Wikipedia:WikiProject Bedfordshire

Bedfordshire WikiProject
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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

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

Article Alerts

Articles to be merged

• 24 Oct 2024 – MOD Chicksands (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to RAF Chicksands by Gavbadger (t · c); see discussion

Members

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.

1. Bleaney (talk · contribs)
2. Eopsid (talk · contribs)
3. Frzzl (talk · contribs)

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.

1. Acather96 (talk · contribs) Inactive
2. Benjah-bmm27 (talk · contribs) Inactive on Bedfordshire articles
3. Bogbumper (talk · contribs) Inactive on Bedfordshire articles
4. Carre (talk · contribs) Inactive
5. Christopher Spence (talk · contribs) Account no longer exists
6. elixa27 (talk · contribs) Inactive
7. GazMan7 (talk · contribs) Inactive
8. Lcarsdata (talk · contribs) Founder, now retired
9. lookesmiley (talk · contribs) Inactive
10. Nathanimations (talk · contribs) Inactive
11. OliverGalvin (talk · contribs) Inactive
12. Orangeaurochs (talk · contribs) Inactive
13. Plingsby (talk · contribs) Inactive on Bedfordshire articles
14. Radiofoot89 (talk · contribs) Inactive
15. Random articles (talk · contribs) Inactive
16. Scarian (talk · contribs) Retired
17. Starrycupz (talk · contribs) Inactive
18. Theone00 (talk · contribs) Inactive
19. TrevelyanD (talk · contribs) Inactive
20. Vie ascenseur (talk · contribs) Retired

Templates

Member userbox

You may place {{User WPBedfordshire}} on your user page to display the following userbox:

This user is a member of
WikiProject Bedfordshire.

For other United Kingdom user templates, please see:

• Wikipedia:Userboxes/Location/European Union/United Kingdom

{{WikiProject Bedfordshire Barnstar}}

		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}}~~~~'

{{WikiProject Bedfordshire Welcome}}

Place this template on the talk page's of potential members,remember to substitute! For more information, please see the Welcoming page.

{{WikiProject Bedfordshire}}

For usage information, please see Template:WikiProject Bedfordshire

{{Infobox UK place}}

Barton-le-Clay
Barton-le-Clay Location within Bedfordshire
Population	5,000 (2002 estimate)
OS grid reference	TL082310
Civil parish	Barton-le-Clay
Unitary authority	Central Bedfordshire
Ceremonial county	Bedfordshire
Region	East
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	Mid Bedfordshire

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.

{{Places in Bedfordshire}}

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}}.

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-geo-stub}}

Bedfordshire has its own stub template:

Template:Schools in Bedfordshire

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
  • Bedfordshire
  • Bedford
  • Central Bedfordshire
  • England
  • Luton
• 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.

External watchlist

• Wikiproject Watchlist - WikiProject Bedfordshire