Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian places

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The WikiProject on Australian places is a project aimed towards the standardisation of articles on the cities, towns and suburbs of Australia.

Articles maintained by this WikiProject are grouped in Category:WikiProject Australian places articles by using the place=yes parameter with the {{WP Australia}} template.

Usage: {{WP Australia|place=yes}}

[edit] Scope

This project applies to the eight capital cities their suburbs, regional cities and their suburbs, towns and other communities and settlements with some official endorsement in Australia. Where existing standardisation exists, such as for the "Cities" - actually groupings of suburbs in major cities corresponding to Australian metropolitan local government areas (eg. City of Unley in South Australia), this project should absorb any existing standards and consensi.

The strong focus of this project, however, is to standardise articles about Australian municipalities for which no standardisation exists. Specifically this means we are targetting communities with a population of less than about 15,000, especially those which aren't already using an "Australian city infobox" or "Australian suburb infobox" template.

[edit] Parentage and descendants

Parent project(s): WikiProject Australia (a child of WikiProject Countries)

Descendant project(s): 7 pre-existing WikiProjects for capital cities of Australia; 3 other Australian city projects (see also: Category:WikiProject Australian cities); 1 Australian state-level project

Australian state-level projects:

WikiProject Outback New South Wales (NSW minus the scope of Sydney and Lake Macquarie) started August 2006

Australian capital city projects:

WikiProject Adelaide started October 2004 (Adelaide)
WikiProject Brisbane started January 2005 (Brisbane)
WikiProject Canberra started October 2004 (Canberra)
WikiProject Darwin (not started) (Darwin, Northern Territory)
WikiProject Hobart started October 2004 (Hobart)
WikiProject Melbourne started April 2004 (Melbourne)
WikiProject Perth started March 2005 (Perth)
WikiProject Sydney started September 2004 (Sydney)

Australian regional cities projects:

WikiProject Geelong started January 2006 (Geelong, Victoria)
WikiProject Lake Macquarie started September 2005 (Lake Macquarie)
WikiProject Townsville started August 2006 (Townsville, Queensland)

[edit] Related pages

Similar WikiProjects

Related Portals

Portal:Australia

Related Collaborations

Australian collaboration of the fortnight

Related Regional notice boards

Australian Wikipedians' notice board

Related groups of Wikipedians

see Category:Australian Wikipedians

[edit] Participants

[edit] General strategy and discussion forums

Pre-existing standards and consensi:

Main article: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (places)#Australia

We currently name almost all Australian towns and cities in the format: Town/city name, State name (eg. Wagga Wagga, New South Wales. The exceptions are Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Hobart, Adelaide, Canberra (Perth and Darwin would also qualify by Australian rules, but both lead to disambiguation pages due to global use).

Where the town/city name has or is likely to have other uses somewhere else on earth, a link from the appropriate disambiguation page should be made (eg. Perth contains a link to Perth, Western Australia, and Kingston contains links to several Australian towns).
A redirect from Town/city name should be made whenever the name by itself does not presently require disambiguation (eg Wagga Wagga redirects to Wagga Wagga, New South Wales) and from Town/city nickname if it's extremely common (eg. Wagga).
Where the Town/city, State name format still has conflicts (such as Kingston, South Australia: Kingston SE, South Australia and Kingston-On-Murray, South Australia), the same method of disambiguation that is used within that state should be used.

Due to disambiguation issues, the article about the state of Victoria is Victoria (Australia).

Tasks:

to be added

[edit] Place term definitions

Territory — a region of Australian land directly administered by the Commonwealth government
Territory (state) — a territory of Australia which is mainly treated like a state; refers only to either Northern Territory, Australian Capital Territory which are administered by state-level governments; or possibly Norfolk Island; see: States and territories of Australia
Local Government Area, LGA, City (council), Rural city, Town (council), District (council), Region/Regional (council), Shire, Borough, Municipality/Municipal council, Community government council, Aboriginal council, Island council, Area — a bounded area of land adminstered at a local-level government (the third level of government in Australia); the land of states is typically sectioned completely into LGAs; see Local Government Area
Electoral division — federal electorate; see Divisions of the Australian House of Representatives
Electoral district — a state-level electorate (eg. Morphett)
Landmark

Populated places:

City, Regional city — in common understanding, a metropolis in Australia (eg. Sydney); see City#Australia and New Zealand for official definition
Town — in common understanding, a densely-populated place which isn't a city; see Town#Australia for official meaning

Geographical features:

Ocean
River
Lake
Mountain
Valley, Glen

[edit] Templates

{{WP Australia}} - used on article talk pages to identify and assess Australian place name articles. Remember to add place=yes to automatically group the article into the WikiProject.

[edit] Infoboxes

{{Infobox Australian Place}}

[edit] Stub templates

Incomplete list:

{{Australia-geo-stub}}
- {{Canberra-geo-stub}}
- {{NewSouthWales-geo-stub}}
  - {{Sydney-geo-stub}}
- {{NorthernTerritory-geo-stub}}
- {{Queensland-geo-stub}}
- {{SouthAustralia-geo-stub}}
  - {{Adelaide-geo-stub}}
- {{Tasmania-geo-stub}}
  - {{Tasmania-geo-stub}}
- {{Victoria-geo-stub}}
  - {{Melbourne-geo-stub}}
- {{WesternAustralia-geo-stub}}
{{Australia-road-stub}}

[edit] Categories

Category:Geography of Australia

[edit] Lists

we have lists of our cities and towns already -- to be added
Articles in Category:Postal codes of Australia list all the placenames used for mailing addresses.

[edit] Useful Resources

These are useful online resources to find information for articles.

[edit] National

Placename information

History of Places in Australia

General Data

Demographic infomation by postcode search via domain.com.au
Population can be looked up from the ABS website
Geoscience Australia has a wealth of information about placenames, and is the place to find Lat/long co-ordinates
Elevation fallingrain.com
Climate - Bureau of Meteorology
Miscellaneous Data on localities at Wilkins Tourist Maps
Locality Descriptions and history at Walkabout Australian Travel Guide
Distances between locations search page at travelmate.com