Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Jamaica/Archive 1

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I noticed that WP:JAMAICA does not point here. Chubbles (talk) 20:24, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Jamaica
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Help request: 37 Jamaica-related articles needing geographical coordinates
Based on a search of Wikipedia's articles related to Jamaica, I've found some articles that I believe are about places in Jamaica, and could usefully have geographical coordinates added. The articles in question are listed in Category:Jamaica articles missing geocoordinate data. At the time of writing, some examples included: At the time of posting this notice, there were 37 articles in this category needing geographical coordinates.
 * 1) Dunn's River Falls
 * 2) Font Hill Beach
 * 3) Ganja Bridge
 * 4) Middlesex, Jamaica
 * 5) Norbrook
 * 6) Orange Bay
 * 7) Petersfield, Jamaica

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) 22:40, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Photos for Gun Court, etc.
Could any Wikipedians in Jamaica take some photos of courthouses and other judicial facilities? I have one of South Camp prison from Flickr, but that's it so far. I would particularly appreciate photos of the Supreme Court building (inside & out) and the St. James Parish Regional Magistrate's Court in Montego Bay. There's a lot of work to be done writing articles on the Jamaican judiciary, and some pictures will help. Thanks. --Amble (talk) 07:26, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Coordinators' working group
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Noel Coward
Hello, everyone. Noel Coward lived in Jamaica at the end of his life and is buried there at Firefly Hill. Can anyone get an image of his gravesite? Thanks for any help! -- Ssilvers (talk) 06:46, 22 March 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)

Photo request
Would someone mind photographing the Air Jamaica headquarters at 76 Harbour Street, Kingston? Thanks WhisperToMe (talk) 17:37, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Bob Marley GAR notification
Bob Marley has been nominated for a good article reassessment. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to good article quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status will be removed from the article. Reviewers' concerns are here.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 07:08, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
A vote to move Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom to Elizabeth II is being held at Talk:Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. — what a crazy random happenstance 02:55, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

WP 1.0 bot announcement
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Unreferenced living people articles bot
Okip  00:44, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

An article needs to be corrected
Forgive me if this is posted in the wrong area. The article for the "Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation" in Reference #4 has an incorrect URL of http://www.jamaicaham.org/Radio%20Jamaica%20history.pdf, the updated URL is http://www.jamaicaham.org/downloads/Radio%20Jamaica%20History.pdf 65.183.8.194 (talk) 06:41, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

Jamaica articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release
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For the Wikipedia 1.0 editorial team, SelectionBot 23:11, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject cleanup listing
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Railway lines in Jamaica - article naming
The five extant articles about railway lines in Jamaica (see Category:Railway lines in Jamaica) are all currently named in the format "Railways of Jamaica: X to Y", e.g. Railways of Jamaica: Bog Walk to Port Antonio.

This is an unusual naming scheme that looks more like a sub-article convention than is the standard on Wikipedia. I would suggest moving them to a more typical format "X to Y line" or "X to Y line (Jamaica)" if disambiguation is needed, although I don't think it will be in any of these five cases.

Please leave any comments you have at talk:Railways of Jamaica: Bog Walk to Port Antonio. Thryduulf (talk) 19:10, 7 May 2011 (UTC)

Ital food
We could use some pictures for the article. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 08:41, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

population statistics
The website of the Institute of Statistics of Jamaica, came on the population statistics for 2010, split by state and another. You can update the information in a number of articles. JukoFF (talk) 12:27, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

WikiWomen's History Month
Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:Jamaica will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in Jamaica'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) 23:25, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Article rating
Hello all. I've just created a new article, Independence of Jamaica, and am wondering if someone from your project could give it a rating on its talk page.

Thanks. 1Matt20 04:46, 24 August 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Jamaican Black Castor Oil
The above article is a stale draft in the Afc that will soon be deleted. Would anyone like to add some references and submit it? &mdash;Anne Delong (talk) 13:43, 6 September 2013 (UTC)

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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Expert attention
This is a notice about Category:Jamaica articles needing expert attention, which might be of interest to your WikiProject. It will take a while before the category is populated. Iceblock (talk) 20:23, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

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Harej (talk) 16:57, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

We need an article Cannabis in Jamaica
Hello, I'm working at WP:WikiProject Cannabis, and we're trying to expand our coverage of "Cannabis in (country)" articles, and I saw that we don't have one for Jamaica. Jamaica is clearly internationally famous for its ties to cannabis through Rastafari followers and reggae culture, but there is a lot of myth and misinformation about the herb's culture, legality, and history on the island. Building a strong and well-referenced article would really help clear things up so Wikipedia readers would be better informed!

We have some suggestions at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Cannabis for how to help add more countries to our coverage; anyone here want to help out by covering Jamaica? You can use some of our recent articles as a template to see what kinds of facts and details would help! Goonsquad LCpl Mulvaney (talk) 12:08, 23 July 2015 (UTC)

Adrian Izes Marshall
Do you think Adrian Izes Marshall is notable? Please comment at Talk:Adrian Izes Marshall. Many thanks. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 02:55, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

Jumiekan Patwa Wikipidia
Hi, is anyone here involved in the Jumiekan Patwa Wikipidia? I'm trying to better understand the spelling they're using but can find very few resources online. I'd be grateful for any suggestions. Many thanks Eartha78 (talk) 21:38, 19 August 2016 (UTC)

Merger proposal
It has been suggested that John Canoe be merged into Junkanoo. Please discuss merger at talk:Junkanoo -- MassiveEartha (talk) 17:57, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

Category:Recipients of the Order of Excellence (Jamaica) has been nominated for discussion
Category:Recipients of the Order of Excellence (Jamaica), which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has been nominated for deletion/listification. A discussion is taking place to see if it abides with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. RevelationDirect (talk) 00:35, 7 October 2017 (UTC)

Question about neighbourhoods / communities
I have a question about neighbourhoods and communities that I posted at Template_talk:Settlements in Jamaica, which seemed like a good place to post it.

If there is anyone that can help out with this question, it would be much appreciated.–CaroleHenson (talk) 21:49, 28 May 2018 (UTC)

WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject
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