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WikiProject Australia is a WikiProject dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to Australia.

This WikiProject is a parent project to many sub-projects dedicated to maintaining a wide variety of Australian topics.

[edit] Project scope

The project generally considers any article related to Australia to be a valid topic.

Our goals

1. To provide guidelines and recommendations for articles that describe all aspects of Australia.
2. To improve Wikipedia's coverage of Australia by creating, expanding, and maintaining such articles.
3. To serve as the central point of discussion for issues related to Australia in Wikipedia.

[edit] Article alerts

Proposed deletion

• 3 Dec 2009 – PROD tag removed from Andrew Landeryou (talk).
• 2 Dec 2009 – Ashling (talk) has been deleted.
• 2 Dec 2009 – SMOSH West Lakes Football Club (talk) has been deleted.
• 30 Nov 2009 – Down At The Waterside (talk) has been deleted.
• 24 Nov 2009 – PROD tag removed from Sonic Porno (talk).
• 22 Nov 2009 – Jackie Hodder (talk) has been deleted.
• 20 Nov 2009 – Kobe Kaige (talk) has been deleted.

Articles for deletion

• 3 Dec 2009 – Gerry Francis Ridsdale (talk) was kept; see discussion.
• 2 Dec 2009 – Lia Looveer (talk) was kept; see discussion.
• 30 Nov 2009 – Jigsaw Personnel Pty Ltd (talk) nominated for deletion by Surfing bird; see discussion.
• 30 Nov 2009 – Hannah Greenwood (talk) nominated for deletion by LibStar; see discussion.
• 30 Nov 2009 – Brett Leigh Dicks (talk) has been deleted; see discussion.
• 29 Nov 2009 – Ling-Hsueh Tang (talk) was kept; see discussion.
• 29 Nov 2009 – Sally Freud (talk) has been deleted; see discussion.
• 28 Nov 2009 – National Liaison Committee for International Students in Australia (talk) was kept; see discussion.
• 27 Nov 2009 – Rob Kaay (talk) has been deleted; see discussion.
• 26 Nov 2009 – Tony Radevski (talk) was kept; see discussion.

(12 more...)

Featured article candidates

• 26 Nov 2009 – York Park (talk) is not promoted.
• 21 Nov 2009 – Battle of Bardia (talk) is nominated by Hawkeye7.
• 21 Nov 2009 – Battle of Morotai (talk) is nominated by Nick-D.
• 19 Nov 2009 – Pied Currawong (talk) is promoted to FA status.
• 5 Nov 2009 – Fourth Test, 1948 Ashes series (talk) is nominated by YellowAssessmentMonkey.

Featured list candidates

• 22 Nov 2009 – List of international cricket five-wicket hauls by Glenn McGrath (talk) is promoted to FL status.
• 21 Nov 2009 – List of Essendon Football Club honours (talk) is nominated by Dabomb87.

Good article nominations

• 1 Dec 2009 – Tim Paine (talk) is promoted to GA status; see discussion.
• 29 Nov 2009 – Christopher Wilder (talk) is not promoted.
• 29 Nov 2009 – Hippolyte De La Rue (talk) is promoted to GA status.
• 26 Nov 2009 – Frederick Scherger (talk) is promoted to GA status.
• 25 Nov 2009 – Eric Harrison (RAAF officer) (talk) is promoted to GA status.
• 25 Nov 2009 – Walter Peeler (talk) is promoted to GA status.
• 24 Nov 2009 – Laurie Nash (talk) is promoted to GA status; see discussion.
• 22 Nov 2009 – Pearl Corkhill (talk) is promoted to GA status.
• 21 Nov 2009 – George Mackinolty (talk) is promoted to GA status.
• 20 Nov 2009 – Lindsay Hassett (talk) is promoted to GA status; see discussion.

(10 more...)

Good article reassessment

• 26 Nov 2009 – Environmental threats to the Great Barrier Reef (talk) retains GA status; see discussion.

Peer review

• 2 Dec 2009 – Peer review for Marsupial Lion (talk) closed.
• 30 Nov 2009 – Peer review opened for Bangladeshi cricket team in Australia in 2003 (talk) by Aaroncrick.
• 20 Nov 2009 – Peer review opened for Redcliffe Padres (talk) by JRA WestyQld2.
• 20 Nov 2009 – Peer review opened for Frill-necked Lizard (talk) by Deoxyribonucleicowen.
• 29 Jul 2009 – Peer review requested for An Oak Tree (talk) by 93.96.148.42.
• 1 Mar 2009 – Peer review requested for Mitchell, Queensland (talk) by 123.51.8.33.

Today's featured article

• 28 Nov 2009 – Henry Wells (general) (talk) was featured on the main page.
• 27 Nov 2009 – Ngô Đình Diệm presidential visit to Australia (talk) was featured on the main page.

Did you know

• 1 Dec 2009 – A fact from Behind the Exclusive Brethren (talk) appeared on the main page.
• 30 Nov 2009 – A fact from Football Federation Tasmania (talk) appeared on the main page.
• 26 Nov 2009 – A fact from George Mackinolty (talk) appeared on the main page.
• 25 Nov 2009 – A fact from Prodromus Entomology (talk) appeared on the main page.
• 24 Nov 2009 – A fact from Glenn James (talk) appeared on the main page.
• 20 Nov 2009 – A fact from St Peter's Cathedral, Adelaide (talk) appeared on the main page.

Copyright problems

• 30 Nov 2009 – Long Service Leave (talk) was tagged as a possible copyright infringement.
• 27 Nov 2009 – The copyvio tag was removed from Anglican Diocese of Riverina (talk).

Bounty board

• 2 Sep 2009 – Bounty for bringing World War I (talk) to FA status: US$250 donation by Roger Davies (expires on 31 December 2009).
• 8 Mar 2009 – Bounty for bringing Ikey Solomon (talk) to FA status: €20 donation by Irishpunktom.

Other news

• 30 Nov 2009 – The new book-class is released. See the Signpost article and the setup guide for details.
• 30 Nov 2009 – A new edition of the Wikipedia Signpost is out.
• 3 Nov 2009 – A new database dump is available.
• 19 Oct 2009 – The cleanup listings from WolterBot have updated.

Archives

• (4 more...)

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[edit] Participants

If you wish to help out, please add your name to the list of participants.

[edit] Tables of contents and indexes, and related tasks

The following pages serve as tables of contents or indexes to Australia-related content on Wikipedia. They need to be developed, and maintained:

• List of basic Australia topics - for its placement, see Lists of basic topics
  • Refine and maintain the List of basic Australia topics, a key guide on Wikipedia to Australia as a subject. It serves as a table of contents, summary, and topic outline of coverage on Australia and is the most useful tool on Wikipedia for exploring and understanding fundamental material about Australia (and how it fits together) on Wikipedia. Its purpose is an important one: it simply enables readers to see at a glance how the subject of Australia is broken down, what the main component topics are, and how they relate to each other - that is, how information on Australia is organized (here, and in the world-at-large). It is a site map and outline of knowledge that demystifies the subject known as "Australia". Because of its central role in the presentation of Wikipedia's coverage of this subject, it is very important to develop and maintain it to the highest level of quality: to help readers improve their conceptual awareness and understanding of Australia as well as find their way around this subject on Wikipedia. For examples of other pages in this set, see List of basic France topics, List of basic Thailand topics, List of basic Japan topics, List of basic Taiwan topics, and List of basic Iceland topics, all of which are currently completed to a higher level of quality than this page. In other words, it's getting its ass kicked. The List of basic Australia topics, is incomplete, needs your editing contributions, and is especially in need of maps and pictures.
• List of Australia-related topics - (for a similar index page, see List of Germany-related topics)

[edit] Departments

[edit] Assessment

Australia articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA	6	17	68	66	8	165
	FL		2	7	21		30
	A	1	1	10	10	9	31
	GA		13	71	145	12	241
	B	36	164	511	702	357	1770
	C	17	67	340	891	332	1647
	Start	12	209	2118	14254	6146	22739
	Stub	1	39	793	24924	17913	43670
	List	1	8	63	1061	1261	2394
	Assessed	74	520	3981	42074	26038	72687
	Unassessed			2	32	901	935
	Total	74	520	3983	42106	26939	73622

Assessment log - Worklist

The WikiProject Australia assessment department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Australian articles.

Assessments are performed via parameters in the {{WP Australia}} project banner which is posted to an article's talk page.

An assessment parameter (FA, FL, A, GA, B, C, Start, or Stub) causes the article to be rated and grouped into categories that serves as the basis for an automatically generated worklist.

While much of the work is done in conjunction with the WP:1.0 program, the article ratings are also used within the project itself to aid in recognising excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.

[edit] Collaboration

The Australian Collaboration of the Fortnight seeks to identify particular articles that would benefit from a significant collaborative effort. Every fortnight, a single article is selected as the focus, and the project attempts to improve it, potentially to featured article standards.

Any articles dealing with some aspect of Australia (except for current featured articles and featured article candidates) are eligible, and everyone is invited to nominate articles.

The current Australian Collaboration of the Fortnight is: Wikipedia:WikiProject Football (soccer) in Australia/To-do

[edit] Requested images

The Requested images department aims to provide a collection of high-quality photographs, maps and images for use in Australia articles. The department gathers existing public domain and free-license maps as well as creating new ones from other materials where no suitable maps can be found. All project members are welcome to request additional maps that may be needed for particular articles from the department.

[edit] Outreach

The outreach department acts as the project's central point of coordination for recruiting new members and maintaining the interest of current participants.

[edit] Category tree

Find more about Australia on Wikipedia's sister projects:

Definitions from Wiktionary
Textbooks from Wikibooks
Quotations from Wikiquote
Source texts from Wikisource
Images and media from Commons
News stories from Wikinews
Learning resources from Wikiversity

[edit] The Australian Barnstar of National Merit

		The Australian Barnstar of National Merit
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Usage

To use this, simply add {{subst:The Australian Barnstar of National Merit|message ~~~~}} to the talk page of the user you wish to reward. Make sure you include a message which indicates why they are receiving the award.

[edit] Projects that have impact on Australian External Territories

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Antarctica

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