Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Guyana/Archive 1

Latin American cinema task force
A Latin American cinema task force has been proposed at WP:FILMS, which would include the cinema of Guyana. Interested editors are encouraged to sign up - if there is enough interest, then the task force will be created! Many thanks, Girolamo Savonarola (talk) 20:31, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

Help request: 70 Guyana-related articles needing geographical coordinates
Based on a search of Wikipedia's articles related to Guyana, I've found some articles that I believe are about places in Guyana, and could usefully have geographical coordinates added.

The articles in question are listed in Category:Guyana articles missing geocoordinate data. At the time of writing, some examples included:
 * 1) Corriverton
 * 2) King Edward VIII Falls
 * 3) Mora Point
 * 4) Pomeroon-Supenaam
 * 5) Princeville, Guyana
 * 6) Seweyo
 * 7) Stabroek Market

...and there are many more, as well. At the time of posting this notice, there were 70 articles in this category needing geographical coordinates.

Why add coordinates?
By adding coordinates, a Wikipedia reader can easily view the location on a street map, nautical chart, topographic map, by satellite photo, realtime weather map, and in many other ways. Coordinate data makes an article eventually appear in various services such as Google Maps' Wikipedia overlay, Google Earth, and Wikipedia's own internal map service. Coordinate data also helps readers looking for geographically-based data, such as locations near a reference point, or related information.

How can I do it?
The articles are all marked with coord missing tags, which need to be replaced with coord tags that contain the location's latitude/longitude coordinates; or you might be able to add coordinates to an existing infobox. You can find out how to do this at the Geocoding how-to for WikiProject members.

Please let me know if this is useful, or if I can help in any way. -- The Anome (talk) 22:32, 26 October 2008 (UTC)


 * There are currently 81 articles marked with coordinate missing. Anyone making coordinate corrections should read Template:Coord/doc first. Some articles that do not display the coordinates in the upper right corner of the article have "display-title" missing from the Coord template. --DThomsen8 (talk) 11:12, 23 August 2012 (UTC)

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Guyana Portal
Hi Guys, I've made a start on the Portal and I'm about half way through. I've added the link to the main page and if your intention was to remove the other Portal links - feel free to do so, otherwise I'll update the flags on them and they can be kept. Please let me know what you think of the work so far, and if you have any questions/requests, etc, I'll be happy to act on them. Nice to meet everyone - Wiki User 68  Talk 'n  Walk  21:12, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

Proposal for a 200-WikiProject contest
A proposal has been posted for a contest between all 200 country WikiProjects. We're looking for judges, coordinators, ideas, and feedback.

The Transhumanist 00:39, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

WP 1.0 bot announcement
This message is being sent to each WikiProject that participates in the WP 1.0 assessment system. On Saturday, January 23, 2010, the WP 1.0 bot will be upgraded. Your project does not need to take any action, but the appearance of your project's summary table will change. The upgrade will make many new, optional features available to all WikiProjects. Additional information is available at the WP 1.0 project homepage. &mdash; Carl (CBM · talk) 03:23, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

Unreferenced living people articles bot
Okip  00:52, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

Guyana articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release
Version 0.8 is a collection of Wikipedia articles selected by the Wikipedia 1.0 team for offline release on USB key, DVD and mobile phone. Articles were selected based on their assessed importance and quality, then article versions (revisionIDs) were chosen for trustworthiness (freedom from vandalism) using an adaptation of the WikiTrust algorithm.

We would like to ask you to review the Guyana articles and revisionIDs we have chosen. Selected articles are marked with a diamond symbol (♦) to the right of each article, and this symbol links to the selected version of each article. If you believe we have included or excluded articles inappropriately, please contact us at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8 with the details. You may wish to look at your WikiProject's articles with cleanup tags and try to improve any that need work; if you do, please give us the new revisionID at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8. We would like to complete this consultation period by midnight UTC on Monday, October 11th.

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WikiProject cleanup listing
I have created together with Smallman12q a toolserver tool that shows a weekly-updated list of cleanup categories for WikiProjects, that can be used as a replacement for WolterBot and this WikiProject is among those that are already included (because it is a member of Category:WolterBot cleanup listing subscriptions). See the tool's wiki page, this project's listing in one big table or by categories and the index of WikiProjects. Svick (talk) 20:28, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

Indian Reservation
Are there indian reservation in Guyana? Or something like indian reservation? Indian territory? Where I get information about them?--Kaiyr (talk) 14:36, 24 June 2011 (UTC)

Article alerts
WikiProject Guyana/Article alerts has been created; generating Article alerts for this WikiProject. Timrollpickering (talk) 20:26, 2 September 2011 (UTC)

WikiWomen's History Month
Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:Guyana will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in Guyana's history, society and culture. We've created an event page on English Wikipedia (please translate!) and I hope you'll find the inspiration to participate. These events can take place off wiki, like edit-a-thons, or on wiki, such as themes and translations. Please visit the page here: WikiWomen's History Month. Thanks for your consideration and I look forward to seeing events take place! SarahStierch (talk) 23:23, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Today, I added to the talk:Castellani House, Guyana page, which adds the article to the Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Guyana list. I would to encourage people in Guyana to take photos and therefore shorten the list of requested photos. On the other hand, those who create or update articles about structures in Guyana should add this template to the talk page if there is no photo or an outdated photo in the article. I added a photo request for Demerara Harbour Bridge because the toll booth is not the bridge, and to Demerara Harbour Bridge because pilings are not the bridge, either. --DThomsen8 (talk) 14:00, 21 August 2012 (UTC)

Help Request 2: 76 (and counting) Guyana-related articles in need of photographs...
Hi there,

Over the last few days, User:Dthomsen8 and I (mainly the former!) have identified 76 articles on places, natural and cultural features in Guyana that are currently lacking photographs and would be much improved by the addition of them. These include, for example:


 * Iwokrama Forest
 * Berbice River
 * Shell Beach
 * New Amsterdam
 * Georgetown Cenotaph
 * Brickdam Cathedral

The full list can be found at Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Guyana

These articles would all benefit hugely from the addition of a photograph, so any contribution to knocking one or more of these off the list would be greatly appreciated!

To find out more about creating and uploading photographs for Wikipedia, see WP:Images.

Thanks!

Lorelei (talk) 01:04, 24 August 2012 (UTC)

Editorial Content on Port Mournant
Hi There

I do believe that your editorial content for Port Mourant is incorrect and I quote... "There are number of families who have migrated from Port Mourant to the United States and Canada and have become very successful and outstanding citizens i.e. Mohans, Persauds, Narines, Tiwaris, Bahadurs, Koomas, Deepoos, Babolaals, Chesters, Drepauls, Deonarines, Etwarus,Mangrus, Prasads, Awatars, Ramrattans, Burchells, Mohan Rostum and Ramtejs"

The quoted section I believe fail to include the UNITED KINGDOM and also families to include, the NEROS and BENJAMINS; who have migrated along with afore mentioned names to the United States, Canada and United Kingdom and have become successful and outstanding citizens.

Thank you.

JCT — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.179.252.190 (talk) 13:51, 24 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your input JCT - I will try to look into this in the next day or two. Is there any chance that you would like to join up to the project and help identify other improvements that could be made to Guyana-related articles? All best, Lorelei (talk) 14:53, 25 August 2012 (UTC)

Guyana Sources
Here are web sites with information about Guyana and Guyanese people.
 * [] Guyanese people abroad
 * []Guyana Wiki
 * [] 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 Great Historical Source

'''Additional list of Online Sources provided by Mike Christie



Reference Books
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...


 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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

Languages in censuses and Race and ethnicity in censuses
Pleas add information about this country to this articles--Kaiyr (talk) 15:59, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal
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Cougar
The naming of "Cougar" (should it be "Puma"?) is under discussion, see talk:Cougar -- 70.51.200.101 (talk) 08:02, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

Afd
Please see Articles for deletion/Bernard Darke. I thought the folks here might have more information to offer. - Location (talk) 04:18, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

History of South America
I've been working on History of South America. Any assistance with copy editing would be much appreciated. -- Marek . 69    talk  22:44, 26 March 2016 (UTC)

Creoles
I've started a discussion at Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2016_October_4 for redirects and, in which you may wish to participate. Currently they both target French Guiana. Si Trew (talk) 09:43, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

Media upload of historical photographs of Guyana
Dear editors,

I would like to draw your attention to a media upload that may be of relevance to this page:

The Temminck Groll Collection consists of 2,641 historical photographs taken by the Dutch architect and architectural historian Coen Temminck Groll (1925-2015). The photos were taken in regions with which the Dutch have had historical relations, including countries in Africa, South America and Southeast Asia (see the category description for a full listing). The photos were taken during Temminck Groll's travels and study of 'shared cultural heritage' (heritage of the Netherlands located outside the country’s borders) and mainly date to the 1960s and 1970s. The photographs were digitised by the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands and made available to Wikimedia Commons in the context of the project The Netherlands and the world. If you have any questions about this upload, or have other media requests regarding Dutch shared cultural heritage, don't hesitate to leave a message at the project page!

Kind regards, --AWossink (talk) 14:35, 10 January 2017 (UTC)

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