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[edit] FritzBot and ongoing attempt to document Mexican municipalities

There is a lively discussion about the proposal to have a bot create articles for all of the worlds documented towns and villages, see Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/FritzpollBot. There are already a LOT of responses on this page and I have only scanned the various comments. This may affect my use of Wikipedia for my English classes as such a bot would create a ton of articles about Mexican towns and villages... whether such have municipal status or not. If such bot does go forward and do this, I would really like to see some kind of consensus about whether to combine town/municipality articles or not. After struggling with the issue and with my students, I really do think that in most cases, especially dealing with central and southern Mexico (which I am more familiar with), combining the two is the most logical choice, as for many, either the town is the only community of any real size (like most cases in Oaxaca) or conversely, the city and the municipality are co-extensive. As for naming convention, naming such combined articles seems to be best done under the town/village's name (most have the same name, at least partially but where the are different, the city name would be more distinctive in most cases... and the bot is going to create a page with the town/village's full name anyway. For towns/municipalities that have the same common name (like Atizapán or Acatlán), disambiguation pages will serve.

Another issue is standardizing infoboxes... I would like to see one for towns with municipal status and towns/villages without such. Ive made a first attempt at such at the Acambay, Mexico State page, though you will have to see it in edit mode to see all the information I think needs to be in there. I have not created one for non-municipal towns/villages but such should include a line stating which municipality it belongs to.

I am posting similar messages to Wikipedia:WikiProject Infoboxes and Wikipedia:WikiProject Mexico.Thelmadatter (talk) 14:30, 5 June 2008 (UTC)