Wikipedia:Cemeteries

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This is a styleguide for for writing about cemeteries.

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[edit] Inclusion

A cemetery should have at least one notable person buried to have its own article listing.

[edit] List of cemeteries

Other cemeteries should be listed in their list by county and state.

  • List of cemeteries in Somerset County, New Jersey

[edit] Style

See a typical cemetery entry at Princeton Cemetery. Follow the link to the category and see the subcategories and supercategories.

[edit] United States

Cemeteries are named with the city they are in: Holy Name Cemetery is named Holy Name Cemetery, Jersey City. If there are two cemeteries in two cities with same name, further diambiguation should use the state: Greenwood Cemetery, Franklin should become Greenwood Cemetery, Franklin, New Jersey and Greenwood Cemetery, Franklin, New York

[edit] Disambiguation

It also helps to create a disamiguation page for common cemetery names.

[edit] Headings

Links to people buried that have biographies should be under the heading:

  • ==Notable burials==

[edit] Categories

  • [[:Category:Cemeteries in New State]]
  • [[:Category:Cemeteries in New Large City]]

[edit] Examples

[edit] Notable burials

there is no need to wikify the dates in a list. There is no need to provide a lengthy description of someone who already has an entry in Wikipedia. However if the person is not in Wikipedia, and you think they are notable please add enough information so that somone who will be writing their biography later will be able to distinguish them. The lengthy description below would be useful if there was no entry in Wikipedia.

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