Wikipedia:WikiProject Melanesia

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This WikiProject was formed to foster better articles on Melanesia with a spirit of cooperation.

Contents 1 Goals 2 Scope 3 Related Portals 4 Related WikiProjects 5 Participants 6 Departments 7 Featured Articles 8 Articles in Peer Review 9 Good Articles 10 Did you knows (DYKs) 11 Templates 11.1 Stubs 12 Resources

[edit] Goals

The goals of this project are to create, improve, and maintain articles relating to the Melanesia, its history, people, geography, and culture. This includes the countries and islands of Fiji, New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu.

[edit] Scope

The scope of this project is all articles which deal with the region, countries, people, and history of Melanesia. These articles should all be contained in the Category:Melanesia or one of its subcategories.

[edit] Related Portals

• Portal:Oceania

[edit] Related WikiProjects

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Fiji

[edit] Participants

• Badbilltucker 20:30, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
• Mithridates 17:27, 20 December 2006 (UTC) Bislama is the coolest language in the world and though I've never been to Vanuatu I'm very interested.
• Ringbark 17:49, 20 December 2006 (UTC) I lived in Vanuatu from 1990 to 1993 and still have an active interest in the country and its language
• User:gadfium. I'm the maintainer of Portal:Oceania, and have an interest in the area.
• Bduke. I worked in PNG 1983 - 86 and am still interested. Let me know if it starts.
• Nomadtales. Having lived in PNG in 2004-5 I have an ongoing interest in the place. So far I have done quite a bit of work on PNG related articles so I would keen to participate.
• Darwinek. I was already going to nominate WikiProject Papua New Guinea. I have created many, many geographic articles about PNG, and still many are waiting to be written. - Darwinek 16:02, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
• Jayvdb. I'm primarily interested in W. H. R. Rivers (and s:Author:W.H.R.Rivers). As a result have made a start on Charles Elliot Fox and will continue to focus on creating articles relating to the St John's College expedition to the Torres Strait Islands in 1898. John Vandenberg 03:28, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

All members should feel free to add {{User WikiProject Melanesia}} to their userpages.

[edit] Departments

• Assessment - the assessment department.

[edit] Featured Articles

[edit] Articles in Peer Review

[edit] Good Articles

[edit] Did you knows (DYKs)

[edit] Templates

• {{WikiProject Melanesia}} - the project banner to be placed on the talk pages of articles.
• {{User WikiProject Melanesia}} is a userbox which all members can add to their talk pages.

[edit] Stubs

• {{Oceania-stub}} - Stub template for articles relating to Melanesia; to be put on the bottom of each article page.
  • {{Fiji-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to Fiji; to be put on the bottom of each article page.
    • {{Fiji-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for article relating to geography of Fiji
  • {{Nauru-stub}} - Stub notice for articles relating to Nauru; to be put on the bottom of each article page.
  • {{PapuaNewGuinea-stub}} - Stub notice for article relating to Papua New Guinea; to be put on the bottom of each article page.
    • {{PapuaNewGuinea-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for article relating to geography of Papua New Guinea

• • {{NewCaledonia-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for article relating to geography of New Caledonia
  • {{Solomons-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for article relating to geography of the Solomon Islands
  • {{Vanuatu-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for article relating to geography of Vanuatu

[edit] Resources

There are a tremendous number of resources available for this area. Editors should feel free to check the external links and references of the article or articles dealing with the specific area in consideration.