Wikipedia:WikiProject Bell System

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Welcome to the Bell System WikiProject, a collaboration area and group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Bell System.

(For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject and the Guide to WikiProjects).

Goals

• Improve the articles related to the former Bell System
• wikify the articles

Scope

• Anything and everything concerning the former Bell System pre-breakup(1984)

Contents 1 Guidelines 2 Open tasks 3 Participants 4 Articles 4.1 Featured content 4.1.1 Candidates 4.2 New articles 4.3 Collaboration and review 5 Templates 6 Categories 7 Resources 7.1 Related projects

[edit] Guidelines

Work in progress

[edit] Open tasks

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Bell System:

edit · history · watch · refresh

Here are some tasks you can do: Requests: Pictures needed for the older sets, handsets, subsets, etc. Verify: All information posted should be verifiable with listed references Expand: Expand Further Into the history of all the RBOCs, Their innovations, setbacks, controversies etc NPOV: Maintain Neutrality Throughout the project articles Other: If you see an article that does not have our wikiproject Template on it and it falls under our scope then please add it.

• Pictures needed! Photos of the subscriber sets and even the subcomponents such as the individual handset models, ringer boxes, etc. Arakunem^Talk 16:13, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Participants

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

1. ke5crz (talk · contribs)
2. Mhking (talk · contribs)
3. 1ne (talk • contribs • blocks • protects • deletions • moves • rights)
4. Slimey.limey (talk · contribs)
5. Arakunem (talk · contribs) I love old (pre-60's) subscriber sets and will be expanding and creating articles therein soon.
6. colbuckshot (talk · contribs)

[edit] Articles

[edit] Featured content

American Telephone & Telegraph Company

[edit] Candidates

[edit] New articles

Please feel free to list your new Bell System-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box the Main Page.

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• Pat Fleet

[edit] Collaboration and review

Collaboration of the week

Peer review

Assessment

[edit] Templates

The Following is a list of Templates Used By this WikiProject.

{{WikiProject:Bell_System_User}}

This adds a userbox to userpages to identify project members.

{{Bell_System}}

This template adds the bell system navigation template to a page.should you come across a page that needs it place it near the bottom of the page below any other templates that may be there

v • d • e Bell System Corporate Operations Holding Company: American Telephone & Telegraph Local Telephone Operations Bell Operating Companies: Bell Telephone Company of Nevada · The Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania · The Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company · The Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company of Maryland · The Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company of West Virginia · The Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company of Virginia · Diamond State Telephone · Illinois Bell · Indiana Bell · Michigan Bell · Mountain Bell · New England Telephone & Telegraph · New Jersey Bell · New York Telephone · Northwestern Bell · Ohio Bell · Pacific Northwest Bell · Pacific Telephone · South Central Bell · Southern Bell · Southwestern Bell · Wisconsin Telephone Franchisees: Southern New England Telephone · Cincinnati Bell Other AT&T Subsidiaries Manufacturing: Western Electric R&D Operations: Bell Labs Long Distance Services: AT&T Long Lines Wireless Services: Advanced Mobile Phone Service

{{WikiProject Bell System}}

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	Wikipedia:WikiProject Bell System is within the scope of the Bell System WikiProject, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of the former Bell System. If you would like to participate, you can visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks.
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[edit] Categories

• Category:Bell System

[edit] Resources

[edit] Related projects