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Welcome to the Basque WikiProject. We are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Basque people, the Basque Country, the Basque language, as well as Basque history and culture.

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Goals

Improve coverage of Basque issues and the quality of existing articles of Basque theme
Discuss NPOV standards in our area of interest
Categorize consistently

Scope

Everything Basque: Basque people, Basque Country, Basque language, history and culture.

Guidelines

/Basque toponyms (under discussion)

Open tasks

Members

Please feel free to add your name in here.

Userbox

WikiProject Basque Userbox for those who like userboxes.
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Barnstar

{{subst:The Basque Barnstar|1=message ~~~~}}—awarded to editors who've made significant contributions to Basque-related articles.

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Articles

This list is incomplete. Please help expanding it and improving the quality of articles listed.

Basque people

Basque Country (greater region)

Northern Basque Country: Labourd, Lower Navarre, Soule
Navarre
Western Basque Country: Álava, Biscay, Guipuscoa, combine Bidasoa-Txingudi and Bidasoaldea
Major cities of the Basque Country: Bayonne, Bilbao, Donostia, Pamplona, Vitoria-Gasteiz

History and prehistory

Prehistory

History of the Basque people - main article
Franco-Cantabrian region
Tribes: Aquitani, Vascones, Varduli, Caristii, Autrigones
Roman period: Iruña-Veleia
Basques in Canada - Trading with Amerindians: Beothuk, Micmac; Inuit

History

Basque Country in the Spanish Civil War: Bombing of Gernika

Template:History of the Basque people. To insert this template add: {{History of the Basque people}}

Basque law

Basque Statute of Autonomy
Biltzar
Elizate
Ertzaintza
Fuero (traditional charters and custom law)
Gernikako Arbola
Juntas Generales

Basque language

Basque language
Aquitanian language
Basque dialects: Bizkaiera, Gipuzkera, Lapurtera, Goi Nafarrera, Behe Nafarrera, Xiberera
Standard Basque
Earliest Basque texts: possibly Iruña-Veleia, Hand of Irulegi
Basque exonyms
Erromintxela

Vasconists

Basque culture

Cuisine

Basque cuisine
Basque drinks: Irulegi wines, Izarra, Kalimotxo, Patxaran, Basque cider, Txakoli
Txoko

Literature

Music

Basque music
Bertsolaritza (song/poem contests)

Religion and mythology

Festivals

Sports

Basque politics

Basque nationalism
Álava (Spanish Congress Electoral District)
Gipuzkoa (Spanish Congress Electoral District)
Navarre (Spanish Congress Electoral District)
Biscay (Spanish Congress Electoral District)
Some Basque parties: EAJ-PNV, PSE-EE, Batasuna, Euskal Herrietako Alderdi Komunista (duplicated as Communist Party of the Basque Homelands), Eusko Alkartasuna, Eusko Abertzale Ekintza, Abertzaleen Batasuna, Batzarre, Aralar, Nafarroa Bai, Euskadiko Ezkerra (defunct)
Labour unions of the Basque Country: ELA-STV, LAB
Historical Basque politicians: Sabino Arana, Pasionaria, Felix Likiniano, Federico Krutwig

Violence in the Basque Country

ETA
Minor Basque leftist armed groups: Comandos Autónomos Anticapitalistas, Iraultza, Iparretarrak
Spanish unionist armed groups: GAL, Batallón Vasco Español

Basque diaspora

Catalina de Erauso, cross-dressing conquistadora.
Lope de Aguirre

Basque music

Typical Basque instruments: Txalaparta, Alboka, Trikitixa, Kirikoketa, Xirula, Ttun-ttun, Txistu
Basque rock: Kortatu, Negu Gorriak, Barricada, La Polla Records, B.A.P.!!, Berri Txarrak
Kepa Junkera
Luis Mariano
Pablo de Sarasate

Featured content

None yet

Good articles

New articles

Please feel free to list your new Basque-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box the Main Page.

Recently created: Francisco Javier Lopez Pena, Jaurerria, Basque surnames, Sagardotegi, Joanes Leizarraga, Roncal Valley

Collaboration and review

Collaboration of the week

Peer review

Can someone review the Category of People of Basque descent. Half of the people there (not the ones in the subcategories) are of un sourced Basque descent, furthermore, most of them are Peruvian members of congress, whose article barely has their name, let alone any show of proof there are of near Basque if only a trace of an illusionised idea of European descent by some Basque-loving Wikipedia user. If the WikiProject Basque wishes to keep their categories clean and trustworthy they need to clean that up. PS: Had no idea where to bring this to your attention so yeah.

Assessment

The page was a conciliatory measure to enable us to clean up the list of Basques, which was more important. AFAIK there are only people on the list currently where their own Wiki Bio mentions Basque ancestry. Or has someone sneaked some of the old ones back? Akerbeltz (talk) 19:27, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

Templates

{{WikiProject Basque}} – this template should be added to the talk pages of all articles within the scope of the project.

Basque

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Basque, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the Basque Country, Basque people, Basque language, history and culture on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.BasqueWikipedia:WikiProject BasqueTemplate:WikiProject BasqueBasque
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Resources

Album Siglo XIX. Mendeko Albuma. Pictures of Basque themes from the 19th century in quite high resolutions. The licence is stated as Creative Commons-BY-NC-SA-ES 2.5, but, since the pictures are old, it probably could cover only the texts unless law takes scanning as a creative process.
19th Century´s military history in the Basque Country, from the Zumalakarregi Museum.
Auñamendi Encyclopedia, encyclopedia of Basque subjects in Spanish, original editions by Bernardo Estornés Lasa. Many entries updated.
Biblioteca Sancho el Sabio. Old books on Basque subjects scanned as heavy JPEG images.
Morris Student Plus. Basque <-> English dictionary for students.
eusref.net. Basque Bibliography in English and German.

Related projects

Wikipedia:WikiProject Ethnic groups
Portal: Portal:Basque

Tools

Main tool page: toolserver.org

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.

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