Wikipedia:WikiProject Bangladesh

Bangladesh WikiProject

General information
Main project page	talk
→ Showcase	talk
→ Noticeboard	talk
→ Open tasks	talk
Portal	talk
→ Bangladesh-related topics	talk
Project management
Members	talk
→ Outreach	talk
Open tasks	talk
→ Articles needing attention	talk
→ Articles needing photos	talk
→ Article requests	talk

Departments
Assessment department	talk
→ Project category	talk
Collaboration department	talk
Review department	talk
Deletion department	talk

Workgroups
History workgroup	talk
Geography workgroup	talk
Universities workgroup	Talk
College workgroup	Talk

Tools
Manual of Style	talk
Naming conventions	talk
Links and references	talk
Cites and sources	talk
Project banner	talk
Bangladesh category tree

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WikiProject on Bangladesh

Mother project: WikiProject Bengal
Sister projects: WikiProject West Bengal • WikiProject India • WikiProject Pakistan
Daughter project: WikiProject Villages of Bangladesh • WikiProject Bangladeshi Universities • WikiProject Bangladeshi Colleges

Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Bangladesh. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

Further information: Wikipedia:WikiProject best practices

1 Scope
2 Participants
3 One big task
4 The most important task
5 Reviewing AFDs
6 Outline of knowledge
7 Templates
8 Adopt an article scheme
9 Article alerts
10 Guidelines
- 10.1 Don't over-categorize
- 10.2 Public domain photographs
11 Sources
- 11.1 Levels of references
12 Tools
- 12.1 Watchlists
- 12.2 Resources

Scope[edit]

This wikiproject focuses on creation, improvement and promotion of Bangladesh-related articles in Wikipedia. The scope of the project includes Bangladeshi culture, way of life, geography, people, history and society.

For a list of current articles see here.

Participants[edit]

Please feel free to add your name to this list here if you would like to join the project; you are also encouraged to participate in any of our descendant WikiProjects that might interest you.

One big task[edit]

Create an article for an article compared to Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh. The basic search engine for Banglapedia is at this URL. Many Bangladesh articles use an incorrect URL.

Note: Do not copy and paste directly from Banglapedia. It is a violation of Wikipedia copyright policies. Rewrite the article, using the information and not the language or the structure. Copying from Banglapedia is already a big problem within the Wikipedia.

The most important task[edit]

Place the WikiProject Bangladesh banner on the DISCUSSION (aka "TALK") PAGE of every Bangladesh and Bengal related entry. Here is how to do this:

Go to Category:Bangladesh or Category:Bengal. These pages will not have all Bangladesh related pages, but are good places to start.
Open a Bangladesh related page (most won't have banners yet).
Open the "Talk" page by hitting the tab at the top of the window.
If the banner is there, do nothing. If not, open the page for editing by hitting the "Edit" tab at the top of the Talk page.
Copy this text - {{WP Bangladesh}} - to the top of the page.
Hit the "Save" button at the bottom of the page.

A list of all pages currently with this banner can be found at Category:WikiProject Bangladesh articles. For a systematic category tree check Wikipedia:WikiProject Bangladesh/Categorization.

You can do more to the {{WP Bangladesh}} banner. For additional information check Template:WP Bangladesh. If an article included in Category:WikiProject Bangladesh articles is assessed as B or higher you may try adding {{Portal|Bangladesh}} to the article page, under a section called "See also" or "External links".

Reviewing AFDs[edit]

Add the page Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Bangladesh to your watchlist to receive notifications of Bangladesh related articles that are nominated for deletion.

Keep the list updated by adding any relevant AFD nominations you may come across and remove any that have been closed.

Outline of knowledge[edit]

This WikiProject's subject is featured in the Outline of Bangladesh, which is incomplete and needs further development. That page, along with the other outlines on Wikipedia, comprise Wikipedia's Outline of knowledge, which also serves as the table of contents or site map of Wikipedia.

Templates[edit]

Barnstar

To award a participant with a barnstar you may make use of - {{subst:WikiProject Bangladesh/barnstar|message ~~~~}}. It would look something like:

		The Bangladeshi Barnstar of National Merit
		I award this barnstar for your outstanding contribution to Bangladesh related article. Bangladeshi Wikipedian 19:27, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Stub templates
General Bangladesh related articles: {{Bangladesh-stub}} People related articles: {{Bangladesh-bio-stub}} Geography related articles: {{Bangladesh-geo-stub}} History related articles: {{Bangladesh-hist-stub}} Education related articles: {{Bangladesh-edu-stub}} Organization related articles: {{Bangladesh-org-stub}} Structure related articles: {{Bangladesh-struct-stub}}

Navigation templates

Geography

For districts and divisions: {{Divisions and districts of Bangladesh}}

History

For Liberation War articles: {{Bangladesh liberation}} • {{Indo-Pakistani War of 1971}}
For Language Movement articles: {{Language Movement}}
For public universities: {{Public Universities of Bangladesh}}
For private universities: {{Private Universities of Bangladesh}}

Politics

For presidents: {{BangladeshPresidents}}
For prime ministers: {{BangladeshPrimeMinisters}}
For electeions: {{Bangladeshi elections}}

International relations

For relations with India: {{Bangladesh-India relations}} • {{Bangladesh-India Border Military relations}}

Sports

For cricket: {{Bangladeshi cricket seasons}} • {{International cricket tours of Bangladesh}} • {{Bangladeshi first-class cricket clubs}}
For Football: {{Bangladesh League 2010-11}} • {{Bangladesh Professional Football League}}
Other sports: {{Bangladesh at the Commonwealth Games}}

Userboxes
Add this userbox {{User WikiProject Bangladesh}} to your userboxes to direct editors to WikiProject Bangladesh from your userpage. To generally indicate a Bangladeshi user you may use {{User Bangladesh}} or {{User Bangladesh2}}.

WikiAdvertisment

To attract other wikipedians to work for WikiProject Bangladesh, you may use the following advertisement banner on your userpage or talk page:

Use the following code:

Image:Qxz-ad90.gif|center|Wikipedia:WikiProject Bangladesh

default [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Bangladesh|Wikipedia:WikiProject Bangladesh]]

desc none

</imagemap>

Also, please feel free to invite your friends and relatives with academic interest to visit Wikipedia and contribute to Bangladesh related articles.

Adopt an article scheme[edit]

For an extensive list of articles pertaining to this project see Category:WikiProject Bangladesh articles

Similar to the Collaboration of the week, but on a smaller scale, you might want to "adopt" an article. This would involve doing the research, writing, formatting and adding images (if possible) for either a non-existent article, a stub or a very short article. Of course, everyone else can still edit an adopted article, and you can work on other things too, but the idea is to find a focus for a while, to try and build up the number of quality articles the Project has produced. If you have adopted an article, please, feel free to add that information here.

Y Current adoptions: Grameen family of organizations (adopted by Aditya Kabir) • History of aviation in Bangladesh (adopted by Aditya Kabir) • Banglapedia (adopted by Aditya Kabir) • Cox's Bazar (adopted by Arman Aziz) • List of Bengali language authors (chronological) (adopted by Arman Aziz) • Bir Uttom (adopted by Anwarul Islam) • Bir Bikrom (adopted by Anwarul Islam) • Foreign relations of Bangladesh (adopted by Styles-P1) • Timeline of Bangladeshi history (adopted by Sabih) • Tangail (adopted by nafSadh).
Featured adoptions: Shahbag (adopted by Aditya Kabir) • Bengali Language Movement (adopted by Tarif Ezaz) • Biman Bangladesh Airlines (adopted by AA) • List of universities in Bangladesh (adopted by Niaz) • Portal:Bangladesh (adopted by Arman Aziz)
Good adoptions: Muhammad Yunus (adopted by Arman Aziz) • Grameen Bank (adopted by Arman Aziz) • Sitakunda Upazila (adopted by Aditya Kabir) • British Bangladeshi (adopted by Mohsin)

Article alerts[edit]

Article alerts

Articles for deletion

02 Jul 2013 – Bangladeshi Indian (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Shovon76 (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
21 Jun 2013 – Khaled 'Bassbaba' Sumon (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Leelabratee (t · c); see discussion (3 participants; relisted)

Proposed deletions

21 Jun 2013 – Deshi Mcs (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Leelabratee (t · c) was deleted

Requests for comments

08 Jun 2013 – Persecution of Biharis in Bangladesh (talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by Faizan (t · c); see discussion

Updated daily by AAlertBot — Discuss? / Report bug? / Request feature?

Guidelines[edit]

The goal of Wikipedia is to become a complete, accurate encyclopaedia. The three major content policies (verifiability, no original research and a neutral point of view) and notability contain important advise and rules on how to achieve accuracy, so careful fact checking is strongly recommended. Remain objective as possible. The point and ideal of Wikipedia is to create an encyclopaedic neutral body of knowledge. Avoid using the first-person point of view (emphasising the facts; not the editor). Explain the evidence (from the links and references) and explain the reasons of any conclusions. Remember, Wikipedia is not about just writing whatever is true (See: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not), it is about writing whatever can be verified as truth. See Wikipedia:Citing sources for why we cite sources, and Wikipedia:Citation templates for ways of citing sources properly.

Don't over-categorize[edit]

Public domain photographs[edit]

According to Bangladesh copyright act of 2000 (covered by The Daily Star), all photographs enter the public domain after sixty years counted from the beginning of the following calendar year after they were first published (i.e. as of 2011, prior to 1 January 2051). Try to upload as many such images as relevant and tag them with {{PD-Bangladesh}}.

According to the Bangladesh copyright act of 2000 (covered by The Daily Star), artistic recreations of public architecture and art work are exceptions to the rights of authors. The Copyright Act provides certain exceptions to infringement. The objective of these provisions is to enable the encouragement of private study and research and promotion of education. Feel free to upload as many such images as relevant and tag them with {{FoP-Bangladesh}}.

Sources[edit]

The goal of Wikipedia is to become a complete, accurate encyclopedia. Verifiability is an important tool to achieve accuracy, so it is strongly recommended to check facts. However, don't be too keen to remove unverified information at the cost of completeness. Wikipedia does not publish original research. Its content is determined by previously published information rather than the beliefs or experiences of its editors. Even if you're sure something is true, it must be verifiable before you can add it. All material in Wikipedia mainspace, including everything in articles, lists and captions, must be verifiable. All quotations, and any material whose verifiability has been challenged or is likely to be challenged, must include an inline citation that directly supports the material. If no reliable third-party sources can be found on a topic, Wikipedia should not have an article on it.

Levels of references[edit]

Primary sources: Primary sources are original materials.
Secondary sources: In scholarship, a secondary source is a document or recording that relates or discusses information originally presented elsewhere. Base articles largely on reliable secondary sources. (For more information, see the Primary, secondary, and tertiary sources section of the No original research policy, and the Misuse of primary sources section of the BLP policy)
Tertiary sources: Constitute index and/or textual condensation of primary and secondary sources. Some examples of tertiary sources are almanacs, guide books, survey articles, timelines, and user guides. Depending on the topic of research, a scholar may use a bibliography, dictionary, or encyclopedia as either a tertiary or a secondary source.