Wikipedia:WikiProject Nepal

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This is a WikiProject, a collaboration area and open group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of a particular topic, or to organizing some internal Wikipedia process. Please see the Guide to WikiProjects and the Directory of WikiProjects for more information.

This WikiProject was formed to foster better articles on the country of

Shortcut: WP:NEPAL

Nepal with a spirit of cooperation. This page and its subpages as they develop contain suggestions on formatting and layout of articles, which can be discussed at the project's talk page To participate, simply add your name at the participants section.

Recent changes in Nepal-related articles (List of Nepal-related topics is an older method)

Contents 1 नमस्ते 2 Scope 3 Project divisions 4 Participants 5 Did you know? (DYK) 6 Featured articles 7 Peer review/Featured article candidates (FAC) 8 Good articles (GA) 9 Articles needing attention 9.1 Create 9.2 Expand 9.3 Wikify 9.4 Vandalism 9.5 Article requests 9.6 Deletions 10 Resources 10.1 Infoboxes 10.2 Naming conventions 10.3 Stubs 10.4 Templates 10.5 Portals 10.6 Websites 11 Help needed about the succession to the Nepalese throne

[edit] नमस्ते

Namaste to those who have visited this new WikiProject, on Nepal! The aim of this project is to organise and steer the production of articles relating to the country of Nepal, its cities, administrative divisions, geography, transportation, culture, history and so on. It aims to expand Wikipedia's resources on Nepal in a fair and accurate manner.

[edit] Scope

The aims of this project are:

• To increase the number of articles related to Nepal
• To improve the quality of articles related to Nepal
• To create as many featured articles about Nepal as possible

[edit] Project divisions

• Assessment (talk)- Our assessment department.
• Categorization (talk) – Categorization of Nepal-related articles
• Cities (talk – Cities, towns, villages and administrative districts
• Physical geography (talk) – Regions, parks, climate, physical features
• Transportation (talk) – Roads, trails and rails in and around Nepal
• Culture (talk) – Music, art, icons, mass communication
• People (talk) – includes Nepal natives and those residents who have shaped Nepal
• Government (talk) – Governance, as well as national, regional, and local politics in relation to Nepal
• History (talk) – history of Nepal

[edit] Participants

Please sign up at Wikipedia:WikiProject Nepal/Members.

[edit] Did you know? (DYK)

Articles on Nepal-related subjects featured on the Main Page's Did you know? section:

[edit] Featured articles

• Darjeeling

[edit] Peer review/Featured article candidates (FAC)

Nepal-related subjects in Peer Review prior to Featured Article submission.

• Gurkha
• Mount Everest
• Hinduism

[edit] Good articles (GA)

Articles on Nepal-related subjects in Peer Review prior to Featured Article submission

• Nepal Bhasa
• Newar

[edit] Articles needing attention

[edit] Create

• People of Nepalese origin

[edit] Expand

• Malla (Nepal) the very important period of the history
• Prashant Tamang
• Ganesh Man Singh

[edit] Wikify

• Kukri
• Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala

[edit] Vandalism

• Sherpa

[edit] Article requests

• Lincoln School, Kathmandu
• As part of the 2007 Centenary, Nepal renamed Urkema Peak in the Himalayas to Baden-Powell Peak. [1] [2] 28°15′22″N 85°31′10″E / 28.256111, 85.519444 [3]

[edit] Deletions

• Deletion sorting Nepal

[edit] Resources

[edit] Infoboxes

• {{Nepal topics}} - Infobox for Nepal regions, counties and cities; placed at the bottom of article pages. not yet finished.
• {{NepalKings}} - Infobox for Nepal kings. under construction.
• {{NepalPrimeMinisters}} - Infobox for Nepal prime ministers. under construction.

[edit] Naming conventions

• Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Indic)

[edit] Stubs

If the priority articles in the top of this page don't interest you, you can always expand one of these stubs.

• Geography stubs
• stubs Nepal stubs

[edit] Templates

• {{WikiProject Nepal}} - Template stating this article is a part of this wikiproject; placed on the top of talk pages, not on article pages under construction
• {{Nepal-stub}} - Stub notice for all other Nepal articles; placed at the bottom of article pages

For Nepal topics-related articles needing a photograph, use {{reqphoto|in=Nepal}} in the talk page, which adds the article to Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Nepal. You can help Wikipedia by uploading freely licensed photographs for these articles to Wikimedia Commons.

• {{Newar}}
• {{Hospitals of Nepal}}

[edit] Portals

• Newar

[edit] Websites

• Nepal Tourism Board
• Government of Nepal
• Encyclopaedia Britannica Nepal Country Page
• United States Department of State Profile of Nepal
• Library of Congress — Nepal
• Open Directory Project — Nepal
• Nepal topics travel guide from Wikitravel
• MyHimalayas — Travelogues and Pictures from various areas in Nepal
• Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation, Nepal

[edit] Help needed about the succession to the Nepalese throne

In 2006 the Nepalese government proposed adopting equal primogeniture. This would have meant that the eldest child of the monarch, regardless of gender would inherit. For this to come into affect it would have to be approved by the parliament (House of Representatives). There's a lot of confusion about this. Did the parliament approve the new succession law last year or did they reject it? We can't find any articles saying whether the parliament/House of Representatives approved the bill or rejected it. Can someone from Nepal clarify this situation? Expert help needed! (From discussions on Talk:Prince Hridayendra of Nepal) FrinkMan 11:57, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

The Parliament couldn't have approved, if the Prime Minister called for the King & crown prince to abdicate in favour of the prince. If the Parliament had approved, then the PM would've called for the dual abdication in favour of the princess. GoodDay 22:02, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

Perhaps, but there is also the possibility that the PM simply voiced his own opinion. But anyway, an article about whether the parliament/House of Representatives approved the bill or rejected it would be nice. Help is needed from someone that can speak/read Nepalese! FrinkMan 11:41, 31 August 2007 (UTC)