Wikipedia:WikiProject Jamaica
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Shortcut | WP:JAMAICA |
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Category | Jamaica |
Portal | Jamaica |
Wikimedia Commons | Jamaica |
Parent project(s) | Caribbean |
Project banner template | {{WikiProject Caribbean|Jamaica=yes}} |
Userbox | {{User WikiProject Jamaica}} |
Assessment | /Assessment |
CSB | Relevant for countering systemic bias |
Welcome to WikiProject Jamaica! This group was formed to better organize articles on Jamaica in a spirit of cooperation.
Scope
[edit]This group includes within its scope all articles related to Jamaica, its cities, geography, transportation, culture, history and so on. It aims to expand Wikipedia's resources on Jamaica in a fair and accurate manner. All of these articles should be contained within the Category:Jamaica or one of its subcategories.
To do
[edit]A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.
Requested Jamaican articles
[edit]Jamaican Articles in need of geo-coordinates
[edit]Article alerts
[edit]Articles for deletion
- 25 Oct 2024 – Mount Alvernia High School (Jamaica) (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by JMWt (t · c); see discussion (6 participants; relisted)
Categories for discussion
- 27 Oct 2024 – Category:Jamaican rum (talk · edit · hist) CfDed by RevelationDirect (t · c) was closed; see discussion
Featured article candidates
- 15 Oct 2024 – Hurricane Dennis (talk · edit · hist) was FA nominated by Hurricanehink (t · c); see discussion
Good article nominees
- 12 Aug 2024 – I'm in It (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Kyle Peake (t · c); start discussion
Participants
[edit]Active members
[edit]To join WikiProject Jamaica, edit this section and add the Wikitext #{{subst:me}}
with your areas of interest to the bottom of the following list of members. Members should also place member identification on their user page.
- John Carter 22:34, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
- BilCat (talk) 21:45, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
- Krayziegunts (talk) 04:34, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
- Djjazzyb (talk · contribs) K. (talk) 02:29, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
- Michig (talk) 07:27, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
- Nagasheus (talk) 08:46, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
- Petrine Archer 22:34, November 2009 (UTC)
- User:Knollygregory 06:34, November 2009 (UTC)
- Janvo 10:20, September 2010 (UTC)
- EagerToddler39 (talk) 03:58, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
- Strachkvas (talk) 01:15, 16 April 2013 (UTC)
- Hazard-SJ ± 01:34, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
- Naj Kiclac (talk) 18:55, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
- JamaicanEditor (talk) 19:32, 20 August 2016 (UTC)
- Astronyte (talk) 23:02, 14 April 2017 (UTC)
- Mikesiva (talk) 16:32, 6 April 2019 (UTC)
- North America1000 22:34, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
- Juan de Bolas (talk · contribs) 10:58:34, 16 August 2020 (UTC)
- Jahamian876242 (talk · contribs) 04:19:42, 13 March 2022 (UTC)
Former members
[edit]Thank you for your help! Please move your username back to the active list when you can participate again.
- Buaidh (talk · contribs) 13:58:10, 3 May 2019 (UTC) – WikiProject templates and categories.
Member identification
[edit]Members of WikiProject Jamaica should place one of the following lines of Wikitext on their user page to add it to Category:WikiProject Jamaica participants.
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{{Template:User WP Jamaica}}
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For other Jamaica user templates see Category:Jamaica user templates.
Recognized content
[edit]Jamaica articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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Quality | Importance | ||||||
Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
FA | 3 | 3 | 6 | ||||
FL | 1 | 1 | |||||
FM | 5 | 5 | |||||
GA | 1 | 6 | 8 | 13 | 28 | ||
B | 8 | 12 | 20 | 33 | 7 | 80 | |
C | 3 | 30 | 50 | 156 | 74 | 313 | |
Start | 20 | 63 | 148 | 748 | 228 | 1,207 | |
Stub | 4 | 13 | 57 | 1,320 | 240 | 1,634 | |
List | 1 | 7 | 20 | 48 | 1 | 29 | 106 |
Category | 2,674 | 2,674 | |||||
Disambig | 3 | 3 | |||||
File | 12 | 12 | |||||
Portal | 38 | 38 | |||||
Project | 5 | 5 | |||||
Redirect | 6 | 5 | 17 | 77 | 105 | ||
Template | 144 | 144 | |||||
NA | 1 | 4 | 5 | ||||
Other | 7 | 7 | |||||
Assessed | 37 | 137 | 312 | 2,339 | 2,970 | 578 | 6,373 |
Unassessed | 4 | 8 | 12 | ||||
Total | 37 | 137 | 312 | 2,343 | 2,970 | 586 | 6,385 |
WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 17,397 | Ω = 5.32 |
This is a list of recognized content, updated weekly by JL-Bot (talk · contribs) (typically on Saturdays). There is no need to edit the list yourself. If an article is missing from the list, make sure it is tagged or categorized (e.g. Category:WikiProject Jamaica articles) correctly and wait for the next update. See WP:RECOG for configuration options. |
Featured articles
[edit]Former featured articles
[edit]Featured lists
[edit]Good articles
[edit]- 1944 Jamaica hurricane
- Eric Anthony Abrahams
- Patrick Allen (governor-general)
- Gerlin Bean
- John Benbow
- Usain Bolt
- Gloria Cameron
- Joseph A. Canning
- Charles III
- Hurricane Charley
- Sarah Cooper
- Maymie de Mena
- Hurricane Dennis
- Dr. No (film)
- Clayton Donaldson
- Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce
- Guava Jelly (song)
- Gun Court
- Murder of Lenford Harvey
- Hurricane Lili
- Jamaica at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Jamaica national football team
- W. Webber Kelly
- DJ Kool Herc
- Bob Marley
- Henry Morgan
- No Lie (Sean Paul song)
- Brian Williamson
Former good articles
[edit]Did you know? articles
[edit]- 007 (Shanty Town)
- 1692 Jamaica earthquake
- 1907 Kingston earthquake
- 1983 Jamaican general election
- 1997 Jamaican general election
- Eric Anthony Abrahams
- Derick Adamson
- Everard F. Aguilar
- Albion plantation
- Edris Allan
- Harold Egbert Allan
- Patrick Allen (governor-general)
- Alpha (Shenseea album)
- Bactris jamaicana
- Francis Barber
- Nerine Barrett
- Gerlin Bean
- Because They Know Not
- John Benbow
- Dominique Blake
- John Buddle Blyth
- Hamilton Brown
- Gladys Bustamante
- Althea Byfield
- Gloria Cameron
- Ann-Marie Campbell
- Joseph A. Canning
- Carib Theatre
- Charles III
- Coccothrinax jamaicensis
- Coffee production in Jamaica
- Sarah Cooper
- Frank Cundall
- Jean D'Costa
- Dat Sexy Body
- Maymie de Mena
- Di Genius
- Dry River (Jamaica)
- Elizabeth II
- C. Washington Eves
- Walter Augustus Feurtado
- Lord Flea
- Amy Ashwood Garvey
- Hurricane Gilbert
- Gonâve microplate
- Gun Court
- Neil Hanchard
- Oswald Harding
- Richard Hart (Jamaican politician)
- Dorothy Henriques-Wells
- Elizabeth Home, Countess of Home
- Rita Humphries-Lewin
- Jamaica at the 1968 Summer Paralympics
- Jamaican blackbird
- Jamaican ibis
- Anthony Johnson (diplomat)
- James Johnston (missionary)
- Evan Jones (writer)
- Malysha Kelly
- W. Webber Kelly
- Ken Khouri
- Yona Knight-Wisdom
- Count Lasher
- List of international cricket five-wicket hauls by Courtney Walsh
- List of West Indies women Twenty20 International cricketers
- 1993 Long Island Rail Road shooting
- Myer Lyon
- Beverley Manley
- Syringa Marshall-Burnett
- Zaila McCalla
- Edward McGeachy
- Nikita Miller
- Floyd Morris
- New Atlantis (micronation)
- Pass the Kouchie
- Rail transport in Jamaica
- Stanley Redwood
- Mallica Reynolds
- Francis Rose (Jamaica)
- Fulke Rose
- Tom the Great Sebastian
- Kameron Simmonds
- Augustus Constantine Sinclair
- Stanley Stair
- Stew peas
- Stony coral tissue loss disease
- Drew Thomas
- Antoinette Tidjani Alou
- Trinity plantation
- Anthony Watson (skeleton racer)
- Winston Watts
- Antonette Wemyss Gorman
- Yellow-billed amazon
In the News articles
[edit]- 2010 Kingston unrest
- 2016 Jamaican general election
- 2020 Jamaican general election
- Fay Allen
- Bob Andy
- Usain Bolt
- Jean "Binta" Breeze
- Violet Brown
- Elizabeth II
- Neville Garrick
- Toots Hibbert
- Andrea Levy
- Prince Buster
- Mavis Pusey
- Luton Shelton
- Pluto Shervington
- Hurricane Tomas
- Bunny Wailer
- Paulette Wilson
Templates
[edit]Project Banner
[edit]Please see {{WikiProject Caribbean}} for assessment information. Instructions for usage are below.
{{WikiProject Caribbean |class= (choose: Stub, Start, GA, FL, FA, etc.) |importance= (choose: Top, High, Mid, Low) |attention= (choose: yes, or delete this line) |auto= (choose: yes, or delete this line) |needs-infobox= (choose: yes, or delete this line) |Jamaica= yes (Always YES for this project) |Jamaica-importance= (choose: Top, High, Mid, Low) }}
Caribbean: Jamaica Start‑class Low‑importance | |||||||||||||||||||
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User box
[edit]- {{User WikiProject Jamaica}} <---Place this on your User page to show membership.
This user is a participant in WikiProject Jamaica. |
Stubs
[edit]- {{Jamaica-stub}} - Stub template for articles relating to Jamaica; to be put on the bottom of each article page.
- {{Jamaica-geo-stub}} - Stub template for articles relating to geography of Jamaica; to be put on the bottom of each article page.
- {{Jamaica-athletics-bio-stub}} - Stub template for articles relating to Jamaican people connected with the sport of track and field athletics; to be put on the bottom of each article page.
Article Templates
[edit]Place these templates on articles above the [[Category:]] section, when appropriate.
- {{Beaches of Jamaica}}
- {{Caves of Jamaica}}
- {{Geography of Jamaica}}
- {{Hospitals in Jamaica}}
- {{Hotels of Jamaica}}
- {{Jamaican political parties}}
- {{Lighthouses of Jamaica}}
- {{National Heritage Sites in Jamaica}}
- {{Parishes of Jamaica}}
- {{Prisons in Jamaica}}
- {{Railways of Jamaica NavBox}}
- {{Reggae}}
- {{Religion in Jamaica}}
- {{Rivers of Jamaica}}
- {{Schools in Jamaica}}
- {{Settlements in Jamaica}}
- {{Ska}}
- {{Sports venues in Jamaica}}
- {{Universities and colleges in Jamaica}}
Sidebar Navigation Template
[edit]- {{Politics of Jamaica}} Right side panel template.
- {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Caribbean/Navigation}} Right side panel template.
Post-nominal Letters Template
[edit]Place this templates after the name of the award recipient, as appropriate.
Resources
[edit]Maps
[edit]There is a set of out-of-copyright large scale maps (1:50,000) that cover the western end of the island. These date from the late 1950s but are still surprisingly useful.
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Index
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Sheet A
Lucea -
Sheet B
Savanna-La-Mar -
Sheet C
Montego Bay - Falmouth -
Sheet D
Mandeville - Black River -
Sheet E
Malvern - Alligator Pond -
Sheet F
St Ann's Bay - Moneague