Wikipedia:WikiProject Bangladesh/History Workgroup

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History Workgroup

The History Workgroup is a working group of members of the Bangladesh WikiProject dedicated to ensuring quality and coverage of Bangladesh history related articles.

Scope

By definition the land of Bangladesh prior to 1971 was known as East Pakistan and East Bengal; was a part of Bengal Presidency, Bengal, and Suba Bangal; and, was a collection of small lands like Vanga, Gauda and Pundra. This project will encompass all of these identities, some of which overlap with History of India, History of Pakistan and History of the Commonwealth.

Goals

The aim of this project is to standardize, improve and monitor articles related to History of Bangladesh, as well as to create missing articles, especially after the Independence of Bangladesh in 1971. The scope of the project also applies to History of Bengal articles.

If a historical person's/ dynasty's/ state's name is not unique, please, create a disambiguation page for the name.

You can begin by contributing to the following periods of history of Bangladesh (including separate subsections or even separate articles): (1) Pre-historic Bangladesh; (2) Hindu-Buddhist period; (3) Muslim period; (4) Colonial period; (5) Pakistani period; (6) Independent Bangladesh.

The War of Liberation

The biggest event in Bangladesh history, the Liberation War, needs particular attention. It needs a complete timeline, plenty images (preferably with use permission from copyright holders), much better work on 1971 Bangladesh atrocities (including Operation Searchlight) and Mukti Bahini (including separate entries for the sectors and forces outside the Niomita Bahini), a complete list of Recipients of Bangladeshi military awards in 1971 (preferably separate biographies for all the recipients) and more. The categorization system needs much work as well.

Writing guidelines
Main article: Wikipedia:WikiProject History

In historical articles, the past tense is strongly advised. While history can be written in the present tense, the general audience of Wikipedia will usually expect the past tense on historical subjects and events that occurred in the past. The present tense in English is only correctly used to describe past events in a work of fiction. This is referred to as the "historical past tense". For historical biographies make use of the {{Infobox Biography}} template.

See also: Template:Infobox Biography
Related Portals, Projects and Categories


Sister Projects

History of Bangladesh on Wikiquote History of Bangladesh on Commons History of Bangladesh on Wikisource History of Bangladesh on Wikibooks

Contents

[edit] Participants

Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.

  1. Aditya Kabir (Particularly interested in the History of Dhaka)
  2. Usingha
  3. Ragib
  4. Arman Aziz
  5. Niaz bd
  6. Dwaipayan
  7. Tarif
  8. Tanveer
  9. Bakaman
  10. Maksud3
  11. Hossain Akhtar Chowdhury
  12. Farsad (Mostly interested in Liberation War related history)
  13. Anwarul Islam

[edit] Source you can use

Some resources the participants may find useful in creating or expanding articles within the scope of the project:

[edit] The appropriate barnstar

To award a participant with a barnstar you may make use of - {{subst:The Epic Barnstar|message ~~~~}}. It would look something like:

The Epic Barnstar
I award this barnstar for your outstanding contribution to Bangladesh history aticle. Bangladeshi Historian 19:27, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Assessment statistics

History Workgroup assessment statistics
History of Bangladesh
articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low Total
Quality
Featured article FA 1 1 2
B 4 18 20 19 61
Start 5 33 43 81
Stub 55 59 114
Assessed 5 24 108 121 258
Total 5 24 108 121 258
worklist • log • category

All WikiProject Bangladesh articles that are currently tagged as part of this workgroup's coverage with the with "history=" parameted set to "yes" - are within the scope of this workgroup level assessment. This assessment statistics use the quality and importance rating assigned by the mother project: WikiProject Bangladesh. These statistics are automatically updated by a bot every 3 days. The article ratings are also used within the workgroup to aid in recognising excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.

The ratings are based on quality scale and importance scale as defined by Assessment Department of WikiProject Bangladesh.

If you find a Bangladesh history related article is missing in this assessment, probably the reason is, the "history=yes" parameter is not currently set within the Project banner of WikiProject Bangladesh. Please set the appropriate parameter. The table will be updated with correct statistics within 3/4 days.

If you have made significant changes to an article and would like an outside opinion on a new rating for it, please post your request here.

You will find a list of frquently aked questions about the assessment precess here.

[edit] To-do
Here are some tasks you can do: