Wikipedia:WikiProject Caribbean

WikiProject Caribbean is a WikiProject formed to foster better articles on the countries of the Caribbean with a spirit of cooperation. If you would like to join the project, simply add your name to the list of participants and begin editing (see the list of open tasks for ideas).

Goals
Project goals include:
 * Create, improve, and maintain articles relating to the countries of the Caribbean and the Caribbean Sea, their history, people, geography, and culture. Included are the independent nations of Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, the commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the dependencies of Anguilla, Aruba, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Turks and Caicos Islands, the United States Virgin Islands, and the Caribbean Sea. We shall also deal with the countries of Belize, Guyana, and Suriname, given their close cultural and political connections to the Caribbean.
 * Assist with the Portal:Caribbean.

Scope
The scope of this project is all articles which fall within the following categories:


 * Category:Anguilla
 * Category:Antigua and Barbuda
 * Category:Aruba
 * Category:Bahamas
 * Category:Barbados
 * Category:Belize
 * Category:Bermuda
 * Category:Bonaire
 * Category:British Virgin Islands
 * Category:Caribbean
 * Category:Caribbean Netherlands
 * Category:Cayman Islands
 * Category:Cuba
 * Category:Curaçao
 * Category:Dominica
 * Category:Dominican Republic
 * Category:Grenada
 * Category:Guadeloupe
 * Category:Guyana
 * Category:Haiti
 * Category:Jamaica
 * Category:Martinique
 * Category:Montserrat
 * Category:Netherlands Antilles
 * Category:Puerto Rico
 * Category:Saba (island)
 * Category:Saint Barthélemy
 * Category:Saint Kitts and Nevis
 * Category:Saint Lucia
 * Category:Saint Pierre and Miquelon
 * Category:Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
 * Category:Sint Eustatius
 * Category:Sint Maarten
 * Category:Suriname
 * Category:Trinidad and Tobago
 * Category:Turks and Caicos Islands
 * Category:United States Virgin Islands

We acknowledge up front that there may be other WikiProjects, both now and in the future, which deal directly with individual nations or areas within the above. We are grateful for their efforts, and will concentrate our own on those areas which are not covered by a currently existing project.

Notes:

WikiProject Latin America has considerable overlap with our project, but also covers Central and South American countries

WikiProjects for individual countries:
 * Flag of Antigua and Barbuda.svg WikiProject Antigua and Barbuda
 * Flag of the Bahamas.svg WikiProject Bahamas
 * Flag of Barbados.svg WikiProject Barbados
 * Flag of Bermuda.svg WikiProject Bermuda
 * Flag of Cuba.svg WikiProject Cuba
 * Flag of Dominica.svg WikiProject Dominica
 * Flag of the Dominican Republic.svg WikiProject Dominican Republic
 * Flag of Grenada.svg WikiProject Grenada
 * Flag of Haiti.svg WikiProject Haiti
 * Flag of Jamaica.svg WikiProject Jamaica
 * Flag of Puerto Rico.svg WikiProject Puerto Rico
 * Flag of Saint Kitts and Nevis.svg WikiProject Saint Kitts and Nevis
 * Flag of Saint Lucia.svg WikiProject Saint Lucia
 * Flag of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.svg WikiProject Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
 * Flag of Trinidad and Tobago.svg WikiProject Trinidad and Tobago

Work groups

 * Flag of Anguilla.svg WikiProject Caribbean/Anguilla work group
 * Flag of Aruba.svg WikiProject Caribbean/Aruba work group
 * Flag of the British Virgin Islands.svg WikiProject Caribbean/British Virgin Islands work group
 * Flag of the Netherlands.svg WikiProject Caribbean/Caribbean Netherlands work group
 * Flag of the Cayman Islands.svg WikiProject Caribbean/Cayman Islands work group
 * Flag of Curaçao.svg WikiProject Caribbean/Curaçao work group
 * Flag of Guadeloupe (local).svg WikiProject Caribbean/Guadeloupe work group
 * Drapeau aux serpents de la Martinique.svg WikiProject Caribbean/Martinique work group
 * Flag of Montserrat.svg WikiProject Caribbean/Montserrat work group
 * Flag of Saint Barthelemy.svg WikiProject Caribbean/Saint Barthelemy work group
 * Flag of France.svg WikiProject Caribbean/Saint Martin work group
 * Flag of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon.svg WikiProject Caribbean/Saint Pierre and Miquelon work group
 * Flag of the Turks and Caicos Islands.svg WikiProject Caribbean/Turks and Caicos Islands work group
 * Flag of the United States Virgin Islands.svg WikiProject Caribbean/United States Virgin Islands work group

Assessment

 * Assessment Department - For determining the quality and importance of Caribbean articles.

Peer Review

 * Saint Mary, Antigua and Barbuda CROIX (talk) 17:49, 4 March 2023 (UTC)

Open tasks

 * Add the project banner template, WikiProject Caribbean, to the talk pages of all articles in the scope of this project.
 * Go through the pages in Category:Unassessed Caribbean articles and assess each (see the assessment department for details).
 * Add new articles to the WikiProject Caribbean/Articles list, and check the recent changes function for improvements, other changes, and vandalism to articles.
 * Participate in the discussions about Caribbean articles nominated for deletion.
 * Pick a task from the to-do list of articles needing attention.

Requested articles

 * Caribbean Electric Utility Services Corporation (CARILEC) ✅
 * Culture of the Caribbean ✅
 * Geography of the Caribbean (needs separate article)
 * Gran Granada
 * St. Christophe
 * List of Caribbean place name etymologies

Antigua and Barbuda

 * Lady Carlisle

Bahamas

 * Anguilla Cays - Bahamian islands

British Virgin Islands

 * Great & Little Tobago

Haiti

 * Radio Cacique

Jamaica

 * CVM Television ✅ or CVM Group
 * All red linked articles in the NavBoxes at WikiProject_Jamaica ✅

Martinique

 * Civil war of Martinique in 1790-1794

Saint Christopher (St Kitts) and Nevis

 * Reverend W.A. Beckett

Trinidad and Tobago

 * List of postal codes in Trinidad and Tobago, As per Cabinet approves new postal code proposal (To line up with "Cat:Lists of postal codes")

US Virgin Islands

 * West Indian Company ✅
 * Estate Diamond, Saint Croix
 * Milord Point Beach on Saint Croix
 * Great Pond (Saint Croix) ✅

Requested images

 * A photo of a Shark N Bake sandwich from Maracas Beach in Trinidad and Tobago, to replace the non-free Image:Bakenshark.jpg

Articles needing adoption

 * Article name: adopter's ~ 
 * Labor Day Carnival (New York City's West Indian-American Day Parade held yearly in Brooklyn's Crown Heights neighbourhood)
 * National Movement for Change (Antigua and Barbuda political party):
 * United National Democratic Party (Antigua and Barbuda political party):
 * Latin American and Caribbean Congress in Solidarity with Puerto Rico’s Independence

Active participants
To join WikiProject Caribbean, edit this section and add the Wikitext   with your areas of interest to the bottom of the following list of participants. Participants should also place participant identification on their user page.
 * 1) Valerie Burns, Nevis
 * 2) Peter K Burian Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico especially
 * 3) Proscribe
 * 4) Dexter.C Trinidad/Caribbean
 * 5) Khürt L. Williams St. Vincent, Antigua, St. Lucia, Bequia, Grenadines
 * 6) Barsle Trinidad generally, community of the Company Villages in particular (the Merikins)
 * 7) Sean Henville Nevis
 * 8) Nikkipedia Barbados
 * 9) DarlingMesa Dominican Republic/Baseball
 * 10) Zanoni Internationally notable footballers from the region
 * 11) Alex Gil Caribbeanist/Academic Pirate
 * 12) Bequia Foundation (Anything Bequia)
 * 13) JoseTavares
 * 14) Janvo (Anything Jamaican)
 * 15) JamaicanMD Medical Doctor, Political activist, Jamaica
 * 16) EdwinCasadoBaez(Anything Involved with D.R and it's Cities)
 * 17) Badbilltucker (probably primarily in the project's administrative functions, leaving most of the article-related work to better qualified people)
 * 18) Legis (talk - contributions)
 * 19) Vivenot
 * 20) Guettarda
 * 21) Slgr @ ndson (page - messages - contribs)
 * 22) Jwillbur - anything Haiti
 * 23) TaranRampersad
 * 24) Roosevelt King
 * 25) Dave Smith
 * 26) Zleitzen - (I help organise WikiProject Cuba and Portal:Cuba, and have written other articles including featured articles on Caribbean subjects.)
 * 27) Caribbean 1
 * 28) Tony the Marine
 * 29) Courtney Patterson.
 * 30) --Toussaint 16:46, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 31) Afv2006
 * 32) haitianministries
 * 33) Fork Me Main interests in this project are reggae, ska and calypso music.
 * 34) Ishango Political, Social and Economic gadfly
 * 35) Emir Aly Crowne Mohammed
 * 36) jess
 * 37) spiceangell
 * 38) Harlowraman
 * 39) Jkeezy1990 Just about anything in the USVI(United States Virgin Islands)
 * 40) BillCJ - primarily Jamaica
 * 41) Invertzoo 16:35, 16 August 2007 (UTC) - mostly about the island of Nevis but also about Redonda and St. Kitts
 * 42) Jobonaparte
 * 43) Æe  tlr   Cre  ejl  22:25, 2 September 2007 (UTC) - Mostly TT
 * 44) MikeSearson - primarily Caribbean iguanas cyclura - Mike Searson 05:27, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
 * 45) Tony Martin October 2007. Haiti, Antigua, and Montseratte.#
 * 46) Vgmaster USVI and Jamaica
 * 47) -hh Feb 2008 - Cayman Brac
 * 48) Darwinek - geography.
 * 49) Todgar - linguistics and social/cultural anthropology
 * 50) Michig - music, mainly Jamaican
 * 51) Ackees – History and culture
 * 52) User:Ian M.S. RoyerJuly 31 2008 - music, fashion, Trinidad & Tobago/ Caribbean related articles
 * 53) Spyder00Boi- mainly anything about Haiti but I'll occasionally brush up other Caribbean articles too.
 * 54) 13lackii- September 27- 2008 Anguilla, and United States Virgin Islands (Mostly ST.Thomas)
 * 55) CaribDigita (talk) 04:55, 19 May 2009 (UTC) Am around whenever I have free-time from work+school.
 * 56) Narok04 (talk)
 * 57) Trinikeish
 * 58) Petrine Archer November 2009. Caribbean, Visual Arts#
 * 59) User:Jamaicancontributor
 * 60) Zbase
 * 61) User:Hash789 philosophy/history/Haiti particularly/gender and sexuality issues
 * 62) User:Claritas.
 * 63) CreateBahamas, Bahamas
 * 64) User:El Mayimbe, 2010-7-28, Dominican Republic
 * 65) User: David J. Rosen
 * 66) Terry Finisterre
 * 67) Bobby122   Contact Me   (C)
 * 68) Pineapplemango
 * 69) Joy Lumsden December 2010. Jamaica 1865-1944
 * 70) jahmusic
 * 71)  Hazard-SJ  ±  , primarily Jamaica. 01:34, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
 * 72) Full Moon
 * 73) kf5llg
 * 74) danny
 * 75) Turn
 * 76) jerenept Mainly Trinidad.
 * 77) Bellechic
 * 78) Fg521 - Mainly Jamaica
 * 79) Twoods158
 * 80) Kdumelle13
 * 81) Umfundisi
 * 82) Redwellie14
 * 83) Caballero /  Historiador ⎌  21:15, 20 January 2016 (UTC) (re-adding my name with new name and signature) Dennishidalgo Historian (talk) 02:08, 17 May 2014 (UTC) -- History of the Caribbean and the Atlantic
 * 84) Brookie302
 * 85) ashkaan232 I have started numerous football biographies for the British Virgin Islands, including former coach Bill Moravek
 * 86) Subzzee 7:30, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
 * 87) Micah Vandegrift Hosting an Edit-a-thon at Florida State University in April 2016
 * 88) Buaidh  (talk&thinsp;·&thinsp;contribs) 18:28, 26 March 2016 (UTC) geography, geology, mountains
 * 89) BulldogsBullet - Antigua and Barbuda.
 * 90) JamaicanEditor - Primarily Jamaica; Telecoms in particular.
 * 91) User:InfoBonaire – Bonaire, Dutch Caribbean
 * 92) Marek . 69   talk
 * 93) Oriole7 – Eastern Caribbean
 * 94) Astronye - Jamaica and Puerto Rico
 * 95) Camille G. Weston (talk) 16:04, 12 July 2017 (UTC) - Af Ayisen et af Trini gyal, born in New York City
 * 96) Mr. Allen (talk) 18:31, 8 March 2018 (UTC) Marcellus - Jamaica
 * 01:21:37, 28 July 2018 (UTC) living on and promoting Curaçao with my business OmniSynThesis
 * 08:39:14, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
 * 01:49:17, 2 September 2018 (UTC) - Trinidad & Tobago
 * 09:16:58, 14 September 2018 (UTC) (Primarily football)
 * 1) 23 December 2018 - Primarily Barbados, with a special interest in (higher) education
 * 01:35:47, 27 January 2019 (UTC) - Jamaican immigration to Australia in the 19th Century
 * 00:29:00, 17 May 2019 (UTC) - Archaeology of the Lesser Antilles
 * 01:04:01, 5 September 2019 (UTC) - Primarily Jamaica
 * 1) Shanluan (talk)
 * 2) Beginning - The Bahamas, Turks & Caicos, culture, meteorology, politics, history
 * 3) BoriquaZurdo - Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic & Cuba: culture and art
 * 4)  Juan de  Bolas  Talk 16:20, 12 September 2020 (UTC) - Primarily Jamaica
 * 5) Bridgette92, Les Jolies Eaux
 * , 21:03, 15 October, 2020
 * 20:11:34, 14 August 2021 (UTC) - Saint Lucia
 * 1)  Talk to G Moore 22:24, 2 October 2021 (UTC), List of Caribbean islands
 * 19:52:31, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
 * 04:10:30, 13 March 2022 (UTC) Jamaica, The Bahamas, and the wider Caribbean/West Indies
 * 1) - 1 June 2022 - history, mainly Belize
 * 01:31:42, 18 June 2022 (UTC) Dutch Caribbean
 * 00:36:31, 27 November 2022 (UTC) - Primarily St Lucia
 * 02:46:51, 30 December 2022 (UTC) (exclusively everything Antigua, Barbuda, Montserrat)
 * 17:15:55, 24 February 2023 (UTC) - French &/or Dutch speaking regions
 * 18:02:02, 23 September 2023 (UTC) - Indo-Caribbean, Caribbean Diaspora, Women in the Caribbean, Trinidad, Guyana
 * 18:02:02, 23 September 2023 (UTC) - Indo-Caribbean, Caribbean Diaspora, Women in the Caribbean, Trinidad, Guyana

Former participants
Thank you for your help! Please move your username back to the active list when you can participate again.
 * 1) Shirazian
 * 2) Targeman
 * 3) Jay Jay Marcus
 * 4) Ætoms

Participant identification
WikiProject Caribbean participants should place one of the following lines of Wikitext on their user page to add it to .

For other Caribbean user templates see .

Showcase
The following items have received recognition from the Wikipedia community:

Featured Articles

 * Featured article star.svg 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane
 * Featured article star.svg British African-Caribbean community
 * Featured article star.svg Che Guevara
 * Featured article star.svg Democratic Labour Party (Trinidad and Tobago)
 * Featured article star.svg Edwin Taylor Pollock
 * Featured article star.svg Elfin-woods Warbler
 * Featured article star.svg Fauna of Puerto Rico
 * Featured article star.svg Hector Lavoe
 * Featured article star.svg History of Puerto Rico


 * Featured article star.svg Hurricane Erika (1997)
 * Featured article star.svg Military history of Puerto Rico
 * Featured article star.svg Mourning Dove
 * Featured article star.svg Music of the Lesser Antilles
 * Featured article star.svg Nutrition Assistance for Puerto Rico
 * Featured article star.svg Puerto Ricans in World War II
 * Featured article star.svg Ramon Emeterio Betances
 * Featured article star.svg Salsa music
 * Featured article star.svg West Indian cricket team in England in 1988

Featured Lists

 * LinkFA-star.png List of birds of Belize
 * LinkFA-star.png List of Caribbean drums
 * LinkFA-star.png List of Cuban birds
 * LinkFA-star.png List of Puerto Rican birds


 * LinkFA-star.png Puerto Ricans Missing in Action in the Korean War
 * LinkFA-star.png List of snakes of Trinidad and Tobago
 * LinkFA-star.png List of Vieques birds

Featured Portals

 * LinkFA-star.png Portal:Cuba
 * LinkFA-star.png Portal:Puerto Rico

Good Articles

 * Bob Marley
 * Boricua Popular Army
 * Brothers to the Rescue
 * Buena Vista Social Club
 * Cerro Maravilla Incident
 * Great Hurricane of 1780
 * History of the West Indian cricket team
 * Humbert Roque Versace
 * Hurricane David
 * Hurricane Dog (1950)


 * Hurricane Klaus (1984)
 * Live and Let Die (novel)
 * Music of Antigua and Barbuda
 * Music of Barbados
 * Pedro del Valle
 * Puerto Rico
 * Tropical Storm Fabian (1991)
 * Tropical Storm Isabel (1985)
 * Tropical Storm Mindy (2003)

Did you know... (DYK)
The following items all appeared in the Main page Did You Know section:
 * Arthur William Hodge - 19 January 2007
 * Attalea crassispatha - 27 February 2007
 * Counterpart Caribbean - 10 April 2009
 * Elfin-woods Warbler - 22 February 2006
 * Fauna of Puerto Rico - 16 August 2006
 * Francis Barber - 30 March 2007
 * Humbert Roque Versace - 20 July 2006
 * Joost van Dyk - 1 November 2006
 * José Martí Memorial - 30 March 2007
 * Puerto Ricans in World War II - 23 March 2007
 * Railways of Jamaica - 18 September 2007
 * Oryzomys hypenemus - 28 September 2009
 * Megalomys audreyae - 9 October 2009
 * Rodents of the Caribbean - 14 October 2009

Version 1.0 Editorial Team release version selections

 * Belmopan
 * Puerto Rico

Project banner

 * is the project banner, to be added to the talk pages of all articles which fall within the scope of the project.

Stubs

 * Caribbean-stub - Stub template for articles relating to the Caribbean; to be put on the bottom of each article page.
 * Caribbean-geo-stub - Stub template for articles relating to the geography of the Caribbean; to be put on the bottom of each article page.
 * Caribbean-bio-stub - Stub template for articles relating to Caribbean people; to be put on the bottom of each article page.
 * Caribbean-boxing-bio-stub - Stub template for articles relating to people involved in Caribbean boxing; to be put on the bottom of each article page.
 * WestIndies-cricket-bio-stub - Stub template for articles relating to biographical cricket-related stubs about West Indians; to be put on the bottom of each article page.
 * Caribbean-politician-stub - Stub template for articles relating to Caribbean politicians; to be put on the bottom of each article page.
 * Caribbean-trade-union-stub - Stub template for articles relating to Caribbean trade unions; to be put on the bottom of each article page.
 * Bahamas-geo-stub - Stub template for articles relating to geography of the Bahamas; to be put on the bottom of each article page.
 * Barbados-stub - Stub template for articles relating to Barbados; to be put on the bottom of each article page.
 * Barbados-geo-stub - Stub template for articles relating to geography of Barbados; to be put on the bottom of each article page.
 * Caymans-stub - Stub template for articles relating to the Cayman Islands; to be put on the bottom of each article page. *NOTE: Geographical items about the Cayman Islands should have both the Caymans-stub and Caribbean-geo-stub placed on them.
 * Cuba-stub - Stub template for articles relating to Cuba; to be put on the bottom of each article page.
 * Cuba-geo-stub - Stub template for articles relating to Cuban geography; to be put on the bottom of each article page.
 * Cuba-bio-stub - Stub template for articles relating to Cuban people; to be put on the bottom of each article page.
 * Cuba-athletics-bio-stub - Stub template for articles relating to CUban people connected with the sport of track and field athletics; to be put on the bottom of each article page.
 * DominicanRepublic-stub - Stub template for articles relating to Dominican Republic; to be put on the bottom of each article page.
 * DominicanRepublic-geo-stub - Stub template for articles relating to geography of the Dominican Republic; to be put on the bottom of each article page.
 * Haiti-stub - Stub template for articles relating to Haiti; to be put on the bottom of each article page.
 * Haiti-geo-stub - Stub template for articles relating to geography of Haiti; to be put on the bottom of each article page.
 * Haiti-bio-stub - Stub template for articles relating to Haitian people; to be put on the bottom of each article page.
 * Haiti-painter-stub - Stub template for articles relating to Haitian painters; to be put on the bottom of each article page.
 * Haiti-writer-stub - Stub template for articles relating to writers from Haiti; to be put on the bottom of each article page.
 * 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.
 * PuertoRico-geo-stub - Stub template for articles relating to geography of Puerto Rico; to be put on the bottom of each article page.
 * PuertoRico-bio-stub - Stub template for articles relating to people from Puerto Rico; to be put on the bottom of each article page.
 * Trinidad-stub - Stub template for articles relating to Trinidad and Tobago; to be put on the bottom of each article page.
 * Trinidad-geo-stub - Stub template for articles relating to geography of Trinidad and Tobago; to be put on the bottom of each article page.
 * Belize-stub - Stub template for articles relating to Belize; to be put on the bottom of the article page.
 * Belize-geo-stub - Stub template for articles relating to the geography of Belize; to be put on the bottom of the article page.
 * Guyana-stub - Stub template for articles relating to Guyana; to be put on the bottom of the article page.
 * Guyana-geo-stub - Stub template for articles relating to the geography of Guyana; to be put on the bottom of the article page.
 * Suriname-stub - Stub template for articles relating to Suriname; to be put on the bottom of the article page.
 * Suriname-geo-stub - Stub template for articles relating to the geography of Suriname; to be put on the bottom of the article page.

Categories

 * List of

Periodicals
The following periodicals are available from subscription databanks for the time periods indicated. They are indexed, and available, depending on circumstances, in audio, video, citation, abstract, or full text format. To obtain information, send me an e-mail with a specific subject of interest and I will forward what I find. John Carter (talk) 18:44, 6 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Americas: A Quarterly Review of Inter-American Culture and History (1977-on)

Tools

 * Main tool page: toolserver.org


 * Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
 * Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
 * Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
 * Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.

Sisterlinks
There are a huge number of resources available for this area. Please see the page of the specific country or area in which you are interested for the ones applicable for your specific interest.