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.

DThomsen8 (talk) 12:40, 23 August 2012 (UTC)
CaribDigita (talk) 00:36, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
mrwoogi010 ^Talk 15:49, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
Mr. Guye (talk) (contribs) 21:04, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
Ma nam is geoffrey (talk) (talk) 11:34, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
Guettarda (talk · contribs) 16:10:00, 24 May 2021 (UTC)
Zpro1408 (talk · contribs) 15:12:33, 29 September 2022 (UTC)
Blakdogg (talk · contribs) 23:42:35, 12 November 2022 (UTC) Linden and Afro-Guyanese history
Editingwithcoffee (talk · contribs) 22:15:54, 2 July 2023 (UTC)
Historyday01 (talk) 00:38, 13 July 2023 (UTC)
Spiralwidget (talk · contribs) 01:31:34, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
ChrysGalley (talk · contribs) 07:34:13, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

Former members

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

Buaidh (talk · contribs) 21:13:34, 12 May 2019 (UTC)
Kitfox32
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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{{User WikiProject Guyana}}

This user is a participant in
WikiProject Guyana.

linked pages

{{User WP Guyana}}

This user participates in
WikiProject Guyana.

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{{User WP Guyana|invite}}

This user invites you to join
WikiProject Guyana.

linked pages

For other Guyana userboxes, see Category:Guyana userboxes.

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~~ - now in mainspace
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, Massara, Guyana and satellite Kwaimatta, and Yupukari's satellite Kaicumbay. 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
Stabroek Block

To do list

Please add tasks to the list here.

Article Assessments

Guyana articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA				2			2
GA		5		6		1	12
B		8	5	18		7	38
C	20	25	43	101		18	207
Start	17	58	116	576		61	828
Stub	1		40	862		40	943
List	3	12	15	47		3	80
Category					1,568		1,568
File					11		11
Portal					2		2
Project					7		7
Redirect		1	3	68	91		163
Template					82		82
NA					1		1
Other					1		1
Assessed	41	109	222	1,680	1,763	130	3,945
Unassessed						2	2
Total	41	109	222	1,680	1,763	132	3,947
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 10,764			Ω = 5.30

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.

Featured articles

Good articles

Former good 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

{{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.

Resources

Online Sources

Guyana news websites (Media list from BBC)

Pages of dubious quality kept for historical purpose:

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.

[1] ttps://moaa.gov.gy/indigenous-villages/katoka/

[2] ttps://moaa.gov.gy/indigenous-villages/massara/

[3] ttps://moaa.gov.gy/indigenous-villages/kwaimatta/

[4] ttps://moaa.gov.gy/indigenous-villages/kaicumbay/

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Guyana

Scope

Participants

Active members

Former members

Member identification

Participation Needed

WikiProject article requests list

To do list

Article Assessments

Featured articles

Good articles

Former good articles

Did you know? articles

In the News articles

Assessment status

Templates

Resources

Online Sources

Additional list of Online Sources provided by Mike Christie

Books and Sources Available from other users

Resource Exchange