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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
- 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
The scope of this project is all articles related to lighthouses and pharology (study of lighthouses).
Lighthouses articles by quality and importance
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Recognized content
A detailed list of recognized content is available at Lighthouses recognized content. User:JL-Bot/Project content
Featured lists
Good articles
- Template:Icon Avery Point Light
- Template:Icon Black Rock Harbor Light
- Template:Icon Bridgeport Harbor Light
- Template:Icon Cape Moreton Light
- Template:Icon Chester Rock Light
- Template:Icon Dubh Artach
- Template:Icon Essex Reef Light
- Template:Icon Europa Point Lighthouse
- Template:Icon Falkner Island Light
- Template:Icon Five Mile Point Light
- Template:Icon Augustin-Jean Fresnel
- Template:Icon Great Captain Island Light
- Template:Icon Green Bay Harbor Entrance Light
- Template:Icon Greens Ledge Light
- Template:Icon Kõpu Lighthouse
- Template:Icon Lynde Point Light
- Template:Icon Mystic Seaport Light
- Template:Icon Norah Head Light
- Template:Icon Point Stephens Light
- Template:Icon Fannie Salter
- Template:Icon Skerryvore
Former good articles
Did you know? articles
- Template:Icon Archer Point Light
- Template:Icon Ashtabula Harbor Light
- Template:Icon James Balfour (engineer)
- Template:Icon Bay Rock Light
- Template:Icon Belle Tout Lighthouse
- Template:Icon Bissau Cathedral
- Template:Icon Black Rock Harbor Light
- Template:Icon Blackwell Island Light
- Template:Icon Bloody Point Range Lights
- Template:Icon Bluff Point Light
- Template:Icon Bois Blanc Island Lighthouse and Blockhouse
- Template:Icon Booby Island Light
- Template:Icon Bridgeport Harbor Light
- Template:Icon Brockton Point
- Template:Icon Burnham-on-Sea High Lighthouse
- Template:Icon Burnham-on-Sea Low Lighthouse
- Template:Icon Burnham-on-Sea Round Tower
- Template:Icon Bustard Head Light
- Template:Icon Cape Agulhas Lighthouse
- Template:Icon Cape Bowling Green Light
- Template:Icon Cape Capricorn Light
- Template:Icon Cape Cleveland Light
- Template:Icon Cape Don Light
- Template:Icon Cape Kumukahi Light
- Template:Icon Cape Moreton Light
- Template:Icon Cape Rachado Lighthouse
- Template:Icon Cape Wickham Lighthouse
- Template:Icon Cat Island Light
- Template:Icon Chester Rock Light
- Template:Icon Christiana Light
- Template:Icon Clarence River Light
- Template:Icon Clarks Point Light
- Template:Icon Clay Island Light
- Template:Icon Cleveland Point Light
- Template:Icon Creal Reef Light
- Template:Icon Crown Point Light
- Template:Icon Day beacon
- Template:Icon Delaware Breakwater Range Rear Light
- Template:Icon Dent Island Light
- Template:Icon Dog Island Lighthouse
- Template:Icon Double Island Point Light
- Template:Icon Dueodde Lighthouse
- Template:Icon Dunston Pillar
- Template:Icon Maurice Durand (architect)
- Template:Icon East End Light
- Template:Icon Elbow of Cross Ledge Light
- Template:Icon Emery Point Light
- Template:Icon Erie Land Light
- Template:Icon Essex Reef Light
- Template:Icon Europa Point Lighthouse
- Template:Icon Falkner Island Light
- Template:Icon Fastnet Lighthouse
- Template:Icon Fitzroy Island Light
- Template:Icon Five Mile Point Light
- Template:Icon Flat Top Island Light
- Template:Icon Fort Sumter Range Lights
- Template:Icon Fuller Rock Light
- Template:Icon The Fullerton Hotel Singapore
- Template:Icon Geitungen Lighthouse
- Template:Icon Gibraltar Aerobeacon
- Template:Icon Gibraltar North Mole Elbow Lighthouse
- Template:Icon Gibraltar North Mole Lighthouse
- Template:Icon Gibraltar South Mole Lighthouse
- Template:Icon Grand Island Harbor Rear Range Light
- Template:Icon Grand Lake St. Marys Lighthouse
- Template:Icon Grand Turk Lighthouse
- Template:Icon Grassy Hill Light
- Template:Icon Great Captain Island Light
- Template:Icon Green Island Light (Ohio)
- Template:Icon Green Island Light (Wisconsin)
- Template:Icon Green Point Lighthouse, Cape Town
- Template:Icon Greens Ledge Light
- Template:Icon Haig Point Range Lights
- Template:Icon George Halpin
- Template:Icon Head Harbour Lighthouse
- Template:Icon George Poynter Heath
- Template:Icon High and Low Lights of North Shields
- Template:Icon Holland Island Bar Light
- Template:Icon Horn Island Light
- Template:Icon Hornby Lighthouse
- Template:Icon Île Vierge
- Template:Icon Île d'Yeu Lighthouse
- Template:Icon Imperial Towers
- Template:Icon Japanese Lighthouse (Garapan, Saipan)
- Template:Icon Japanese Lighthouse (Poluwat, Chuuk)
- Template:Icon Kingston by Sea
- Template:Icon Kızılada Lighthouse
- Template:Icon Kugelbake
- Template:Icon Kullen Lighthouse
- Template:Icon Kvitsøy Lighthouse
- Template:Icon United States lightship LV-117
- Template:Icon La Vieille
- Template:Icon Lady Elliot Island Light
- Template:Icon Lågskär Lighthouse
- Template:Icon Land lighthouse
- Template:Icon Leasowe Lighthouse
- Template:Icon Ida Lewis
- Template:Icon Light Vessel 16
- Template:Icon Light Vessel 72
- Template:Icon Light Vessel 93
- Template:Icon Light Vessel 95
- Template:Icon Lighthouse and naval vessel urban legend
- Template:Icon Lighthouse of Genoa
- Template:Icon Lighthouse of Ponta das Contendas
- Template:Icon List of lighthouses in Alaska
- Template:Icon List of lighthouses in Gibraltar
- Template:Icon List of lighthouses in Maine
- Template:Icon Long Tail Point Light
- Template:Icon Low Head Lighthouse
- Template:Icon Low Isles Light
- Template:Icon Mayo Beach Light
- Template:Icon Mew Island Lighthouse
- Template:Icon Minicoy Island Lighthouse
- Template:Icon Minnesota Point Light
- Template:Icon Mizunokojima Lighthouse
- Template:Icon Moreton Bay Pile Light
- Template:Icon Moreton Island lighthouses
- Template:Icon Musselbed Shoals Light
- Template:Icon United States lightship Nantucket (LV-58)
- Template:Icon New Caloundra Light
- Template:Icon North Reef Light
- Template:Icon Old Caloundra Light
- Template:Icon Old Harbor Light (Savannah, Georgia)
- Template:Icon Old Plantation Flats Light
- Template:Icon One Fathom Bank Lighthouse
- Template:Icon United States lightship Overfalls (LV-118)
- Template:Icon Pass A L'Outre Light
- Template:Icon Pass Christian Light
- Template:Icon Peshtigo Reef Light
- Template:Icon Pine Islet Light
- Template:Icon Point Abino Light Tower
- Template:Icon Point Adams Light
- Template:Icon Point Charles Light
- Template:Icon Point Danger Light
- Template:Icon Point Gammon Light
- Template:Icon Point Lonsdale Lighthouse
- Template:Icon Pointe du Grouin du Cou Lighthouse
- Template:Icon Port Washington Light
- Template:Icon Port of Bissau
- Template:Icon Pungoteague Creek Light
- Template:Icon Roanoke River Light
- Template:Icon Rock Harbor Light
- Template:Icon Round Island Light, Isles of Scilly
- Template:Icon Rubicon Point Light
- Template:Icon Rumeli Feneri
- Template:Icon Sacred Heart Church, Levuka
- Template:Icon St. Johns River Light
- Template:Icon Fannie Salter
- Template:Icon Sandy Cape Light
- Template:Icon Sea Hill Light
- Template:Icon Sharps Island Light
- Template:Icon Ship John Shoal Light
- Template:Icon Ship Shoal Light
- Template:Icon Vladimir Shukhov
- Template:Icon Skerryvore
- Template:Icon Smith Point Light
- Template:Icon South Bass Island Light
- Template:Icon Southwold Lighthouse
- Template:Icon Spectacle Reef Light
- Template:Icon Spit Bank Lighthouse
- Template:Icon Stannard Rock Light
- Template:Icon Start Point Lighthouse
- Template:Icon Stingray Point Light
- Template:Icon Sugarloaf Point Light
- Template:Icon Svinøy Lighthouse
- Template:Icon Tarrytown Light
- Template:Icon Texas Tower (lighthouse)
- Template:Icon Toledo Harbor Light
- Template:Icon Trinity Shoal Light
- Template:Icon United States Lighthouse Society
- Template:Icon Vermilion Light
- Template:Icon Léonce Verny
- Template:Icon Vischpoort
- Template:Icon Vuurbaak van Katwijk aan Zee
- Template:Icon Wadjemup Lighthouse
- Template:Icon Warden Head Light
- Template:Icon Warrior Rock Light
- Template:Icon Wawatam Lighthouse
- Template:Icon Wharton Reef Light
- Template:Icon Wollongong Breakwater Lighthouse
- Template:Icon George Worthylake
- Template:Icon Wyborn Reef Light
Project organization
Departments
Parentage
Related projects
- WikiProject Civil engineering
- WikiProject Maritime Trades
- WikiProject National Register of Historic Places
- WikiProject Piers (marked inactive)
- WikiProject Ports
- WikiProject Ships
- WikiProject Shipwrecks
Participants
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
- Novembersolstice - Lighthouses of New York, Great Lakes
To-do list
Sample articles
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
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.
- Lighthouse library
- 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
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Templates and categories
Project banner
Infoboxes
Userboxes
- Template:Tl and Template:Tl its smaller cousin.
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Stub templates
Categories
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Subpages
- List of all subpages of this page
Resources
Images
- 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
- Global
- Template:Tl produces a citation in Template:Tl form to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Lists of Lights which cover the world except the USA. See Template:Tl below.
- Template:Tl 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.
- Template:Tl is used to mark stub articles.
- Australia
- Template:Tl provides a citation to a specific page in Lighthouses of Australia Inc.
- Template:Tl provides a citation to one of the index pages in Lighthouses of Australia Inc.
- Template:Tl provides a citation to a specific page in SeaSide Lights
- Template:Tl provides a citation to one of the index pages in SeaSide Lights
- Canada
- The following stub templates are available:
- Template:Tl produces a citation in Template:Tl 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.
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- The following stub templates are available:
- Netherlands
- Template:Tl is used to mark stub articles related to Dutch lighthouses.
- United States
- Template:Tl produces a citation in Template:Tl 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.
- Template:Tl 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.
- Template:Tl provides a simple link to the US Coast Guard's extensive historical bibliography in case someone wants to cite it.
- Template:Tl is used to mark stub articles related to US lighthouses.