Wikipedia:WikiProject West Bengal

West Bengal ({{IPAc-en|b|ɛ|n|ˈ|ɡ|ɔː|l}}, Bengali: Poshchim Bongo, {{IPA|bn|ˈpoʃtʃim ˈbɔŋɡo|pron|LL-Q9610 (ben)-Titodutta-পশ্চিমবঙ্গ.wav}}, abbr. WB) is a state located on the eastern part of India. It is India's fourth-largest state by population and thirteenth-largest state by area.

Bengali is the official state language. In Megapolis Kolkata (Calcutta) and the wider Kolkata metropolitan area, Bengali, Urdu, English, Hindi and other languages are also spoken. In West Bengal we can find people of many religions. Mostly people from all over India had migrated here for business and residential purposes. Kolkata is the capital of West Bengal which is also the cultural capital of India. The city has the highest number of nobel laureates among all cities in India. It was also once the capital of entire British India. Winter capital is Siliguri.

WikiProject West Bengal is a collaboration to create, improve, and expand articles related to West Bengal, its history, dialects, and culture. The scope of this article fundamentally is loosely defined as all articles and sections relating to West Bengal. Almost all of these will be (eventually) categorised under :Category:West Bengal and :Category:India

• The project will cover all aspects of West Bengal-related articles from India, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.

1. Creation of a generally standard look and feel for all West Bengal-related articles.
2. To produce as many Featured Articles as possible related to West Bengal.
3. To produce as many Good Articles as possible related to West Bengal.
4. To write as many Did you know articles as possible related to West Bengal.
5. To standardize the West Bengal related articles in Wikipedia.
6. To improve Wikipedia coverage of West Bengal related articles by adding, expanding and improving West Bengal related articles.
7. To serve as a central point of discussion for issues related to West Bengal related articles.
8. West Bengal-related Tourist Attractions to be given more importance and it should be improved with suitable images of the places, since these articles will be read by many from outside India.
9. Those who read about West Bengal should have the feeling that they should visit West Bengal and India.

This project falls under the jurisdiction of the following Wikiproject:

• Wikipedia:WikiProject India
• Indian states

• Wikipedia talk:WikiProject West Bengal

WikiProject West Bengal uses the following style guides:

• Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Indic)

Refer to

• Wikipedia:WikiProject_Indian_states#Sections for state articles
• Wikipedia:WikiProject_Indian_districts#Sections for district articles
• Wikipedia:WikiProject_Indian_cities#Sections for city articles

Several categories of templates are available to work with and on pages relating to West Bengal.

The following templates can be added to your user page:

• {{tl|User WikiProject West Bengal}} to show that you are a member of this project.
• {{User West Bengal}} to indicate that you are from West Bengal.
• {{User_interwiki_infoboard_bn}} to coordinate your efforts with the Bengali Language Wikipedia.
• {{User wikibn}} if you are a native Bengali speaker.
• {{Bengfonthelp}} if you know some one in need of how to type in Bengali language i.e. Bengali–Assamese script fonts.
• {{Welcomeen-bn}} if you know some one Bengali whose contributions are likely to get rejected on English Wikipedia because of lack of English language skill level.

Place this WikiProject notice Template:WP India at the top of an article's Talk page to direct editors to the WikiProject West Bengal for guidelines.

To use it, place

{{WikiProject India|class=|importance=|bengal=yes|bengal-importance=}}

at the top of an article's Talk page, which will produce:

{{WikiProject India|bengal=yes|category=no}}

For stubs about the geography of West Bengal, use {{WestBengal-geo-stub}}. This will go into the :Category:West Bengal geography stubs.

• For any other stubs related to West Bengal, you can just write {{West Bengal-stub}}. This will go into :Category:West Bengal stubs.

• {{tl|West Bengal topics}}

===25px Featured articles===

• Kolkata (Calcutta)
• Satyajit Ray
• Darjeeling
• List of districts of West Bengal (Featured List)

• Swami Vivekananda
• Sri Aurobindo
• Ramprasad Sen

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• Bangaliana, the traditional lifestyle and is best described as a code of honor of the Bengali people

Members of WikiProject West Bengal should place one of the following lines of Wikitext on their user page to add it to {{nobreak|:Category:WikiProject West Bengal participants}}.

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For other West Bengal user templates, see {{nobreak|:Category:West Bengal user templates}}.

• Wikipedia:WikiProject India
• Indian states

• No descendant WikiProjects have been defined.

• WikiProject Uttar Pradesh
• WikiProject Tamil Nadu
• WikiProject Maharashtra
• WikiProject Karnataka

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