Wikipedia:WikiProject Guyana

WikiProject Guyana
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Welcome to WikiProject Guyana! This group was established to better organize articles on Guyana in a spirit of cooperation.

Articles maintained by this WikiProject are grouped in Category:WikiProject Guyana articles by using the Guyana=yes parameter within the {{WP South America}} template. Usage: {{WikiProject South America|Guyana=yes}}

Scope

This group includes within its scope all articles related to Guyana, its cities, geography, transportation, culture, history and so on. It aims to expand Wikipedia's resources on Guyana in a fair and accurate manner. All of these articles should be contained within the Category:Guyana or one of its subcategories.

Participants

Active members

To join WikiProject Guyana, edit this section and add the Wikitext #{{subst:me}} with your areas of interest to the bottom of the following list of members. Members should also place member identification on their user page.

  1. DThomsen8 (talk) 12:40, 23 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  2. CaribDigita (talk) 00:36, 2 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  3.  mrwoogi010  Talk 15:49, 5 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Mr. Guye (talk) (contribs)  21:04, 13 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Ma nam is geoffrey (talk) (talk) 11:34, 6 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  6. Guettarda (talk · contribs) 16:10:00, 24 May 2021 (UTC) [reply]
  7. Zpro1408 (talk · contribs) 15:12:33, 29 September 2022 (UTC) [reply]
  8. Blakdogg (talk · contribs) 23:42:35, 12 November 2022 (UTC)  Linden and Afro-Guyanese history[reply]
  9. Editingwithcoffee (talk · contribs) 22:15:54, 2 July 2023 (UTC) [reply]
  10. Historyday01 (talk) 00:38, 13 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Former members

Thank you for your help! Please move your username back to the active list when you can participate again.

  1. Buaidh (talk · contribs) 21:13:34, 12 May 2019 (UTC) [reply]
  2. Kitfox32
  3. Lorelei (talk) (user has not edited since April 2015).

Member identification

Members of WikiProject Guyana should place one of the following lines of Wikitext on their user page to add it to Category:WikiProject Guyana participants.

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This user is a participant in
WikiProject Guyana.
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This user participates in
WikiProject Guyana.
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For other Guyana user templates, see Category:Guyana user templates.

Participation Needed

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

WikiProject article requests list

Please add new requests here.

  • There are still many places in Guyana that are in need of articles. For lists, please see the articles on each of the Regions of Guyana.
  • Freedom House bombing (1964)
  • Guyana Police Force
  • Human rights in Guyana
  • George Manly - founder of the Scout Association in Guyana
  • Canon John Dorman - a leader in the Scouts association
  • Yvonne Hinds First Lady of Guyana
  • Noel Holder- The former Minister of Agriculture
  • Eustace Gordon Woolforfd- Former Speaker of Guyana’s National Assembly
  • Donald Edward Jackson- Former Speaker of Guyana’s National Assembly
  • Aubrey Percival Alleyne- Former Speaker of Guyana’s National Assembly
  • Trade History of Guyana - Red-link in the Economy template.
  • British Guiana during World War II - Red-link in the Guyana Topics template.
  • Science and technology in Guyana - Red-link in the Guyana Topics template.
  • Flora of Guyana - Red-link in the Guyana Topics template. Could be developed in Geography of Guyana
  • Fauna of Guyana - Red-link in the Guyana Topics template.
  • Rupununi Cattle Trail - Hinterland history, cowboys, yearly rodeo.
  • Amerindian villages with MOAA pages: Katoka, Guyana[1], Massara, Guyana[2] and satellite Kwaimatta[3], and Yupukari's satellite Kaicumbay[4]. Many already have airport articles, or are listed as settlements of their Region or of nearby rivers.
  • No article, but sourced on the List of Guyanese writers: Harold Bascom, Brian Chan, Paloma Mohamed, Rooplal Monar, Gokarran Sukhdeo, Raywat Deonandan, Shana Yardan.
  • Arya Ali, First Lady of Guyana
  • Anarchism in Guyana
  • British Guiana East Indian Association
  • Joseph Alexander Luckhoo - first Indo Guyanese legislator

To do list

Please add tasks to the list here.

  1. ^ https://moaa.gov.gy/indigenous-villages/katoka/
  2. ^ https://moaa.gov.gy/indigenous-villages/massara/
  3. ^ https://moaa.gov.gy/indigenous-villages/kwaimatta/
  4. ^ https://moaa.gov.gy/indigenous-villages/kaicumbay/

Article Assessments

Guyana articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total
FA 2 2
GA 5 5 10
B 5 4 12 1 22
C 20 23 30 77 5 155
Start 18 61 117 529 9 734
Stub 1 48 916 7 972
List 4 11 14 41 2 72
Category 1,433 1,433
File 9 9
Portal 2 2
Project 6 6
Redirect 3 29 45 77
Template 77 77
Other 5 5
Assessed 43 105 216 1,611 1,577 24 3,576
Unassessed 1 1
Total 43 105 216 1,611 1,577 25 3,577
WikiWork factors (?) ω = 10,257 Ω = 5.39
  • Recent changes to article assessments
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  • Popular pages - Bot generated listing of the most viewed pages

Featured articles

Former featured articles

Good articles

Did you know? articles

In the News articles


Assessment status

  • Clean up listing: Of the 1835 articles : 318 or 17% are marked for cleanup, 417 issues in total. (20 Apr. 2021)
  • Clean up listing: Of the 1836 articles : 322 or 18% are marked for cleanup, 418 issues in total. (9 May 2021)
  • Clean up listing: Of the 1844 articles : 322 or 17% are marked for cleanup, 418 issues in total. (5 Jun. 2021)

Templates

Please see {{WikiProject South America}} for assessment information.

Resources

Online Sources

Guyana news websites (Media list from BBC[1])

  • Stabroek News
  • Kaieteur News Online
  • Guyana Times
  • iNewsGuyana
  • Newsroom Guyana

Pages of dubious quality kept for historical purpose:

  • [2] Guyanese people
  • 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 really helpful historical source...
Additional list of Online Sources provided by Mike Christie
  • "Guyana". U.S. State Department. Retrieved 30 July 2011.
  • "Political and Economic History of Guyana". San Jose State University. Retrieved 30 July 2011.
  • "Guyana: A Short Political History - by David Hinds". The Guyana and Caribbean Political and Cultural Center for Popular Education. Retrieved 30 July 2011.
  • "Council on Hemispheric Affairs Forum: Uncharted Territory in Guyanese Legislative Elections". The Guyana and Caribbean Political and Cultural Center for Popular Education. Retrieved 30 July 2011.
  • "Guyanese Politics". University of Chicago Department of Anthropology. Retrieved 30 July 2011.
  • "Uncharted Territory in Guyanese Legislative Elections". Council on Hemispheric Affairs. Retrieved 30 July 2011.

Books and Sources Available from other users

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...

  • Daly, Vere T. (1974). The Making of Guyana. New York: Macmillan.
  • Hope, Kemp Ronald (1985). Guyana: Politics and Development in an Emergent Socialist State. New York: Mosaic Press. ISBN 0-88962-303-1.
  • Lowenthal, David (1978). West Indian Societies. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19501559-2.
  • 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
  • Spinner, Thomas J. (1984). A Political and Social History of Guyana, 1945–1983. Boulder CO: Westview Press. ISBN 0-86531-852-2.

Lorelei has the following books - please ask away if you would like me to look anything up!

  • Ali, Arif (2008). Guyana. London: Hansib. ISBN 9781906190101.
  • Baber, Colin; Henry B Jeffrey (1986). Guyana:Politics, Economics and Society. London: Frances Printer. ISBN 0861874188.
  • Burnett, D. Graham (2000). Masters of All They Surveyed: Exploration, Geography, and a British El Dorado. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0226081206.
  • Burrowes, Reynold A. (1984). The Wild Coast: An Account of Politics in Guyana. Cambridge, MA: Schenkman Publishing. ISBN 0870730371.
  • Menezes, Mary Noel (1979). The Amerindians in Guyana 1803-73: A Documentary History. London: Frank Cass. ISBN 9780714630540.
  • McGowan, Winston (1998). The Demerara Revolt, 1823. Georgetown: Free Press. ISBN 9769500011.
  • McGowan, Winston; James G. Rose; David A. Granger (2009). Themes in African Guyanese History. London: Hansib. ISBN 9781906190187.
  • Schomburgk, Robert H. (1840). A Description of British Guiana. London: Simpkin, Marshall and Company.
  • Whitehead, Neil L. (1988). Lords of the Tiger Spirit: A History of the Caribs in Colonial Venezuela and Guyana 1498-1820. Dordrecht: Foris Publications. ISBN 9067652407.
  • Williams, Brackette F. (1991). Stains on my Name, War in my Veins: Guyana and the Politics of Cultural Struggle. Durham: Duke University Press. ISBN 0-8223-1119-4.

Resource Exchange

If you know of a source that you would like to use but are unable to get hold of, try contacting volunteers at Wikipedia's Resource Exchange Project.

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