Wikipedia:WikiProject Philately
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[edit] PortalCheck out the Philately Portal which is up and running well. Please help by making suggestion for future Selected article nomination and Stamp of the month nomination sections. These two sections are now set up to rotate between the archived articles with the use of the "Random portal component" template. Add the portal and all the sub-pages you might be interested in on your watchlist. [edit] Featured article
[edit] ScopeThis WikiProject aims primarily to present large numbers of articles relating to philately, postage stamps, postal history and postal systems. To understand the detail of our scope, see category:Philately and look at the sub-categories there. Note that a couple of the sub-categories are currently being reviewed as explained in the To-do box above. [edit] Promoting the projectTo promote this project a new article banner has been developed as recommended by the WikiProject Council guide.
Please use this template on all postage stamps and postal history articles. [edit] StubsOur main aim is the creation of articles about philately. An article doesn't have to be perfect when it is first created. You can just begin with a stub and for that we have our own philately stub which is:
There is a suitable alternative for articles that are more relevant to postal systems than philately and this is:
[edit] New articlesNewer articles at the bottom, please.
[edit] Updated articlesNewer articles at the bottom, please. [edit] ParticipantsIf you are interested in helping or contributing, please add your username to the bottom of the list and give a brief description of your activity. Thanks and welcome. Active participants
Inactive participants Lists editors who have not made any philatelic edits during the last six months, who have added their names, or have asked to be added because they are currently inactive. If you become active again, please move your name to the active participants list above. If you retire from Wikipedia, please remove your name, if you remember.
[edit] Studies[edit] Country StudiesThis is the biggest task currently being undertaken by the project. Our aim is that each stamp-issuing entity, current or historic, should have either a main article or a postal history section within a major article about the entity, that describes both its postal history and its postage stamp issues. In practice, every issuer has a reference in the Category:Compendium of postage stamp issuers which forms the index for the country survey. The compendium references are all micro articles and many are complete in themselves, while others provide summary information and linkage to a main article elsewhere. As described in the To-do Box above, however, relatively few main articles have been written so far, but progress is being made. Current issuers should have a standalone main article that is xref'd from the country's main article, typically from a "miscellaneous topics" section or from a short postal history section. Alternatively, the postal history section can be expanded to contain all the necessary information. The latter approach should be considered for a small country, a former colony or a country that no longer exists as an independent nation: e.g., Abu Dhabi. Many issuers were foreign powers operating in another country either through a post office abroad or through military occupation; as these issues involve more than one country, it is recommended that they have independent articles and not a section in the article of one country or the other, but they should be xref'd as before. Entities which made only a small contribution to postal history need only a section in a general article about the entity, assuming that the entity itself has its own article. Otherwise, the reference in the Compendium may be sufficient. Be careful about redirecting historic entities to the present-day countries that replaced them as this can be fraught with difficulty in postal terms. For example, German East Africa had a postal history that was entirely independent of Tanganyika and Tanzania. A word about article titles. Depending on the actual coverage of the article, titles such as Postage stamps and postal history of X or Postage stamps of X or Postal history of X are generally used. For military occupations, a title such as Postal History of the German Occupation of Poland (1939-1945) could be appropriate, and for peacetime postal services of one country outside its own borders, a title such as Russian post offices in the Turkish Empire. In some cases, none of these will be appropriate and it is then best to stay close to the naming used by major catalogues like Stanley Gibbons Ltd. A postal history should note key dates and begin with the first introduction of a regular postal service, the introduction of postage stamps, etc. Any significant postage stamps or issues should be discussed, preferably with reference to information in the Gibons catalogue. Any political or historical events that impacted the postal service should be mentioned. The length and depth of the survey will depend mainly on the country. Please conform to Wikipedia standards and provide suitable linkages as necessary. Illustrations will help the presentation and should ideally include images of covers, postmarks or stamps that are representative of a period. Common stamps are preferable to rarities as it is important to convey the idea of regular usage. Postmarks connecting a stamp to a specific place and time are a good idea. For examples of country studies completed to date, see Category:Postal history by country. The definitive index to all postal studies by issuer is the Compendium which contains references to all issuing entities in alphabetic order. These references are micro articles and many of them are complete in themselves, though most will contain a link to a main article elsewhere on the site. This work includes not just a reference to the main issuer in its commonly understood form but also ancillary references such as abbreviations on overprints or alternate names on inscriptions that may be the reader's reason for lookup. There is also a quick reference in three parts: List of entities that have issued postage stamps (A - E), List of entities that have issued postage stamps (F - L), and List of entities that have issued postage stamps (M - Z); plus List of postal services abroad which can be used to determine progress to date. See also category:Postal organisations for authorities such as the Royal Mail or Deutsche Post. [edit] Stamp issue articlesMany issues of stamps justify closer attention than is appropriate for the general survey: e.g., the Empire issue of Italy; the Prexies of USA; and the Yacht issue of the German Colonies. These articles should be in much greater depth with content primarily aimed at philatelists. They should be indexed via category:Postage stamps. [edit] Stamp articles
Some famous postage stamps such as the Penny Black, Inverted Jenny, etc. justify creation of individual articles. Please see: category:Postage stamps. Most individual stamps do not justify construction of a main article but are certainly worthy of mention in articles about their issuers. The most practical approach to this would be to include a separate sub-section about the individual stamp in the main article about its issuer; or in an article about its own general issue (see above), if appropriate. A Rare Stamps template is available for use in rare stamp articles. Please copy the format from here and not from the template page as the code is more complicated, so just replace the text and brackets, { or }, after the = sign, as appropriate. [edit] Topical listsWP has great potential as an aid for topical collectors, as in List of people on stamps and Ships on stamps. [edit] Membership BannerThe project membership banner is displayed below. Please take a copy of this and display it on your user page.
[edit] UserboxThese two Userboxs are available for use on your Userpage by adding the code shown below.
The only other template currently in use is the active project banner at the top of this page and the discussion page. [edit] Assessment schemeArticle assessment is now being carried out using the Wikipedia 1.0 grading scheme for quality and importance ranking. For:
The key pages are:
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