WP:WikiProject Guyana

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

To join WikiProject Guyana, 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. DThomsen8 (talk) 12:40, 23 August 2012 (UTC)
2. CaribDigita (talk) 00:36, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
3.  mrwoogi010  ^Talk 15:49, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
4. Mr. Guye (talk) (contribs)  21:04, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
5. Ma nam is geoffrey (talk) (talk) 11:34, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
6. {{User|Guettarda}} 16:10:00, 24 May 2021 (UTC) 
7. {{User|Zpro1408}} 15:12:33, 29 September 2022 (UTC) 
8. {{User|Blakdogg}} 23:42:35, 12 November 2022 (UTC)  Linden and Afro-Guyanese history
9. {{User|Editingwithcoffee}} 22:15:54, 2 July 2023 (UTC) 
10. Historyday01 (talk) 00:38, 13 July 2023 (UTC)
11. {{User|Spiralwidget}} 01:31:34, 19 December 2024 (UTC) 

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1. {{User|Buaidh}} 21:13:34, 12 May 2019 (UTC) 
2. Kitfox32
3. Lorelei (talk) (user has not edited since April 2015).

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• Clean up listing: Of the 1835 articles : 318 or 17% are marked for cleanup, 417 issues in total. (20 Apr. 2021)
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Guyana news websites (Media list from BBC[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-19546912])

• [https://www.stabroeknews.com/ Stabroek News]
• [https://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/ Kaieteur News Online]
• [https://guyanatimesgy.com/ Guyana Times]
• [https://www.inewsguyana.com/ iNewsGuyana]
• [https://newsroom.gy/ Newsroom Guyana]

Pages of dubious quality kept for historical purpose:

• [http://guyaneseonline.wordpress.com/] Guyanese people
• [http://www.landofsixpeoples.com/gynewsjs.htm Land of Six Peoples] – An archive of news articles from Guyana's leading newspapers from 1999–2007. The site is incomplete and seems to be malfunctioning in some places, but it is an invaluable archive nonetheless with a treasury of some great articles on wide-ranging topics.
• [http://www.westindianencyclopedia.com The West Indian Encyclopedia].
• [http://www.guyana.org/features/guyanastory/guyana_story.html Odeen Ishmael's The Guyana Story – from Earliest Times to Independence] – A really helpful historical source...

• {{cite web | url = http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/1984.htm |title = Guyana| accessdate= 30 July 2011 |publisher=U.S. State Department}}
• {{cite web | url = http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/guyana.htm |title = Political and Economic History of Guyana| accessdate= 30 July 2011 |publisher=San Jose State University}}
• {{cite web | url = http://www.guyanacaribbeanpolitics.com/commentary/hinds_guyana.html |title = Guyana: A Short Political History – by David Hinds| accessdate= 30 July 2011 |publisher=The Guyana and Caribbean Political and Cultural Center for Popular Education}}
• {{cite web | url = http://www.guyanacaribbeanpolitics.com/commentary/history_guyana1953-1997.html |title = Council on Hemispheric Affairs Forum: Uncharted Territory in Guyanese Legislative Elections| accessdate= 30 July 2011 |publisher=The Guyana and Caribbean Political and Cultural Center for Popular Education}}
• {{cite web | url = http://home.uchicago.edu/~rts1/guyanese.htm |title = Guyanese Politics| accessdate= 30 July 2011 |publisher=University of Chicago Department of Anthropology}}
• {{cite web | url = http://www.coha.org/uncharted-territory-in-guyanese-legislative-elections/ |title = Uncharted Territory in Guyanese Legislative Elections| accessdate= 30 July 2011|publisher=Council on Hemispheric Affairs}}

Mike Christie has the following books, and has kindly said that members can contact him if they would like him to look something up in one or more of these sources. Please don't expect a quick turnaround however, as he is very busy at the moment...

• {{cite book |last= Daly|first=Vere T.|title=The Making of Guyana |year=1974 |location=New York|publisher= Macmillan}}
• {{cite book |last= Hope|first=Kemp Ronald|title=Guyana: Politics and Development in an Emergent Socialist State|year=1985 |location=New York|publisher= Mosaic Press|isbn=0-88962-303-1}}
• {{cite book |last= Lowenthal|first=David|title=West Indian Societies|year=1978 |location=Oxford|publisher= Oxford University Press|isbn=0-19501559-2}}
• Henry Paget & Carl Stone (eds.) (1983). The Newer Caribbean: Decolonization, Democracy and Development. Philadelphia: Institute for the Study of Human Issues. {{ISBN|0-89727-049-5}}
• {{cite book |last= Spinner|first=Thomas J.|title=A Political and Social History of Guyana, 1945–1983|year=1984 |location=Boulder CO|publisher= Westview Press|isbn=0-86531-852-2}}

Lorelei has the following books - please ask away if you would like me to look anything up!

• {{cite book|last=Ali|first=Arif|title=Guyana|year=2008|place=London|publisher=Hansib|isbn=9781906190101}}
• {{cite book|last=Baber|first=Colin|title=Guyana:Politics, Economics and Society|year=1986|place=London|publisher=Frances Printer|author2=Henry B Jeffrey|isbn=0861874188}}
• {{cite book|last=Burnett|first=D. Graham|title=Masters of All They Surveyed: Exploration, Geography, and a British El Dorado| year=2000|location=Chicago|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=0226081206}}
• {{cite book|last=Burrowes|first=Reynold A.|title=The Wild Coast: An Account of Politics in Guyana|year=1984|place=Cambridge, MA|publisher=Schenkman Publishing|isbn=0870730371}}
• {{cite book|last=Menezes|first=Mary Noel|title=The Amerindians in Guyana 1803-73: A Documentary History|year=1979|location=London|publisher=Frank Cass|isbn=9780714630540}}
• {{cite book|last=McGowan|first=Winston|title=The Demerara Revolt, 1823|year=1998|place=Georgetown|publisher=Free Press|isbn=9769500011}}
• {{cite book|last=McGowan|first=Winston|title=Themes in African Guyanese History|year=2009|place=London|publisher=Hansib|author2=James G. Rose|author3= David A. Granger|isbn=9781906190187}}
• {{cite book|last=Schomburgk|first=Robert H.|title=A Description of British Guiana|year=1840|place=London|publisher=Simpkin, Marshall and Company|author-link=Robert Hermann Schomburgk}}
• {{cite book|last=Whitehead|first=Neil L.|title=Lords of the Tiger Spirit: A History of the Caribs in Colonial Venezuela and Guyana 1498–1820|year=1988|location=Dordrecht|publisher=Foris Publications|author-link=Neil L Whitehead|isbn=9067652407}}
• {{cite book|last=Williams|first=Brackette F.|title=Stains on my Name, War in my Veins: Guyana and the Politics of Cultural Struggle|year=1991|location=Durham|publisher=Duke University Press|isbn=0-8223-1119-4}}

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