Wikipedia:WikiProject Country subdivisions
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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to country subdivisions. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.
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[edit] Scope
This WikiProject aims primarily to provide information and a consistent format for the subnational divisions of the world. These include the officially-designated divisions of countries, from states to provinces to prefectures to counties to voivodships to oblasts, and many more.
[edit] Parentage
The parent of this WikiProject is Countries.
[edit] Descendant WikiProjects
The descendants of this WikiProject are:
- Chinese provinces
- Chinese cities
- Chinese counties
- Dutch municipalities
- Finnish provinces
- French régions
- German districts
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Historical Hungarian counties
- Japanese prefectures
- Norway
- Pakistani districts
- Philippine LGUs
- Polish voivodships
- Russian federal subjects
- Swedish counties
- Swedish provinces
- Swedish municipalities
- Swiss municipalities
- Thai provinces
- UK subdivisions
- Ukrainian subdivisions
- U.S. regions
- Vietnamese provinces
[edit] Similiar WikiProjects
- for naming in geography: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Rivers#Naming
- for subdivisions of now-defunct states: Wikipedia:WikiProject Subdivisions of former countries
[edit] Participants
- User:Tobias Conradi -- User_talk:Tobias Conradi
- Earl Andrew 03:52, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC) -- User_talk:Earl Andrew
- Golbez -- User_talk:Golbez
- Big Adamsky 13:09, 30 January 2006 (UTC) -- User_talk:Big Adamsky
- E Pluribus Anthony | talk | 13:54, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
- Húsönd -- User talk:Húsönd
- David Kernow (belatedly!)
[edit] Structure
First of all, the name is very important. The standard is still being drafted. People redirected here from articles should please look at the table on that page and see how it can be improved. No one knows how every single subnational entity is named; we need your help!
None of the structures here are to be imposed upon the child WikiProjects. Those are typically run by people who know their countries very well, and know exactly how to express them. For all other countries, this structure is useful until an organized project can be made.
Each article should at the very least contain the basic information - Name, local name, population if available, geographic location within country, etc. An infobox should be supplied even if not enough information is available; an infobox will likely need to be designed, a global one for those countries without specific projects. Those with specific projects likely already have a template.
Each article should list the subnational entities contained within that entity; i.e. an article on a U.S. state would include a list of the counties in that state, or a link to said list.
[edit] Hierarchy definition
No classification of this project has been defined.
[edit] Goals
The goal of this project is to create an article for every first- and second-level subnational division, and hopefully many below that as well. It is also to coordinate such things as naming.
[edit] Naming
see also: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (country subdivisions)
- Reduce number of variants of article titles for subnational entities - create a standard disambiguation format. Include category names.
- for details see Wikipedia:WikiProject Country subdivisions/Naming
[edit] General strategy and discussion forums
- /General
- /Strategy
