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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[edit source]
West Bengal (/bɛnˈɡɔːl/, Bengali: Poshchim Bongo, bn, 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. West Bengal is a religiously diverse region, comprising people of various faiths. 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 once the capital of the India under the British rule.
Scope[edit source]
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 source]
- Creation of a generally standard look and feel for all West Bengal-related articles.
- To produce as many Featured Articles as possible related to West Bengal.
- To produce as many Good Articles as possible related to West Bengal.
- To write as many Did you know articles as possible related to West Bengal.
- To standardize the West Bengal related articles in Wikipedia.
- To improve Wikipedia coverage of West Bengal related articles by adding, expanding and improving West Bengal related articles.
- To serve as a central point of discussion for issues related to West Bengal related articles.
- 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.
- Those who read about West Bengal should have the feeling that they should visit West Bengal and India.
Parentage[edit source]
This project falls under the jurisdiction of the following Wikiproject:
Discussion[edit source]
Style[edit source]
WikiProject West Bengal uses the following style guides:
Naming conventions[edit source]
Structure[edit source]
Refer to
- Wikipedia:WikiProject_Indian_states#Sections for state articles
- Wikipedia:WikiProject_Indian_districts#Sections for district articles
- Wikipedia:WikiProject_Indian_cities#Sections for city articles
Templates[edit source]
Several categories of templates are available to work with and on pages relating to West Bengal.
Userbox[edit source]
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 source]
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:
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{{#assessment:India/WikiProject West Bengal|Project|NA}}
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{{#assessment:India|Project|NA}}
Stubs[edit source]
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 source]
Recognized articles[edit source]
 Must be FA
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Featured articles[edit source]
Good articles[edit source]
Articles at FAC[edit source]
None currently
Articles at PR[edit source]
None currently
Articles at GAN[edit source]
User:WolterBot/Cleanup listing subscription
Article requests[edit source]
- Bangaliana, the traditional lifestyle and is best described as a code of honor of the Bengali people
Member identification[edit source]
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. Template:Yytop Template:Yycat Template:Yy Template:Yy Template:Yy Template:Yyend For other West Bengal user templates, see Category:West Bengal user templates.
Project context[edit source]
Parentage[edit source]
Descendant WikiProjects[edit source]
- No descendant WikiProjects have been defined.
Similar WikiProjects[edit source]
Tools[edit source]
- 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.