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Template:Short description Template:WikiProject status Template:Main other Welcome to WikiProject Bridges and Tunnels.

  • 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.

If you would like to help, check the to do list or articles needing attention. Feel free to include yourself to the list of participants.

Parent projects

Membership template

Template for members to include on their user page: Template:Tl; or Use the following on your userbox form to show you are part of this project:

Code Result
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Article template

The template to place on an article's talk page (pretty basic) is Template:Tl.

  • For a Start quality article, use {{WikiProject Bridges and Tunnels|class=Start|importance=}}.
  • For a list of bridges and tunnels, use {{WikiProject Bridges and Tunnels|class=list|importance=}}.

Class and importance guidelines are shown on the Assessment page.

Participants

  • Script error: No such module "user". Mainly listings on the NRHP
  • Script error: No such module "user". Australia and elsewhere (e.g. Ted Smout Memorial Bridge)
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  • Script error: No such module "user". - 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.
  • Script error: No such module "user". - Mainly bridges on the inland waterways of the United States.
  • Script error: No such module "user". - Ireland
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  • Script error: No such module "user". Specializing in stone viaducts
  • Script error: No such module "user". - Interested in bridges and tunnels in Taiwan
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  • Script error: No such module "user". I write about enough bridges through my work at WP:NRHP and WP:NYSR, so I might as well be part of this project.
  • Script error: No such module "user". - images of, and articles for, bridges.
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  • Script error: No such module "user". bridges in Chicago, Pennsylvania, Texas, especially railroad; lists
  • Script error: No such module "user". - Bridges and tunnels in the US
  • Script error: No such module "user". Railroad bridges, trestles and viaducts are my area of focus.
  • Script error: No such module "user". Bridges primarily in the UK
  • Script error: No such module "user". Bridges in victoria, Australia, as well as bridge engineers
  • Script error: No such module "user"., responsible for all the stuff contained in Category:Bridges in Russia
  • Script error: No such module "user"., mostly interested in mediaeval bridges and railway viaducts in England
  • Script error: No such module "user". will lend a hand with editing/clarifying, despite knowing nothing about anything.
  • Script error: No such module "user". I will make minor edits to U.S. Automobile bridges. So far, I have made edits to both Gerald Desmond Bridge (1968-2020) and Gerald Desmond Bridge (2020-present), which has recently been split into the way it is.
  • Script error: No such module "user". - Former Railroad Bridges in Virginia.
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  • Script error: No such module "user". - lists, bridges in Europe, China, Flickr image-digging
  • Script error: No such module "user". - Bridges in Australia and in Poland, in English and in Polish
  • Script error: No such module "user". Will help with articles on bridges from Africa
  • Script error: No such module "user". will help out when he can.
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  • Script error: No such module "user". – associated with Wikipedia:WikiProject Chicago, Illinois bridges
  • Script error: No such module "user". Predominantly UK railway/canal bridges/viaducts/tunnels
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  • Script error: No such module "user". Bridges in and around Chicago
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  • Script error: No such module "user". Bridge accidents and disasters!
  • Script error: No such module "user". - mostly covered or historic bridges
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  • Script error: No such module "user". - mostly suspension bridges.
  • Script error: No such module "user". - Mostly cover bridges in Southwest Florida, mostly Fort Myers
  • Script error: No such module "user". - Pittsburgh bridges.
  • Script error: No such module "user". Bridges in the UK generally.
  • Script error: No such module "user". - Chinese and New Zealand bridges
  • Script error: No such module "user". - Bridges of Saint Petersburg, Russia
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  • Script error: No such module "user". Interested in the bridges of Tees Valley - eleven so far
  • Script error: No such module "user". Articles like Godavari Bridge, Godavari Arch Bridge and Old Godavari Bridge
  • Script error: No such module "user". - coyediting, merging of parallel/independently unnotable bridges, famous or demolished bridges
  • Script error: No such module "user". - northwest Florida bridges, primarily
  • Script error: No such module "user". any bridges in New York and Portland.
  • Script error: No such module "user". - bridges in Croatia
  • Script error: No such module "user". Have particular interest in transporter, steel truss, cable-stayed, and ribbon bridges.
  • Script error: No such module "user". Bridges
  • Script error: No such module "user". primary area of interest is the Ohio River Valley and its tributaries, ranging northward into Michigan
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  • Script error: No such module "user". - anywhere, anytime I can.
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  • 🥒BONTENGERS🥒 (🔔) with strong construction complete equipment thats great to work bridge and tunnel. 11:36, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
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  • Script error: No such module "user". - Primarily bridges and tunnels in New England

To do

Guidelines

The basic Wiki guidelines should be followed normally. The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and Pulaski Skyway serve as good models.

Introduction

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

  • Template:Tl and Template:Tl 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.
  • Template:Tl should be used for bridge design types.

Categorization

The article should be included in the category for the type of bridge that it is (example Category:Suspension bridges). It should also contain a category based on location, such as Category:Bridges in New York (state)

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.

Categories

Lists


Articles (bridge types)

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Popular pages

Articles in need of attention

Specific bridges

See the list of Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks at the ASCE Civil Engineering historic landmark list (also at List of historic civil engineering landmarks); the bridges below don't have articles yet, unless they're here under another name:

Since these bridges are listed as Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks, they're probably noteworthy enough to deserve articles.

Now-demolished bridges

Bridges that were landmarks in their time but are now gone, but which heartily deserve articles.

Bridge engineers

Pages needing attention

Useful websites

Assessment

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Featured content

Featured articles
There are 15 Bridge FAs (see Category:FA-Class Bridge articles), one former bridge FA, and one tunnel FA:

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Featured lists
Featured pictures
Wikimedia Commons Picture of the day

Wikipedia's sister projects

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