Wikipedia:WikiProject Irish Maritime

Welcome to the Irish Maritime WikiProject, a collaboration area and group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Irish Maritime, seafaring and inland waterways articles.

Goals

 * To establish a cohesive direction for the collection of articles making up this project
 * To highlight the maritime nature of the island of Ireland on Wikipedia
 * To improve Wikipedia's coverage of Irish maritime issues
 * Create guidelines for articles about Irish maritime issues

Scope
The scope of this project is all articles which fall in the Category:Ireland which have a maritime related focus, including, but not limited to:

Ports

 * List of Irish Ports

Maritime Organisations
Marine related bodies operating in Ireland
 * Bord Iascaigh Mhara - Irish Fisheries Board
 * Cobh Heritage Centre
 * Commissioners of Irish Lights
 * Cruising Association of Ireland
 * Customs & Excise, Irish Revenue
 * Naval Service
 * Irish Coast Guard
 * Irish Institute of Master Mariners (IIMM)
 * National Maritime College of Ireland (NMCI)
 * Irish Maritime Development Office
 * Follow the Fleet
 * Maritime Careers
 * Irish Marina Operators Association
 * Irish Marine Federation
 * Irish Ports Association
 * Master Mariners Association
 * National Maritime College of Ireland
 * Royal National Lifeboat Institution (Ireland)
 * Seaman's Union of Ireland
 * Sea Scouts
 * Stella Maris
 * Department of Communications, Marine & Natural Resources
 * The Department of Transport - Commercial Harbours
 * The Department of the Environment - Dredging
 * National Maritime Museum of Ireland
 * The Marine Institute
 * Maritime Institute of Ireland
 * The Marine Survey Office
 * Mercantile Marine Office (MMO)
 * Irish Sailing Association
 * Irish Water Safety Association
 * Irish Maritime Development Office
 * Cruising Association of Ireland
 * Irish Underwater Council
 * Irish Exporters Association
 * Inland Fisheries Ireland

Entries with maritime content/interest

 * Plan W
 * List of crossings of the Shannon

Main Irish Maritime Laws

 * 1946 Harbours Act
 * 1996 Harbours Act

Irish water craft - Historical/Design/Achievements

 * Naomhóg
 * Curragh/Currach
 * Galway Hooker
 * Aud
 * Saint Brendan
 * Jeanie Johnston
 * Asgard
 * Asgard II
 * Dunbrody
 * Helga/LÉ Muirchú
 * BP18
 * Shannon-One-Design

Participants
This is just an informal headcount and directory; no strings attached! Anyone interested can list himself/herself (or others) here alphabetically (there's no leader).

Candidates

 * The article on John de Courcy Ireland would probably be suitable for this WikiProject.
 * The article on John de Courcy Ireland would probably be suitable for this WikiProject.

New articles
Please feel free to list your new Irish Maritime-related articles in the Project Log Project log (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box the Main Page.

Collaboration and review

 * Collaboration of the week


 * Peer review
 * Assessment
 * Assessment

The project is too small to justify reviews and assessments, until numbers grow we will seek reviews and assessments from other projects and inherit their scores.

To Do List
and the first item for the "To do list" is to create the list WikiProject Irish Maritime/to do

Templates

 * Ireland-maritime-stub
 * User WPIrish Maritime
 * WikiProject Irish Maritime

Project categories

 * Category: Irish maritime stubs
 * Category: WikiProject Irish Maritime
 * Category: WikiProject Irish Maritime participants

Related categories

 * Category: Buildings and structures in Ireland
 * Category: Lighthouses in Ireland
 * Category: Economy of Ireland
 * Category: Environment of Ireland
 * Category: Geography of Ireland
 * Category: Tourism in Ireland
 * Category: Water transport in Ireland
 * Category: Canals in Ireland
 * Category: Ports and harbours of Ireland
 * Category: Shipping companies of Ireland
 * Category:Shipping companies of the Republic of Ireland
 * Category: Ships of Ireland
 * Category: Maritime incidents in Ireland
 * Category:Maritime history of Ireland

Project banner
Talk pages related to this WikiProject can be tagged with WPIrish Maritime in order to let people know we exist, so that they can contact us when needed. Note: this banner should not be substituted.

It would be nice to maybe create an invitation template for the talk pages of potential project contributors.

Resources

 * SHIPDAB - guidelines on ship names
 * Project log - please feel free to update this!
 * Add or find useful images here!

Related projects

 * WikiProject Ireland
 * WikiProject Maritime Trades