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Welcome to WikiProject Victoria!
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Flag of Victoria
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Coat of arms of Victoria
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Welcome to WikiProject Victoria! This WikiProject aims primarily to create, fill out, build, edit, construct, and modify articles about Victoria (state).

If you would like to join this project, we would love your help, so please add your name to the list below, and look at the to-do list for some suggestions on articles that you may be able to help with. You may also inquire on the talk page, or visit the Australian Wikipedians' noticeboard for collaboration on Australian articles in general.

State emblems
Floral Bird Animal Marine Tartan Mineral Fossil
Common (pink) heath
Epacris impresa
Helmeted honeyeater
Lichenostomus melanops cassidix
Leadbeater's possum
Gymnobelideus leadbeateri
Common seadragon
Phyllopteryx taeniolatus
Victorian state tartan Gold Koolasuchus Cleelandi
12 Apostles

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Things you can do
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Here are some tasks you can do to help at WikiProject Victoria:

Tools
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  • Reflinks – Edits bare references – adds title/dates etc. to bare references
  • Checklinks – Edit and repair external links
  • Dab solver – Quickly resolve ambiguous links
  • Peer reviewer – Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles
 
Current events
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10 March 2026 – Australia–Iran relations, Defection of Iran women's national football team
Australia grants humanitarian visas to five Iranian women football players who sought asylum, including captain Zahra Ghanbari, Mona Hamoudi, Fatemeh Pasandideh, Atefeh Ramezanizadeh, and Zahra Sarbali, citing fears of persecution after refusing to sing Iran's national anthem before an Asian Cup match in Gold Coast, Queensland. (Reuters)
8 March 2026 – 2026 AFC Women's Asian Cup, 2026 Iranian diaspora protests
Diaspora protesters surround the bus of the Iranian women's soccer team following their match against the Philippines in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, amidst fears of their safety upon returning to Iran after members of the team gave SOS hand signals from the team bus. (ABC News Australia) (DW)
5 March 2026 – Evacuations during the 2026 Iran war
Australia and New Zealand deploy military assets, including two RNZAF aircraft, and crisis response teams to the Middle East to assist and evacuate their respective nationals. (AFP via Al Arabiya)
3 March 2026 – Middle Eastern crisis
An Iranian drone strike damages Al Minhad Air Base, the headquarters of the Australian military's Joint Task Force 633. Australian defence minister Richard Marles confirms that there were no casualties in the strike. (Reuters)
21 February 2026 – 2025–26 Australian bushfire season
The state emergency service of Victoria, Australia, issues the highest-level emergency evacuation warning for areas surrounding the A1 Mine Settlement of Gaffneys Creek, as an uncontrolled bushfire burns the settlement. (Reuters)
18 February 2026 – Terrorism in Australia
Australia issues a temporary exclusion order barring one citizen held in a Syrian detention camp from returning to the country under counter-terrorism legislation, citing the citizen's possible links to Islamic State members. (Reuters)


Article alerts
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Articles for deletion

  • 05 Mar 2026 Lilydale Marketplace (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Alexis Jazz (t · c); see discussion (8 participants; relisted)
  • 20 Feb 2026 Shire of South Gippsland (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by PK2 (t · c); see discussion (5 participants; relisted)
  • 27 Feb 2026 Jacobsons Coach Tours (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Aesurias (t · c) was closed as delete by Star Mississippi (t · c) on 14 Mar 2026; see discussion (6 participants; relisted)

Good article nominees

Good article reassessments

Peer reviews

Articles to be split

Assessments

Of the 14,957 pages overseen by WikiProject Victoria:

100% have been assessed for quality
See Category:Unassessed Victoria articles for the 2 remaining articles



100% have known importance
See Category:Unknown-importance Victoria articles for the 2 remaining articles



55.3% of prose articles are not stubs
See Category:Stub-Class Victoria articles for the 5290 remaining articles

For full assessment categories see: Wikipedia:WikiProject Victoria/Assessments


Recognised content

12 FA-Class Victoria articles
2 FL-Class Victoria articles
0 FM-Class Victoria articles
41 GA-Class Victoria articles.
177 Did you know Victoria articles as of 8 May 2023

For full list of recognised content see: Assessments#Recognised content

Assessment statistics
Main page: WikiProject Victoria/Assessments

WikiProject Victoria uses the {{WP Australia}} template banner for Wikipedia article assessments.

The banner has a Victoria= parameter that provides article assessment ratings for Victoria-related articles:

Example usage: {{WP Australia|Victoria=yes}}

Articles relating to WikiProject Victoria should have their talk pages tagged as per the above example.

See also

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Members
WikiProject Victoria
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Active members

To join WikiProject Victoria, edit this section and insert the Wikitext #{{subst:me}} with your areas of interest into the following list of members in alphabetical order. Members should also place member identification on their user page.

  1. Dssis1 (talk · contribs)
  2. InformZion (talk · contribs) 05:32:52, 27 June 2023 (UTC) 
  3. Longhair (talk · contribs)
  4. Mattinbgn (talk · contribs)
  5. MichaelBillington (talk · contribs)
  6. Moanarque (talk · contribs)
  7. mr. boniface (talk · contribs)
  8. Orderinchaos (talk · contribs)
  9. Wai Hong (talk · contribs)
  10. Bduke (talk · contribs)
  11. Tinkstar1985 (talk · contribs)
  12. Daniel99091 (talk · contribs)
  13. Slabba (talk · contribs)
  14. Chicken7 (talk · contribs)
  15. Admella1859 (talk · contribs)
  16. Sarah (talk · contribs)
  17. Vauxhallx (talk · contribs)
  18. Sheepunderscore (talk · contribs)
  19. Bogong Jack (talk · contribs)
  20. Doonagatha (talk · contribs)
  21. Scottius11 (talk · contribs)
  22. Epistemos (talk · contribs)
  23. Maias (talk · contribs)
  24. Shelbypark (talk · contribs)
  25. Punk Boi 8 (talk · contribs)
  26. Garyvines (talk · contribs)
  27. Cp_dale (talk · contribs)
  28. Романов (talk · contribs)
  29. Raleigh98 (talk · contribs)
  30. Jenks24 (talk · contribs)
  31. Mgorey (talk · contribs)
  32. Mattcooperrider (talk · contribs)
  33. ContrillionAU (talk) 10:52, 15 August 2010 (UTC)
  34. Mjs1991 (talk · contribs)
  35. Jessc (talk · contribs)
  36. Peterdownunder (talk · contribs)
  37. Australiantiger (talk · contribs)
  38. ThylacineHunter (talk · contribs) – Railways, trams, paddle boats, geography
  39. EllsworthSchmittendorf (talk · contribs)
  40. Nick F., Toaster (talk · contribs)
  41. Boneso (talk · contribs) – Health
  42. JediOne (talk · contribs) – Humanitarian & Environment
  43. skinnytony1 (talk · contribs) – Environment, climate change, history, politics, Ballarat
  44. BetterByBike (talk · contribs) – Health & Transport
  45. Donama (talk · contribs)
  46. MetroManMelbourne (talk · contribs) – transportation, inner east
  47. Poplach12 (talk · contribs) 00:49:47, 10 June 2020 (UTC)  – Melbourne, flags, maps, history, AFL
  48. CupcakePerson13 (talk · contribs) 15:45:12, 4 July 2020 (UTC)  Dandenong ranges and Melbourne
  49. CPS-9444 (talk · contribs) 08:08:28, 13 December 2020 (UTC) 
  50. APNOneTwo (talk · contribs) – Public Transportation, Politics, Urban Planning, Sports, Venues and Western Suburbs
  51. Ultraodan (talk · contribs) – AFL, Politics
  52. MicedVolvo (talk · contribs) 12:31:27, 30 November 2021 (UTC) 
  53. GraziePrego (talk · contribs)
  54. Loytra (talk · contribs) – Politics
  55. Adam Black GB (talk · contribs)
  56. GMH Melbourne (talk · contribs) 16:54:02, 5 June 2024 (UTC) 
  57. 4rkange1 (talk · contribs) 22:52:44, 8 June 2024 (UTC)  – Trains, urban/transport planning, history, Melbourne, Mornington Penisula, Formula One
  58. Zakary2012 (talk · contribs)
  59. TarnishedPath (talk · contribs) 05:15:03, 4 November 2024 (UTC) 
  60. ThatPB95 Fan (talk · contribs) 09:54:07, 7 February 2025 (UTC) 
  61. The Kora Person (talk · contribs) 07:59:33, 15 October 2025 (UTC)  Vic politics, trains, and places!
  1. AuspolScribe (talk · contribs)

Former members

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

  1. SchultzyContrillion (talk · contribs)
  2. Fred.e (talk · contribs)
  3. Loberttp (talk · contribs)
  4. aliasd (talk · contribs)
  5. VirtualSteve (talk · contribs)
  6. c4v3m4n (talk · contribs)
  7. Thent1234 (talk · contribs)
  8. Avi15 (talk · contribs)

Member identification

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

More information Wikitext, userbox ...
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[[Category:WikiProject Victoria participants]] none linked pages
{{Template:User WikiProject Victoria}}
This user is a participant in WikiProject Victoria.
linked pages
{{Template:User WP VIC}}
This user is a member of WikiProject Victoria.
linked pages
{{Template:User WP VIC|flag}}
This user is a member of WikiProject Victoria.
linked pages
{{Template:User WP Victoria}} linked pages
{{Template:User WP Victoria|invite}} linked pages
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For other Victoria user templates see Category:Victoria (state) user templates.

Also if you live in or are currently visiting Victoria, please add [[Category:Wikipedians in Victoria {state)|{{subst:PAGENAME}}]] to your user page.

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