Wikipedia:WikiProject Food and drink/Bacon task force

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Bacon	Shortcut WP:BACON
A WikiProject dedicated to all things bacon-related

Welcome to WikiProject Bacon! This collaboration resource and group is dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Bacon and the organization of information and articles on this topic. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic. If you would like to help, please join the project, inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list below.

1. Work collaboratively to improve the quality of articles within the topic, ideally to WP:GA or WP:FA quality status.
2. Serve as a central location for discussion of improvement of articles within the topic.
3. Contain statistical data for analysis of quality changes and importance of all articles in the topic.
4. List helpful resources for referencing and research work within the topic.
5. Provide links to locations/techniques to get additional help from other related areas of Wikipedia.

1. All articles within template, {{Bacon}}
2. All articles relating to Bacon, and technique and history of Bacon, broadly defined.
   • This includes:
     • Books
     • Dishes
     • Drinks
     • People
     • Popular culture

• No sub-specific guidelines independently exist for the project itself.
• General Wikipedia-wide project guidelines apply, including:
  • WP:V
  • WP:RS
  • WP:NPOV

Please jump out of the frying pan and into the fire to lend a hand: Portal:Bacon/Things you can do

Historical

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Bacon/Bacon Challenge/2012
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Bacon/Bacon WikiCup/2012
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Bacon/Bacon Challenge/2011
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Bacon/Bacon WikiCup/2011
• User:ChildofMidnight/Bacon Challenge 2010
• User:Sky Attacker/Bacon WikiCup 2010
• User:ChildofMidnight/Bacon Challenge 2009

Related

• User:Kelapstick/Bacon Cabal

List of WikiProject Bacon participants

• Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.
• You may also feel free to add one of the userboxs - {{User Bacon}} or {{User bacon 1}} - to your userpage, to indicate your participation in the WikiProject.

1. -- BhamBoi (talk)
2. -- Cirt (talk) 08:33, 16 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
3. --kelapstick (talk) 08:35, 16 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
4. --ϢereSpielChequers 08:39, 16 October 2010 (UTC) (mainly mountains and glaciers)[reply]
5. --~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 15:38, 16 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
6. --PЄTЄRS J VЄСRUМВА ►TALK 19:07, 16 October 2010 (UTC) regrettably—and apologies in advance—exploring the wonders of Eastern European and Russian bacon will, widely construed per my experiences at Aspic, need to wait until January[reply]
7. --Spongie555 (talk) 19:18, 16 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
8. Acather96 (talk · contribs) 09:14, 17 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
9. Kintetsubuffalo (talk · contribs) (Oh my god, you read my mind!) 09:48, 18 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
10. Wackywace ^{converse | contribs} 16:24, 18 October 2010 (UTC) (I promise I'm not signing up just so I can say that I'll have a slice of this! Dreadful, I know :-) )[reply]
11. LadyofShalott (talk · contribs) 01:36, 19 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
12. Markvs88 (talk · contribs) (It's BACON!) 23:46, 27 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
13. NativeForeigner (talk · contribs) NativeForeigner ^Talk/_Contribs 02:20, 16 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
14. Perseus, Son of Zeus (talk · contribs) Περσεύς|Talk to me 19:10, 17 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
15. Redthoreau (talk · contribs) If they offered liquid bacon in an IV drip ... I'd sign up.    Redthoreau -- (talk) 21:00, 20 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
16. -- Cooltiger989 (talk) 19:43, 22 November 2010 (UTC) (Want to know anything about Welsh bacon? Ask here!)[reply]
17. Jonathunder (talk)
18. Reaper Eternal (talk · contribs) - I regularly work on copyediting and citation improvement, and I am happy to look over anything you want. I also enjoy bacon. :)
19. Drmies (talk · contribs)
20. Bacon... yum! --Dylan620 ^{(t • c • r)} 18:04, 16 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
21. I'm in. Fancy some Bacon ice cream?Worm 15:03, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
22. Archolman 00:12, 28 May 2011 (UTC) User_talk:Archolman I copy-edit, & have some excellent traditional recipes for curing bacon & ham from Cornwall. And a traditional Oxfordshire bacon dish, the Marston Clanger, a bacon-filled suet-pudding. Mmmm, tasty![reply]
23. Wekn reven i susej eht ^{Talk• Follow} 10:27, 17 June 2011 (UTC) I support all things edible.[reply]
24. Doh5678 (talk)
25. --Cerejota (talk) 16:32, 20 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
26. DocZaius19 (talk · contribs) (I am adept at eating bacon, might as well add to the Wikipedia as well...) 16:15, 16 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
27. Dennis Brown (talk · contribs) I've added [1] in 2010, enjoy jowl, fatback and trying anything bacon related, and perhaps can add photography.
28. Rcsprinter123 (talk · contribs)
29. Sjones23 (talk · contribs)
30. WT101 (Chat • Count) 12:20, 3 July 2013 (UTC) - Me like bacon [reply]
31. Newyorkadam (talk · contribs) Trying to get Bacon to GA or FA.
32. Mark Miller (talk) 20:35, 27 March 2014 (UTC) Mmmmmm...bacon.[reply]
33. hiphopindierock1 (talk) 30 April 2014 BACOOOOON!!!!
34. Fylbecatulous (talk · contribs) "Nothing I will ever do will be more popular than that online picture of bacon taped to a cat". Fylbecatulous talk 02:35, 7 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
35. Scalhotrod - OMG, how did I not know about this project until now?!? One of my creations, see image to right

    

    --Scalhotrod (Talk) ☮ღ☺ 20:27, 1 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
36. HullIntegrity (talk · contribs) -- Bacon crusted potato cake!
37. AfroThundr3007730 (talk) 05:11, 14 April 2015 (UTC) Bacon is Awesome![reply]
38. Wheee17 (talk) Love bacon
39. Usuck19 (talk) 18:19, 6 November 2018 (UTC) BACON DA BEST[reply]
40. Very cute Moose. (talk) 23:37, 11 January 2019 (UTC) Mesa lova da bacons[reply]
41. SWP13 (talk) 03:46, 2 April 2019 (UTC) - Frequently eat braised pork belly with preserved veggie. Recently ate bacon and fried egg in bagel.[reply]
42. Nozzer71 (talk) 05:38, 7 April 2019 (UTC) Got to love a bit of bacon in life, especially bacon whisky.[reply]

Previous participation

• See some editors previously listed as interested in participation, at:
  • Wikipedia:Bacon WikiCup
  • User:SuperHamster/Bacon Challenge 2011
  • User:SuperHamster/Bacon WikiCup 2011
  • User:SuperHamster/Bacon WikiCup 2011/Submissions
  • User:Sky Attacker/Bacon WikiCup 2010
  • User:ChildofMidnight/Bacon Challenge 2010
  • User:Kelapstick/Bacon Cabal

Please feel free to list your new Bacon-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them, are at least over 1,500 characters, don't have any dispute templates on them, and cite their sources, should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Wikipedia Main Page.

• Ginger Pig - created 24 June 2014
• Eat Frozen Pork - DYK on 17 June 2014
• Bacon soda – created 1 May 2014
• Bacon cake – created 24 March 2014
• Pork jowl – July 2012
• Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival – Feb. 2011
• Bacon jam – Feb. 2011
• Skillet Street Food – Feb. 2011
• Bacon ice cream – Jan. 2011
• Robert Bacon (writer) – Jan. 2011
• Nathaniel Bacon (painter, fl. 1640) – Jan. 2011
• Don't Forget the Bacon! – created on 24 October 2010

Assessment

• /Assessment - dedicated assessment page for project.

Peer review

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

• Category:Bacon

Category tree display

1. {{Bacon}} - Navigation bar used at the bottom of articles
2. {{WikiProject Food and drink|bacon=yes}} - Project banner used on talk pages
3. Barnstar — User:Kelapstick/Bacon Cabal/Bacon barnstar

• Placing {{User Bacon}} on your user page creates:

This user is a member of WikiProject Bacon. talk | recent changes | stubs

• Placing {{User bacon 1}} on your user page creates:

This user is a member of WikiProject Bacon. talk | recent changes | stubs

To invite editors to join the project, add the following to a new section on user talk pages: {{subst:WikiProject Bacon invitation}}, which automatically produces the following, (including the talk page section header, the recipient's name and your signature):

Invitation to WikiProject Bacon

Hello, WikiProject Bacon. You are invited to join WikiProject Bacon, a WikiProject and resource dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of bacon and bacon-related topics. To join the project, just add your name to the member list. ~~~~

• reFill – Edits bare url references: adds title, dates, publisher, etc.

• This project's parent is WP:WikiProject Food and drink.
• WikiProject Breakfast