Wikipedia:WikiProject Guyana
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Welcome to WikiProject Guyana! This group was established to better organize articles on Guyana in a spirit of cooperation.
Articles maintained by this WikiProject are grouped in Category:WikiProject Guyana articles by using the Guyana=yes parameter within the {{WP South America}} template. Usage: {{WikiProject South America|Guyana=yes}}
Scope
[edit]This group includes within its scope all articles related to Guyana, its cities, geography, transportation, culture, history and so on. It aims to expand Wikipedia's resources on Guyana in a fair and accurate manner. All of these articles should be contained within the Category:Guyana or one of its subcategories.
Participants
[edit]Active members
[edit]To join WikiProject Guyana, 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.
- DThomsen8 (talk) 12:40, 23 August 2012 (UTC)
- CaribDigita (talk) 00:36, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
- mrwoogi010 Talk 15:49, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
- Mr. Guye (talk) (contribs) 21:04, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
- Ma nam is geoffrey (talk) (talk) 11:34, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
- Guettarda (talk · contribs) 16:10:00, 24 May 2021 (UTC)
- Zpro1408 (talk · contribs) 15:12:33, 29 September 2022 (UTC)
- Blakdogg (talk · contribs) 23:42:35, 12 November 2022 (UTC) Linden and Afro-Guyanese history
- Editingwithcoffee (talk · contribs) 22:15:54, 2 July 2023 (UTC)
- Historyday01 (talk) 00:38, 13 July 2023 (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) 21:13:34, 12 May 2019 (UTC)
- Kitfox32
- Lorelei (talk) (user has not edited since April 2015).
Member identification
[edit]Members of WikiProject Guyana should place one of the following lines of Wikitext on their user page to add it to Category:WikiProject Guyana participants.
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For other Guyana user templates, see Category:Guyana user templates.
Participation Needed
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A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.
WikiProject article requests list
[edit]Please add new requests here.
- There are still many places in Guyana that are in need of articles. For lists, please see the articles on each of the Regions of Guyana.
- Freedom House bombing (1964)
- Guyana Police Force
- Human rights in Guyana
- George Manly - founder of the Scout Association in Guyana
- Canon John Dorman - a leader in the Scouts association
- Yvonne Hinds First Lady of Guyana
- Noel Holder- The former Minister of Agriculture
- Eustace Gordon Woolforfd- Former Speaker of Guyana’s National Assembly
- Donald Edward Jackson- Former Speaker of Guyana’s National Assembly
- Aubrey Percival Alleyne- Former Speaker of Guyana’s National Assembly
- Trade History of Guyana - Red-link in the Economy template.
- British Guiana during World War II - Red-link in the Guyana Topics template.
- Science and technology in Guyana - Red-link in the Guyana Topics template.
- Flora of Guyana - Red-link in the Guyana Topics template. Could be developed in Geography of Guyana
- Fauna of Guyana - Red-link in the Guyana Topics template.
- Rupununi Cattle Trail - Hinterland history, cowboys, yearly rodeo.
- Amerindian villages with MOAA pages: Katoka, Guyana[1], Massara, Guyana[2] and satellite Kwaimatta[3], and Yupukari's satellite Kaicumbay[4]. Many already have airport articles, or are listed as settlements of their Region or of nearby rivers.
- No article, but sourced on the List of Guyanese writers: Harold Bascom, Brian Chan, Paloma Mohamed, Rooplal Monar, Gokarran Sukhdeo, Raywat Deonandan, Shana Yardan.
- Arya Ali, First Lady of Guyana
- Anarchism in Guyana
- British Guiana East Indian Association
- Joseph Alexander Luckhoo - first Indo Guyanese legislator
To do list
[edit]Please add tasks to the list here.
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Article Assessments
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B | 5 | 4 | 11 | 3 | 23 | ||
C | 20 | 24 | 30 | 76 | 10 | 160 | |
Start | 18 | 61 | 117 | 533 | 30 | 759 | |
Stub | 1 | 48 | 917 | 19 | 985 | ||
List | 4 | 11 | 15 | 41 | 3 | 74 | |
Category | 1,453 | 1,453 | |||||
File | 9 | 9 | |||||
Portal | 2 | 2 | |||||
Project | 6 | 6 | |||||
Redirect | 3 | 29 | 47 | 79 | |||
Template | 79 | 79 | |||||
Other | 5 | 5 | |||||
Assessed | 43 | 106 | 217 | 1,614 | 1,601 | 65 | 3,646 |
Total | 43 | 106 | 217 | 1,614 | 1,601 | 65 | 3,646 |
WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 10,483 | Ω = 5.38 |
- Recent changes to article assessments
- Assessment – Our rating system
- Popular pages - Bot generated listing of the most viewed pages
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Featured articles
[edit]Good articles
[edit]Did you know? articles
[edit]Agriculture in Guyana
Albion Sports Complex
Aniba rosaeodora
Isahak Basir
John P. Bennett
Brandon Bess
Edward Rupert Burrowes
Cassareep
Cocoi heron
Peter D'Aguiar
Dear Land of Guyana, of Rivers and Plains
Demerara rebellion of 1823
Banknotes of Demerary and Essequibo
Adrian Dodson
Elections in Guyana
Maurice Fernandes
Yvonne Fredericks-Pearson
Gimme Hope Jo'anna
Guyana Labour Union
Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones
Richard Hart (Jamaican politician)
Dawn Hastings-Williams
Jaguarundi
Thomas King (slave trader)
Donald Locke
Egbert Martin
Cécile Nobrega
Northern green anaconda
Pork-knocker
Progressive Youth Organisation of Guyana
Quamina
George Simon (artist)
South American coati
6th Summit of the Americas
Dorothy Thomas (entrepreneur)
Trachylepis maculata
Clyde Walcott
Mona Williams (writer, born 1943)
In the News articles
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Assessment status
[edit]- Clean up listing: Of the 1835 articles : 318 or 17% are marked for cleanup, 417 issues in total. (20 Apr. 2021)
- Clean up listing: Of the 1836 articles : 322 or 18% are marked for cleanup, 418 issues in total. (9 May 2021)
- Clean up listing: Of the 1844 articles : 322 or 17% are marked for cleanup, 418 issues in total. (5 Jun. 2021)
Templates
[edit]- {{WikiProject Guyana}} for assessment of articles and other pages covered by the project
- {{User WikiProject Guyana}} for identifying project members on their userpages
Please see {{WikiProject South America}} for assessment information.
Resources
[edit]Online Sources
[edit]Guyana news websites (Media list from BBC[1])
Pages of dubious quality kept for historical purpose:
- [2] Guyanese people
- 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
[edit]- "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
[edit]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 0-86531-852-2.
Lorelei has the following books - please ask away if you would like me to look anything up!
- Ali, Arif (2008). Guyana. London: Hansib. ISBN 9781906190101.
- Baber, Colin; Henry B Jeffrey (1986). Guyana:Politics, Economics and Society. London: Frances Printer. ISBN 0861874188.
- Burnett, D. Graham (2000). Masters of All They Surveyed: Exploration, Geography, and a British El Dorado. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0226081206.
- Burrowes, Reynold A. (1984). The Wild Coast: An Account of Politics in Guyana. Cambridge, MA: Schenkman Publishing. ISBN 0870730371.
- Menezes, Mary Noel (1979). The Amerindians in Guyana 1803-73: A Documentary History. London: Frank Cass. ISBN 9780714630540.
- McGowan, Winston (1998). The Demerara Revolt, 1823. Georgetown: Free Press. ISBN 9769500011.
- McGowan, Winston; James G. Rose; David A. Granger (2009). Themes in African Guyanese History. London: Hansib. ISBN 9781906190187.
- Schomburgk, Robert H. (1840). A Description of British Guiana. London: Simpkin, Marshall and Company.
- Whitehead, Neil L. (1988). Lords of the Tiger Spirit: A History of the Caribs in Colonial Venezuela and Guyana 1498-1820. Dordrecht: Foris Publications. ISBN 9067652407.
- Williams, Brackette F. (1991). Stains on my Name, War in my Veins: Guyana and the Politics of Cultural Struggle. Durham: Duke University Press. ISBN 0-8223-1119-4.
Resource Exchange
[edit]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.