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WikiProject Piracy is a WikiProject dedicated to improving and maintaining articles about Pirates and Piracy here on Wikipedia. For more information about WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject and the Guide to WikiProjects.
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[edit] Primary goals
- To create the foremost reliable and accurate free-content encyclopedia on High Seas Piracy in the English language.
- To improve the quality and general coverage of High Seas Piracy by creating, expanding, and maintaining articles that describe all of its aspects.
- To provide guidelines and recommendations for such articles, and to serve as the central point of discussion for issues related to High Seas Piracy in Wikipedia.
[edit] Parentage
This WikiProject was originally proposed by MadMax in March 2006 and active during May-September 2006. It was later merged with the project begun by Piratedan (as requested by Awiseman) in May 2007.
[edit] Scope
The current scope of WikiProject Piracy is anything relating to piracy at sea. Pirates and piracy information from all over the world and from every era in history will be included.
[edit] Categorization
Piracy related topics can be placed in a range of categories, ranging from specific (indiviual privateers, buccaneers, corsairs, etc.), to broad (regions and historical periods). The subjects include, however are not limited to:
- Historical periods:
- Piracy in the Ancient World(pre-1000)
- Piracy in the Middle Ages (1000-1500)
- Piracy on the Barbary Coast (1492-1595)
- The Spanish Main (1570-1650)
- The Buccaneering Era (1640-1690)
- The Golden Age of Piracy(1690-1730)
- Decline of Piracy (1730-1900)
- Modern (1900-present)
- Individual pirates (Captains, sailors, victims, etc.)
- Pirate vessels (boats & ships)
- Pirate havens (Port Royal, Tortuga, etc.)
- Pirate culture (organizations, laws, customs, songs, etc.)
- Piracy in popular culture:
- Piracy in the Film and TV
- Piracy in Games
- Piracy in Literature
[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] Intellectual property piracy
Copyright and trademark piracy is not part of this project. That topic is best covered by WikiProject Law.
[edit] Formatting
Biographies and other subjects must follow Wikipedia's "Manual of Style" formatting, although some exceptions may be made through discussion and consensus among project members.
[edit] Pending tasks
 To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Piracy: |
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Here are some tasks you can do to help with WikiProject Piracy:
- Requests: John Lopez, Fancy (pirate ship), No Purchase, No Pay, Sir Nicholas Trott, Ken Kinkor, Lords of the Spanish Main
- Expand: Charles Vane, Edward England, Emanuel Wynn, George Lowther, Henry Every, Pierre Le Grand, Roche Braziliano, Thomas Cocklyn, Woodes Rogers, List of ships captured or attacked by Somali pirates
- Cleanup: Buccaneer, Israel Hands
- Verify: Alexandre Exquemelin, Henry Morgan, Daniel Johnson, Henry Jennings, Olivier Levasseur
- Copyedit: Golden Age of Piracy
- Images: Jean Ango, MV Delight, MV Powerful, MV Stolt Valor
[edit] Participants
See: List of Participants
[edit] Articles
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| Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
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| B | 1 | 15 | 13 | 9 | 2 | 40 | |
| C | 1 | 5 | 12 | 8 | 7 | 33 | |
| Start | 20 | 27 | 31 | 177 | 255 | ||
| Stub | 17 | 19 | 31 | 72 | 139 | ||
| List | 1 | 6 | 8 | 15 | |||
| Category | 50 | 50 | |||||
| Disambig | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| File | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Portal | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| Project | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| Template | 1 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| NA | 15 | 15 | |||||
| Assessed | 4 | 62 | 80 | 93 | 75 | 258 | 572 |
| Unassessed | 17 | 17 | |||||
| Total | 4 | 62 | 80 | 93 | 75 | 275 | 589 |
[edit] Featured articles
[edit] Good articles
[edit] Requested articles
See: Requested articles
[edit] Article assessment and re-assessment
See: Assessment
- Tanit (yacht) has been proposed for deletion or merger. Comments appreciated. Pustelnik (talk) 18:41, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Article alerts
- No Article alerts at this time.
[edit] Templates
A list of all the WikiProject's templates can be found in Category:WikiProject Piracy templates.
[edit] Project banners
- {{WikiProject Piracy}} – Our project banner
- {{piracy}} – A welcome message to invite new users to join WikiProject Piracy
[edit] Userboxes
- {{User Pirate}} – A project member userbox
[edit] Article pages
- {{Pirate-stub}} – A stub template for individual pirates
- {{Piracy-stub}} - A stub template for any article that falls under our scope
- {{Portal|Piracy}} – A portal box
- {{Pirates}} – A navigational box
- {{Piracy in Somalia}} - A navigational box
[edit] Infoboxes
- {{Infobox Pirate Ship}} – A pirate ship infobox
- {{Infobox Pirate}} – An indiviual pirate infobox
[edit] Categories
[edit] Resources
[edit] Bibliography
- Botting, Douglas. The Pirates (The Seafarers; v.1). Alexandria, Virginia: Time-Life Books, 1978. ISBN 0-8094-2652-8.
- Burnett, John (2002). Dangerous Waters: Modern Piracy and Terror on the High Seas.
- Butler, Lindley S. Pirates, Privateers, and Rebel Raiders of the Carolina Coast, Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.
- Cawthorne, Nigel (2004). History of Pirates: Blood and Thunder on the High Seas.
- Cordingly, David (1997). Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates. Harvest Books.
- Earle, Peter (2003). The Pirate Wars. Methuen.
- Ellms, Charles. The Pirates [Originally published as "The Pirates' Own Book"]. New York: Grammercy Books, 1996. ISBN 0-517-18251-3.
- Exquemelin, Alexander O. The Buccaneers of America. Anapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1993. ISBN 1-55750-077-0. (available in many translations and editions, full text online here.)
- Jameson, J. Franklin (1923). Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period: Illustrative Documents. MacMillan.
- Johnson, Captain Charles. A General History of the Robberies & Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates. New York: The Lyons Press, 1998. ISBN 1-55821-766-5.
- Konstam, Angus (2006) Blackbeard: America's Most Notorious Pirate. Wiley.
- Konstam, Angus (2003). The Pirate Ship: 1660-1730, Oxford: Osprey Publishing Ltd.
- Konstam, Angus (1998). Pirates: 1660-1730. Osprey Publishing Ltd.
- Konstam, Angus (2001). Privateers & Pirates. Osprey Publishing, Ltd.
- Konstam, Angus (2000). Buccaneers: 1620-1700. Osprey Publishing, Ltd.
- Konstam, Angus, and David Cordingly (2006). The History of Pirates. Mercury Books.
- Lane, Kris E (1998). Pillaging the Empire: Piracy in the Americas 1500-1750. M.E. Sharpe.
- Langewiesche, William (2004). The Outlaw Sea: A World of Freedom, Chaos, and Crime. North Point Press.
- Little, Benerson (2005). The Sea Rover's Practice: Pirate Tactics and Techniques, 1630-1730. Potomac Books.
- Rediker, Marcus (1987). Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700-1750. Cambridge University Press.
- Rediker, Marcus (2004). Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age. Beacon Press.
- Ritchie, Robert (1986). Captain Kidd and the War Against the Pirates. Harvard University Press.
- Rogozinski, Jan. Pirates! An A-Z Encyclopedia. New York: Da Capo Press, 1995. ISBN 0-306-80722-X.
- Rogozinski, Jan. Pirates!: Brigands, Buccaneers, and Privateers in Fact, Fiction, and Legend. New York: Da Capo Press, 1996. ISBN 0-306-80722-X
- Rogozinski, Jan (2000). Honor Among Thieves: Captain Kidd, Henry Every, and the Pirate Democracy in the Indian Ocean. Stackpole Books.
- Sherry, Frank (1986). Raiders and Rebels: The Golden Age of Piracy. Hearst Marine Books.
- Stephens, John R. (1996). Captured by Pirates: 22 Firsthand Accounts of Murder & Mayhem on the High Seas. Fern Canyon Press.
- The Tryals of Major Stede Bonnet, and Other Pirates. London, Printed for Benj. Cowse at the Rose and Crown in St Paul's Church-Yard, 1719.
- Turley, Hans (1999). Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash: Piracy, Sexuality, and Masculine Identity. New York University Press.
- Zacks, Richard (2002). The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd. Hyperion.
[edit] Magazines
- Lampe, Christine (1998). No Quarter Given Magazine. No Quarter Given. http://www.noquartergiven.net/.
- Kimball, Steve (2006). The Pyrates Way Magazine. The Pyrates Way, LLC. http://www.pyratesway.com.
[edit] External links
- General history and other information:
- Pirates and Privateers - The History of Maritime Piracy (highly recommended, lots of research resources)
- Pirates: Fact & Legend
- Rob Ossian's The Pirate King (highly recommended)
- The Pirate's Relm
- Pirates at the UnMuseum.org
- Isle of Tortuga
- Pirates of the Carribean, in Fact and Fiction
- Pirates Hold
- Brethren of the Coast
- Lots of older pirate books now freely available - and a good source of free images - on Project Gutenberg and Google Books
- Historical periods:
- 1680-1730: Pirates and Anglo-American piracy in the Atlantic, largely a digest of Rediker's Marxist interpretation
- Buccaneer Trading Company: The Golden Age of Piracy
- Specific regions:
- Places:
- Pictures, maps, documents and other images:
- Beej's Pirate Image Archive, Great source for images, all old and in public domain.
- Misc.
- IMO: Piracy and Robbery against ships
- Piracy timeline
- Le Diable Volant (in French and English)
- Pirates Message Board
- Pyracy Pub
- External watchlist:
