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Welcome to WikiProject Queensland!
This WikiProject aims to create and improve articles and images related to Queensland, Australia, particularly those relating to the state as a whole, or to areas outside the WikiProject Brisbane area of interest.
We would like as much help as possible, so if you are interested, please add your name to the list below, and look at the to-do list for some suggestions on articles that you may be able to help with. You may also inquire on the talk page, or visit the Australian Wikipedians' noticeboard for collaboration on Australian articles in general.
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Scope
[edit]The WikiProject Queensland page was created on 13 October 2007 to improve articles related to Queensland. A record of changes related to WikiProject Queensland article names, quality and importance is available. The project has one taskforce for Brisbane. The scope of the project includes articles in the following categories.
Things you can do
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Here are some tasks you can do to help at WikiProject Queensland :
- Requests: Articles · Assessment · Importance
- Expand: Australian Butterfly Sanctuary · Bloomfield River · Browns Falls · Bungil Creek · Carnarvon Range · Conondale Range · Coomera Falls · Expedition Range · Hinchinbrook Channel · Little Liverpool Range · Maranoa · Merivale River · Nothoalsomitra · Queensland Academy of Sport · Queensland State Hockey Centre · Seaview Range · Steamer Range · Susan River · Tarong Energy · More...
- Images: Cubbie Station · Fitzroy Island Light · Institute of Modern Art · Mackay Base Hospital · Poona Dam · Roma Power Station
- Verify: Criminal Justice Commission · D'Aguilar Range · List of Road Routes in Queensland · North Queensland · Sport in Queensland · Tropical Queensland
- Other: Populate Category:Events in Queensland · Sort Flora of Queensland, Floods in Queensland
Quality watch:
Article alerts
[edit]Did you know
- 14 Jul 2024 – Tupou VI (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by History6042 (t · c); see discussion
Articles for deletion
- 14 Aug 2024 – Cameron Brimblecombe (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by LibStar (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
Proposed deletions
- 14 Aug 2024 – Cameron Brimblecombe (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by LibStar (t · c) was deproded by Blue Square Thing (t · c) on 14 Aug 2024
Good article nominees
- 29 Jul 2024 – James Davis (escaped convict) (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by SkywalkerEccleston (t · c); start discussion
- 24 Jun 2024 – William Perry French Morris (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by SkywalkerEccleston (t · c); start discussion
- 05 May 2024 – Kevin Rudd (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by DTH89 (t · c); see discussion
Requested moves
- 29 Jul 2024 – Sleeman Centre (Brisbane) (talk · edit · hist) move request to Sleeman Sports Complex by 162 etc. (t · c) was moved to Sleeman Sports Complex (talk · edit · hist) by Bobby Cohn (t · c) on 12 Aug 2024; see discussion
Articles to be merged
- 17 Jun 2024 – Sunbus Townsville (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Sunbus by Whiltshinx (t · c); see discussion
- 17 Jun 2024 – Sunbus Sunshine Coast (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Sunbus by Whiltshinx (t · c); see discussion
- 17 Jun 2024 – Sunbus Rockhampton (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Sunbus by Whiltshinx (t · c); see discussion
- 17 Jun 2024 – Sunbus Cairns (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Sunbus by Whiltshinx (t · c); see discussion
- 31 May 2024 – Mackay Region (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to List of Mackay suburbs by Cielquiparle (t · c); see discussion
- 31 May 2024 – List of Mackay suburbs (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Mackay Region by Cielquiparle (t · c); see discussion
- 10 Jan 2024 – History of the Bundjalung (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Bundjalung people by 115.42.13.190 (t · c); see discussion
Tools
[edit]- Main tool page: toolserver.org
- Cleanup listing in alphabetical order, Cleanup listing in categories
- Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
- Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
- Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
- Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.
- Wikiproject Watchlist
Goals
[edit]- To coordinate and improve articles related to Queensland;
- To foster collaboration between editors in Queensland;
- To establish appropriate linkages with the Wikipedia Australia project and portal;
- To ascertain and identify the Queensland component of other Wikipedia projects;
- To improve iconic and high-profile Queensland articles to FA quality.
Achievements
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Related projects
[edit]Members
[edit]Active members
[edit]To join WikiProject Queensland, 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.
- Mattinbgn (talk · contribs)
- Orderinchaos (talk · contribs)
- Shiftchange (talk · contribs) - South East Queensland, geography, national parks, rivers
- Bruceanthro (talk · contribs)
- BoundaryRider (talk · contribs) - Brisbane, Gold Coast, wildlife, recent history
- Advanstra (talk · contribs) geography, transport, Southeast Qld
- nat965 (talk · contribs) - Somewhere in Queensland
- Nford24 (talk · contribs)
- Dylan.ingleby (talk · contribs) - Cairns, basketball and sport
- WilesHarper (talk · contribs) - Babinda (Near Cairns), NRL, Aviation, Politcs
- GCunknown (talk · contribs) 12:11:29, 23 July 2020 (UTC) - Somewhere on the GC
- Thent1234 (talk · contribs) - Former resident of Queensland
- Tomorrow and tomorrow (talk · contribs) - Politics, Government, Brisbane, History but anything really!
- .pxrtypoisxn. (talk · contribs) 03:03:03, 14 July 2022 (UTC) - Far North Queensland
- Chip K. Daniels (talk · contribs) - Central Queensland
- Editing.html (talk · contribs) 07:08:39, 10 November 2023 (UTC) QUT student and 4ZZZ Presenter.
- Adam Black GB (talk · contribs)
- Kerry Raymond (talk · contribs) Queensland places: geography, history, civic amenities ...
Former members
[edit]Thank you for your help! Please move your username back to the active list when you can participate again.
- jlgoz (talk · contribs) - Just a computer geek living in Queensland, Brisbane.]]
- salomon2015 (talk · contribs) - student QLD
- WikiTownsvillian (talk · contribs) - from Townsville obviously, focus mostly on Townsville and Palm but happy to help wherever.
- Bongomanrae (talk · contribs)
- Thuringowacityrep (talk · contribs) - From the former City of Thuringowa (now Townsville) and work mostly on local articles however i have started others and try to keep them all up to date.
- Be best (talk · contribs)
- Toytown Mafia (talk · contribs) - going to be working on some of the islands.
- Watchover (talk · contribs)
- Geoking66 (talk · contribs) - South East Queensland transport (Citytrain specifically), climate
- Романов (talk · contribs)
- Jsjsjs1111 (talk · contribs) - an international student from UQ
- TravellerQLD (talk · contribs) - Upgrading TransLink railway station pages, ultimate goal is to have consistent photos and layout
- Karithina (talk · contribs) - focusing on Townsville Arts
- WebFixer (talk · contribs)
- Coastal.culture.vulture (talk · contribs) - focusing on the history of the Gold Coast region
- Brisbane artist (talk · contribs)
- Lisa Delanoue (talk · contribs) - Sunshine Coast, geography, locations, photos, arts and cultural events
- Andrea edits (talk · contribs) -try to expand stubs, find references & photographs.
- Australiantiger (talk · contribs)
- Gproud (talk · contribs) energy, power generation, Brisbane
- Laborrules8 (talk · contribs)
- mrpalermo (talk · contribs) - Innisfail, FNQ
- Nihal127 (talk · contribs) - A student living in Brisbane
- Wiki ian (talk · contribs)
- GalacticSimian (talk · contribs) - Biologist formerly of FNQ and Brisbane, now living overseas.
- Sparklingkull (talk · contribs)
Member identification
[edit]Members of WikiProject Queensland should place one of the following lines of Wikitext on their user page to add it to Category:WikiProject Queensland participants.
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For other Queensland user templates see Category:Queensland user templates.
Templates
[edit]Stubs
[edit]This project has a number of stub templates:
- {{Queensland-geo-stub}} - for stubs on geographic places in Queensland.
- {{GoldCoastQLD-stub}} - for stubs on geographic places on the Gold Coast.
- {{IpswichAU-geo-stub}} - for stubs on geographic places in Ipswich.
- {{NorthQueensland-stub}} - for stubs on geographic places in North Queensland.
- {{FarNorthQueensland-geo-stub}} - for stubs on geographic places in Far North Queensland.
- {{Queensland-rail-transport-stub}} - for stubs relating to rail transport in Queensland.
- {{Queensland-protected-area-stub}} - for stubs relating to protected areas in Queensland.
- {{Queensland-airport-stub}} - for stubs on airports in Queensland.
- {{Queensland-river-stub}} - for stubs on rivers and creeks in Queensland.
- {{Queensland-school-stub}} - for stubs on schools in Queensland.
Request a photograph
[edit]{{reqphoto|in=Queensland}}
- place on the talk page; article will appear in Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Queensland
Tools
[edit]- List of all subpages of this page
- The Popular pages report lists articles (with their assessed class/importance) by number of page views, showing which Queenslad pages readers are most interested in.
- The Missing topics report list redlinks on Queensland pages by number of red links, which suggest topics that could be written about. Note, redlinks are no guarantee of notability, so this should be checked. Also the red link topics may not necessarily be "Queensland" topics.