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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

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

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]

Participants

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

Meetup

WA Meetup

Quality articles

Banksia rosserae
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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.
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

Requests for improvement

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

Requested photographs of Western Australia

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]

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