Wikipedia:WikiProject Bangladesh

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.

Scope
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
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.

Reviewing AFDs
Add the page 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.

Templates
To award a participant with a barnstar you may make use of - message ~. It would look something like:


 * 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


 * 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 • India–Bangladesh land border checkpoints
 * 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


 * 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 any other from category:Bangladesh user templates

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:

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

 * 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.


 * Past adoptions: Grameen family of organizations (adopted by Aditya Kabir) • History of aviation in Bangladesh (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) • List of British Bangladeshis (adopted by Tanbircdq) • Guthia Mosque (adopted by Aaqib Shatil) • 1988 Chittagong Massacre (adopted by Aaqib Shatil) • Swadhinata Stambha (adopted by Aaqib Shatil) • Sonakanda Fort (adopted by Aaqib Shatil) • Cox's Bazar Beach (adopted by Mehedi Abedin)
 * 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) • Banglapedia (adopted by Aditya Kabir) • Kazi Nazrul Islam (adopted by Vinegarymass911)

Guidelines
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: What Wikipedia is not), it is about writing whatever can be verified as truth. See Citing sources for why we cite sources, and Citation templates for ways of citing sources properly.

Don't over-categorize
Having added an article to, say, Category:Massacres in Bangladesh, there's no need to also add that article to Category:War crimes in Bangladesh, Category:Bangladesh Liberation War, Category:History of Bangladesh or Category:Bangladesh. The category hierarchy expresses the fact that every article about Massacres in Bangladesh is an article about War crimes in Bangladesh and an article Bangladesh Liberation War.

Public domain photographs
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.

Levels of references

 * 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.

Tools

 * Main tool page: tools.wmflabs.org


 * refill - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
 * makeref - Get references in wiki format for news articles, journal papers, websites, books etc.

Watchlists

 * Article alert for WikiProject Bangladesh
 * WikiProject Bangladesh articles proposed for deletion