Wikipedia:WikiProject Bedfordshire
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Welcome to WikiProject Bedfordshire!
The current scope of this WikiProject is all articles relating to Bedfordshire.
Goals
- Create an article for every Bedfordshire town and village, see List of places in Bedfordshire.
Done
- Add an infobox to every article about a Bedfordshire town or village, see List of places in Bedfordshire.
Done for all settlements, other articles still need infoboxes though.
- Expand all Bedfordshire articles, see Category:Bedfordshire.
- Better organise the categorisation of Bedfordshire articles, main category is Category:Bedfordshire.
- Add {{WikiProject Bedfordshire}} with full classification to all relevant pages.
- Improve Luton-related articles. See the separate Luton subproject page for details.
Open tasks
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Good article nominees
Requested moves
- 18 Aug 2024 – Tommy Robinson (activist) (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Tommy Robinson by Cremastra (t · c); see discussion
Members
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Please add names in alphabetical order and using the template {{user|Your Username}}
if you are a normal user and {{sysop|Your Username}}
if you are administrator. Feel free to also add a small description about your skills or areas you would like to work on in the project. See below for a userbox you can also add to your userpage.
Inactive Members
If there are no contributions to the project in 3 months your name will be moved here. Please try and keep this list in alphabetical order.
- Acather96 (talk · contribs) Inactive
- Benjah-bmm27 (talk · contribs) Inactive on Bedfordshire articles
- Bogbumper (talk · contribs) Inactive on Bedfordshire articles
- Carre (talk · contribs) Inactive
- Christopher Spence (talk · contribs) Account no longer exists
- elixa27 (talk · contribs) Inactive
- GazMan7 (talk · contribs) Inactive
- Lcarsdata (talk · contribs) Founder, now retired
- lookesmiley (talk · contribs) Inactive
- Nathanimations (talk · contribs) Inactive
- OliverGalvin (talk · contribs) Inactive
- Orangeaurochs (talk · contribs) Inactive
- Plingsby (talk · contribs) Inactive on Bedfordshire articles
- Radiofoot89 (talk · contribs) Inactive
- Random articles (talk · contribs) Inactive
- Scarian (talk · contribs) Retired
- Starrycupz (talk · contribs) Inactive
- Theone00 (talk · contribs) Inactive
- TrevelyanD (talk · contribs) Inactive
- Vie ascenseur (talk · contribs) Retired
Templates
Member userbox
You may place {{User WPBedfordshire}}
on your user page to display the following userbox:
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For other United Kingdom user templates, please see:
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The WikiProject Bedfordshire Barnstar | |
This barnstar should be awarded to Wikipedians who make outstanding contributions to WikiProject Bedfordshire or Bedfordshire related articles |
To use, simply place {{WikiProject Bedfordshire Barnstar|Your message here}}~~~~'
Place this template on the talk page's of potential members,remember to substitute! For more information, please see the Welcoming page.
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For usage information, please see Template:WikiProject Bedfordshire
{{Infobox UK place}}
Barton-le-Clay | |
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Location within Bedfordshire | |
Population | 5,000 (2002 estimate) |
OS grid reference | TL082310 |
Civil parish |
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Unitary authority | |
Ceremonial county | |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | BEDFORD |
Postcode district | MK45 |
Dialling code | 01582 |
Police | Bedfordshire |
Fire | Bedfordshire and Luton |
Ambulance | East of England |
UK Parliament | |
This infobox should be placed on all Bedfordshire 'place' articles. Other infoboxes may be suitable for other articles.
See Template:Infobox UK place for articles about places.
Thanks to Rick Block a template which can be put on every Bedfordshire town and village page has been created designed to link articles together. You can add it to the page with {{Places in Bedfordshire}}
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Thanks to Eopsid there are now two templates for Bedfordshire towns & villages {{Places in Bedfordshire}}
for settlements in Central Bedfordshire and {{Places in Bedford Borough}}
for settlements in the Borough of Bedford.
Example for Biggleswade:
Example for Bedford:
{{Luton}}
There is also a template for articles about places in Luton and related articles:
Bedfordshire has its own stub template:
I have designed this Schools template for all Schools and FE Colleges in Bedfordshire, and this should now be on all School and College articles for Bedfordshire:
Resources
- List of United Kingdom locations contains many coordinates for UK locations, in lat/long or OSGB format.
- Geograph British Isles project contains many Creative Commons Share-alike v2.0 images which are usable by Wikipedia.
- Relevant Wikimedia Commons categories
- Images of England, details of listed buildings from English Heritage.
Using references
- For a simple guide to using references, place {{subst:refstart}} (including brackets) on your user or talk page.
Related projects
- Wikipedia:WikiProject UK geography
- Wikipedia:WikiProject England
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Buckinghamshire
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Hertfordshire
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Northamptonshire
- Portal:England
Tools
- Main tool page: toolserver.org
- 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.