Wikipedia:WikiProject Western Australia

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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 Wikipedia projects. (proposed goal)

Specific goals

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

Places: Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Fremantle, Western Australia, Shark Bay, Fremantle Prison, Murujuga
People: John Forrest, C. Y. O'Connor, Moondyne Joe
History: Batavia (ship), Swan River Colony
Flora: Anigozanthos manglesii (Mangles Kangaroo Paw), our floral emblem; Eucalyptus marginata (Jarrah)
Fauna: Numbat, our faunal emblem; Black Swan, our ornithological emblem; Gogonasus, our fossil emblem; Ozraptor, the only named Western Australian dinosaur; Sandgroper.

Guidelines

Policy guidelines of

Wikipedia:Etiquette and Wikipedia:Civility
image use,
templates, category,
point of view (WP:NPOV) and bias (WP:CSB),
Wikipedia: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]

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.

and

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nullarbor (demo party) - since 8 Jan
{{Perth-road-stub}} and Category:Perth, Western Australia road stubs, here - since 12 Jan
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sunset Coast - since 13 Jan
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Winthrop Drive - since 13 Jan

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.

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
John D. Croft 16:35, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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

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

'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' :

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 - Has a peer review happening. Just needs some suggestions put into action!
Whadjuk - good article potential, needs work (not a great deal actually!) and sourcing
Dryandra Woodland - I would appreciate some more eyes over this before going to peer review —Moondyne 10:44, 13 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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;

Requested photographs in Western Australia

See also

Requested photographs in Perth

Articles improved by this project

Convict era of Western Australia
- ~~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]