikiProject. Some Wikipedians have formed this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of RNLI related articles and the organization of information and articles on this topic. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic.

If you would like to help, please join the project, inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list below.

Introduction

Scope

Every subject that involves the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI).

Goals

WikiProject Water sports has a few longstanding goals, which are in place to provide a direction for expansion.

  • To ensure that all marine-activity related articles are always expanding and being improved.
  • Establish a large, active member base.

Open tasks

Help and guidelines

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Manual of Style

Title format for station articles

Articles about lifeboat stations should be titled with capital letters as per WP:NOUN.

  • Pwllheli Lifeboat Station
  • Weymouth Lifeboat Station

Title format for lifeboat articles

Articles about actual lifeboats should be titled as follows (the italics for the title are added by the {{Infobox ship}} template):

  • RNLB Aguila Wren (ON 892)
  • RNLB Lloyds II (ON 986)
  • RNLB Blue Peter V (B-833)

If a lifeboat does not have a name, then the article should be titled using their hull number:

  • RNLB B-536

Participants

Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.

Name Areas of interest Location Date joined
Happysailor (talk · contribs) Powerboating, Sailing (& Canoeing, Windsurfing) Wales, UK 15 June 2010
John86uk (talk · contribs) RNLI Crew member, Kayaking, Yacht & Dinghy Cruising/Racing) Scotland, UK 15 June 2010
stavros1 (talk · contribs) East coast RNLI and Independent stations, Notable rescues Norfolk, UK 09 July 2010
Geof Sheppard (talk · contribs) Transport in South West England Somerset, UK 21 October 2010
MTimmins92 (talk · contribs) Updating New and old Fleet, Sailing/Powerboating Hertfordshire, UK 25 May 2012
cheeseladder (talk · contribs) Lifeboats and Stations East of England, UK 4 October 2013
franko2nd (talk · contribs) Lifeboats and Stations esp. Scotland Scotland, UK 13 January 2014

Userbox

When adding our userbox, please add our main projects as well as the RNLI task force box.

{{User WikiProject Water sports}}
{{User WikiProject Water sports/RNLI}}
This user is a participant in WikiProject Water sports
Member of the RNLI task force

Articles

There is a discussion going on here about an attempt to delete this useful template which is in its early stage of development. you may wish to give it your comments to reach a consensus.

Candidates

GA Good articles (GA)

Candidates


New articles in 2014

Collaboration and review

Collaboration of the week
Peer review
Assessment

Resources

Project templates

{{Watersports|RNLI=yes}} is our main tag for article pages. There's no need to use it if one of our sub-project's template is already there. The template looks like:

WikiProject iconWater sports: RNLI Unassessed Top‑importance
WikiProject iconWikiProject Water sports/RNLI task force is within the scope of the WikiProject Water sports, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of Water sports. If you would like to participate, you can visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks.
???This article has not yet received a rating on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
TopThis article has been rated as Top-importance on the project's importance scale.
Taskforce icon
This article is supported by the RNLI task force.

Article navigation templates

General

Lifeboats

Stations

Substitution templates

  • {{Lbb}} – substitutes [[Foo class lifeboat|Foo]]
  • {{Lbc}} – substitutes [[Foo class lifeboat|Foo Class]]
  • {{Lbs}} – substitutes [[Foo Lifeboat Station|Foo]]

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