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[edit] County naming conventions

See also Wikipedia:Naming conventions (places) which has a section on 'Counties of Britain'. To make progress on county articles we may need to revise these conventions and hold a new vote if necessary. The convention is currently being ignored in a number of articles. We should either adhere to it or change it. Chris Jefferies 1 July 2005 14:21 (UTC)


[edit] InfoBoxes

There needs to be some suggestions, somewhere, about the kinds of InfoBoxes that can be added to these entries. I know there appear to be InfoBoxes for the Counties and the Districts (at least in England), but perhaps these need documenting here? Also, given that there are InfoBoxes for Counties, Districts, and Settlements (at least in England!), I think there is a need to complete this by having an InfoBox for Civil Parishes. Such an InfoBox would at least specify the name, its position within the district and county, and its area and population. The usual kind of things, in fact. What do people think about and suggest for fields in such an InfoBox? Should there be an InfoBox at all? I would definitely have a use for one, myself, as part of the work I am doing on the Cheshire project.  DDStretch  (talk) 13:10, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

There is already a parish infobox for parishes of Penwith district (see St. Buryan for example) which is planned to be expanded across all Cornish parishes Mammal4 14:37, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for that. Would it be possible to make use of that for ourselves? Can it be modified in any way?  DDStretch  (talk) 14:41, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
Yes - Template:Cornwallparish is the template I've drawn up for this, so you would only need to add {{Cornwallparish}} to the relevent pages, and then the shorthand for the information. It would be relatively simple to rename the template to UKparish. The style of the infobox is consistent with that of UK county infoboxes. The boxes currently on the penwith parishes are all written in longhand at the moment as I hadn't worked out what templates were for when I originally put them in!Mammal4 14:46, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
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