Wikipedia:WikiProject Lighthouses
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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Lighthouses. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help focus efforts. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list.
Goals
[edit]- To share ideas for attaining high quality on each type of article under the project.
- To create a consensus on what should be included.
Scope
[edit]The scope of this project is all articles related to lighthouses and pharology (study of lighthouses).
Lighthouses articles by quality and importance
[edit]Lighthouses articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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Quality | Importance | ||||||
Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
FL | 1 | 1 | |||||
GA | 5 | 7 | 9 | 21 | |||
B | 1 | 4 | 39 | 20 | 64 | ||
C | 1 | 14 | 129 | 62 | 3 | 209 | |
Start | 1 | 47 | 513 | 565 | 7 | 1,133 | |
Stub | 10 | 293 | 870 | 2 | 1,175 | ||
List | 1 | 18 | 69 | 169 | 257 | ||
Category | 718 | 718 | |||||
Disambig | 4 | 4 | |||||
File | 32 | 32 | |||||
Project | 7 | 7 | |||||
Redirect | 1 | 3 | 5 | 207 | 216 | ||
Template | 86 | 86 | |||||
NA | 3 | 3 | |||||
Assessed | 4 | 99 | 1,053 | 1,701 | 1,057 | 12 | 3,926 |
Unassessed | 1 | 5 | 6 | ||||
Total | 4 | 99 | 1,053 | 1,702 | 1,057 | 17 | 3,932 |
WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 13,785 | Ω = 5.30 |
Recognized content
[edit]A detailed list of recognized content is available at Lighthouses recognized content.
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 (e.g. {{WikiProject Lighthouses}}) or categorized correctly and wait for the next update. See WP:RECOG for configuration options. |
Featured lists
[edit]Good articles
[edit]- Avery Point Light
- Black Rock Harbor Light
- Bridgeport Harbor Light
- Cape Moreton Light
- Chester Rock Light
- Dubh Artach
- Essex Reef Light
- Europa Point Lighthouse
- Falkner Island Light
- Five Mile Point Light
- Augustin-Jean Fresnel
- Great Captain Island Light
- Green Bay Harbor Entrance Light
- Greens Ledge Light
- Kõpu Lighthouse
- Lynde Point Light
- Mystic Seaport Light
- Norah Head Light
- Point Stephens Light
- Fannie Salter
- Skerryvore
Former good articles
[edit]Did you know? articles
[edit]- Archer Point Light
- Ashtabula Harbor Light
- James Balfour (engineer)
- Bay Rock Light
- Belle Tout Lighthouse
- Bissau Cathedral
- Black Rock Harbor Light
- Blackwell Island Light
- Bloody Point Range Lights
- Bluff Point Light
- Bois Blanc Island Lighthouse and Blockhouse
- Booby Island Light
- Bridgeport Harbor Light
- Brockton Point
- Burnham-on-Sea High Lighthouse
- Burnham-on-Sea Low Lighthouse
- Burnham-on-Sea Round Tower
- Bustard Head Light
- Cape Agulhas Lighthouse
- Cape Bowling Green Light
- Cape Capricorn Light
- Cape Cleveland Light
- Cape Don Light
- Cape Kumukahi Light
- Cape Moreton Light
- Cape Rachado Lighthouse
- Cape Wickham Lighthouse
- Cat Island Light
- Chester Rock Light
- Christiana Light
- Clarence River Light
- Clarks Point Light
- Clay Island Light
- Cleveland Point Light
- Creal Reef Light
- Crown Point Light
- Day beacon
- Delaware Breakwater Range Rear Light
- Dent Island Light
- Dog Island Lighthouse
- Double Island Point Light
- Dueodde Lighthouse
- Dunston Pillar
- Maurice Durand (architect)
- East End Light
- Elbow of Cross Ledge Light
- Emery Point Light
- Erie Land Light
- Essex Reef Light
- Europa Point Lighthouse
- Falkner Island Light
- Fastnet Lighthouse
- Fitzroy Island Light
- Five Mile Point Light
- Flat Top Island Light
- Fort Sumter Range Lights
- Fuller Rock Light
- The Fullerton Hotel Singapore
- Geitungen Lighthouse
- Gibraltar Aerobeacon
- Gibraltar North Mole Elbow Lighthouse
- Gibraltar North Mole Lighthouse
- Gibraltar South Mole Lighthouse
- Grand Island Harbor Rear Range Light
- Grand Lake St. Marys Lighthouse
- Grand Turk Lighthouse
- Grassy Hill Light
- Great Captain Island Light
- Green Island Light (Ohio)
- Green Island Light (Wisconsin)
- Green Point Lighthouse, Cape Town
- Greens Ledge Light
- Haig Point Range Lights
- George Halpin
- Head Harbour Lighthouse
- George Poynter Heath
- High and Low Lights of North Shields
- Holland Island Bar Light
- Horn Island Light
- Hornby Lighthouse
- Île Vierge
- Île d'Yeu Lighthouse
- Imperial Towers
- Japanese Lighthouse (Garapan, Saipan)
- Japanese Lighthouse (Poluwat, Chuuk)
- Kingston by Sea
- Kızılada Lighthouse
- Kugelbake
- Kullen Lighthouse
- Kvitsøy Lighthouse
- United States lightship LV-117
- La Vieille
- Lady Elliot Island Light
- Lågskär Lighthouse
- Land lighthouse
- Leasowe Lighthouse
- Ida Lewis
- Light Vessel 72
- Lighthouse and naval vessel urban legend
- Lighthouse of Genoa
- Lighthouse of Ponta das Contendas
- List of lighthouses in Alaska
- List of lighthouses in Gibraltar
- List of lighthouses in Maine
- Long Tail Point Light
- Low Head Lighthouse
- Low Isles Light
- Mayo Beach Light
- Mew Island Lighthouse
- Minicoy Island Lighthouse
- Minnesota Point Light
- Mizunokojima Lighthouse
- Moreton Bay Pile Light
- Moreton Island lighthouses
- Musselbed Shoals Light
- United States lightship Nantucket (LV-58)
- New Caloundra Light
- North Reef Light
- Old Caloundra Light
- Old Harbor Light (Savannah, Georgia)
- Old Plantation Flats Light
- One Fathom Bank Lighthouse
- United States lightship Overfalls (LV-118)
- Pass A L'Outre Light
- Pass Christian Light
- Peshtigo Reef Light
- Pine Islet Light
- Point Abino Light Tower
- Point Adams Light
- Point Charles Light
- Point Danger Light
- Point Gammon Light
- Point Lonsdale Lighthouse
- Pointe du Grouin du Cou Lighthouse
- Port Washington Light
- Port of Bissau
- Pungoteague Creek Light
- Roanoke River Light
- Rock Harbor Light
- Round Island Light, Isles of Scilly
- Rubicon Point Light
- Rumeli Feneri
- Sacred Heart Church, Levuka
- St. Johns River Light
- Fannie Salter
- Sandy Cape Light
- Sea Hill Light
- Sharps Island Light
- Ship John Shoal Light
- Ship Shoal Light
- Vladimir Shukhov
- Skerryvore
- Smith Point Light
- South Bass Island Light
- Southwold Lighthouse
- Spectacle Reef Light
- Spit Bank Lighthouse
- Stannard Rock Light
- Start Point Lighthouse
- Stingray Point Light
- Sugarloaf Point Light
- Svinøy Lighthouse
- Tarrytown Light
- Texas Tower (lighthouse)
- Toledo Harbor Light
- Trinity Shoal Light
- United States Lighthouse Society
- Vermilion Light
- Léonce Verny
- Vischpoort
- Vuurbaak van Katwijk aan Zee
- Wadjemup Lighthouse
- Warden Head Light
- Warrior Rock Light
- Wawatam Lighthouse
- Wharton Reef Light
- Wollongong Breakwater Lighthouse
- George Worthylake
- Wyborn Reef Light
Project organization
[edit]Departments
[edit]Parentage
[edit]Related projects
[edit]- WikiProject Civil engineering
- WikiProject Maritime Trades
- WikiProject National Register of Historic Places
- WikiProject Piers (marked inactive)
- WikiProject Ports
- WikiProject Ships
- WikiProject Shipwrecks
Participants
[edit]Interested people are invited to add their names to the list – no invitation required – or, just start editing!
- Bowtiesarecool06 - Great Lakes Lighthouses
- Peter K Burian - Focus on lighthouses of Ontario, Canada, such as Chantry Island Lightstation Tower, mostly those that are in the Category:Lighthouses on the National Historic Sites of Canada register
- TheCrazedBeast - Focus on the Chesapeake Bay, especially Maryland.
- Williamwaterway historian of Martha's Vineyard lighthouses, with emphasis on Gay Head Light
- 7&6=thirteen (☎) lighthouses of Great Lakes, especially Michigan
- Berean Hunter
- Bsharkey
- Chesipiero - Lists of lighthouses and lightvessels, Infobox, Lighthouses of Italy
- Cocoaguy ここがいい contribstalk
- De728631 – adding infoboxes
- dk69
- Draugen
- Gateman1997
- Ivanvector - lighthouses in Prince Edward Island and elsewhere in The Maritimes
- Jameslwoodward – New England
- John Carter (formerly User:Warlordjohncarter)
- Jokulhlaup
- Knowledgekid87 - I have worked on the List of lighthouses in the United States article and each state's list tables. I have also worked on the templates.
- Leifern
- Malathos – listing the New Zealand lights
- mangoe – retired
- MChew – lighthouses of Japan
- Roundtheworld - lighthouses in Portugal
- Ser Amantio di Nicolao (formerly User:AlbertHerring)
- Thefrood – Assessments
- Wpwatchdog
- Muhandes - List of lighthouses in Israel, general templates, lighthouse of Australia
- GlassyEye - Lighthouses manufactured by Chance Brothers, Smethwick, England
- CybergothiChé - lighthouses of Australia
- PRABHU puducherry -Lighthouses of puducherry in english and tamil wikipedia
- HatOfTheCat - Trinity House lighthouses designed & engineered by Messrs. Walker & Burges, Henry Norris and James Douglass
- Stephen kleckner (talk) 15:01, 27 November 2020 (UTC)
- Chongkian - Lighthouses in Taiwan
- Patr2016 - Lighthouses of Michigan
To-do list
[edit]To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Lighthouses:
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Sample articles
[edit]The following articles represent examples of coverage and structure, for articles of their type.
- Sample apparatus article: Argand lamp
- Sample biography article: George Meade
- Sample lighthouse article: La Vieille (France); Norah Head Light (Aus.)
- Sample related article: Daymark; Lightvessel; Light characteristic
New articles
[edit]Please feel free to list your new Lighthouses-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an compelling or unusual fact in them can be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Wikipedia page. DYK has a 5 day time limit from the creation or fivefold-expansion of the article.
- Windmill Point Light (Michigan)
- Cabo Sardão Lighthouse
- Penedo da Saudade Lighthouse
- Outão Lighthouse
- Azeda Lighthouse
- Ponta da Piedade Lighthouse (Portugal)
- Grandique Point Lighthouse
- Esteiro Lighthouse (Portugal)
- Mama Lighthouse (Portugal)
- Bugio Lighthouse (Portugal)
- Gibalta Lighthouse (Portugal)
- Santa Marta Lighthouse (Cascais)
- Cabo Raso Lighthouse
- Guia Lighthouse (Cascais)
- Troubridge Hill Lighthouse
- Cape Spencer Lighthouse (South Australia)
- Cape St. Blaize Lighthouse
- Île-Verte Lighthouse
- Cap-des-Rosiers Lighthouse
- Plum Gut Lighthouse
- Danger Point Lighthouse
- Low Point Lighthouse
- Kugelbake
- Grand Island North Light
- Groote Kaap
- Vuurtoreneiland
- Cape Agulhas Lighthouse
- Ahırkapı Feneri
- Şile Feneri
- Yeşilköy Feneri
- Grand Island Harbor Rear Range Light
- Burlington Breakwater Lights
- Dutch Gap Canal Lights
- Shinnecock Light
- Romer Shoal Light
- Huron Islands Lighthouse
- Hyannis Rear Range Light
- Lovells Island Range Lights
- Falmouth Inner Light
- Detroit River Light
- Wickford Harbor Light
- Ipswich Range Lights
- Spectacle Island Range Lights
- Nantucket Cliff Lights
- Nantucket Range Lights
- Nantucket Harbor Range Lights
- VRB-25
- Ile Parisienne
Article alerts
[edit]Articles to be split
- 05 Dec 2021 – Tang Lung Chau (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by 220.246.55.231 (t · c); see discussion
- 22 Nov 2021 – Green Island, Hong Kong (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Msgj (t · c); see discussion
- 05 Jan 2021 – Guia Fortress (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by 124.217.189.103 (t · c); see discussion
Articles for creation
- 29 Apr 2024 – Draft:Barletta New Lighthouse (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Bianower (t · c)
- 22 Jun 2024 – Draft:Rattan pendant lights (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Rowabiinteriors (t · c) was declined by Hammersoft (t · c) on 22 Jun 2024
Recent changes
[edit]List of abbreviations (help):
- D
- Edit made at Wikidata
- r
- Edit flagged by ORES
- N
- New page
- m
- Minor edit
- b
- Bot edit
- (±123)
- Page byte size change
20 July 2024
- diffhist Eigg 12:59 −510 Ben MacDui talk contribs (→Iron Age: more refs, fewer notes)
- diffhist Eigg 12:48 −492 Ben MacDui talk contribs (→Iron Age: cave ref)
- diffhist Eigg 12:37 −887 Ben MacDui talk contribs (→Economy and transport: rem unnec para)
- diffhist Eigg 12:34 −33 Ben MacDui talk contribs (→Early history: amend image legend)
- diffhist Eigg 12:33 −294 Ben MacDui talk contribs (→Early history: refs for other sites mentioned)
- diffhist Eigg 12:18 −31 Ben MacDui talk contribs (→Early history: Rubh' An Tangaird ref)
- diffhist Eigg 11:59 −671 Ben MacDui talk contribs (→Geology: rem apparently unreferenced material)
- diffhist Deception Island 11:57 +568 Alansplodge talk contribs (→Scientific research: Added Deception Island incident)
- diffhist Seal Point Lighthouse 10:43 −2 EricoLivingstone talk contribs (text added) Tag: Visual edit
- diffhist Seal Point Lighthouse 10:42 +1,920 EricoLivingstone talk contribs (text added) Tag: Visual edit
- diffhist Pencarrow Head Lighthouse 07:54 +42 Itineris55 talk contribs (→Upper lighthouse: wl)
- diffhist Bean Rock Lighthouse 05:00 +90 Itineris55 talk contribs (→History: wl)
- diffhist m Eagle Harbor Light 02:08 +31 SDudley talk contribs (better image for infobox from 2020)
19 July 2024
- diffhist m Puysegur Point Lighthouse 18:23 +1 Cyfal talk contribs (spelling (WP:Typo Team))
- diffhist m Wolf Rock Lighthouse 16:07 +16 D1d2d3d29 talk contribs (Added links)
- diffhist m Wolf Rock Lighthouse 16:05 +12 D1d2d3d29 talk contribs (→MV Mazarine: Added a link)
- diffhist m Wolf Rock Lighthouse 16:05 +11 D1d2d3d29 talk contribs (→MV Mazarine: Added a link)
- diffhist m Wolf Rock Lighthouse 16:04 +4 D1d2d3d29 talk contribs (→Operational summary: Added a link)
- diffhist Wolf Rock Lighthouse 16:04 +467 D1d2d3d29 talk contribs (→MV Mazarine: Elaborated on Mazarine)
- diffhist Klein Curaçao 12:56 +13 Bachathem talk contribs Tag: Visual edit
- diffhist Béjaïa 09:51 +18 Gts1300 talk contribs (→Sports)
- diffhist Béjaïa 09:42 +179 Gts1300 talk contribs (Edits related to football in the city)
- diffhist Béjaïa 03:56 +604 Gts1300 talk contribs (Added sources)
- diffhist Béjaïa 03:30 +273 Gts1300 talk contribs
18 July 2024
- diffhist m Poolbeg Lighthouse 14:56 −90 Davekern talk contribs (Update image to a more recent + higher resolution) Tag: 2017 wikitext editor
- diffhist m Wadjemup Lighthouse 14:36 +29 Tassedethe talk contribs (v2.05 - Repaired 1 link to disambiguation page - (You can help) - Henry Trigg) Tag: WPCleaner
- diffhist Eigg 13:01 −107 Ben MacDui talk contribs (→Later lairds: rem unsourced notes)
- diffhist Eigg 10:59 −570 Ben MacDui talk contribs (→Church and reformation: rem unsourced material)
- diffhist Eigg 10:56 −650 Ben MacDui talk contribs (→Clan Ranald: rem some unsourced material)
- diffhist Eigg 10:50 +153 Ben MacDui talk contribs (Mac an Tàilleir - ''Eilean nam Ban Móra'')
- diffhist Eigg 10:33 +793 Ben MacDui talk contribs (add refs for last edit)
- diffhist Eigg 10:29 +491 Ben MacDui talk contribs (→Etymology: More sources and relegate Norse notion to a note)
- diffhist Eigg 10:06 −80 Ben MacDui talk contribs (→Early history: rem two notes)
- diffhist Eigg 09:27 −282 Ben MacDui talk contribs (→Jacobite risings: fix overlinking, remove some extraneous material, move some to a note)
- diffhist Eigg 00:38 +706 K1ngstowngalway1 talk contribs (→Jacobite risings) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
- diffhist m Stannard Rock Light 00:30 −2 Bruce1ee talk contribs (fixed lint errors – stripped tags)
17 July 2024
- diffhist Fourteen Foot Shoal Light 21:56 +85 24.180.193.154 talk (→Current status and getting there) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- diffhist m Sanibel Island Light 16:54 −2 MiamiMogul talk contribs (Corrected spacing)
- diffhist Bakers Island Light 15:43 +27 157.100.87.156 talk ([[ ]]) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- diffhist Bakers Island Light 15:41 +8 157.100.87.156 talk Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- diffhist Gibraltar Detached Mole ("C" Head) Lighthouse 14:28 +2 Jonesey95 talk contribs (Fix Linter errors.)
- diffhist Gibraltar Detached Mole ("B" Head) Lighthouse 14:28 +2 Jonesey95 talk contribs (Fix Linter errors.)
- diffhist m Astola Island 07:52 −114 Frost talk contribs (Reverted edits by 39.52.44.191 (talk): not providing a reliable source (WP:CITE, WP:RS) (HG) (3.4.12)) Tags: Huggle Rollback
- diffhist Astola Island 07:35 +114 39.52.44.191 talk (reliable information) Tags: Reverted Visual edit
16 July 2024
- diffhist m Cox's Bazar 21:57 +274 Fys77 talk contribs Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- diffhist m Cox's Bazar 21:04 −368 Fys77 talk contribs Tags: references removed Visual edit
- diffhist m Cox's Bazar 20:40 +4 Fys77 talk contribs Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- diffhist m Cox's Bazar 20:35 +225 Fys77 talk contribs Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- diffhist m Block Island North Light 20:19 +1 Tenneseoy talk contribs (Comma)
- diffhist Casquets lighthouses 08:21 0 147.147.120.230 talk (The Coordinates were incorrect) Tag: Manual revert
Templates and categories
[edit]Project banner
[edit]Infoboxes
[edit]Userboxes
[edit]- {{ParticipantLighthouses}} and {{User WikiProject Lighthouses}} its smaller cousin.
Barnstar
[edit]The Lighthouse Barnstar | |
Message ~~~~ |
Stub templates
[edit]- {{Lighthouse-stub}}
- {{US-lighthouse-stub}}
- {{Canada-lighthouse-stub}}
Categories
[edit]Subpages
[edit]- List of all subpages of this page
Resources
[edit]Images
[edit]- Images related to Lighthouses at Wikimedia Commons
- Archives of Michigan: Michigan Lighthouse Collection (alt link) – Lighthouses and Life-Saving Stations pictures.
Usage: Requires attribution, by citing the Archives of Michigan. - Klaus Hülse's collection: Historic postcard images – Lighthouses pictures from many countries.
- United States Coast Guard Image Archive: https://www.history.uscg.mil/Our-Collections/Photos/ According to a note at the top of the website, all images are public domain. Searchable historic archive of a huge number of lighthouses.
Templates
[edit]- Global
- {{cite ngall}} produces a citation in {{cite book}} form to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Lists of Lights which cover the world except the USA. See {{cite uscgll}} below.
- {{cite rowlett}} provides a citation to Russ Rowlett's The Lighthouse Directory. It uses the naming convention of that cite pages and covers every region on earth.
- {{lighthouse-stub}} is used to mark stub articles.
- Australia
- {{cite loa}} provides a citation to a specific page in Lighthouses of Australia Inc.
- {{cite loaidx}} provides a citation to one of the index pages in Lighthouses of Australia Inc.
- {{cite ssl}} provides a citation to a specific page in SeaSide Lights
- {{cite sslidx}} provides a citation to one of the index pages in SeaSide Lights
- Canada
- The following stub templates are available:
- {{cite ccgll}} produces a citation in {{cite web}} form to the Canadian Coast Guard List of Lights, Buoys and Fog Signals (4 Volumes). It has the advantage of being easy to use and automatically includes the url of the appropriate web site. It is easy to change when the Coast Guard reorganizes its web site as has in the past, and undoubtedly will do again in the future. The Canadian Coast Guard's four volumes cover Canadian waters.
- {{Canada-lighthouse-stub}}
- {{BritishColumbia-lighthouse-stub}}
- {{Manitoba-lighthouse-stub}}
- {{NewBrunswick-lighthouse-stub}}
- {{Newfoundland-lighthouse-stub}}
- {{NovaScotia-lighthouse-stub}}
- {{Ontario-lighthouse-stub}}
- {{PrinceEdwardIsland-lighthouse-stub}}
- {{Quebec-lighthouse-stub}}
- The following stub templates are available:
- Netherlands
- {{Netherlands-lighthouse-stub}} is used to mark stub articles related to Dutch lighthouses.
- United States
- {{cite uscgll}} produces a citation in {{cite book}} form to the US Coast Guard Light List. It has the advantage of being easy to use, a standard format, and automatically including the url of the appropriate web site. It is easy to change when the Coast Guard reorganizes its web site as it did in July 2010 and will, undoubtedly, do again in the future. The Coast Guard's seven volumes cover United States waters.
- {{cite uscghist}} provides a similar citation to the US Coast Guard's historical web site, which lists almost every significant light in the United States, including those no longer extant. Most of the articles are accompanied by historical photographs.
- {{cite uscgnavbib}} provides a simple link to the US Coast Guard's extensive historical bibliography in case someone wants to cite it.
- {{US-lighthouse-stub}} is used to mark stub articles related to US lighthouses.