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)
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
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!
- Moondyne
- Nachoman-au
- Orderinchaos78 Fantastic idea!
- RaNdOm26
- Renesis13
- SatuSuro
- Fancyfootwork
- Rolinator
- Smbarnzy
- Yungur
- John D. Croft 16:35, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
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
- {{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' :
- 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! It could soo become an A rated article or even FA, it just needs some slight adjustments, plz help promote it to FA
- 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)
I can't believe we don't have an article on...!
- May Holman
- Lionel Samson
- George Walpole Leake
- Jurien, Western Australia
- Dandaragan, Western Australia
- Fremantle Herald
- Jon Doust
- Peter Holland
- Bessie Rischbieth
- Claude de Bernales
- Dom Rosendo Salvado
- Norman Brearley
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
- Convict era of Western Australia
Convictism in Western AustraliaYour 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)
- Congrats and thanks.. Made it.Ghostieguide 12:41, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
Categories
That might have potential candidate articles or subjects in Western Australia which may not be obvious or apparent to a new editor.
Lists
- The full list of lists is at - Category:Western Australia-related lists -
- here are some:-
- List of convict ships to Western Australia
- List of highways in Western Australia
- List of homesteads in Western Australia
- List of hospitals in Western Australia
- List of islands in Western Australia
- List of pastoral leases in Western Australia (incomplete)
- List of schools in Western Australia
- List of Statues in Western Australia
- List of University of Western Australia people
- However some are subsumed into articles such as:
- Governor of Western Australia which has a list
Oddities
- Contenders for oddest and oldest articles about Western Australia
- Talk:Connie Sue Highway - is it possible the date marker was wrong?
Related WikiProjects
- Parent: Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia
- Child: Wikipedia:WikiProject Perth
- Sister:
- Cousin:
- Overlap:
- WikiProject Australian biota for WA plants
- WikiProject Banksia for a mostly Western Australia plant genus
- WikiProject Australian crime for WA crime
- WikiProject Australian history for WA history
- WikiProject Australian history/Exploration for WA exploration
- WikiProject Australian maritime history for WA maritime history
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Shipwrecks - WA has a huge shipwreck heritage
- WikiProject Military history/Australian military history task force for WA military history
- WikiProject Australian maritime history for WA maritime history
- WikiProject Australian law for WA law
- WikiProject Australian places for WA geography
- WikiProject Australian politics for WA politics
- WikiProject Australian sports for WA sports
- WikiProject Australian biota for WA plants