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[edit] Policy

Western Australia articles		Importance
Western Australia articles		Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA		3	3
	A		3	3
	GA		7	7
	B		36	36
	Start		248	248
	Stub	1	446	447
	Assessed	1	743	744
	Unassessed	0	1110	1110
	Total	1	1853	1854

[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), our floral emblem; Eucalyptus marginata (Jarrah)
Fauna: Numbat, our faunal emblem; Black Swan, our ornithological emblem; Gogonasus, our fossil emblem; Ozraptor, the only named Western Australian dinosaur; Sandgroper.

[edit] Guidelines

Policy guidelines of

Wikipedia:Etiquette and Wikipedia:Civility
image use,
templates, category,
point of view (WP:NPOV) and bias (WP:CSB),
Wikipedia:Notability, and WP:Verifiability (being replaced by Attribution)
article structure

can be drawn from the relevant wikipedia project.

The guidelines of overlapping WikiProjects can be applied to the specific articles. See overlap below

[edit] Project scope

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

Slender Tree Frog

Conservation status

Least Concern

Scientific classification

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Hylidae
Genus:	Litoria
Species:	L. adelaidensis

Binomial name

Litoria adelaidensis
Gray, 1841

Distribution of the Slender Tree Frog

[edit] Announcements

WikiProject Western Australia is underway! Please help the development of this project by contributing to the talk page.
WikiProject Western Australia participants are encouraged to work out a time and place for our first meetup (see below).
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

List of Western Australian JSHAA Member Schools is still happening
The University Computer Club (AfD discussion)
UniSFA - tagged CSD

[edit] FAC/GAC

Hamersley, Western Australia will appear on the front page as Todays featured article on the 14th April.

[edit] Participants

the historic National Hotel in Fremantle is gutted by fire.

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.

Callophylla
clarkerst
Dan Arndt
Fancyfootwork
Ghostieguide
Gnangarra
Graham87
Grant65 (thanks Hesp)
Greatwalk
Hesperian
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!
Moondyne
Nachoman-au
Orderinchaos Fantastic idea!
Petedavo
RaNdOm26
Renesis13
Rolinator
SatuSuro
Thungarra
Twenty Years - Specialising in South Perth, Aquinas College, CBC Perth, WA Cricket and related.
Yungur
Zamphuor

[edit] Meetup

WA Meetup

[edit] Quality articles

There are currently 4 Western Australia-related Featured articles

Banksia brownii (also featured on the German Wikipedia)
Banksia epica
Hamersley, Western Australia
Yagan (also featured on the German Wikipedia)

There are currently 8 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] Requests for improvement

Or add to this list below by clicking 'edit' :

Murujuga fmr Burrup Page. Current events raise profile here and overseas.
May Gibbs taught and inspired in WA
New Norcia, Western Australia - B-class article at present.
Busselton, Western Australia - B-class article at present.
Whadjuk - good article potential, needs work (not a great deal actually!) and sourcing
Mount Henry Peninsula - could you all have a look over this before I put it up for peer review, ty Yungur 12:48, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
Blackwall Reach, Western Australia - tagged as hoax
Tim Winton - more could be done for Western Australia's (and arguably Australia's) most successful author.

[edit] I can't believe we don't have an article on...!

Rischbieth in the 1900s(?)

May Holman
Lionel Samson
George Walpole Leake
Jurien, Western Australia -- 17 March
Dandaragan, Western Australia
Fremantle Herald
Jon Doust -- 11 March
Peter Holland -- 12 March
Bessie Rischbieth ... on its way!
Claude de Bernales -- 9 April
Norman Brearley
Fremantle Harbour
Modesto Varischetti
Yallingup, Western Australia
Gordon Stephenson not a west aussie but pretty important -- 14 March
Alistair Hepburn partner of Stephenson, often forgotten
the gold rush (Sorry, don't have a good title for this yet)
Sandstone, Western Australia - Mid West town
Leinster, Western Australia - northern Goldfields town
Alf Barbagallo -- businessman, motor racing

[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

See also

Requested photographs in Perth

[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!

[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

List of Australian military memorials

[edit] Oddities

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?

- Category:Companies based in Perth - as an empty category it begs the question - are there any ?

[edit] Related WikiProjects

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	Textbooks from Wikibooks
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