Wikipedia:WikiProject Water sports/RNLI task force

RNLI
Severn class lifeboat
Atlantic 75 class lifeboat

Welcome to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) task force of the Water sports WikiProject. Some Wikipedians have formed this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of RNLI-related articles and the organization of information and articles on this topic. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic.

If you would like to help, please join the project, inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list below.

Introduction

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Scope

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Every subject that involves the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI).

Goals

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WikiProject Water sports has a few longstanding goals, which are in place to provide a direction for expansion.

  • To ensure that all marine-activity related articles are always expanding and being improved.
  • Establish a large, active member base.

Open tasks

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Manual of Style

Title format for station articles

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Articles about lifeboat stations should be titled with capital letters as per WP:NOUN.

  • Pwllheli Lifeboat Station
  • Weymouth Lifeboat Station

Title format for lifeboat articles

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Articles about actual lifeboats should be titled as follows (the italics for the title are added by the {{Infobox ship}} template):

  • RNLB Aguila Wren (ON 892)
  • RNLB Lloyds II (ON 986)
  • RNLB Blue Peter V (B-833)

If a lifeboat does not have a name, then the article should be titled using their hull number:

  • RNLB B-536

Table format in lifeboat articles

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ON Op. No. Name Built In service Station Comments
1079 44-022 The William and Jane 1982 1982–1998 Blyth Sold to New Zealand

Table format in station articles

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At station ON Op. No. Name Class Comments
1949–1967 860 Southern Africa Barnett
1967–1979 1003 44-004 Faithful Forrester Waveney

Details for the station's first lifeboat on the first row, the second on the second row, and so on.

The 'At station' column can be changed to the station name (e.g. 'At Dover') if it does not make the column too wide.

Participants

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Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.

Name Areas of interest Location Date joined
Happysailor (talk · contribs) Powerboating, Sailing (& Canoeing, Windsurfing) Wales, UK 15 June 2010
John86uk (talk · contribs) RNLI Crew member, Kayaking, Yacht & Dinghy Cruising/Racing) Scotland, UK 15 June 2010
stavros1 (talk · contribs) East coast RNLI and Independent stations, Notable rescues Norfolk, UK 09 July 2010
Geof Sheppard (talk · contribs) Transport in South West England Somerset, UK 21 October 2010
MTimmins92 (talk · contribs) Updating New and old Fleet, Sailing/Powerboating Hertfordshire, UK 25 May 2012
franko2nd (talk · contribs) Lifeboats and Stations esp. Scotland Scotland, UK 13 January 2014
Tony Holkham (talk · contribs) Lifeboats all areas: RNLI, stations, closed stations, history, losses; also independent stations. West Sussex, UK 12 May 2014
Porthysek (talk · contribs) Servern class lifeboats, The history of the RNLI and lesser known stations. Adelaide, Australia 11 October 2018 (Different Account)
Ojsyork (talk · contribs) Volunteer Researcher for RNLI Heritage Team, Enthusiast and Fundraiser York 13 November 2023
Andrew Davidson (talk · contribs) Have worked on related topics such as Lerret and Saving Lives at Sea London 11 March 2024
Aluxosm (talk · contribs) Mostly working on lifeboat station items over at Wikidata to enable interesting queries (like this map of stations). London, UK 09 September 2024


Userbox

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When adding our userbox, please add our main projects as well as the RNLI task force box.

{{User WikiProject Water sports}}
{{User WikiProject Water sports/RNLI}}
 This user is a participant in WikiProject Water sports
 Member of the RNLI task force

Articles

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Candidates
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  Good articles (GA)

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Candidates
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New articles

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New articles in 2024

New articles in 2020

New articles in 2019

New articles in 2014

Collaboration and review

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Collaboration of the week
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Resources

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Project templates

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{{WikiProject Water sports|RNLI=yes}} is our main tag for article pages. There's no need to use it if one of our sub-project's template is already there. The template looks like:

 Water sports: RNLI Unassessed
 WikiProject Water sports/RNLI task force is within the scope of the WikiProject Water sports, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of Water sports. If you would like to participate, you can visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks.
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This article is supported by the RNLI task force.

Article navigation templates

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General

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Lifeboats

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Stations

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Substitution templates

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  • {{RNLB}} - typing short cut for linking to RNLI articles {{RNLB|Ship Name|ID}}
  • {{Lbb}} – substitutes [[Foo class lifeboat|Foo]]
  • {{Lbc}} – substitutes [[Foo class lifeboat|Foo Class]]
  • {{Lbs}} – substitutes [[Foo Lifeboat Station|Foo]]

Categories

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