Wikipedia:WikiProject Lighthouses

WikiProject Lighthouses
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WP:LHOUSES

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

Lighthouses articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FL				1			1
GA		5	7	9			21
B	1	5	39	20			65
C	1	16	147	76		5	245
Start	1	44	504	567		12	1,128
Stub		10	283	860		2	1,155
List	1	18	69	169			257
Category					742		742
Disambig					4		4
File					32		32
Project					7		7
Redirect		1	4	6	208		219
Template					86		86
Assessed	4	99	1,053	1,708	1,079	19	3,962
Unassessed						1	1
Total	4	99	1,053	1,708	1,079	20	3,963
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 13,787			Ω = 5.27

Recognized content

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

List of lighthouses in Connecticut

Good articles

Former good articles

Wawatam Lighthouse

Did you know? articles

Project organization

Departments

WikiProject Lighthouses/Assessment

Parentage

WikiProject Architecture

Related projects

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 _contribs^talk
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)[reply]
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.

Article alerts

Categories for discussion

03 Apr 2025 – Category:Lighthouses in the Øresund Region (talk · edit · hist) CfDed by Kaffet i halsen (t · c) was closed; see discussion

Requested moves

01 May 2025 – Cabo San Antonio Lighthouse (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Cabo San Antonio Lighthouse, Cuba by BarrelProof (t · c); see discussion

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

Recent changes

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

21 May 2025

diffhist m Punta Borinquén Light 19:43 −676 Chaotic Enby talk contribs (Reverted edits by 192.48.113.142 (talk) (AV)) Tags: AntiVandal Rollback
diffhist Punta Borinquén Light 19:42 +676 192.48.113.142 talk Tag: Reverted
diffhist Bellamy Cay 17:25 −45 Lady Helen "Bio" Rodriguez talk contribs (There's no mention of Black Sam as a nickname for Bellamy until the 20th century. Its also dubious to call him prince of piracy.) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
diffhist Lindisfarne 11:04 −105 Steinsky talk contribs (wl priory - those last 2 edits are a good indication that this was WP:UNDERLINKed; tweak other internal links for WP:TRANSPARENCY; link directly to the County Palatine rather than modern county Durham)
diffhist m Lindisfarne 07:09 −1 Weirdguyz talk contribs (Undid revision 1291433387 by 75.102.176.34 (talk) please see the definition of priory) Tag: Undo
diffhist Lindisfarne 06:19 +1 75.102.176.34 talk (Fixed typo) Tags: Reverted Mobile edit Mobile web edit
diffhist Loch Eriboll 05:27 +8 Dreykop talk contribs (changed map for Sutherland)

Templates and categories

Project banner

{{WikiProject Lighthouses}}

Infoboxes

{{Infobox lighthouse}}

Userboxes

{{ParticipantLighthouses}} and {{User WikiProject Lighthouses}} its smaller cousin.

Barnstar

	The Lighthouse Barnstar
	Message ~~~~

Stub templates

{{Quebec-lighthouse-stub}}

Subpages

List of all subpages of this page

Resources

Lighthouse Directory

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
- {{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}}
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.