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Western Australia Portal

Western Australia articles		Importance
Western Australia articles		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA	1		1	3	1	6
	A	1		1			2
	GA		1	3	3	2	9
	B	6	20	21	36	15	98
	Start	7	79	180	553	252	1071
	Stub	2	43	158	972	351	1526
	Assessed	17	143	364	1567	621	2712
	Unassessed					29	29
	Total	17	143	364	1567	650	2741

[edit] General goals

To coordinate and improve articles related to Western Australia;
To foster collaboration between editors in the Category:Wikipedians in Western Australia;
To establish appropriate linkages with the Wikipedia Australia project and portal;
To ascertain and identify the Western Australian component of other Wikipedia projects;
To seek peer review and collaboration of editors in other Wikipedia projects. (proposed goal)

[edit] Specific goals

To improve iconic and high-profile Western Australian articles to FA quality. e.g.

Places: Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Fremantle, Western Australia, Shark Bay, Fremantle Prison, Murujuga
People: John Forrest, C. Y. O'Connor, Moondyne Joe
History: Batavia (ship), Swan River Colony
Flora: Anigozanthos manglesii (Mangles Kangaroo Paw), floral emblem; Eucalyptus marginata (Jarrah)
Fauna: Numbat, faunal emblem; Black Swan, ornithological emblem; Gogonasus, fossil emblem; Ozraptor, the only named Western Australian dinosaur; Sandgroper.
Anthropology; Aboriginal cultures of Western Australia.

[edit] Guidelines

To keep to the guidelines as designated in Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Guide

[edit] Project scope

WikiProject Western Australia maintains and improves articles within the Western Australia category structure.

[–] Western Australia

[+] Books about Western Australia

[+] Buildings and structures in Western Australia

[+] Conservation in Western Australia

[+] Crime in Western Australia

[+] Culture in Western Australia

[+] Education in Western Australia

[+] Energy in Western Australia

[+] Geography of Western Australia

[+] Government of Western Australia

[+] History of Western Australia

[+] Images of Western Australia

[+] Western Australia-related lists

[+] Natural history of Western Australia

[+] Organisations based in Western Australia

[+] People from Western Australia

[+] Politics of Western Australia

[+] Prisons in Western Australia

[+] Science and technology in Western Australia

[+] Sport in Western Australia

[+] Transport in Western Australia

[+] Visitor attractions in Western Australia

[+] Western Australia stubs

[edit] Portal

Western Australia Portal

The Western Australian project has a portal, a 'main page' directory for readers and editors. It features a selected article, biography, image, DYK, news and links to articles with the scope of this project.

Portal:Western Australia

[edit] Parent portals

[edit] Related sub portals

[edit] Announcements

[edit] General

Transcluded from template shared with Portal. Edit

Here are some tasks you can do to help with Western Australia:

The current Australian collaboration of the fortnight article is Murrumbidgee River.
Vital articles: To be done. 100 Most Influential Western Australians is a possible starting point
Requested articles: Alf Barbagallo • Constitution of Western Australia • Dandaragan, Western Australia • John William Dakin • Flora of Western Australia • Fremantle Harbour • Alistair Hepburn • Kimberley Land Council • George Walpole Leake • Jill Perryman • Lionel Samson • Urban and regional planning in Western Australia • Young Australia League
Expansion needed: Blackwall Reach (Western Australia) • Busselton, Western Australia • May Gibbs • Heytesbury Pty Ltd • May Holman • Macmahon Holdings Ltd • Ross McLarty • Mount Henry Peninsula • Murujuga • New Norcia, Western Australia • Whadjuk • Tim Winton
Requested images: Requested photographs in Western Australia • Requested photographs in Perth
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[edit] Stub management

We now have our own stub: {{WesternAustralia-stub}}
Continue to use {{WesternAustralia-geo-stub}} for stubs on geographic places in Western Australia; all other stubs in the Western Australia category tree should use the new stub. Hesperian 11:26, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Articles and miscellanea for deletion/renaming

Here is the place to alert participants of current debates on WA articles. The entry should be removed once the discussion is closed.

See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Australia and; See also: Wikipedia:Australian Wikipedians' notice board/AfD
Image

Fair use rationale for Image:Prosh 2005.jpg and Image:Prosh 2006.jpg at Prosh (University of Western Australia)
Image:WA-1995.gif 12 February 2008 Y Done

[edit] FAC/GAC

Black Swan emblems and popular culture‎ was promoted to GA-Class

[edit] FAR

none currently

[edit] GA

Argyle diamond mine - has just lost GA status

[edit] Participants

The Giant Ram at Wagin - one of 'Australia's Big Things'.

Add your name here to join. You might also like to place your user name in Category:WikiProject Western Australia members manually, or by placing either

{{User WPWA}} or

{{User WikiProject Western Australia}} on your user page.

Auroranorth
Bjenks
Callophylla
Dan Arndt
Five Years
Ghostieguide
Gnangarra
Graham87
Grant65 (thanks Hesp)
Greatwalk
Hesperian
Hezbolarki Fun Ship
Hossen27
James086
John D. Croft
Longhair -- why not. I plan to visit one day anyway :)
M W Johnson 23:12, 17 December 2006 (UTC) Yay!
Mark
Moondyne
Nachoman-au
Orderinchaos Fantastic idea!
Petedavo
RaNdOm26
Renesis13
Retarius
Rolinator
Rowlaj01
Sandstorm6299
Sarah
Scoreed
Somno
Tarkyn 24
Thewinchester
Thungarra
Yungur
Zamphuor
Zivko85

[edit] Welcoming new participants and users

There is the Australian - Template:Welcome-au — a customised welcome note for new Australian users.

[edit] Meetup

	Perth Meetup Next: TBA Last: 13/02/2008 This box: view • talk • edit

WA Meetup

[edit] Awards

The project now has its own barnstar. This award can be given by any project member to any other editor who has made significant and useful contributions to Wikipedia's articles associated with Western Australia]].
[[Image:Barnstar-WA.png|frame|right|<text> ~~~~]]

[edit] Quality articles

Western Australia-related Featured articles

Banksia brownii (also featured on the German Wikipedia)
Banksia epica
Banksia telmatiaea
Hamersley, Western Australia
Red-winged Fairy-wren
Yagan (also featured on the German Wikipedia)

Western Australia-related Good articles

[edit] Article improvement

[edit] Templates and categories

Copy and paste the template

on the talk page of WA articles. Instructions are at Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia/Project banner.

If the article already has WP Australia but not WA - simply add WA=yes - inside the brackets.

Add the template to new or short articles

to an article's main page. It will then appear in the category:

[[Category:Western Australia stubs]]

[edit] 'Wikipedia:Notability'

Close monitoring of the cleanup project is needed to maintain a close understanding of what is happening in this area.

Great Walk Networking - is this group notable? See the talk page for more information. -- Longhair\^talk 09:03, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
responded to in part on the talk page here and article page as well..Satu Suro 09:40, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Requested photographs of Western Australia

New image:Proposed Borders 1838

For Western Australia-related articles needing a photograph, use {{reqphotoin|Western Australia}} in the talk page. These will appear in this category;

Requested photographs in Western Australia

[edit] Articles improved by this project

Convict era of Western Australia
- ~~Convictism in Western Australia~~ Your urgent attention is needed all, Going through GA nom at the moment, Almost there, Please help push it over the line.
  - Sorry guys, I wrote this and have all the refs. I was kinda sorta aware that you were pushing for GA, and should have stepped up to do the ref inlining by now. I'll do it this week. Hesperian 23:26, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
- Congrats and thanks.. Made it.Ghostieguide 12:41, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Categories

That might have potential candidate articles or subjects in Western Australia which may not be obvious or apparent to a new editor.

Category:Ghost towns in Australia
Category:Mining towns in Western Australia
Category:Companies based in Perth - ~~one of our gems - totally empty!~~ Now has 31 articles and 1 subcat.

[edit] Lists

The full list of lists is at - Category:Western Australia-related lists -

- here are some:-

- However some are within articles, such as:

Governor of Western Australia which has a list

[edit] Lists - Australian - with no WA content

Help maintain Australia-related lists

[edit] Oddities and contenders for various accolades

Contenders for oddest and oldest articles and categories about Western Australia

- Talk:Connie Sue Highway - is it possible the date marker was wrong?
- UTC+8:45 - possibly a unique time zone unto itself?
- Emu_War - the talk page items are quite telling
- CRI_Perth - Beijing direct in Perth?