Wikipedia:WikiProject Guyana

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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}}

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.

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]

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).

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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{{Template:User WikiProject Guyana}}	This user is a participant in WikiProject Guyana.	linked pages
{{Template:User WP Guyana}}	This user participates in WikiProject Guyana.	linked pages
{{Template:User WP Guyana|invite}}	This user invites you to join WikiProject Guyana.	linked pages

For other Guyana user templates, see Category:Guyana user templates.

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

Please add tasks to the list here.

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Guyana: Photographs: Articles on places, natural and cultural features in Guyana that are currently lacking photographs such as: Georgetown Cenotaph New Amsterdam, Guyana (could use sharper pictures) Amaila Falls Eugene F. Correira International Airport Georgetown Public Hospital Hogg Island, Guyana 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. Geographical Coordinates: A large number of articles about places in Guyana are missing geographical coordinates and could usefully have geographical coordinates added. The articles in question are listed in Category:Guyana articles missing geocoordinate data. Some examples (as of Feb 2021): Georgetown American University 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 is it done? 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 Wikipedia:Geocoding how-to for WikiProject members. 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. Expand a stub! The full list of stub-class Guyana articles is available here: Category:Guyana stubs. Or pick a random stub-class article to work on by clicking on this link: Random page in category Guyana stubs

Guyana articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA				2			2
GA		4		5			9
B		6	5	13		4	28
C	20	24	29	78		11	162
Start	18	60	119	538		32	767
Stub	1		48	913		20	982
List	4	12	15	42		3	76
Category					1,442		1,442
File					9		9
Project					6		6
Redirect			3	30	78		111
Template					81		81
NA					5		5
Other					5		5
Assessed	43	106	219	1,621	1,626	70	3,685
Total	43	106	219	1,621	1,626	70	3,685
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 10,506			Ω = 5.37

• Recent changes to article assessments
• Assessment – Our rating system
• Popular pages – Bot generated listing of the most viewed pages

This is a list of recognized content, updated weekly by JL-Bot (talk · contribs) (typically on Saturdays). There is no need to edit the list yourself. If an article is missing from the list, make sure it is tagged or categorized (e.g. Category:Guyana articles) correctly and wait for the next update. See WP:RECOG for configuration options.

• 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)

• {{WikiProject Guyana}} for assessment of articles and other pages covered by the project
• {{User WikiProject Guyana}} for identifying project members on their userpages

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

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...

• "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.

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.

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.