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Welcome to WikiProject Geelong! This WikiProject aims primarily to create, fill out, build, edit, construct, and modify articles about the city of Geelong, Victoria, Australia.

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.

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Australian news	edit \| watch

15 August 2024 – Israel–Hamas war: Peter Dutton, the leader of Australia’s Liberal Party, calls on the Australian government to ban the entry of Palestinian refugees fleeing from conflict in the Gaza Strip, which is met with significant condemnation from several politicians and organizations as promoting racial stereotypes. (ABC Australia) (Al Jazeera); SBS World News reports that the Australian government has rejected a majority of Palestinian visa applications, accepting 2,922 applications and rejecting 7,111 applications while granting 8,746 visas to Israeli citizens and rejecting only 235 applications. (Al Jazeera)
12 August 2024 –: One person is killed and several others are injured when a helicopter stolen from Cairns Airport crashes into a hotel in Cairns, Queensland, Australia. (The Guardian)
7 August 2024 – 2024 Summer Olympics: French police detain Australian field hockey player Tom Craig for allegedly purchasing cocaine. (DW)
6 August 2024 – 2024 Summer Olympics: Australia at the 2024 Summer Olympics; Fourteen-year-old Arisa Trew wins the gold medal in Women's park skateboarding, becoming the youngest Australian to ever win an Olympic gold medal. (The Sydney Morning Herald)

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

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

Requests: - Missing topics
1. Stonehaven, Victoria
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Images: - requested images: 15

Quality watch: 0 FA-Class Geelong articles; 3 GA-Class Geelong articles.

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If you wish to join us and assist, please added your name to the list of participants below.

Rebecca (talk · contribs) (Joined January 5, 2006)
Longhair (talk · contribs) (Joined January 5, 2006)
Themit (talk · contribs) (Joined March 25, 2006)
Reyk (talk · contribs) (Joined May 3, 2006)
David.t.bath (talk · contribs)
Patricknoddy (talk · contribs)
Michaelbeckham (talk · contribs) (Joined March 17, 2006)
Wongm (talk · contribs) (Joined June 11, 2007)
kingteesdale (talk · contribs) (Joined December 17, 2007)
Eyclonus (talk · contribs) (Joined June 25, 2008)
ContrillionAU (talk) 10:18, 15 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Balance of Power (talk · contribs) (Joined December 4, 2014)
Guz34 (talk · contribs) (Joined December 4, 2018)
GeelongManifesto (talk · contribs) (Joined October 17,2022)
JML1148 (talk · contribs) (Joined June 9, 2023)

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Geelong articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	Total
GA				3		3
B		2	5	3		10
C	1	5	11	23		40
Start		13	28	104		145
Stub			10	65		75
List		2	2	7		11
Category					60	60
File					14	14
Project					13	13
Redirect				7	5	12
Template					7	7
Assessed	1	22	56	212	99	390
Total	1	22	56	212	99	390
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 1,371			Ω = 5.02

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

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

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

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