Wikipedia:WikiProject Western Australia

 WikiProject Western Australia

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WikiProject Western Australia is a WikiProject dedicated to maintaining and improving articles relating to the state of Western Australia.

The project aims to:
 * coordinate and improve articles related to Western Australia
 * foster collaboration between editors in Western Australia
 * establish appropriate links with Wikiproject Australia
 * identify the Western Australian component of other Wikipedia projects

Project scope
WikiProject Western Australia maintains and improves articles within the Western Australia category structure:

Specific goals
To improve iconic and high-profile Western Australian articles to Featured Article quality. e.g.
 * Places: Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Fremantle, Western Australia, Shark Bay, Murujuga
 * People: John Forrest, C. Y. O'Connor, Moondyne Joe
 * History: Batavia (1628 ship), Swan River Colony
 * Flora: Anigozanthos manglesii (Mangles' kangaroo paw), floral emblem; Eucalyptus marginata (jarrah)
 * Fauna: numbat, faunal emblem; black swan, ornithological emblem; Gogonasus, fossil emblem; Ozraptor, the only named Western Australian dinosaur; sandgroper
 * Anthropology; Aboriginal cultures of Western Australia

To-do list
 Edit 

Articles requiring cleanup
The cleanup listing, linked to on the right, is an automatically generated list of articles using cleanup templates. The old unmaintained list (linked here as people have been using it as a worklist) is at WikiProject Western Australia/Cleanup listing.

Resources
Useful resources for information on WA topics:
 * Landgate Place name history – For the origins of the names of suburbs and towns in Western Australia
 * Landgate Map Viewer Plus – For aerial imagery dating back to 1953
 * MRWA Road Information Mapping System – Speed limits and road hierarchy
 * Schools Online – A directory of public schools in Western Australia
 * Parliamentary Library
 * WA Government Gazette, including search function, from the State Law Publisher
 * State Library of Western Australia eResources. Provides access, with registration, to recent editions of The West Australian and other local newspapers

Project banner
A project banner is displayed on an article's talk page to flag the article as related to Western Australia. This is a parameter within the Australian banner:
 *  - instructions are here
 * If the article already has the WP Australia banner, just add WA=yes inside the brackets
 *  - articles in the Perth Metropolitan area

It is possible to add, in addition to the project banner - specific sub projects with:
 * Freopedia - a Fremantle and Freopedia related article
 * Toodyaypedia - a Toodyay related article

Stubs
This project's main stub template is WesternAustralia-stub – for all stub articles within the WA category tree. The following stub templates are available for more specific topics:

Cities:
 * PerthAU-stub – for stubs related to Perth
 * Fremantle-stub – for stubs related to Fremantle

Geographic places:
 * WesternAustralia-geo-stub – for stubs on geographic places in WA
 * PerthAU-geo-stub – for stubs on geographic locations in Perth

Infrastructure:
 * WesternAustralia-airport-stub – for stubs on airports in WA
 * WesternAustralia-rail-transport-stub - for stubs on railways in WA
 * WesternAustralia-road-stub – for stubs on roads in WA
 * WesternAustralia-school-stub – for stubs on schools in WA

Other:
 * WesternAustralia-gov-stub – for stubs on government in WA
 * WesternAustralia-plant-stub – for stubs on plants in WA

Request a photograph

 *  - place on the talk page; article will appear in Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Western Australia



Awards
This award can be given by any project member to any other editor who has made significant and useful contributions to Wikipedia's articles associated with Western Australia:


 *  Barnstar-WA.png 

Assessment progress
Of the articles overseen by WikiProject Western Australia:

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Featured articles

 * Adenanthos cuneatus
 * Adenanthos obovatus
 * Airport Central railway station
 * Alan Rawlinson
 * Banded stilt
 * Banksia aculeata
 * Banksia attenuata
 * Banksia blechnifolia
 * Banksia brownii
 * Banksia caleyi
 * Banksia coccinea
 * Banksia cuneata
 * Banksia dentata
 * Banksia epica
 * Banksia grossa
 * Banksia ilicifolia
 * Banksia lemanniana
 * Banksia menziesii
 * Banksia petiolaris
 * Banksia prionotes
 * Banksia scabrella
 * Banksia sceptrum
 * Banksia sessilis
 * Banksia speciosa
 * Banksia sphaerocarpa
 * Banksia telmatiaea
 * Banksia verticillata
 * Banksia violacea
 * Carnaby's black cockatoo
 * Clackline Bridge
 * Cyclone Orson
 * Daglish railway station
 * Death of Ms Dhu
 * Forrest Highway
 * Fremantle Prison
 * Great Eastern Highway
 * Kwinana Freeway
 * North Island (Houtman Abrolhos)
 * Operation Hurricane
 * Rainbow pitta
 * Red-capped parrot
 * Red-winged fairywren
 * Tammar wallaby
 * Valston Hancock
 * Western Area Command (RAAF)
 * Western Australian emergency of March 1944
 * Western yellow robin

Featured lists

 * Pendulum discography

Good articles

 * 11th Battalion (Australia)
 * 108 St Georges Terrace
 * 1950 Australian National Airways Douglas DC-4 crash
 * 1962 Commonwealth Paraplegic Games
 * 2010 Gascoyne River flood
 * 2019 West Coast Eagles season
 * 2020 West Coast Eagles season
 * 2021 West Coast Eagles women's season
 * Abyss (roller coaster)
 * Albany Highway
 * Architecture of Fremantle Prison
 * Aubin Grove railway station
 * Australian ringneck
 * Avondale Agricultural Research Station
 * Banksia acanthopoda
 * Banksia oligantha
 * Bayswater, Western Australia
 * Bayswater railway station, Perth
 * Bedford, Western Australia
 * Ben Carlin
 * Ben Small (politician)
 * Bill Dunn (Pilbara elder)
 * Butler railway station
 * Carlisle railway station, Perth
 * Central Park (skyscraper)
 * Challis railway station
 * Christian Porter
 * Clarkson railway station, Perth
 * Collier Road
 * Council House, Perth
 * Cullacabardee, Western Australia
 * Cyclone Alby
 * Cyclone Alessia
 * Cyclone Bobby
 * Cyclone Emma (2006)
 * Cyclone Fay
 * Cyclone Glenda
 * Cyclone Herbie
 * Cyclone Ilona
 * Cyclone Olivia
 * Cyclone Rosita
 * Cyclone Sam
 * Daglish, Western Australia
 * Electoral district of Perth
 * Eucalyptus gomphocephala
 * Eucalyptus rhodantha
 * Eucalyptus wandoo
 * Eyre Highway
 * Flag of Western Australia
 * GST distribution dispute
 * Great Northern Highway
 * Greenwood railway station
 * Henry Daglish
 * High Wycombe railway station, Perth
 * History of Fremantle Prison
 * Hughie Edwards
 * John D'Orazio
 * John Tonkin
 * Kardinya, Western Australia
 * Lakelands railway station
 * Lauren Mitchell
 * Linda Syddick Napaltjarri
 * Maylands railway station
 * Mitchell Freeway
 * Myrmecia inquilina
 * Narrows Bridge (Perth)
 * Nick Goiran
 * North West Coastal Highway
 * Oats Street railway station
 * Operation Mosaic
 * Palace Hotel, Perth
 * Perth Underground railway station
 * Point Walter
 * Ray O'Connor
 * Redcliffe railway station
 * Sam Kerr
 * Seaforth railway station
 * Sherwood railway station, Perth
 * Showdown (Pendulum song)
 * Susie Bootja Bootja Napaltjarri
 * The Causeway
 * Thornlie line
 * Tonkin Highway
 * Victoria Park railway station, Perth
 * Warnbro railway station
 * Western rosella

Active members
To publicise your membership of WikiProject Western Australia, edit this section and insert the Wikitext   with your areas of interest into the following list of members in alphabetical order. Members may also place member identification on their user page.


 * 1) -- (thanks Hesp)
 * 2) - May as well, you gropers are 2 hours behind ;)
 * 3) - "A keen Interest in Australian History"
 * 4) - Fantastic idea!
 * 12:18:10, 28 May 2024 (UTC) - Midwest
 * 1) - “Northwest and Kimberley”
 * 2) — Thought I was already a member (always have been, in spirit).
 * 00:20:33, 30 November 2022 (UTC) - Planning and development of WA towns and cities
 * 1) -- (thanks Hesp)
 * 2) - May as well, you gropers are 2 hours behind ;)
 * 3) - "A keen Interest in Australian History"
 * 4) - Fantastic idea!
 * 12:18:10, 28 May 2024 (UTC) - Midwest
 * 1) - “Northwest and Kimberley”
 * 2) — Thought I was already a member (always have been, in spirit).
 * 00:20:33, 30 November 2022 (UTC) - Planning and development of WA towns and cities
 * 1) - May as well, you gropers are 2 hours behind ;)
 * 2) - "A keen Interest in Australian History"
 * 3) - Fantastic idea!
 * 12:18:10, 28 May 2024 (UTC) - Midwest
 * 1) - “Northwest and Kimberley”
 * 2) — Thought I was already a member (always have been, in spirit).
 * 00:20:33, 30 November 2022 (UTC) - Planning and development of WA towns and cities
 * 1) - Fantastic idea!
 * 12:18:10, 28 May 2024 (UTC) - Midwest
 * 1) - “Northwest and Kimberley”
 * 2) — Thought I was already a member (always have been, in spirit).
 * 00:20:33, 30 November 2022 (UTC) - Planning and development of WA towns and cities
 * 1) — Thought I was already a member (always have been, in spirit).
 * 00:20:33, 30 November 2022 (UTC) - Planning and development of WA towns and cities
 * 1) — Thought I was already a member (always have been, in spirit).
 * 00:20:33, 30 November 2022 (UTC) - Planning and development of WA towns and cities
 * 00:20:33, 30 November 2022 (UTC) - Planning and development of WA towns and cities
 * 00:20:33, 30 November 2022 (UTC) - Planning and development of WA towns and cities

Former members
Thank you for your help! Contributions to the project are always appreciated. Please move your username back to the active list when you can participate again.


 * 1) - Joined thanks to Orderinchaos
 * 2) - why not. I plan to visit one day anyway :)
 * 3) - Helping with some history of Australia. Can provide some good resources.
 * 1) - Joined thanks to Orderinchaos
 * 2) - why not. I plan to visit one day anyway :)
 * 3) - Helping with some history of Australia. Can provide some good resources.
 * 1) - why not. I plan to visit one day anyway :)
 * 2) - Helping with some history of Australia. Can provide some good resources.
 * 1) - why not. I plan to visit one day anyway :)
 * 2) - Helping with some history of Australia. Can provide some good resources.
 * 1) - why not. I plan to visit one day anyway :)
 * 2) - Helping with some history of Australia. Can provide some good resources.
 * 1) - Helping with some history of Australia. Can provide some good resources.

Member identification
Members of WikiProject Western Australia may place one of the following lines of Wikitext on their user page to add it to .

For other Western Australia user templates see .

Welcoming new participants and users

 * Welcome-au — a customised welcome note for new Australian users

Meetup notices

 * WA Meetup

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WikiClubWest and WA Project Editor of the Month

 * From 2020 - Editor of the Month for contributions to the Western Australian project in creating new material or improving content by substantial addition of text and images. In most cases edits that are recorded on the page Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Western_Australia constitute basic criterion for consideration.


 * NOTE: - This does not generally include editing in project space, corrections, adjustments or maintenance issues in main space or talk page space


 * The allocation of the award is from the aggregation of positive and constructive edits and additions that are not strictly calendrical but approximate the overall benefit to the project, it has nothing to do with competition or winning it is a subjectively designated appreciation of positive contribution of content to the project

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 * 2020

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 * January -    Evad37                -  for almost an article a day of Western Australian topics
 * February -   The Drovers Wife      -  for creation of Local Government Authority historical articles
 * March -      SamWilson             -  for regional maps of Western Australia
 * April -      Callistemon           -  for heritage lists of Western Australia
 * May -        Hughesdarren          -  for April and May work on Acacias of Western Australia

Categories
That might have potential candidate articles or subjects in Western Australia which may not be obvious or apparent to a new editor.


 * Category:Ghost towns in Australia
 * Category:Mining towns in Western Australia
 * Category:Companies based in Perth, Western Australia

Oddities and contenders for various accolades
Contenders for oddest and oldest articles and categories about Western Australia
 * Talk:Connie Sue Highway - the first WA highway article
 * WhyRossum, the first Wikipedian from WA
 * Margaret River, the first WA town to have a Wikipedia article
 * Gosnells, the first part of Perth to get a Wikipedia article, besides the Perth metropolitan area
 * UTC+8:45 - possibly a unique time zone unto itself?
 * Emu War - the talk page items are quite telling
 * CRI Perth - Beijing direct in Perth?

Moondyne's reply (to the first entry in the list above) would have to be a strong contender for the most belated reply! (4.5 years) GlenDillon 07:18, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

Related WikiProjects

 * Parent:
 * WikiProject Australia


 * Child:
 * WikiProject Perth


 * Sister:
 * WikiProject New South Wales
 * WikiProject Northern Territory
 * WikiProject Queensland
 * WikiProject South Australia
 * WikiProject Tasmania
 * WikiProject Victoria


 * Cousin:
 * WikiProject British Columbia
 * WikiProject New Zealand


 * Overlap:
 * WikiProject Australian biota for WA plants
 * WikiProject Banksia for a mostly Western Australia plant genus
 * WikiProject Australian crime for WA crime


 * WikiProject Demographics of Australia for WA demographics


 * WikiProject Australian history for WA history
 * WikiProject Australian history/Exploration for WA exploration
 * WikiProject Australian literature for WA literature
 * WikiProject Australian maritime history for WA maritime history
 * WikiProject Shipwrecks - WA has a huge shipwreck heritage
 * WikiProject Military history/Australia, New Zealand and South Pacific military history task force for WA military history
 * WikiProject Australian law for WA law
 * WikiProject Australian music for WA music
 * WikiProject Australian places for WA geography
 * WikiProject Australian politics for WA politics
 * WikiProject Australian sports for WA sports
 * WikiProject Education in Australia for WA education
 * WikiProject Australian Roads for WA roads

Outreach projects

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