Wikipedia:WikiProject Bedfordshire

Barton-le-Clay
	Barton-le-Clay
	; ; Barton-le-Clay shown within Bedfordshire
Population	5,000 (2002 est.)
OS grid reference	TL082310
Parish	Barton-le-Clay
District	South Bedfordshire
Shire county	Bedfordshire
Region	East
Constituent 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
European Parliament	East of England
UK Parliament	Mid Bedfordshire
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Welcome to the Bedfordshire WikiProject!

The current scope of this WikiProject is all articles relating to Bedfordshire.

[edit] Goals

Create an article for every Bedfordshire town and village, see List of places in Bedfordshire.
Add an infobox to every article about a Bedfordshire town or village, see List of places in Bedfordshire.
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.

[edit] Open tasks

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To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Bedfordshire:

Here are some tasks you can do:

Requests: Add photos to Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Bedfordshire
Verify: Bedfordshire, History of Bedfordshire, Bedford, Cranfield, Marston Vale,
Cleanup: List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Bedfordshire, Stagecoach in Bedford
Expand: Barony of Bedford, Clapham, Dunstable Downs, Forest of Marston Vale, Henlow, Potton, Sandy
Stubs: Improve Stub Class articles
Infobox: Add appropriate infobox to articles without an infobox

[edit] 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. See below for a userbox you can also add to your userpage.

[edit] Templates for Members

You can use this box on your userpage to display your affiliation with this WikiProject.

Usage: {{User WPBedfordshire}}

This user is a member of WikiProject Bedfordshire.

[edit] Guidelines

Main article: WP:UKCITIES

[edit] Article templates

[edit] {{Infobox UK place}}

Coordinates: 51°58′01″N 0°25′27″W / 51.9669°N 0.4241°W / 51.9669; -0.4241

This infobox should be placed on all Bedfordshire 'place' articles. Other infoboxes may be suitable for other articles.

See Template:Infobox UK place for more information.

[edit] {{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}}.

Example for Bedford:

[edit] {{Bedfordshire-geo-stub}}

Bedfordshire has its own stub template.

This Bedfordshire location article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

[edit] 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 -

[edit] Talk page templates

[edit] {{WikiProject Bedfordshire}}

The WikiProject has its own talk-page banner.

WikiProject Bedfordshire

	v • d • e This article is within the scope of WikiProject Bedfordshire, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Bedfordshire on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.
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[edit] 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.
Commons:Category:England Wikimedia Commons England category.
Images of England details of listed buildings from English Heritage

[edit] Using references

For a simple guide to using references, place {{subst:refstart}} (including brackets) on your user or talk page.

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