Wikipedia:WikiProject Caribbean

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This WikiProject was formed to foster better articles on the countries of the Caribbean with a spirit of cooperation.

Contents 1 Goals 2 Scope 3 Participants 4 Departments 5 Related WikiProjects 6 Featured Articles 7 Features Lists 8 Peer Review 9 Good Articles 9.1 Did you know... (DYK) 10 Templates 10.1 Stub templates 11 Resources

[edit] Goals

The goals of this project are to:

• create, improve, and maintain articles relating to the countries of the Caribbean and the Caribbean Sea, their history, people, geography, and culture. Included are the independent nations of Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, the commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the dependencies of Anguilla, Aruba, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Turks and Caicos Islands, the United States Virgin Islands, and the Caribbean Sea.
• assist with the Portal:Caribbean.

[edit] Scope

The scope of this project is all articles which fall in the

• Category:Anguilla,
• Category:Antigua and Barbuda,
• Category:Aruba,
• Category:Bahamas,
• Category:Barbados,
• Category:British Virgin Islands,
• Category:Cayman Islands,
• Category:Cuba,
• Category:Dominica,
• Category:Dominican Republic,
• Category:Grenada,
• Category:Guadeloupe,
• Category:Haiti,
• Category:Jamaica,
• Category:Martinique,
• Category:Montserrat,
• Category:Netherlands Antilles,
• Category:Puerto Rico,
• Category:Saint Kitts and Nevis.
• Category:Saint Lucia,
• Category: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines,
• Category:Trinidad and Tobago,
• Category:Turks and Caicos Islands, and
• Category:United States Virgin Islands.

We acknowledge up front that there may be other WikiProjects, both now and in the future, which deal directly with individual nations or areas within the above. We are grateful for their efforts, and will concentrate our own on those areas which are not covered by a currently existing project.

[edit] Participants

• Badbilltucker (probably primarily in the project's administrative functions, leaving most of the article-related work to better qualified people)
• Legis (talk - contributions)
• Vivenot
• Guettarda
• Slgr@ndson (page - messages - contribs)
• Jwillbur
• TaranRampersad
• Dave Smith
• Zleitzen - (I help organise Wikipedia:WikiProject Cuba and Portal:Cuba, and have written other articles including featured articles on Caribbean subjects.)

[edit] Departments

• Assessment - the assessment department.

[edit] Related WikiProjects

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Cuba
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Dominican Republic
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Latin America countries
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Puerto Rico

[edit] Featured Articles

• Ernesto "Che" Guevara
• Military history of Puerto Rico
• British African-Caribbean community
• Democratic Labour Party (Trinidad and Tobago)
• Fauna of Puerto Rico
• History of Puerto Rico
• Elfin-woods Warbler

[edit] Features Lists

• List of snakes of Trinidad and Tobago
• List of Puerto Rican birds
• List of Vieques birds

[edit] Peer Review

[edit] Good Articles

• Humbert Roque Versace
• Pedro del Valle
• Puerto Rico

[edit] Did you know... (DYK)

The following items all appeared in the Wikipedia:Main page Did You Know section:

• Elfin-woods Warbler - 22 February 2006.
• Fauna of Puerto Rico - 16 August 2006
• Humbert Roque Versace - 20 July 2006.

[edit] Templates

• {{User WikiProject Caribbean}} is a userbox which all members can add to their talk pages.
• {{WikiProject Caribbean}} is the project banner, to be added to the talk pages of all articles which fall within the scope of the project.

[edit] Stub templates

• {{Caribbean-stub}} - Stub template for articles relating to the Caribbean; to be put on the bottom of each article page.
  • {{Caribbean-geo-stub}} - Stub template for articles relating to the geography of the Caribbean; to be put on the bottom of each article page.
  • {{Caribbean-bio-stub}} - Stub template for articles relating to Caribbean people; to be put on the bottom of each article page.
    • {{Caribbean-boxing-bio-stub}} - Stub template for articles relating to people involved in Caribbean boxing; to be put on the bottom of each article page.
    • {{WestIndies-cricket-bio-stub}} - Stub template for articles relating to biographical cricket-related stubs about West Indians; to be put on the bottom of each article page.
    • {{Caribbean-politician-stub}} - Stub template for articles relating to Caribbean politicians; to be put on the bottom of each article page.
  • {{Caribbean-trade-union-stub}} - Stub template for articles relating to Caribbean trade unions; to be put on the bottom of each article page.
    • {{Bahamas-geo-stub}} - Stub template for articles relating to geography of the Bahamas; to be put on the bottom of each article page.
  • {{Barbados-stub}} - Stub template for articles relating to Barbados; to be put on the bottom of each article page.
    • {{Barbados-geo-stub}} - Stub template for articles relating to geography of Barbados; to be put on the bottom of each article page.
  • {{Caymans-stub}} - Stub template for articles relating to the Cayman Islands; to be put on the bottom of each article page. *NOTE: Geographical items about the Cayman Islands should have both the {{Caymans-stub}} and {{Caribbean-geo-stub}} placed on them.
  • {{Cuba-stub}} - Stub template for articles relating to Cuba; to be put on the bottom of each article page.
    • {{Cuba-geo-stub}} - Stub template for articles relating to Cuban geography; to be put on the bottom of each article page.
    • {{Cuba-bio-stub}} - Stub template for articles relating to Cuban people; to be put on the bottom of each article page.
      • {{Cuba-athletics-bio-stub}} - Stub template for articles relating to CUban people connected with the sport of track and field athletics; to be put on the bottom of each article page.
  • {{DominicanRepublic-stub}} - Stub template for articles relating to Dominican Republic; to be put on the bottom of each article page.
    • {{DominicanRepublic-geo-stub}} - Stub template for articles relating to geography of the Dominican Republic; to be put on the bottom of each article page.
  • {{Haiti-stub}} - Stub template for articles relating to Haiti; to be put on the bottom of each article page.
    • {{Haiti-geo-stub}} - Stub template for articles relating to geography of Haiti; to be put on the bottom of each article page.
    • {{Haiti-bio-stub}} - Stub template for articles relating to Haitian people; to be put on the bottom of each article page.
      • {{Haiti-painter-stub}} - Stub template for articles relating to Haitian painters; to be put on the bottom of each article page.
      • {{Haiti-writer-stub}} - Stub template for articles relating to writers from Haiti; to be put on the bottom of each article page.
  • {{Jamaica-stub}} - Stub template for articles relating to Jamaica; to be put on the bottom of each article page.
    • {{Jamaica-geo-stub}} - Stub template for articles relating to geography of Jamaica; to be put on the bottom of each article page.
    • {{Jamaica-athletics-bio-stub}} - Stub template for articles relating to Jamaican people connected with the sport of track and field athletics; to be put on the bottom of each article page.
    • {{PuertoRico-geo-stub}} - Stub template for articles relating to geography of Puerto Rico; to be put on the bottom of each article page.
    • {{PuertoRico-bio-stub}} - Stub template for articles relating to people from Puerto Rico; to be put on the bottom of each article page.
    • {{Trinidad-stub}} - Stub templage for articles relating to Trinidad and Tobago; to be put on the bottom of each article page.
  • {{Trinidad-geo-stub}} - Stub template for articles relating to geography of Trinidad and Tobago; to be put on the bottom of each article page.

[edit] Resources

There are a huge number of resources available for this area. Please see the page of the specific country or area in which you are interested for the ones applicable for your specific interest.