Wikipedia:WikiProject Jamaica
This is a WikiProject, an area for focused collaboration among Wikipedians. New participants are welcome; please feel free to participate!
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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
editThis 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
editA 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
editJamaican Articles in need of geo-coordinates
editArticle alerts
editProposed deletions
- 10 Dec 2024 – Everton Williams (footballer) (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by JayCubby (t · c): made handful of appearances. So what? we are not a database.
Articles for creation
- 09 Dec 2024 – Draft:MycoMeditations (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Ljuubs (t · c)
Participants
editActive members
editTo 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
editThank 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
editMembers 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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For other Jamaica user templates see Category:Jamaica user templates.
Recognized content
editJamaica articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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Quality | Importance | ||||||
Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
FA | 3 | 4 | 7 | ||||
FL | 1 | 1 | |||||
FM | 5 | 5 | |||||
GA | 1 | 6 | 8 | 13 | 28 | ||
B | 8 | 13 | 20 | 31 | 7 | 79 | |
C | 4 | 30 | 50 | 158 | 75 | 317 | |
Start | 19 | 63 | 149 | 753 | 230 | 1,214 | |
Stub | 4 | 13 | 57 | 1,317 | 243 | 1,634 | |
List | 1 | 7 | 20 | 49 | 1 | 29 | 107 |
Category | 2,660 | 2,660 | |||||
Disambig | 3 | 3 | |||||
File | 12 | 12 | |||||
Portal | 38 | 38 | |||||
Project | 5 | 5 | |||||
Redirect | 6 | 5 | 17 | 98 | 126 | ||
Template | 144 | 144 | |||||
NA | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
Other | 8 | 8 | |||||
Assessed | 37 | 138 | 313 | 2,343 | 2,975 | 584 | 6,390 |
Unassessed | 4 | 8 | 12 | ||||
Total | 37 | 138 | 313 | 2,347 | 2,975 | 592 | 6,402 |
WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 17,435 | 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
editFeatured lists
editGood 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
- 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
editDid 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
editProject Banner
editPlease 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
editPlace 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
editPlace this templates after the name of the award recipient, as appropriate.
Resources
editMaps
editThere 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