Wikipedia:WikiProject West Bengal

WikiProject West Bengal
An Wikiproject under Wikiproject India
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We are a group of Wikipedians committed to improving organisation and standardize look and feel of articles related to the Indian state of West Bengal, the geographical regions, its people, art and culture. To join the project please add your name here. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

West Bengal (/bɛnˈɡɔːl/, Bengali: Poshchim Bongo, pronounced [ˈpoʃtʃim ˈbɔŋɡo] , abbr. WB) is a state located on the eastern part of India. It is India's fourth-largest state by population and thirteenth-largest state by area.

Bengali is the official state language. In Megapolis Kolkata (Calcutta) and the wider Kolkata metropolitan area, Bengali, Urdu, English, Hindi and other languages are also spoken. In West Bengal we can find people of many religions. Mostly people from all over India had migrated here for business and residential purposes. Kolkata is the capital of West Bengal which is also the cultural capital of India. The city has the highest number of nobel laureates among all cities in India. It was also once the capital of entire British India. Winter capital is Siliguri.

Divisions Scope edit

WikiProject West Bengal is a collaboration to create, improve, and expand articles related to West Bengal, its history, dialects, and culture. The scope of this article fundamentally is loosely defined as all articles and sections relating to West Bengal. Almost all of these will be (eventually) categorised under Category:West Bengal and Category:India

  • The project will cover all aspects of West Bengal-related articles from India, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.

Goals edit

  1. Creation of a generally standard look and feel for all West Bengal-related articles.
  2. To produce as many Featured Articles as possible related to West Bengal.
  3. To produce as many Good Articles as possible related to West Bengal.
  4. To write as many Did you know articles as possible related to West Bengal.
  5. To standardize the West Bengal related articles in Wikipedia.
  6. To improve Wikipedia coverage of West Bengal related articles by adding, expanding and improving West Bengal related articles.
  7. To serve as a central point of discussion for issues related to West Bengal related articles.
  8. West Bengal-related Tourist Attractions to be given more importance and it should be improved with suitable images of the places, since these articles will be read by many from outside India.
  9. Those who read about West Bengal should have the feeling that they should visit West Bengal and India.

Parentage edit

This project falls under the jurisdiction of the following Wikiproject:

Discussion edit

Style edit

WikiProject West Bengal uses the following style guides:

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Templates edit

Several categories of templates are available to work with and on pages relating to West Bengal.

Userbox edit

The following templates can be added to your user page:

  • {{tl|User WikiProject West Bengal}} to show that you are a member of this project.
  • {{User West Bengal}} to indicate that you are from West Bengal.
  • {{User_interwiki_infoboard_bn}} to coordinate your efforts with the Bengali Language Wikipedia.
  • {{User wikibn}} if you are a native Bengali speaker.
  • {{Bengfonthelp}} if you know some one in need of how to type in Bengali language i.e. Bengali–Assamese script fonts.
  • {{Welcomeen-bn}} if you know some one Bengali whose contributions are likely to get rejected on English Wikipedia because of lack of English language skill level.

WikiProject West Bengal notice edit

Place this WikiProject notice Template:WP India at the top of an article's Talk page to direct editors to the WikiProject West Bengal for guidelines.

To use it, place {{WikiProject India|class=|importance=|bengal=yes|bengal-importance=}} at the top of an article's Talk page, which will produce:

 India: West Bengal NA‑class
 This article is within the scope of WikiProject India, which aims to improve Wikipedia's coverage of India-related topics. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page.
NAThis article has been rated as NA-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
 
This article is supported by WikiProject West Bengal.

Stubs edit

For stubs about the geography of West Bengal, use {{WestBengal-geo-stub}}. This will go into the Category:West Bengal geography stubs.

  • For any other stubs related to West Bengal, you can just write {{West Bengal-stub}}. This will go into Category:West Bengal stubs.

Topic templates edit

Recognized articles edit

  Must be FA
  1. West Bengal
  2. History of West Bengal
  3. History of Bengal
  4. Bengalis
  5. Bengali language
  6. Bengali cuisine
  7. Bengali literature
  8. Geography of West Bengal
  9. Cinema of West Bengal
  10. Culture of Bengal
  11. Bengali renaissance
  12. Rabindranath Tagore
  13. Subhas Chandra Bose
  14. Ramakrishna

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Article requests edit

Member identification edit

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

Wikitext userbox where used
[[Category:WikiProject West Bengal participants]] none linked pages
{{Template:User WikiProject West Bengal}} linked pages
{{Template:User WP West Bengal}} linked pages
{{Template:User WP West Bengal|invite}} linked pages

For other West Bengal user templates, see Category:West Bengal user templates.

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Parentage edit

Descendant WikiProjects edit

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Tools edit

  • 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.
 
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