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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
[edit source]- 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
[edit source]The scope of this project is all articles related to lighthouses and pharology (study of lighthouses).
Lighthouses articles by quality and importance
[edit source]{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Lighthouses articles by quality statistics}}
Recognized content
[edit source]A detailed list of recognized content is available at Lighthouses recognized content. User:JL-Bot/Project content
Featured lists
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Good articles
[edit source]- File:Symbol support vote.svg Avery Point Light
- File:Symbol support vote.svg Bedok Lighthouse
- File:Symbol support vote.svg Black Rock Harbor Light
- File:Symbol support vote.svg Bridgeport Harbor Light
- File:Symbol support vote.svg Cape Moreton Light
- File:Symbol support vote.svg Chester Rock Light
- File:Symbol support vote.svg Dubh Artach
- File:Symbol support vote.svg Essex Reef Light
- File:Symbol support vote.svg Europa Point Lighthouse
- File:Symbol support vote.svg Falkner Island Light
- File:Symbol support vote.svg Five Mile Point Light
- File:Symbol support vote.svg Augustin-Jean Fresnel
- File:Symbol support vote.svg Great Captain Island Light
- File:Symbol support vote.svg Green Bay Harbor Entrance Light
- File:Symbol support vote.svg Greens Ledge Light
- File:Symbol support vote.svg Kõpu Lighthouse
- File:Symbol support vote.svg Lynde Point Light
- File:Symbol support vote.svg Mystic Seaport Light
- File:Symbol support vote.svg Norah Head Light
- File:Symbol support vote.svg Point Stephens Light
- File:Symbol support vote.svg Fannie Salter
- File:Symbol support vote.svg Skerryvore
Former good articles
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Did you know? articles
[edit source]- File:Symbol question.svg Archer Point Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Ashtabula Harbor Light
- File:Symbol question.svg James Balfour (engineer)
- File:Symbol question.svg Bay Rock Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Bedok Lighthouse
- File:Symbol question.svg Belle Tout Lighthouse
- File:Symbol question.svg Bissau Cathedral
- File:Symbol question.svg Black Rock Harbor Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Blackwell Island Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Bloody Point Range Lights
- File:Symbol question.svg Bluff Point Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Bois Blanc Island Lighthouse and Blockhouse
- File:Symbol question.svg Booby Island Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Bridgeport Harbor Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Brockton Point
- File:Symbol question.svg Burnham-on-Sea High Lighthouse
- File:Symbol question.svg Burnham-on-Sea Low Lighthouse
- File:Symbol question.svg Burnham-on-Sea Round Tower
- File:Symbol question.svg Bustard Head Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Cape Agulhas Lighthouse
- File:Symbol question.svg Cape Bowling Green Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Cape Capricorn Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Cape Cleveland Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Cape Don Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Cape Kumukahi Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Cape Moreton Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Cape Rachado Lighthouse
- File:Symbol question.svg Cape Wickham Lighthouse
- File:Symbol question.svg Cat Island Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Chester Rock Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Christiana Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Clarence River Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Clarks Point Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Clay Island Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Cleveland Point Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Creal Reef Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Crown Point Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Day beacon
- File:Symbol question.svg Delaware Breakwater Range Rear Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Dent Island Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Dog Island Lighthouse
- File:Symbol question.svg Double Island Point Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Dueodde Lighthouse
- File:Symbol question.svg Dunston Pillar
- File:Symbol question.svg Maurice Durand (architect)
- File:Symbol question.svg East End Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Elbow of Cross Ledge Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Emery Point Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Erie Land Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Essex Reef Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Europa Point Lighthouse
- File:Symbol question.svg Falkner Island Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Fastnet Lighthouse
- File:Symbol question.svg Fitzroy Island Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Five Mile Point Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Flat Top Island Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Fort Sumter Range Lights
- File:Symbol question.svg Fuller Rock Light
- File:Symbol question.svg The Fullerton Hotel Singapore
- File:Symbol question.svg Geitungen Lighthouse
- File:Symbol question.svg Gibraltar Aerobeacon
- File:Symbol question.svg Gibraltar North Mole Elbow Lighthouse
- File:Symbol question.svg Gibraltar North Mole Lighthouse
- File:Symbol question.svg Gibraltar South Mole Lighthouse
- File:Symbol question.svg Grand Island Harbor Rear Range Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Grand Lake St. Marys Lighthouse
- File:Symbol question.svg Grand Turk Lighthouse
- File:Symbol question.svg Grassy Hill Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Great Captain Island Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Green Island Light (Ohio)
- File:Symbol question.svg Green Island Light (Wisconsin)
- File:Symbol question.svg Green Point Lighthouse, Cape Town
- File:Symbol question.svg Greens Ledge Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Haig Point Range Lights
- File:Symbol question.svg George Halpin
- File:Symbol question.svg Head Harbour Lighthouse
- File:Symbol question.svg George Poynter Heath
- File:Symbol question.svg High and Low Lights of North Shields
- File:Symbol question.svg Holland Island Bar Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Horn Island Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Hornby Lighthouse
- File:Symbol question.svg Île Vierge
- File:Symbol question.svg Île d'Yeu Lighthouse
- File:Symbol question.svg Imperial Towers
- File:Symbol question.svg Japanese Lighthouse (Garapan, Saipan)
- File:Symbol question.svg Japanese Lighthouse (Poluwat, Chuuk)
- File:Symbol question.svg Kingston by Sea
- File:Symbol question.svg Kızılada Lighthouse
- File:Symbol question.svg Kugelbake
- File:Symbol question.svg Kullen Lighthouse
- File:Symbol question.svg Kvitsøy Lighthouse
- File:Symbol question.svg United States lightship LV-117
- File:Symbol question.svg La Vieille
- File:Symbol question.svg Lady Elliot Island Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Lågskär Lighthouse
- File:Symbol question.svg Land lighthouse
- File:Symbol question.svg Leasowe Lighthouse
- File:Symbol question.svg Ida Lewis
- File:Symbol question.svg Light Vessel 16
- File:Symbol question.svg Light Vessel 72
- File:Symbol question.svg Light Vessel 93
- File:Symbol question.svg Light Vessel 95
- File:Symbol question.svg Lighthouse and naval vessel urban legend
- File:Symbol question.svg Lighthouse of Genoa
- File:Symbol question.svg Lighthouse of Ponta das Contendas
- File:Symbol question.svg List of lighthouses in Alaska
- File:Symbol question.svg List of lighthouses in Gibraltar
- File:Symbol question.svg List of lighthouses in Maine
- File:Symbol question.svg Long Tail Point Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Low Head Lighthouse
- File:Symbol question.svg Low Isles Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Mayo Beach Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Mew Island Lighthouse
- File:Symbol question.svg Minicoy Island Lighthouse
- File:Symbol question.svg Minnesota Point Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Mizunokojima Lighthouse
- File:Symbol question.svg Moreton Bay Pile Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Moreton Island lighthouses
- File:Symbol question.svg Musselbed Shoals Light
- File:Symbol question.svg United States lightship Nantucket (LV-58)
- File:Symbol question.svg New Caloundra Light
- File:Symbol question.svg North Reef Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Old Caloundra Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Old Harbor Light (Savannah, Georgia)
- File:Symbol question.svg Old Plantation Flats Light
- File:Symbol question.svg One Fathom Bank Lighthouse
- File:Symbol question.svg United States lightship Overfalls (LV-118)
- File:Symbol question.svg Pass A L'Outre Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Pass Christian Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Peshtigo Reef Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Pine Islet Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Point Abino Light Tower
- File:Symbol question.svg Point Adams Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Point Charles Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Point Danger Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Point Gammon Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Point Lonsdale Lighthouse
- File:Symbol question.svg Pointe du Grouin du Cou Lighthouse
- File:Symbol question.svg Port Washington Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Port of Bissau
- File:Symbol question.svg Pungoteague Creek Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Roanoke River Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Rock Harbor Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Round Island Light, Isles of Scilly
- File:Symbol question.svg Rubicon Point Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Rumeli Feneri
- File:Symbol question.svg Sacred Heart Church, Levuka
- File:Symbol question.svg St. Johns River Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Fannie Salter
- File:Symbol question.svg Sandy Cape Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Sea Hill Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Sharps Island Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Ship John Shoal Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Ship Shoal Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Vladimir Shukhov
- File:Symbol question.svg Skerryvore
- File:Symbol question.svg Smith Point Light
- File:Symbol question.svg South Bass Island Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Southwold Lighthouse
- File:Symbol question.svg Spectacle Reef Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Spit Bank Lighthouse
- File:Symbol question.svg Stannard Rock Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Start Point Lighthouse
- File:Symbol question.svg Stingray Point Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Sugarloaf Point Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Svinøy Lighthouse
- File:Symbol question.svg Tarrytown Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Texas Tower (lighthouse)
- File:Symbol question.svg Toledo Harbor Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Trinity Shoal Light
- File:Symbol question.svg United States Lighthouse Society
- File:Symbol question.svg Vermilion Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Léonce Verny
- File:Symbol question.svg Vischpoort
- File:Symbol question.svg Vuurbaak van Katwijk aan Zee
- File:Symbol question.svg Wadjemup Lighthouse
- File:Symbol question.svg Warden Head Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Warrior Rock Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Wawatam Lighthouse
- File:Symbol question.svg Wharton Reef Light
- File:Symbol question.svg Wollongong Breakwater Lighthouse
- File:Symbol question.svg George Worthylake
- File:Symbol question.svg Wyborn Reef Light
Project organization
[edit source]Departments
[edit source]Parentage
[edit source]Related projects
[edit source]- WikiProject Civil engineering
- WikiProject Maritime Trades
- WikiProject National Register of Historic Places
- WikiProject Piers (marked inactive)
- WikiProject Ports
- WikiProject Ships
- WikiProject Shipwrecks
Participants
[edit source]Interested people are invited to add their names to the list – no invitation required – or, just start editing!
- Jxlux - Historic Events and infoboxes
- 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
[edit source]icon To-do list for MyWiki:WikiProject Lighthouses:
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Sample articles
[edit source]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
[edit source]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.
- Aniva Lighthouse
- 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
Article alerts
[edit source]{{Wikipedia:Article alerts/Status}} {{Wikipedia:Article alerts/Report section header|AFC|Articles for creation}}
- 24 Nov 2025 – Draft:Cromwell Point Lighthouse (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Podstawko (t · c) was accepted to Cromwell Point Lighthouse (talk · edit · hist) by MCE89 (t · c) on 02 Dec 2025
- 11 Nov 2025 – Draft:Perley Silverthorn (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Tammermickels (t · c) was declined by Monkeysmashingkeyboards (t · c) on 04 Dec 2025
Recent changes
[edit source]No changes during the given period match these criteria.
Templates and categories
[edit source]Project banner
[edit source]Infoboxes
[edit source]Userboxes
[edit source]- {{ParticipantLighthouses}} and {{User WikiProject Lighthouses}} its smaller cousin.
Barnstar
[edit source]| File:Lighthouse Barnstar.png | The Lighthouse Barnstar |
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Stub templates
[edit source]- {{Lighthouse-stub}}
- {{US-lighthouse-stub}}
- {{Canada-lighthouse-stub}}
Categories
[edit source]Subpages
[edit source]- List of all subpages of this page
Resources
[edit source]Images
[edit source]- 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
[edit source]- 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}}
- The following stub templates are available:
- 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.