Wikipedia:WikiProject Piracy

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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.

Contents 1 Goals 2 Scope 2.1 Privateers 2.2 Smuggling 2.3 Intellectual property piracy 3 Guidelines 4 Open tasks 4.1 Pages needing creation 4.2 Pages needing expansion 4.3 Pages tagged as needing work 5 Participants 6 Articles 6.1 Featured content 6.1.1 Candidates 6.2 New articles 6.3 Collaboration and review 7 Templates 8 Categories 9 Resources 9.1 Printed books 9.2 Printed periodicals 9.3 Internet sites 9.4 Internet forums 9.5 Related projects

[edit] Goals

• 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] 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] 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] Open 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!

[edit] Pages needing creation

Aleko Lilius (Finnish writer who reported on Lai Choi San)

Articles of piracy (maybe should be called “Pirate articles”)

Daniel Montbars (Montbars the Exterminator, buccaneer)

Diabolito (19th century Caribbean pirate).

Fancy (Every's pirate ship)

Fancy (England's pirate ship

Flying Dragon (Condent's pirate ship)

Henry Mainwaring (Elizabethan sea dog)

Ignatius Pell (boatswain of Bonnet's crew and star witness at their trial)

Israel Hands (Blackbeard’s crewman; the fictional character is adequately covered in Treasure Island) .

James Misson (legendary pirate captain, alleged founder of Libertatia)

John Bowen (pirate captain)

John Lopez (alias John Russell, Captain Lowe's quartermaster)

John Oxenham, (Elizabethan pirate in the East Pacific)

John Phillips (Golden Age pirate captain, whose articles are among the few extant).

Lai Choi San (20th century female Chinese pirate)

“No Purchase, No Pay” (also “No Prey, No Pay”, compensation scheme of Golden Age pirate crews)

Nicholas Trott (governor of Bahamas, 1696)

Quedah Merchant (later the Adventure Prize, captured by Captain Kidd)

Sir Nicholas Trott (judge who sentenced Stede Bonnet and crew to death).

Pirate Round (piratical route to Indian Ocean)

Thomas Verney (Elizabethan pirate)

77 red links in the article List of pirate films

105 red links in the article List of pirates

[edit] Pages needing expansion

Adam Baldridge

Adventure Galley

Chalonor Ogle (Royal Navy officer)

Charles Eden

Charles Vane

Edward England

John Gow

Edward Lowe

Emanuel Wynn

George Lowther

Henry Every

Pierre Le Grand

Robert Maynard

Roche Braziliano

Thomas Cocklyn

Walter Kennedy

William Rhett

Woodes Rogers

[edit] Pages tagged as needing work

Alexandre Exquemelin (tagged for lack of sources)

Buccaneer (tagged as needing cleanup)

Golden age of piracy (tagged as confusing)

[edit] 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. Yaanch^Speak! 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)

[edit] Articles

[edit] Featured content

[edit] Candidates

[edit] New articles

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.

[edit] Collaboration and review

Collaboration of the week

Peer review

Assessment

[edit] Templates

• This is our project banner, for attachment to the top of the talk page in pirate articles. The code is {{Template:WP-Piracybanner}}

WikipediaWikiProject Piracy lies in the latitude of WikiProject Piracy, a crew of scurvy editors bound to sharpen up all Wikipedia's piracy-related articles. If you want to ship with us and help improve this and other Piracy-related articles, lay aboard the project page and sign on for a berth.

• This is a stub for pirate-related articles (I don’t know who first devised this stub. Thank you, whoever you are). The code is {{pirate-stub}}