Wikipedia:WikiProject Piracy

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WikiProject Piracy

This WikiProject is about pirates and piracy-related topics.
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Portal: Portal:Piracy Piracy Portal
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template:		 {{WP-Piracybanner}}
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userbox:		 {{User Pirate}}
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Welcome aboard the Piracy WikiProject, a collaboration area and group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Piracy. (For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject and the Guide to WikiProjects).

Much like the rest of Wikipedia, everything you see here is a work in progress. Please correct mistakes and omissions as you see them.

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[edit] Goals

This proposed WikiProject will attempt to improve the quality and general coverage of subjects relating to Piracy, especially its "Golden Age" (1690-1730), as well as the Sea Dog/Corsair (1580-1650) and Buccaneering (1640-1690) eras up to the less covered modern period. The project will also verify the notability of piracy related subjects, expand and revise existing articles, and writing specific contributions (either in collaboration or by a single author) to requested articles related to piracy.

  • Propose new articles related to piracy.
  • Create piracy articles now in red-link status
  • Expand stubs and beginning articles on piracy to A or B status.
  • Patrol piracy articles for vandalism and misinformation and correct them.

Nominating articles for featured article status is not currently a goal. The featured article review process is involved, and I don’t know if tackling it will interfere with more important work. Anyone who thinks we should or should not make featured article status a goal, please state your opinion and reasoning on the talk page.

[edit] Parentage

This WikiProject was originally proposed by User:MadMax in March 2006 (see [1]) and, active during May-September 2006, was later merged with the project begun by User:Piratedan (as requested by User:Awiseman) in May 2007.

[edit] Descendant Wikiprojects

No descendant WikiProjects defined

[edit] Formatting

Biographies and other subjects generally follow standard Wikipedia "Manual of Style" formatting, although exceptions may be made though discussion and agreement among project members.

TALK section related to formatting

[edit] Scope

The scope of this page will be all forms of piracy at sea. While we expect the focus of effort to be Atlantic and Indian Ocean piracy in the 17th and 18th centuries, pirates from all over the world and from every era in history will be included. Among the materials we'll want to cover are:1) individual pirates, 2) individual pirate ships, 3) piratical life (articles, laws, customs, songs, etc.), 4) pirate tactics, to the extent these are distinguishable from ordinary naval tactics, 5) pirate weapons, 6) pirate geography (refuges, targets, sailing routes, etc.), 7) pirate victims (people, ships, and towns), 8) pirate nonfiction books and authors, 9) pirate fiction books and authors; 10) pirate movies, 11) pirate organizations (i.e. the Brethren of the Coast, Zheng Yi Sao’s fleet, etc.), and 12) pirate re-enactors and their groups.

[edit] Hierarchy definition

Piracy related topics can be placed in a range of categories, ranging from specific types (ex. privateers, buccaneers, corsairs, etc.), regions to historical periods.

The subjects include, however are no limited to people, events, places and related information on:

TALK section related to hierarchy definition

[edit] Privateers

Inevitably there will be some overlap between piracy and privateering. We fully expect to cover many privateers in our articles. However, for a given privateer to be included in the project, he should have been at risk for execution or other punishment as a pirate if captured, whether because his targets' government did not recognize his letter of marque, or because he exceeded his commission and crossed the line into piracy. Thus, for example, Henry Morgan and his crew would be within our purview, because their attack on Panama was not authorized by Morgan's letter of marque. The project probably also covers John Paul Jones, because Britain did not recognize the Continental Congress's right to grant letters of marque, and thus Jones would likely have faced trial and execution as a pirate had the British caught him. On the other hand, any Saint-Malo or Dunkirk corsair whose sole claim to fame is legally plundering Britain’s commerce during the Wars of the Grand Alliance or Spanish Succession would not be considered a pirate here, because Britain did not treat such privateers as pirates.

[edit] Smuggling

A pirate is a robber, not simply a murderer. He (or she) forcibly takes what belongs to other people. Thus, smuggling is not covered in this project, even when legally defined as piracy (as in the 19th century Atlantic slave trade for instance). Likewise, modern-day maritime drug traffickers or 19th century opium smugglers in the China trade are not included, even though both were often as violent and lawless as pirates. Of course, modern pirate gangs that do raid ships or towns will be covered, even though such gangs frequently are involved in smuggling also.

[edit] Intellectual property piracy

Copyright and trademark piracy will not be part of this project. That worthy topic is best covered by our mates at WikiProject Law.

[edit] Guidelines

We have no guidelines except for the optional use of the templates below. Use these boxes if they suit you, discard them if you don’t.

[edit] Pending Tasks

Here’s some stuff that needs to be done. It’s more than swabbing the deck, laddies! If you see anything you want to tackle, please make a note beside the article name saying that you are taking it on (and when, if you are not doing it immediately). If you want help, ask!

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Piracy: edit · history · watch · refresh

[edit] Directory of Participants

Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.


  1. Pirate Dan 17:13, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
  2. YaanchSpeak! 00:26, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
  3. AW 17:02, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
  4. Loki 18:07, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
  5. Adolphus79 16:53, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
  6. MadMax, General knowledge (specifically buccaneers of the 16th to 18th century and modern piracy from 1960 to present day).
  7. Bibliomaniac15 01:45, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
  8. íslenska hurikein #12(samtal) 11:52, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
  9. Aardvark92 16:56, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
  10. -- Chrislk02 (Chris Kreider) 14:52, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
  11. ...o0O [GUTH3] O0o... 20:21, 10 June 2007 (UTC) Piracy of Southeast China (mainly the "third wave" of the early 19th c. (Zheng Yi, Zheng Yi Sao, Wushi Er, Zhang Bao, etc.), Moorish piracy of the 16th c. (Khayr al-Din), etc.
  12. Deflagro Will try to help anyway I can
  13. Nishkid64 (talk) 22:04, 10 July 2007 (UTC) Currently working on Stede Bonnet.
  14. Mad Max 17:01, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
  15. Voot42 21:49, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
  16. PirateHunter 18:48, 16 September 2007 (UTC) Modern Piracy
  17. Steven M Lafitte 2:37, 24 Sept 2007 (CST) [Verified descendant of Jean Lafitte and specialty in Jean Lafitte history and lineage.]
  18. Bouncehoper 23:39, 25 September 2007 (UTC) (Am relative of Richard Worley, so I've been watching that page. Don't know too much about pirates otherwise, but willing to help with grammar and the like.)
  19. Neil ム 09:44, 28 September 2007 (UTC) - got asked to join after pestering this group to take a look at Edward Low, which I'm trying to get to FA. I've decided Golden Age of Piracy pirates are awesome, probably from playing Pirates! too much when I was little, and will be working on these much more in future.
  20. Martinj63 Any port in a storm Yarrggh!
  21. The Bold Guy Mainly concerned in Frisian pirates, such as Pier Gerlofs Donia and his nephew Wijerd Gerlofs Donia
  22. Sterlingharris 01:28, 1 November 2007 (UTC) I am currently working on my doctoral dissertation concentrating on the Golden Age of Piracy and am particularly interested in egalitarian and collectivist ethos among early modern Atlantic pirates.
  23. RepublicanJacobite Very interested in the research done by Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker into pirates and their connections with the revolutionary period of the 18th century.
  24. SpeedyReturn 14:09, 8 November 2007 (UTC) Pirates: Real, Imaginary, and Playable!
  25. Bedford
  26. Chrisfow (talk) - I'm currently conducting research into how states should deal with modern piracy and expect to finish and perhaps publish my paper in the summer of 2008. I expect to spend a lot of time editing in the modern era of this project instead of researching and writing my actual paper ;)
  27. Jóhann Heiðar Árnason As a native Icelander i could help with The Turkish abductions. I'm very interested in Barbary Pirates especially Murat Reis the Younger.
  28. shas (talk) 17:55, 11 January 2008 (UTC) I'm interested in the Golden Age of Piracy primarily, largely because of the rerelease of Pirates and also the PotC series (heh).
  29. BlackPearl14Pirate Lord-ess 20:17, 23 January 2008 (UTC) - I have exceptional knowledge on piracy, the Golden Age of Piracy is my favorite specific period. This is great, because now, in addition to my obsessions with Pirates, there is the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy which, of course...I am addicted to! Thanks for creating this great group!
  30. Sean The Spartan93- On the Mizzen Braces!
  31. Wloveral - Interested in Barbary Pirates --Wloveral (talk) 02:57, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
  32. Pecopteris - [[Interested in Blackbeard and types of shot (Chain shot, grape shot, cannister shot, etc.
  33. Panic!out - I love all things pirates, especially Pirates of the Caribbean.
  34. TheBadgerOfTruth - I am fascinated by piracy in general, as well as Pirates of the Caribbean. Will help when possible!

This is a listing of Wikipedians who have greatly contributed to Piracy on Wikipedia and/or created many of the suggested guidlines for future piracy related articles. Apologies for those overlooked.


General Strategy and Discussion forum

See talk page

[edit] Articles

Piracy-related
articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 2 2
Good article GA 1 1
B 1 7 2 2 5 17
Start 7 7 2 66 82
Stub 14 5 3 41 63
Assessed 1 30 14 7 113 165
Unassessed 159 159
Total 1 30 14 7 272 324

[edit] Featured content

[edit] Candidates


[edit] New articles

Archive
Archives
2006, 2007


Please feel free to list your new Piracy-related articles here (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 on the Main Page.

To list an article, please leave the article's name and your signature (ex. [[article name]] by ~~~~) in order to list your contribution to the project.¨

[edit] Requested articles

  • Lords of the Spanish Main (game with a piracy theme)

[edit] Collaboration and review

Collaboration of the week
Peer review
Assessment

[edit] Templates

A list of all the the WikiProject's templates can be found in Category:WikiProject_Piracy_templates. Please add in any new ones too.

Project banners:

  • {{WP-Piracybanner}} – this is our project banner, for attachment to the top of the talk page in pirate articles.
  • {{piracy}} – add this to editors' talk pages to invite them to join WikiProject Piracy.

Userboxes:

  • {{User Pirate}} – a userbox for use by members of this WikiProject.
  • {{User:Aeon1006/Userboxes/User Pirate}} – here is another userbox which project members may want to use. Adding it to your user page will automatically enter you in the category Wikipedians interested in pirates. Thanks to Aeon1006 (talk · contribs) for creating this userbox.

Article pages:

Infoboxes:


[edit] Categories

[–] Piracy
[–] Barbary Wars
[+] Barbary pirates
[+] Battles of the Barbary Wars
[+] People of the Barbary Wars
[+] Barbary Wars ships
[–] Piracy in fiction
[+] Fictional pirates
[+] Pirate books
[+] Pirate films
[+] Pirates of the Caribbean
[+] Pirates of the Spanish Main
[+] Video games about pirates
[–] Pirates
[+] Pirates by nationality
[+] Barbary pirates
[+] Female pirates
[+] Fictional pirates
[–] Privateers
[+] Dunkirkers
[+] Privateer ships
[–] Years in piracy
[–] Piracy stubs


[–] WikiProject Piracy
[–] WikiProject Piracy participants
[–] WikiProject Piracy articles
[+] Piracy-related articles by importance
[+] Piracy-related articles by quality
[–] WikiProject Piracy templates


[edit] Related projects

[edit] Resources

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Pirates and privateers
Types
Places
Famous pirates
and privateers
Naval officers
Miscellaneous
Modern

[edit] Bibliography

  • Botting, Douglas. The Pirates (The Seafarers; v.1). Alexandria, Virginia: Time-Life Books, 1978. ISBN 0-8094-2652-8.
  • Burnett, John (2002). Dangerous Waters: Modern Piracy and Terror on the High Seas.
  • Butler, Lindley S. Pirates, Privateers, and Rebel Raiders of the Carolina Coast, Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.
  • Cawthorne, Nigel (2004). History of Pirates: Blood and Thunder on the High Seas.
  • Cordingly, David (1997). Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates. Harvest Books.
  • Earle, Peter (2003). The Pirate Wars. Methuen.
  • Ellms, Charles. The Pirates [Originally published as "The Pirates' Own Book"]. New York: Grammercy Books, 1996. ISBN 0-517-18251-3.
  • Exquemelin, Alexander O. The Buccaneers of America. Anapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1993. ISBN 1-55750-077-0. (available in many translations and editions, full text online here.)
  • Jameson, J. Franklin (1923). Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period: Illustrative Documents. MacMillan.
  • Johnson, Captain Charles. A General History of the Robberies & Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates. New York: The Lyons Press, 1998. ISBN 1-55821-766-5.
  • Konstam, Angus (2006) Blackbeard: America's Most Notorious Pirate. Wiley.
  • Konstam, Angus (2003). The Pirate Ship: 1660-1730, Oxford: Osprey Publishing Ltd.
  • Konstam, Angus (1998). Pirates: 1660-1730. Osprey Publishing Ltd.
  • Konstam, Angus (2001). Privateers & Pirates. Osprey Publishing, Ltd.
  • Konstam, Angus (2000). Buccaneers: 1620-1700. Osprey Publishing, Ltd.
  • Konstam, Angus, and David Cordingly (2006). The History of Pirates. Mercury Books.
  • Lane, Kris E (1998). Pillaging the Empire: Piracy in the Americas 1500-1750. M.E. Sharpe.
  • Langewiesche, William (2004). The Outlaw Sea: A World of Freedom, Chaos, and Crime. North Point Press.
  • Little, Benerson (2005). The Sea Rover's Practice: Pirate Tactics and Techniques, 1630-1730. Potomac Books.
  • Rediker, Marcus (1987). Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700-1750. Cambridge University Press.
  • Rediker, Marcus (2004). Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age. Beacon Press.
  • Ritchie, Robert (1986). Captain Kidd and the War Against the Pirates. Harvard University Press.
  • Rogozinski, Jan. Pirates! An A-Z Encyclopedia. New York: Da Capo Press, 1995. ISBN 0-306-80722-X.
  • Rogozinski, Jan. Pirates!: Brigands, Buccaneers, and Privateers in Fact, Fiction, and Legend. New York: Da Capo Press, 1996. ISBN 0-306-80722-X
  • Rogozinski, Jan (2000). Honor Among Thieves: Captain Kidd, Henry Every, and the Pirate Democracy in the Indian Ocean. Stackpole Books.
  • Sherry, Frank (1986). Raiders and Rebels: The Golden Age of Piracy. Hearst Marine Books.
  • Stephens, John R. (1996). Captured by Pirates: 22 Firsthand Accounts of Murder & Mayhem on the High Seas. Fern Canyon Press.
  • The Tryals of Major Stede Bonnet, and Other Pirates. London, Printed for Benj. Cowse at the Rose and Crown in St Paul's Church-Yard, 1719.
  • Turley, Hans (1999). Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash: Piracy, Sexuality, and Masculine Identity. New York University Press.
  • Zacks, Richard (2002). The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd. Hyperion.

[edit] Magazines

[edit] External