User:Lorelei/WikiProject Guyana/Projects and Resources

Welcome to the Projects and Resources department of the WikiProject Guyana! This department focuses on:

• Providing members with ideas for things that could be done to improve the coverage of Guyana of wikipedia, and the quality of that coverage.
• Providing members with information about resources that are available to members who are working on expanding or improving the coverage of Guyana on Wikipedia.

Guyana-related articles needing geographical coordinates

Based on a search of Wikipedia's articles related to Guyana, I've found some articles that I believe are about places in Guyana, and could usefully have geographical coordinates added.

The articles in question are listed in Category:Guyana articles missing geocoordinate data. At the time of writing, some examples included:

1. Corriverton
2. King Edward VIII Falls
3. Mora Point
4. Pomeroon-Supenaam
5. Princeville, Guyana
6. Seweyo
7. Stabroek Market

...and there are many more, as well. At the time of posting this notice, there were 70 articles in this category needing geographical coordinates. --DThomsen8 (talk) 11:12, 23 August 2012 (UTC)

Why add coordinates?

By adding coordinates, a Wikipedia reader can easily view the location on a street map, nautical chart, topographic map, by satellite photo, realtime weather map, and in many other ways. Coordinate data makes an article eventually appear in various services such as Google Maps' Wikipedia overlay, Google Earth, and Wikipedia's own internal map service. Coordinate data also helps readers looking for geographically-based data, such as locations near a reference point, or related information.

How can I do it?

The articles are all marked with {{coord missing}} tags, which need to be replaced with {{coord}} tags that contain the location's latitude/longitude coordinates; or you might be able to add coordinates to an existing infobox. You can find out how to do this at the Wikipedia:Geocoding how-to for WikiProject members. Anyone making coordinate corrections should read Template:Coord/doc first. Some articles that do not display the coordinates in the upper right corner of the article have "display-title" missing from the Coord template.

Guyana-related articles in need of photographs

Hi there,

Over the last few days, User:Dthomsen8 and I (mainly the former!) have identified 76 articles on places, natural and cultural features in Guyana that are currently lacking photographs and would be much improved by the addition of them. These include, for example:

• Iwokrama Forest
• Berbice River
• Shell Beach
• New Amsterdam
• Georgetown Cenotaph
• Brickdam Cathedral

The full list can be found at Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Guyana

These articles would all benefit hugely from the addition of a photograph, so any contribution to knocking one or more of these off the list would be greatly appreciated!

To find out more about creating and uploading photographs for Wikipedia, see WP:Images.

Thanks! Lorelei (talk) 01:04, 24 August 2012 (UTC)

Guyana Sources

Online Sources

Here are web sites with information about Guyana and Guyanese people.

• [[1]] Guyanese people abroad
• [[2]]Guyana Wiki
• [[3]] Land of Six Peoples - An archive of news articles from Guyana's leading newspapers from 1999-2007. The site is incomplete and seems to be malfunctioning in some places, but it is an invaluable archive nonetheless with a treasury of some great articles on wide-ranging topics.
• The West Indian Encyclopedia.
• Odeen Ishmael's The Guyana Story - from Earliest Times to Independence - A really helpful historical source...

Additional list of Online Sources provided by Mike Christie

• "Guyana". U.S. State Department. Retrieved 30 July 2011.
• "Political and Economic History of Guyana". San Jose State University. Retrieved 30 July 2011.
• "Guyana: A Short Political History - by David Hinds". The Guyana and Caribbean Political and Cultural Center for Popular Education. Retrieved 30 July 2011.
• "Council on Hemispheric Affairs Forum: Uncharted Territory in Guyanese Legislative Elections". The Guyana and Caribbean Political and Cultural Center for Popular Education. Retrieved 30 July 2011.
• "Guyanese Politics". University of Chicago Department of Anthropology. Retrieved 30 July 2011.
• "Uncharted Territory in Guyanese Legislative Elections". Council on Hemispheric Affairs. Retrieved 30 July 2011.

Books and Sources Available from other users

Mike Christie has the following books, and has kindly said that members can contact him if they would like him to look something up in one or more of these sources. Please don't expect a quick turnaround however, as he is very busy at the moment...

• Daly, Vere T. (1974). The Making of Guyana. New York: Macmillan.
• Hope, Kemp Ronald (1985). Guyana: Politics and Development in an Emergent Socialist State. New York: Mosaic Press. ISBN 0-88962-303-1.
• Lowenthal, David (1978). West Indian Societies. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19501559-2.
• Henry Paget & Carl Stone (eds.) (1983). The Newer Caribbean: Decolonization, Democracy and Development. Philadelphia: Institute for the Study of Human Issues. ISBN 0-89727-049-5
• Spinner, Thomas J. (1984). A Political and Social History of Guyana, 1945–1983. Boulder CO: Westview Press. ISBN 0-86531-852-1. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: checksum (help)

Resource Exchange

If you know of a source that you would like to use but are unable to get hold of, try contacting volunteers at Wikipedia's Resource Exchange Project.

External links

• example.com