Welcome to the Bell System Task Force, a task force of WikiProject Telecommunications. A WikiProject is a group of pages in the Wikipedia article namespace which are devoted to the management of a specific topic or family of topics within Wikipedia; and, simultaneously, a group of editors who use those pages to collaborate on encyclopedic work. It is not a place to write encyclopedia articles directly, but a resource to help coordinate and organize the writing and editing of those articles. This group focuses on the history of the Bell System.
Open tasks
Here are some tasks awaiting attention:
Article requests : Pictures needed for the older telephone sets, handsets, subsets, etc.
Expand : History of all the Bell operating companies.
Verify : All information posted should be verifiable with listed references
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Using the "Bell System" parameter of the WikiProject Telecommunications banner adds articles into the category Bell System articles, which keeps track of the quality of task force articles.
The content category Bell System is not associated with the task force. Nevertheless, it can be used to find articles not yet tagged by the task force.
Templates
The following templates may prove useful to members of the task force.
The following template is used for navigating between different Bell System articles.
To add it to any article that could use it, simply copy and paste the following text: {{Bell System}}
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diffhistAT&T Corporation 04:42+495 Emiya1980talkcontribs (Seeing that the opinion on the talk page seems to hold that AT&T was created in 1885 and not 1877 (the date of the Bell Telephone Company's founding), it makes since to list someone who was directly involved in AT&T's creation on the date in question. Based on the sources provided, this man is Theodore Newton Vail.)
diffhistAT&T 03:38−446 KansasCityKSMOtalkcontribs (Undid revision 1224709733 by Emiya1980 (talk) correcting founding date, AT&T Inc. was named as SBC Communications, Inc. prior to its acquisition of AT&T Corp. and was subsequently renamed. Removing Ed Whitcare as founder, he did not found AT&T Inc as he had been chairman of SBC/AT&T since the 90s.)
diffhistAT&T 22:39−214 KansasCityKSMOtalkcontribs (This article describes AT&T Inc, which was founded in 1983 as Southwestern Bell Corporation. Date had already been sourced since 2017.)Tag: Reverted