Wikipedia:WikiProject Irish Maritime

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Welcome to the Irish Maritime WikiProject, a collaboration area and group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Irish Maritime, seafaring and inland waterways articles.

[edit] Goals

To establish a cohesive direction for the collection of articles making up this project
To highlight the maritime nature of the island of Ireland on Wikipedia
To improve Wikipedia's coverage of Irish maritime issues
Create guidelines for articles about Irish maritime issues

[edit] Scope

The scope of this project is all articles which fall in the Category:Ireland which have a maritime related focus, including, but not limited to:

[edit] Ports

List of Irish Ports

[edit] Maritime Organisations

Marine related bodies operating in Ireland

Bord Iascaigh Mhara - Irish Fisheries Board : [1]
Commissioners of Irish Lights : [2]
Customs & Excise, Irish Revenue : [3]
Naval Service : [4]
Harbour Master Association : [5]
Institute of Marine Engineers
Irish Marina Operators Association
Irish Marine Federation
Irish Ports Association
Master Mariners Association : [6]
National Maritime College of Ireland : [7]
Royal National Lifeboat Institution (Ireland) : [8]
Seaman's Union of Ireland
Stella Maris - [9]
Department of Communications, Marine & Natural Resources : [10]
The Department of Transport - Commercial Harbours
The Department of the Environment - Dredging
The Irish Coast Guard : [11]
National Maritime Museum of Ireland
The Marine Institute : [12]
Maritime Institute of Ireland : [13]
The Marine Survey Office : [14]
Mercantile Marine Office (MMO) : [15]
Irish Sailing Association : [16]
Irish Water Safety Association : [17]
Irish Maritime Development Office : [18]
Cruising Association of Ireland : [19]
Irish Underwater Council ; [20]
Irish Exporters Association : [21]

[edit] Entries with maritime content/interest

Plan W

[edit] Main Irish Maritime Laws

1946 Harbours Act
1996 Harbours Act

[edit] Irish water craft - Historical/Design/Achievements

[edit] Open tasks

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Irish Maritime:

edit · history · watch · refresh

Here are some tasks you can do:

Requests: Coiste an Asgard, Maritime Institute of Ireland, Royal St. George Yacht Club, Shannon-Erne Waterway, Tom MacSweeney, Carlingford Lough Disaster, B+I Line
Expand: Bord Iascaigh Mhara, Irish Naval Service + LÉ Aoife, LÉ Muirchú, etc.
Stubs: Shannon Estuary
Update: Dublin Port Tunnel
Other: non-copyright images for Spanish Armada in Ireland - lethal scenic route along the west coast!, image:Irish_Lights_Flag.png - Ensign of the CIL (Northern Ireland) missing from CIL article

[edit] Participants

This is just an informal headcount and directory; no strings attached! Anyone interested can list himself/herself (or others) here alphabetically (there's no leader).

User name	Location	Interests
Alison	Cupertino, California	Maritime history, article formatting, administrivia, contributing images
Brendan	Donegal & East Lothian	History of the Hebrides, Norse-Gaels
BrownHairedGirl	White Rose county	Administrivia for now, but hope some day to have the energy to work on harbours on the west coat
cambria49	Hobart, Tasmania, Australia	Irish Sea Passenger and Ro-Ro ferry services
Peter Clarke	County Down	Shannon-Erne Waterway; Clogherhead; Oriel Wind Farm (offshore);Category:Lifeboats in Ireland; Category:Lifeboats in the Republic of Ireland; Category:Lifeboats in Northern Ireland, Treaty Ports (Ireland)
Clement	Dublin, Ireland	Irish maritime history
fenitharbour	Tralee	Marinas, Kerry coastline. Tralee Bay - History - Irish Marine Legislation
Frelke	Surrey, U.K.	Commercial shipping (including Irish Shipping Limited) and ports
shtove	Dorset	Tudor re-conquest of Ireland
Coolavokig	Cork, Ireland	Shipping, Ships, Cork Harbour
Gherkin30	London	Shipping, Ships, Aviation, London Transport, RAF

[edit] Articles

[edit] Featured content

[edit] Candidates

The article on John de Courcy Ireland would probably be suitable for this WikiProject.

[edit] New articles

Please feel free to list your new Irish Maritime-related articles in the Project Log Project log (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box the Main Page.

[edit] Collaboration and review

Collaboration of the week

Peer review

Assessment

[edit] Templates

[edit] Categories

[edit] Project categories

[edit] Related categories

[edit] Project banner

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Irish Maritime.

WikiProject Irish Maritime is an attempt to expand, improve and standardise the content and structure of Maritime, seafaring and inland waterways articles associated with the island of Ireland. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this notice, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.

Ireland Portal

Talk pages related to this WikiProject can be tagged with {{WPIrish Maritime}} in order to let people know we exist, so that they can contact us when needed. Note: this banner should not be substituted.

It would be nice to maybe create an invitation template for the talk pages of potential project contributors.

[edit] Resources

Project log - please feel free to update this!
Add or find useful images here!

[edit] Related projects

Categories: To do | WikiProject Irish Maritime