Wikipedia:WikiProject Lighthouses

Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Lighthouses. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help focus efforts. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list.

Goals

 * 1) To share ideas for attaining high quality on each type of article under the project.
 * 2) To create a consensus on what should be included.

Scope
The scope of this project is all articles related to lighthouses and pharology (study of lighthouses).

Recognized content
A detailed list of recognized content is available at Lighthouses recognized content.

Featured lists

 * List of lighthouses in Connecticut

Good articles

 * Avery Point Light
 * Black Rock Harbor Light
 * Bridgeport Harbor Light
 * Cape Moreton Light
 * Chester Rock Light
 * Dubh Artach
 * Essex Reef Light
 * Europa Point Lighthouse
 * Falkner Island Light
 * Five Mile Point Light
 * Augustin-Jean Fresnel
 * Great Captain Island Light
 * Green Bay Harbor Entrance Light
 * Greens Ledge Light
 * Kõpu Lighthouse
 * Lynde Point Light
 * Mystic Seaport Light
 * Norah Head Light
 * Point Stephens Light
 * Fannie Salter
 * Skerryvore

Former good articles

 * Wawatam Lighthouse

Did you know? articles

 * Archer Point Light
 * Ashtabula Harbor Light
 * James Balfour (engineer)
 * Bay Rock Light
 * Belle Tout Lighthouse
 * Bissau Cathedral
 * Black Rock Harbor Light
 * Blackwell Island Light
 * Bloody Point Range Lights
 * Bluff Point Light
 * Bois Blanc Island Lighthouse and Blockhouse
 * Booby Island Light
 * Bridgeport Harbor Light
 * Brockton Point
 * Burnham-on-Sea High Lighthouse
 * Burnham-on-Sea Low Lighthouse
 * Burnham-on-Sea Round Tower
 * Bustard Head Light
 * Cape Agulhas Lighthouse
 * Cape Bowling Green Light
 * Cape Capricorn Light
 * Cape Cleveland Light
 * Cape Don Light
 * Cape Kumukahi Light
 * Cape Moreton Light
 * Cape Rachado Lighthouse
 * Cape Wickham Lighthouse
 * Cat Island Light
 * Chester Rock Light
 * Christiana Light
 * Clarence River Light
 * Clarks Point Light
 * Clay Island Light
 * Cleveland Point Light
 * Creal Reef Light
 * Crown Point Light
 * Day beacon
 * Delaware Breakwater Range Rear Light
 * Dent Island Light
 * Dog Island Lighthouse
 * Double Island Point Light
 * Dueodde Lighthouse
 * Dunston Pillar
 * Maurice Durand (architect)
 * East End Light
 * Elbow of Cross Ledge Light
 * Emery Point Light
 * Erie Land Light
 * Essex Reef Light
 * Europa Point Lighthouse
 * Falkner Island Light
 * Fastnet Lighthouse
 * Fitzroy Island Light
 * Five Mile Point Light
 * Flat Top Island Light
 * Fort Sumter Range Lights
 * Fuller Rock Light
 * The Fullerton Hotel Singapore
 * Geitungen Lighthouse
 * Gibraltar Aerobeacon
 * Gibraltar North Mole Elbow Lighthouse
 * Gibraltar North Mole Lighthouse
 * Gibraltar South Mole Lighthouse
 * Grand Island Harbor Rear Range Light
 * Grand Lake St. Marys Lighthouse
 * Grand Turk Lighthouse
 * Grassy Hill Light
 * Great Captain Island Light
 * Green Island Light (Ohio)
 * Green Island Light (Wisconsin)
 * Green Point Lighthouse, Cape Town
 * Greens Ledge Light
 * Haig Point Range Lights
 * George Halpin
 * Head Harbour Lighthouse
 * George Poynter Heath
 * High and Low Lights of North Shields
 * Holland Island Bar Light
 * Horn Island Light
 * Hornby Lighthouse
 * Île Vierge
 * Île d'Yeu Lighthouse
 * Imperial Towers
 * Japanese Lighthouse (Garapan, Saipan)
 * Japanese Lighthouse (Poluwat, Chuuk)
 * Kingston by Sea
 * Kızılada Lighthouse
 * Kugelbake
 * Kullen Lighthouse
 * Kvitsøy Lighthouse
 * United States lightship LV-117
 * La Vieille
 * Lady Elliot Island Light
 * Lågskär Lighthouse
 * Land lighthouse
 * Leasowe Lighthouse
 * Ida Lewis
 * Light Vessel 72
 * Lighthouse and naval vessel urban legend
 * Lighthouse of Genoa
 * Lighthouse of Ponta das Contendas
 * List of lighthouses in Alaska
 * List of lighthouses in Gibraltar
 * List of lighthouses in Maine
 * Long Tail Point Light
 * Low Head Lighthouse
 * Low Isles Light
 * Mayo Beach Light
 * Mew Island Lighthouse
 * Minicoy Island Lighthouse
 * Minnesota Point Light
 * Mizunokojima Lighthouse
 * Moreton Bay Pile Light
 * Moreton Island lighthouses
 * Musselbed Shoals Light
 * United States lightship Nantucket (LV-58)
 * New Caloundra Light
 * North Reef Light
 * Old Caloundra Light
 * Old Harbor Light (Savannah, Georgia)
 * Old Plantation Flats Light
 * One Fathom Bank Lighthouse
 * United States lightship Overfalls (LV-118)
 * Pass A L'Outre Light
 * Pass Christian Light
 * Peshtigo Reef Light
 * Pine Islet Light
 * Point Abino Light Tower
 * Point Adams Light
 * Point Charles Light
 * Point Danger Light
 * Point Gammon Light
 * Point Lonsdale Lighthouse
 * Pointe du Grouin du Cou Lighthouse
 * Port Washington Light
 * Port of Bissau
 * Pungoteague Creek Light
 * Roanoke River Light
 * Rock Harbor Light
 * Round Island Light, Isles of Scilly
 * Rubicon Point Light
 * Rumeli Feneri
 * Sacred Heart Church, Levuka
 * St. Johns River Light
 * Fannie Salter
 * Sandy Cape Light
 * Sea Hill Light
 * Sharps Island Light
 * Ship John Shoal Light
 * Ship Shoal Light
 * Vladimir Shukhov
 * Skerryvore
 * Smith Point Light
 * South Bass Island Light
 * Southwold Lighthouse
 * Spectacle Reef Light
 * Spit Bank Lighthouse
 * Stannard Rock Light
 * Start Point Lighthouse
 * Stingray Point Light
 * Sugarloaf Point Light
 * Svinøy Lighthouse
 * Tarrytown Light
 * Texas Tower (lighthouse)
 * Toledo Harbor Light
 * Trinity Shoal Light
 * United States Lighthouse Society
 * Vermilion Light
 * Léonce Verny
 * Vischpoort
 * Vuurbaak van Katwijk aan Zee
 * Wadjemup Lighthouse
 * Warden Head Light
 * Warrior Rock Light
 * Wawatam Lighthouse
 * Wharton Reef Light
 * Wollongong Breakwater Lighthouse
 * George Worthylake
 * Wyborn Reef Light

Departments

 * WikiProject Lighthouses/Assessment

Parentage

 * WikiProject Architecture

Related projects

 * WikiProject Civil engineering
 * WikiProject Maritime Trades
 * WikiProject National Register of Historic Places
 * WikiProject Piers (marked inactive)
 * WikiProject Ports
 * WikiProject Ships
 * WikiProject Shipwrecks

Participants
Interested people are invited to add their names to the list – no invitation required – or, just start editing!
 * Bowtiesarecool06 - Great Lakes Lighthouses
 * Peter K Burian - Focus on lighthouses of Ontario, Canada, such as Chantry Island Lightstation Tower, mostly those that are in the Category:Lighthouses on the National Historic Sites of Canada register
 * TheCrazedBeast - Focus on the Chesapeake Bay, especially Maryland.
 * Williamwaterway historian of Martha's Vineyard lighthouses, with emphasis on Gay Head Light
 * 7&amp;6=thirteen (☎) lighthouses of Great Lakes, especially Michigan
 * Berean Hunter
 * Bsharkey
 * Chesipiero - Lists of lighthouses and lightvessels, Infobox, Lighthouses of Italy
 * Cocoaguy ここがいい contribstalk
 * De728631 – adding infoboxes
 * dk69
 * Draugen
 * Gateman1997
 * Ivanvector - lighthouses in Prince Edward Island and elsewhere in The Maritimes
 * Jameslwoodward – New England
 * John Carter (formerly User:Warlordjohncarter)
 * Jokulhlaup
 * Knowledgekid87 - I have worked on the List of lighthouses in the United States article and each state's list tables. I have also worked on the templates.
 * Leifern
 * Malathos – listing the New Zealand lights
 * mangoe – retired
 * MChew – lighthouses of Japan
 * Roundtheworld - lighthouses in Portugal
 * Ser Amantio di Nicolao (formerly User:AlbertHerring)
 * Thefrood – Assessments
 * Wpwatchdog
 * Muhandes - List of lighthouses in Israel, general templates, lighthouse of Australia
 * GlassyEye - Lighthouses manufactured by Chance Brothers, Smethwick, England
 * CybergothiChé - lighthouses of Australia
 * PRABHU puducherry -Lighthouses of puducherry in english and tamil wikipedia
 * HatOfTheCat - Trinity House lighthouses designed & engineered by Messrs. Walker & Burges, Henry Norris and James Douglass
 * Stephen kleckner (talk) 15:01, 27 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Chongkian - Lighthouses in Taiwan
 * Patr2016 - Lighthouses of Michigan

Sample articles
The following articles represent examples of coverage and structure, for articles of their type.
 * Sample apparatus article: Argand lamp
 * Sample biography article: George Meade
 * Sample lighthouse article: La Vieille (France); Norah Head Light (Aus.)
 * Sample related article: Daymark; Lightvessel; Light characteristic

New articles
Please feel free to list your new Lighthouses-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an compelling or unusual fact in them can be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Wikipedia page. DYK has a 5 day time limit from the creation or fivefold-expansion of the article.
 * Windmill Point Light (Michigan)
 * Cabo Sardão Lighthouse
 * Penedo da Saudade Lighthouse
 * Outão Lighthouse
 * Azeda Lighthouse
 * Ponta da Piedade Lighthouse (Portugal)
 * Grandique Point Lighthouse
 * Esteiro Lighthouse (Portugal)
 * Mama Lighthouse (Portugal)
 * Bugio Lighthouse (Portugal)
 * Gibalta Lighthouse (Portugal)
 * Santa Marta Lighthouse (Cascais)
 * Cabo Raso Lighthouse
 * Guia Lighthouse (Cascais)
 * Troubridge Hill Lighthouse
 * Cape Spencer Lighthouse (South Australia)
 * Cape St. Blaize Lighthouse
 * Île-Verte Lighthouse
 * Cap-des-Rosiers Lighthouse
 * Plum Gut Lighthouse
 * Danger Point Lighthouse
 * Low Point Lighthouse
 * Kugelbake
 * Grand Island North Light
 * Groote Kaap
 * Vuurtoreneiland
 * Cape Agulhas Lighthouse
 * Ahırkapı Feneri
 * Şile Feneri
 * Yeşilköy Feneri
 * Grand Island Harbor Rear Range Light
 * Burlington Breakwater Lights
 * Dutch Gap Canal Lights
 * Shinnecock Light
 * Romer Shoal Light
 * Huron Islands Lighthouse
 * Hyannis Rear Range Light
 * Lovells Island Range Lights
 * Falmouth Inner Light
 * Detroit River Light
 * Wickford Harbor Light
 * Ipswich Range Lights
 * Spectacle Island Range Lights
 * Nantucket Cliff Lights
 * Nantucket Range Lights
 * Nantucket Harbor Range Lights
 * VRB-25
 * Ile Parisienne

Project banner

 * WikiProject Lighthouses

Infoboxes

 * Infobox lighthouse

Userboxes

 * ParticipantLighthouses and User WikiProject Lighthouses its smaller cousin.

Stub templates

 * Lighthouse-stub
 * US-lighthouse-stub
 * Canada-lighthouse-stub
 * PrinceEdwardIsland-lighthouse-stub
 * BritishColumbia-lighthouse-stub
 * Manitoba-lighthouse-stub
 * NewBrunswick-lighthouse-stub
 * Newfoundland-lighthouse-stub
 * NovaScotia-lighthouse-stub
 * Ontario-lighthouse-stub
 * Quebec-lighthouse-stub

Subpages

 * List of

Resources

 * Lighthouse Directory

Images
Usage: Requires attribution, by citing the Archives of Michigan.
 * Images related to Lighthouses at Wikimedia Commons
 * Archives of Michigan: Michigan Lighthouse Collection (alt link) – Lighthouses and Life-Saving Stations pictures.
 * Klaus Hülse's collection: Historic postcard images – Lighthouses pictures from many countries.
 * United States Coast Guard Image Archive: https://www.history.uscg.mil/Our-Collections/Photos/ According to a note at the top of the website, all images are public domain. Searchable historic archive of a huge number of lighthouses.

Templates

 * Global
 * cite ngall produces a citation in cite book form to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Lists of Lights which cover the world except the USA. See cite uscgll below.
 * cite rowlett provides a citation to Russ Rowlett's The Lighthouse Directory. It uses the naming convention of that cite pages and covers every region on earth.
 * lighthouse-stub is used to mark stub articles.
 * Australia
 * cite loa provides a citation to a specific page in Lighthouses of Australia Inc.
 * cite loaidx provides a citation to one of the index pages in Lighthouses of Australia Inc.
 * cite ssl provides a citation to a specific page in SeaSide Lights
 * cite sslidx provides a citation to one of the index pages in SeaSide Lights
 * Canada
 * The following stub templates are available:
 * cite ccgll produces a citation in cite web form to the Canadian Coast Guard List of Lights, Buoys and Fog Signals (4 Volumes). It has the advantage of being easy to use and automatically includes the url of the appropriate web site. It is easy to change when the Coast Guard reorganizes its web site as has in the past, and undoubtedly will do again in the future. The Canadian Coast Guard's four volumes cover Canadian waters.
 * Canada-lighthouse-stub
 * BritishColumbia-lighthouse-stub
 * Manitoba-lighthouse-stub
 * NewBrunswick-lighthouse-stub
 * Newfoundland-lighthouse-stub
 * NovaScotia-lighthouse-stub
 * Ontario-lighthouse-stub
 * PrinceEdwardIsland-lighthouse-stub
 * Quebec-lighthouse-stub
 * Netherlands
 * Netherlands-lighthouse-stub is used to mark stub articles related to Dutch lighthouses.
 * United States
 * cite uscgll produces a citation in cite book form to the US Coast Guard Light List. It has the advantage of being easy to use, a standard format, and automatically including the url of the appropriate web site. It is easy to change when the Coast Guard reorganizes its web site as it did in July 2010 and will, undoubtedly, do again in the future. The Coast Guard's seven volumes cover United States waters.
 * cite uscghist provides a similar citation to the US Coast Guard's historical web site, which lists almost every significant light in the United States, including those no longer extant. Most of the articles are accompanied by historical photographs.
 * cite uscgnavbib provides a simple link to the US Coast Guard's extensive historical bibliography in case someone wants to cite it.
 * US-lighthouse-stub is used to mark stub articles related to US lighthouses.