WikiProject Jamaica

Flag of Jamaica
Shortcut	WP:JAMAICA
Category	Jamaica
Portal	Jamaica
Wikimedia Commons	Jamaica
Parent project(s)	Caribbean
Project banner template	{{WikiProject Caribbean|Jamaica=yes}}
Userbox	{{User WikiProject Jamaica}}
Assessment	/Assessment
CSB	Relevant for countering systemic bias

Welcome to WikiProject Jamaica! This group was formed to better organize articles on Jamaica in a spirit of cooperation.

This group includes within its scope all articles related to Jamaica, its cities, geography, transportation, culture, history and so on. It aims to expand Wikipedia's resources on Jamaica in a fair and accurate manner. All of these articles should be contained within the Category:Jamaica or one of its subcategories.

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

• See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Caribbean#Jamaica

• Category:Jamaica articles missing geocoordinate data

Proposed deletions

• 03 Feb 2025 – Lorenzo Murdock (talk ·  · hist) was PRODed by LibStar (t · c): Fails WP:SPORTSCRIT and WP:NOLY.

Categories for discussion

• 05 Feb 2025 – Category:Wikipedia categories named after Jamaican musicians (talk ·  · hist) was CfDed by LaundryPizza03 (t · c); see discussion
• 05 Feb 2025 – Category:Wikipedia categories named after Jamaican people (talk ·  · hist) was CfDed by LaundryPizza03 (t · c); see discussion

Good topic candidates

• 29 Jan 2025 – I'm in It (talk ·  · hist) was GT nominated by Kyle Peake (t · c); see discussion

To join WikiProject Jamaica, edit this section and add the Wikitext #{{subst:me}} with your areas of interest to the bottom of the following list of members. Members should also place member identification on their user page.

1. John Carter 22:34, 3 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
2. BilCat (talk) 21:45, 29 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
3. Krayziegunts (talk) 04:34, 30 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
4. Djjazzyb (talk · contribs) K. (talk) 02:29, 12 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
5. Michig (talk) 07:27, 12 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
6. Nagasheus (talk) 08:46, 15 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
7. Petrine Archer 22:34, November 2009 (UTC)
8. User:Knollygregory 06:34, November 2009 (UTC)
9. Janvo 10:20, September 2010 (UTC)
10. EagerToddler39 (talk) 03:58, 5 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
11. Strachkvas (talk) 01:15, 16 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
12.  Hazard-SJ  ±  01:34, 10 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
13. Naj Kiclac (talk) 18:55, 9 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
14. JamaicanEditor (talk) 19:32, 20 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
15. Astronyte (talk) 23:02, 14 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
16. Mikesiva (talk) 16:32, 6 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
17. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 22:34, 3 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
18. Juan de Bolas (talk · contribs) 10:58:34, 16 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
19. Jahamian876242 (talk · contribs) 04:19:42, 13 March 2022 (UTC) [reply]

Thank you for your help! Please move your username back to the active list when you can participate again.

1. Buaidh (talk · contribs) 13:58:10, 3 May 2019 (UTC) – WikiProject templates and categories.[reply]

Members of WikiProject Jamaica should place one of the following lines of Wikitext on their user page to add it to Category:WikiProject Jamaica participants.

Wikitext	userbox	where used
[[Category:WikiProject Jamaica participants]]	none	linked pages
{{Template:User WikiProject Jamaica}}	This user is a participant in WikiProject Jamaica.	linked pages
{{Template:User WP Jamaica}}	This user participates in WikiProject Jamaica.	linked pages
{{Template:User WP Jamaica|invite}}	This user invites you to join WikiProject Jamaica.	linked pages

For other Jamaica user templates see Category:Jamaica user templates.

Please see {{WikiProject Caribbean}} for assessment information. Instructions for usage are below.

{{WikiProject Caribbean
 |class=  (choose: Stub, Start, GA, FL, FA, etc.)
 |importance= (choose: Top, High, Mid, Low)
 |attention=  (choose: yes, or delete this line)
 |auto=       (choose: yes, or delete this line)  
 |needs-infobox= (choose: yes, or delete this line)
 |Jamaica= yes  (Always YES for this project)
 |Jamaica-importance= (choose: Top, High, Mid, Low)
}}

Caribbean: Jamaica Start‑class Low‑importance

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Caribbean, an attempt to build a comprehensive guide to the countries of the Caribbean on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit this article, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion. If you are new to editing Wikipedia visit the welcome page to become familiar with the guidelines.CaribbeanWikipedia:WikiProject CaribbeanTemplate:WikiProject CaribbeanCaribbean Start This article has been rated as Start-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. Low This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale. This article is supported by WikiProject Jamaica (assessed as High-importance). This article has been marked as needing immediate attention. This article has been marked as needing an infobox.

• {{User WikiProject Jamaica}} <---Place this on your User page to show membership.

This user is a participant in WikiProject Jamaica.

• {{Jamaica-stub}} - Stub template for articles relating to Jamaica; to be put on the bottom of each article page.
• {{Jamaica-geo-stub}} - Stub template for articles relating to geography of Jamaica; to be put on the bottom of each article page.
• {{Jamaica-athletics-bio-stub}} - Stub template for articles relating to Jamaican people connected with the sport of track and field athletics; to be put on the bottom of each article page.

Place these templates on articles above the [[Category:]] section, when appropriate.

• {{Beaches of Jamaica}}
• {{Caves of Jamaica}}
• {{Geography of Jamaica}}
• {{Hospitals in Jamaica}}
• {{Hotels of Jamaica}}
• {{Jamaican political parties}}
• {{Lighthouses of Jamaica}}
• {{National Heritage Sites in Jamaica}}
• {{Parishes of Jamaica}}
• {{Prisons in Jamaica}}
• {{Railways of Jamaica NavBox}}
• {{Reggae}}
• {{Religion in Jamaica}}
• {{Rivers of Jamaica}}
• {{Schools in Jamaica}}
• {{Settlements in Jamaica}}
• {{Ska}}
• {{Sports venues in Jamaica}}
• {{Universities and colleges in Jamaica}}

• {{Politics of Jamaica}} Right side panel template.
• {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Caribbean/Navigation}} Right side panel template.

Place this templates after the name of the award recipient, as appropriate.

• {{Post-nominals/JAM}}

There is a set of out-of-copyright large scale maps (1:50,000) that cover the western end of the island. These date from the late 1950s but are still surprisingly useful.

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  Index
• 
  Sheet A
  Lucea
• 
  Sheet B
  Savanna-La-Mar
• 
  Sheet C
  Montego Bay - Falmouth
• 
  Sheet D
  Mandeville - Black River
• 
  Sheet E
  Malvern - Alligator Pond
• 
  Sheet F
  St Ann's Bay - Moneague