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This WikiProject aims to organise and improve articles relating to the city of Bristol, England.
Aims
[edit]Roughly in order of priority.
- Make Bristol a featured article.
Done
- Create articles on all important sub-divisions and places of interest in Bristol.
- Add basic data such as population and maps to all sub-divisions of Bristol.
- Add at least one photograph to every sub-division and place of interest in Bristol.
- Possibly create an infobox for places of interest with maps, visitor numbers etc.
- Make History of Bristol, Culture of Bristol, Economy and industry of Bristol, Politics of Bristol and Transport in Bristol good, and ultimately featured articles.
- Possibly create our own local Wikipedia 1.0.
Resources
[edit]Project Template
[edit]{{WikiProject Bristol}} - The WikiProject template. Please add {{WikiProject Bristol |class= |importance= |ibox= |map= |photo= }} to the top of the talkpage on all Bristol-related articles. Documentation on this template can be found at Template:WikiProject Bristol/doc
- Note a Class if you can, using the ratings scale.
- Note the article's Importance if you can, using the importance scale.
Infoboxes
[edit]- Areas of the city should use Template:Infobox UK place
- Historic Buildings should use Template:Infobox Historic building
- Museums use Template:Infobox Museum
- Railway stations should use
{{Infobox GB station}}
if open for normal services;{{Infobox UK heritage station}}
if open as part of a heritage railway or museum;{{Infobox UK disused station}}
if no longer open for passenger services. - Schools should use Template:Infobox GB school
- Ships use Template:Infobox ship begin
- Sites of Special Scientific Interest use Template:Infobox Site of Special Scientific Interest
others are listed at Category:Infobox templates
Maps
[edit]Map resources for Bristol Articles can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Bristol/Maps
Data sources
[edit]Members
[edit]You don't need to live in Bristol to help with this WikiProject. We welcome editors good with layout and prose, or an interest in anything related to Bristol. Please add your details at Wikipedia:WikiProject Bristol/Participants
Current status
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The above table shows the state of this WikiProject. To view historical, monthly totals, see project progress.
Article Alerts
[edit]Articles for creation
- 29 Jul 2024 – Draft:John James (businessman and philanthropist) (talk · edit · hist) (initially Draft:John James (philanthropist)) has been submitted for AfC by Jjarchivist (t · c)
- 04 Jul 2024 – Draft:Harry Destecroix (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by 87.224.75.37 (t · c)
New articles
[edit]Any newly-created Bristol-related articles can be added here, so that other project members can improve them or add them to their watchlist. The list of older new articles is at WP:WikiProject Bristol/New Articles Archive.
June 2020
[edit]- Statue of Edward Colston (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
August 2019
[edit]- Oldbury Court Estate (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
July 2019
[edit]- Za Za Bazaar (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
May 2018
[edit]- 1974 Bristol bombing (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
April 2018
[edit]- Mary le Port Street, Bristol (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
- High Street, Bristol (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
- Young Bristol (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
- 20th Century Road Schemes in Bristol (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
February 2018
[edit]- Well Hung Lover (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
To do list
[edit]Project achievements
[edit]Featured articles
[edit]Former featured articles
[edit]Featured lists
[edit]Good articles
[edit]M32 motorway
Arnolfini, Bristol
Ashton Court
Ashton Court Festival
River Avon, Bristol
Avon Gorge
Avonmouth railway station
Avonmouth railway station (Bristol Port Railway and Pier)
Bedminster railway station
Tony Benn
Blaise Castle Estate
Brislington House
HMS Bristol (1910)
Bristol Britannia
Bristol Bus Boycott
Bristol Cathedral
Bristol Old Vic
Bristol Parkway railway station
Bristol Temple Meads railway station
University of Bristol
Mary Carpenter
Elizabeth Casson
Castle Park, Bristol
Clifton Bridge railway station
Clifton Down railway station
Clifton Suspension Bridge
Climate of south-west England
Edward Colston
Concorde
Corn Street, Bristol
The Exchange, Bristol
Filton Abbey Wood railway station
River Frome, Bristol
Cary Grant
SS Great Britain
Great Western Railway
Greyfriars, Bristol
High Street, Bristol
Sidney Hill
History of Bristol
Lawrence Hill railway station
Leigh Court
Leigh Woods National Nature Reserve
Chris Lines
Long Ashton railway station
Mangotsfield railway station
Manor Hall, Bristol
Montpelier railway station
Jennison Myrie-Williams
Pandora (Skins)
Parson Street railway station
Patchway railway station
Pill railway station
Portway, Bristol
St Mary Redcliffe
Redland railway station
Sea Mills railway station
Shirehampton railway station
Stapleton Road railway station
Statue of Edward Colston
Jessie Stephen
Paul Stephenson (civil rights campaigner)
To Catch a Copper
River Trym
Victoria Rooms, Bristol
Whitefriars, Bristol
Wine Street, Bristol
Former good articles
[edit]Did you know? articles
[edit]M32 motorway
1831 Bristol riots
1888–89 Eastville Rovers F.C. season
Arno's Court Triumphal Arch
Janet Arnold
Avon Bridge
Avonmouth railway station
Francis Ayscough
Bedminster railway station
Blackfriars, Bristol
Frederick Bligh Bond
Brislington House
Bristol Bears Women
Bristol Byzantine
Bristol Central Library
Bristol Diamonds
Bristol Ensemble
Bristol Festival of Ideas
Bristol Guild of Applied Art
Bristol High Cross
Bristol Naturalists' Society
Bristol Packers
Bristol Packet Boat Trips
Bristol and Bath Science Park
Bristol and South Wales Union Railway
Bristol pound
Dixie Brown
Elizabeth Casson
Castle Park, Bristol
Ichabod Chauncey
City Hall, Bristol
Clifton Antiquarian Club
Climate of south-west England
Coventry City 2–2 Bristol City (1977)
George Cumberland
Goéry Delacôte
Murder of Anni Dewani
Eliza Walker Dunbar
The Exchange, Bristol
Fairfield Grammar School
Peaches Golding
Goldney Hall
Great Gatehouse, Bristol
Greyfriars, Bristol
Gromit Unleashed
Tessa Hadley
Dorothy Hazard
Sidney Hill
History of Bristol Rovers F.C.
History of the University of Bristol
Horseshoe Bend, Shirehampton
Jacobs Well Theatre
Harold Jarman
Karpatiosorbus houstoniae
King William Ale House
Elizabeth Lachlan
Vic Lambden
Chris Lines
List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in Southwest England
Long Ashton Research Station
The Maire of Bristowe is Kalendar
River Malago
Mayor of Bristol
National Nautical School
New Cut, Bristol
Clifton Observatory
Old Library, Bristol
Pandora (Skins)
Pneumatic Institution
Portway, Bristol
Red Lodge Museum, Bristol
Woodes Rogers
Royal Fort House
Royal West of England Academy
Sealing the Tomb
Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory
Jessie Stephen
Stokeleigh Camp
Storming of Bristol
A Surge of Power (Jen Reid) 2020
To Catch a Copper
Tower Belle
Underfall Yard
William Weston (explorer)
Whitefriars, Bristol
Murder of Joanna Yeates
In the News articles
[edit]Picture of the day pictures
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Grant, Cary (Suspicion) 01 Crisco edit
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Robert Howlett (Isambard Kingdom Brunel Standing Before the Launching Chains of the Great Eastern), The Metropolitan Museum of Art - restoration1
Featured pictures
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Grant, Cary (Suspicion) 01 Crisco edit
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Robert Howlett (Isambard Kingdom Brunel Standing Before the Launching Chains of the Great Eastern), The Metropolitan Museum of Art - restoration1
Popular Pages
[edit]A list of the most popular project pages can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Bristol/Popular pages
Photo challenge
[edit]During 2006, a photo challenge was run to find photos to include in articles. The photo challenge is currently inactive and is archived at /Photo challenge.
Parent projects
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