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. If you would like to join the project, simply add your name to the list of participants and begin editing (see the list of open tasks for ideas).

Contents 1 Goals 2 Scope 3 Open tasks 3.1 Requested articles 3.2 Requested images 3.3 Articles needing adoption 4 Participants 5 Departments 6 Related WikiProjects 7 Showcase 7.1 Featured Articles 7.2 Featured Lists 7.3 Good Articles 7.4 Did you know... (DYK) 8 Assessment 9 Peer Review 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. We shall also deal with the countries of Belize, Guyana, and Surinam, given their close cultural and political connections to the Caribbean.
• 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:Belize,
• Category:British Virgin Islands,
• Category:Caribbean,
• Category:Cayman Islands,
• Category:Cuba,
• Category:Dominica,
• Category:Dominican Republic,
• Category:Grenada,
• Category:Guadeloupe,
• Category:Guyana,
• 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:Suriname,
• 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] Open tasks

Caribbean articles needing attention

Articles to Clean Up: Animal Flower Cave, Bianca C. (ship), Dominica, Baha Men, Communications in Saint Lucia, Alexander Bedward, Communications in the United States Virgin Islands, Patrick Manning, Pine Hill, Saint Michael, Barbados Articles Needing Expert Attention Articles Needing Wikification: Bishops' High School, Guyana, René Depestre, Communications in Martinique, Crabwood Creek Articles With NPOV Issues: Jermaine Lawson, Perry Christie Articles Needing Verification: Bahamas Hotel, Catering and Allied Workers Union, Sylvain Salnave, Belize, Banco Chinchorro, Roman Catholicism in Haiti, Alfonsina Molinari, Evangelical Baptist Mission of South Haiti, P. J. Patterson, Citadelle Laferrière Articles Needing Expanding: Dwayne Bravo Articles Needing Translation

• Add the project banner template, {{WikiProject Caribbean}}, to the talk pages of all articles in the scope of this project. Be sure to assess the article's quality and importance, if possible (see the template page for details on how to do so, and the assessment department to determine the appropriate classifications).
• Go through the pages in Category:Unassessed Caribbean articles and assess each (see the assessment department for details).
• Add new articles to the Wikipedia:WikiProject Caribbean/Articles list, and check the recent changes function for improvements, other changes, and vandalism to articles.
• Participate in the discussions about Caribbean articles nominated for deletion.
• Pick a task from the to-do list of articles needing attention.

[edit] Requested articles

• Anguilla Cays - Bahamian islands
• Culture of the Caribbean
• Geography of the Caribbean

[edit] Requested images

• A photo of a Shark N Bake sandwich from Maracas Beach in Trinidad and Tobago, to replace the non-free Image:Bakenshark.jpg

[edit] Articles needing adoption

• Article name: adopter's ~~~~
• National Movement for Change (Antigua and Barbuda political party):
• United National Democratic Party (Antigua and Barbuda political party):
• Latin American and Caribbean Congress in Solidarity with Puerto Rico’s Independence

[edit] Participants

This is a list of users involved in the Caribbean WikiProject. If you would like to join, simply add your name to the list. You may also add "{{User WikiProject Caribbean}}" to your user page and the Caribbean WikiProject userbox will appear there.

• 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 - anything Haiti
• TaranRampersad
• Dave Smith
• Zleitzen - (I help organise Wikipedia:WikiProject Cuba and Portal:Cuba, and have written other articles including featured articles on Caribbean subjects.)
• Caribbean 1
• Mattisse
• Tony the Marine
• C.G.P.
• --Toussaint 16:46, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
• VirtualDelight
• Afv2006
• haitianministries
• Fork Me Main interests in this project are reggae, ska and calypso music.
• Ishango Political, Social and Economic gadfly
• Emir Aly Crowne Mohammed

[edit] Departments

Points of interest related to Caribbean on Wikipedia
Portal - Category - WikiProject - Stubs - Deletions - Cleanup - Noticeboard

• Assessment - For determining the quality and importance of Caribbean articles.

[edit] Related WikiProjects

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

[edit] Showcase

The following items have received recognition from the Wikipedia community:

[edit] Featured Articles

• 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane
• British African-Caribbean community
• Che Guevara
• Democratic Labour Party (Trinidad and Tobago)
• Edwin Taylor Pollock
• Elfin-woods Warbler
• Fauna of Puerto Rico
• History of Puerto Rico
• Military history of Puerto Rico
• Mourning Dove
• Music of the Lesser Antilles
• West Indian cricket team in England in 1988

[edit] Featured Lists

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

[edit] Good Articles

• Humbert Roque Versace
• Music of Antigua and Barbuda
• Music of Barbados
• Music of the Bahamas
• Music of Trinidad and Tobago
• Pedro del Valle
• Puerto Rico
• Tropical Storm Fabian (1991)
• Tropical Storm Mindy (2003)

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

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

• Attalea crassispatha - 27 February 2007
• Elfin-woods Warbler - 22 February 2006
• Fauna of Puerto Rico - 16 August 2006
• Francis Barber = 30 March 2007
• Humbert Roque Versace - 20 July 2006
• José Martí Memorial - 30 March 2007
• Puerto Ricans in World War II - 23 March 2007

[edit] Assessment

Caribbean articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA		2	9	4		15
	A		1	1			2
	GA	1	2	3	1	4	11
	B	20	23	21	25	26	115
	Start	11	100	148	211	154	624
	Stub		66	222	853	430	1571
	Assessed	32	194	404	1094	614	2338
	Unassessed	0	2	0	0	1128	1130
	Total	32	196	404	1094	1742	3468

[edit] Peer Review

[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 template 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.
  • {{Belize-stub}} - Stub template for articles relating to Belize; to be put on the bottom of the article page.
    • {{Belize-geo-stub}} - Stub template for articles relating to the geography of Belize; to be put on the bottom of the article page.
  • {{Guyana-stub}} - Stub template for articles relating to Guyana; to be put on the bottom of the article page.
    • {{Guyana-geo-stub}} - Stub template for articles relating to the geography of Guyana; to be put on the bottom of the article page.
  • {{Suriname-stub}} - Stub template for articles relating to Suriname; to be put on the bottom of the article page.
    • {{Suriname-geo-stub}} - Stub template for articles relating to the geography of Suriname; to be put on the bottom of the 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.