Template talk:Infobox Town MA

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Infobox Town MA is part of WikiProject Massachusetts, an effort to create, expand, and improve Massachusetts-related articles to a feature-quality standard.

[edit] Where you can see this template

• Abington, Massachusetts
• Acton, Massachusetts
• Merrimac, Massachusetts
• Shrewsbury, Massachusetts
• Westborough, Massachusetts

[edit] Where to get information

• Demographics: from the article itself
• Geography: from the article itself
• County: from the article itself
• Year settled/incorporated: from the article itself (if not there, then Google or Mass.gov)
• "Location within Massachusetts" image: take the general image located here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Ma_towns.png and fill in the town with red (Photoshop preferred). Then, upload the new image with the name "Ma_towns_TOWNNAMEHERE" with "TOWNNAMEHERE" as the name of the town
• Nickname: town web site, Google, Mass.gov web site
• Town seal image: from the Mass.gov Commonwealth Communities page (http://www.mass.gov/dhcd/iprofile/seals/default.htm )

[edit] Usage

This is based on the article Westborough, Massachusetts, as of 04:51, 16 April 2006 (UTC). Try to fill in as many fields as possible, and leave fields with unknown or irrelavent information blank after the equal sign (this will let people fill in the information later without having to add the row into the template). Note that some fields will always be blank for certain towns (for example, some towns might not have a nickname). Blank fields do not show up, with the exception of the following: official_name, polulation_total, population_as_of, total_area, area_land, and area_water. Data for these fields exist (and should be easy to find) for all towns in Massachusetts.

Westborough, Massachusetts

Nathan Fisher House, Westborough
Seal
Nickname: "The Hundredth Town"
Settled: 1675 – Incorporated: 1717
Zip Code(s): 01581 – Area Code(s): 508/774
Official website: http://www.town.westborough.ma.us/Home/
Location
Location in Massachusetts
Government
County	Worcester County
Form of Government	Open town meeting
Town Manager	John Smith
Board of Selectmen	Lydia Goldblatt, Chair George Barrette Susan Abladian Denzil Drewry Leigh Emery
Geography
Area
Total	21.6 mi² / 56.0 km²
Land	20.5 mi² / 53.1 km²
Water	1.1 mi² / 2.8 km²
Coordinates	42°16′0″ N 71°37′0″ W
Elevation	330 ft / 100 m
Time zone	Eastern (UTC-5)
Summer (DST)	Eastern (UTC-4)
Population
Total (2000)	17,997
Density	876.9 mi² / 338.6/km²

{{Infobox Town MA
| official_name = Westborough, Massachusetts
| nickname = The Hundredth Town
| image_town = Nathan_Fisher_House,_Westborough,_Massachusetts.jpg
| image_town_caption = Nathan Fisher House, Westborough
| image_seal = Westborough_MA_Town_Seal.gif
| image_flag = 
| image_map = Westborough_ma_highlight.png
| county_name = [[Worcester County, Massachusetts|Worcester County]]
| year_settled = 1675
| year_incorporated = 1717
| government_name = Open [[town meeting]]
| leader_title = [[Town Manager]]
| leader_name = John Smith
| board_of_selectmen = Lydia Goldblatt, Chair<br>George Barrette<br>Susan Abladian<br>Denzil Drewry<br>Leigh Emery
| area_total = 21.6 [[mi²]] / 56.0
| area_land = 20.5 [[mi²]] / 53.1
| area_water = 1.1 [[mi²]] / 2.8
| population_as_of = 2000
| population_total = 17,997
| population_density =  876.9 [[mi²]] / 338.6
| elevation = 330 [[Foot (unit of length)|ft]] / 100
| timezone = [[Eastern Standard Time Zone|Eastern]]
| utc_offset = -5
| timezone_DST = [[Eastern Standard Time Zone|Eastern]]
| utc_offset_DST = -4
| latd=42 |latm=16 |lats=0 |latNS=N
| longd=71 |longm=37 |longs=0 |longEW=W
| website = http://www.town.westborough.ma.us/Home/
| zip_code = 01581
| area_code = [[Area code 508|508]]/[[Area code 774|774]]
| footnotes = 
}}

[edit] Population density units

It seems that the population density units in many of the the articles that use this template incorrectly use "mi²" as the unit for population density (rather than "/mi² or " per mi²"). I have tried to change this for several of the pages using this template (e.g. see this edit), but it is somewhat tedious. Is this something a bot could do?--GregRM 17:24, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

• I just fixed this problem in all 350 Massachusetts city and town articles that use this template. --CapitalR 07:03, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Good job...thanks a lot!--GregRM 00:18, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] What's the point of this template?

What makes this template significantly different from {{Infobox City}} that you have to have a completely separate template? howcheng {chat} 21:55, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

• Mostly the government stuff; which is fairly unique to New England states (and some of NY too).—Markles 02:21, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Be warned. Template:Infobox Town NH was totally deleted without warning by User:Drinibot a stooge (aka bot) of User:Drini. MA could be next. --Assawyer 05:03, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Space

The different community articles all have an awkward space at the top of them. Is that inserted somewhere in this template? Sahasrahla 08:30, 27 August 2006 (UTC)