User:Nafsadh/Best practices for Bangladesh related articles

English Wikipedia has adopted very nice Manual of Style and set many guidelines. Sometimes they do not suffice for region specific articles. WP:WikiProject Bangladesh have not yet adopted any special set of guidelines and I feel there is a need for it. I am compiling a set of Best Practices for articles related to Bangladesh. This is not a policy and not even a guideline set by any project. This reflects my own point of view. I expect to get feedback from the community about it and plan to put forward this as BDMOS in next few months. – nafSadh did say 22:58, 5 December 2014 (UTC)

See also: WP:MOS

Article titles

See also: WP:NC

Article titles should be widely accepted modern English name. Other names, alternate spelling and local names can be redirected. Article lead would include alternative names and spelling whenever appropriate.

People

Commonly used spelling of names shall be in article title. Mention full legal name and Bengali name in lead.

Places

Further information: WP:BDPLACE

Organizations, institutions

Use full name and mention common abbreviations in lead.

Companies

For article title use trade name dropping Ltd, Pvt etc. In lead use full name including Ltd, Pvt etc. For example, Rahimafrooz as article title but open article intro as: "Rahimafrooz (Bangladesh) Ltd. is a ...".

Language

Bengali in articles

• Local name in Bengali shall appear appropriately in lead within parentheses and using {{lang-bn}}. Do not use <big>for Bengali scripts, if you find Bengali fonts are too tiny, it is probably because you need to fix your browser settings.
• Use of Bengali shall be limited to article lead only. Bengali letters stand out within English letters, and often distract usual flow for readers who do not speak Bengali. Even use of Bengali in tables can be distracting. Many WikiProjects have adopted policies to limit local languages in lead only. Even extreme, WikiProject India decided not to use Indic scripts even in the lead.
• When transliterating Bengali, use the standard followed by Bangla Academy. For pronunciation, use IPA.

Bengali vs Bangla

This is English Wikipedia, which means the language used here is globally used version of English language. Thus all names and proper nouns are globally recognized English. Bangla is not an English word, Bengali is. In English language, Germans are not called Deutsch, French are not called Français. Editors from Bangladesh should respect current standard of English and use the word Bengali when editing English Wikipedia.

English: British vs American

Further information: MOS:ENGVAR

While Wikipedia does not favor any national variety of English, within a given article the conventions of one particular variety should be followed consistently. Generally articles about US are in American English and articles about UK are in British English. Textbooks in Bangladesh use the British version. But, many contributors in these articles tend to use American version. Thus it is up to debate whether to use American or British English consistently throughout WikiProject Bangladesh.

Topic specific style guide

Places of Bangladesh

• In {{infobox}} use the same name as article title.
  • Add local Bengali name in infobox for all places in Bangladesh.
• Upazila and thana has no direct translation in English but hierarchically equivalent to sub-district. Though article titles use these word as part of proper name (see:WP:BDPLACE), in article lead, for better understanding of audience, use sub-district in parentheses; for example:

Mirzapur Upazila is an upazila (sub-district) of Tangail District in Bangladesh.

and

Dhanmondi Thana is a thana (sub-district) in Dhaka.

Article structure

Further information: MOS:LAYOUT

Settlements: cities, towns etc

Further information: WP:Settlement

Articles about settlements include following sections. A consistent ordering over all related articles is desirable though not mandatory.

Geography

• Cityscape
• Climate
• Neighborhood: For large settlements

Demographics

For most settlements in Bangladesh, this section is not always necessary and can be omitted.

Government

This section can be renamed appropriately.

• Local Government
• National Government/Headquarters for other administrative division