Wikipedia:WikiProject Irish Maritime

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Welcome to the Irish Maritime WikiProject, a collaboration area and group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Irish Maritime, seafaring and inland waterways articles.

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Goals

To establish a cohesive direction for the collection of articles making up this project
To highlight the maritime nature of the island of Ireland on Wikipedia
To improve Wikipedia's coverage of Irish maritime issues
Create guidelines for articles about Irish maritime issues

Scope

The scope of this project is all articles which fall in the Category:Ireland which have a maritime related focus, including, but not limited to:

Ports

List of Irish Ports

Maritime Organisations

Marine related bodies operating in Ireland

Bord Iascaigh Mhara - Irish Fisheries Board
Cobh Heritage Centre
Commissioners of Irish Lights
Cruising Association of Ireland
Customs & Excise, Irish Revenue
Naval Service
Irish Coast Guard
Irish Institute of Master Mariners (IIMM)
National Maritime College of Ireland (NMCI)
Irish Maritime Development Office
Follow the Fleet
Maritime Careers
Irish Marina Operators Association
Irish Marine Federation
Irish Ports Association
Master Mariners Association
National Maritime College of Ireland
Royal National Lifeboat Institution (Ireland)
Seaman's Union of Ireland
Sea Scouts
Stella Maris
Department of Communications, Marine & Natural Resources
The Department of Transport - Commercial Harbours
The Department of the Environment - Dredging
National Maritime Museum of Ireland
The Marine Institute
Maritime Institute of Ireland
The Marine Survey Office
Mercantile Marine Office (MMO)
Irish Sailing Association
Irish Water Safety Association
Irish Maritime Development Office
Cruising Association of Ireland
Irish Underwater Council
Irish Exporters Association
Inland Fisheries Ireland

Entries with maritime content/interest

Main Irish Maritime Laws

1946 Harbours Act
1996 Harbours Act

Irish water craft - Historical/Design/Achievements

Open tasks

Participants

This is just an informal headcount and directory; no strings attached! Anyone interested can list himself/herself (or others) here alphabetically (there's no leader).

User name	Location	Interests
Alison	Cupertino, California	Maritime history, article formatting, administrivia, contributing images
Brendan	Donegal & East Lothian	History of the Hebrides, Norse-Gaels
BrownHairedGirl	White Rose county	Administrivia for now, but hope some day to have the energy to work on harbours on the west coat
cambria49	Hobart, Tasmania, Australia	Irish Sea Passenger and Ro-Ro ferry services
Peter Clarke	County Down	Shannon-Erne Waterway; Clogherhead; Oriel Wind Farm (offshore); Ilnacullin
Clement	Dublin, Ireland	Irish maritime history
fenitharbour	Tralee	Marinas, Kerry coastline. Tralee Bay - History - Irish Marine Legislation
Frelke	Surrey, U.K.	Commercial shipping (including Irish Shipping Limited) and ports
shtove	Dorset	Tudor conquest of Ireland
Coolavokig	Cork, Ireland	Shipping, Ships, Cork Harbour
Gherkin30	London	Shipping, Ships, Aviation, London Transport, RAF
RashersTierney	Ireland	Inland waterways, Marine architecture, Traditional small craft, General history.
Tomh903	Ireland	Irish Naval Service.
Smirkybec	Dublin, Ireland	General Irish Maritime history, article formatting, editing and tidying, working with suitable institutions and organisations to foster involvement, contributing images

Articles

Featured content

Candidates

The article on John de Courcy Ireland would probably be suitable for this WikiProject.

New articles

Please feel free to list your new Irish Maritime-related articles in the Project Log Project log (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.

Collaboration and review

Collaboration of the week

Peer review

Assessment

The project is too small to justify reviews and assessments, until numbers grow we will seek reviews and assessments from other projects and inherit their scores.

To Do List

and the first item for the "To do list" is to create the list Wikipedia:WikiProject Irish Maritime/to do

Templates

Project banner

Irish Maritime

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Irish Maritime, a collaborative effort to improve and standardise the content and structure of maritime, seafaring and inland waterways articles associated with the island of Ireland. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks.Irish MaritimeWikipedia:WikiProject Irish MaritimeTemplate:WikiProject Irish MaritimeIrish Maritime articles

Talk pages related to this WikiProject can be tagged with {{WPIrish Maritime}} in order to let people know we exist, so that they can contact us when needed. Note: this banner should not be substituted.

It would be nice to maybe create an invitation template for the talk pages of potential project contributors.

Resources

Wikipedia:SHIPDAB - guidelines on ship names
Project log - please feel free to update this!
Add or find useful images here!