Wikipedia:Geographical infoboxes

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Wikipedia has a large number of geography related infoboxes, for a very partial listing see Wikipedia:Infobox templates#Geography. One of these templates appears on most articles for cities, national subdivisions, and countries, which as a group are likely 5-10% of Wikipedia's 1,533,770 articles. This guideline suggests a common look and feel for these templates, using styles defined in common.css, to help ensure a consistent visual appearance for geography-related articles.

1) These guidelines shall apply to Template:Infobox Country, all similar country-specific infoboxes, and all city and national subdivision infobox templates, collectively called geographical place infoboxes.

2) All geographical place infoboxes shall use CSS class infobox geography, as defined in common.css with no style overrides.

3) No geographical place infobox shall use embedded <br> in corresponding label and value cells to define subrows. This technique makes the content difficult to understand if using a non-visual browser (such as a screen reader).

4) Row labels shall use the HTML TH tag (or wikitable equivalent, i.e. !).

5) Collections of related rows shall use no CSS styles to create or inhibit borders other than the mergedtoprow, mergedrow, and mergedbottomrow styles defined in common.css.

The guidelines are not agreed yet, see wikipedia talk:Geographical infoboxes. Template:Infobox City, Template:Infobox U.S. state, and Template:Japanese prefecture all conform to this guideline. Template:Infobox Country currently does not.