Goals: To increase the number and quality of articles about bridges and tunnels, improve their formatting and language, add references and media, and increase standardization.
Scope: This project is related to articles about specific bridges and tunnels, types of bridges and tunnels, lists of bridges and tunnels, bridge and tunnel categorization, and related templates.
Template for members to include on their user page: {{WikiProject Bridges and Tunnels}}; or
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Blanchardb (
talk·contribs) - I will maintain lists of bridges in Quebec (esp. Montreal) and will gather and update as much information as I can about individual bridges. Expect me to add a few pictures (taken by myself) as well.
The introduction sentence should include what type of bridge or tunnel it is, what it crosses (river, canyon, etc.), and where it is located:
'''Bridge''' is a [[bridge type]] that spans [[body of water or land]] between [[city, state]], and [[city, state]]. (Notable information here, e.g., if it's the oldest/tallest/largest of its type). It was built in [[year]] by [[agency responsible for construction]] and was designed by [[notable engineer or firm]].
Images and media
Please upload media to
Wikimedia Commons so that it can be used across all Wikipedia projects easily. If there are many pictures a
gallery at the bottom of the page is an option to consider.
Infoboxes and templates
{{Infobox bridge}} and {{Infobox tunnel}} are the preferred templates for individual structures and work best for users if placed at the top of the page. Refer to the template pages for detailed instructions.
There has been much discussion at
Wikipedia talk:Categorization and on
this talk page about the best way to organize articles within categories. For this project we will place all bridge articles in a category based on location (by nation for countries not yet with a lot of bridge articles where subdivision hasn't happened (
Category:Bridges in Japan), or small countries with relatively few bridges (
Category:Bridges in Singapore)), or states/provinces for larger countries (
Category:Bridges in New York (state)). If these categories are further divided amongst subcategories, the articles will remain included within the larger category (For example: all the bridges in
Category:Toll bridges in New York (state) and
Category:Bridges in New York City will be included in
Category:Bridges in New York (state)). This makes the category pages the easiest to navigate at the price of adding slightly redundant categories on the individual articles. This has been found to be the best solution until MetaWiki supports the inclusion of subcategory articles within parent category pages.
Why write an article about this bridge or tunnel?
A good article should contain as much of the following, and more, as possible:
WHAT is this bridge or tunnel?
How long/wide/high/tall is it?
What sort of construction is it? (See bridge types, below.) Made of what? Concrete, steel, wood, stone, reinforced styrofoam?
When was it built?
Why was it built?
Who built it?
Who designed it?
What precedes it? That is, were there any previous bridges on that site? Maybe a ferry?
What context is it in? Any history? Battles, political or otherwise? Other events?
What kind of effort went into it?
How much did it cost?
Is or was there anything special about its design, location, circumstances, paint color, or manner of failure or destruction?
What does it carry? Roads? Railroads? People? Elephants? How many elephants?
Does it move? Intentionally? How so?
Provide a picture! Or several!
What are its coordinates?
What makes it worth an article?
The more you can put into an article, the more references (more references mean more people care), the more data in general, the less susceptible to
AfD the article is.
Jiaxing-Shaoxing Sea Bridge is an article I've only just created and is the world's largest cable bridge. I've done what I can with it, with the limited information I could find.
Ikitsuki Bridge needs to be improved more that way it becomes more notable
Amelia Earhart Bridge has been demolished and replaced by a new bridge with the same name. Article needs info on new bridge (or new article about new bridge).