Wikipedia:WikiProject Cities

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Scope

This WikiProject aims primarily to provide information and a consistent format for cities of the world. "Cities" include municipalities and other civil divisions, including cities, towns, villages, hamlets, townships, unincorporated communities, sections of municipalities, and neighborhoods. For specific details on U.S. municipalities, see U.S. municipality notes.

Goals
  1. Define departments.
  2. Visit the Capital City article of every Nation to rate it for priority and class with {{WPCities}}. (Note: This has largely been done for capital cities in North/South America, Europe, Africa, and part of the Mid-East. Still needs to be done for Asia & Oceania, and possibly the Caribbean. Dr. Cash 06:20, 27 August 2007 (UTC))
  3. We need to edit the text of the article naming convention section to incorporate the standards for international cities. I think it's just the common name of the city with no state or province added. Could somebody double-check this?
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[edit] Templates

Templates are used within articles to provide a consistent look to the messages placed into them

To use it, copy the format located at Template:Infobox Settlement and substitute the settlement's information in the parameters section as directed on the Infobox template page. See San Jose, California for example.

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[edit] Participants

Here is a list of members of WikiProject Cities, together with some of their interests. To join the group simply add yourself to the list of participants, being sure to maintain alphabetical order.

  Name  Talk page   Notes and interests
Abernaki U, T, C
Acs4b U, T, C I would like to help out by expanding and improving articles on Malaysian cities and Singapore as a whole, where possible. The former requires some attention.
Akbeancounter U, T, C Working on rural Alaska stubs.
Alan.ca U, T, C
Amadscientist U, T, C California cities and Lake Tahoe area.
Amerique U, T, C California cities, particularly in the Inland Empire, and university towns.
Antonw1 U, T, C
Aqwis U, T, C
Arkyan U, T, C
Aude U, T, C
Auroranorth U, T, C
Beland U, T, C
Bigcheesebebbs U, T, C
Bkonrad U, T, C
Blofeld of SPECTRE U, T, C I've created over 100 locator maps so cities in every country can have an infobox. Concentrating on adding content in the developing parts of the world to couteract systematic bias, notably Latin America, Africa and Asian cities and adding the pin locator maps to existing stubs
Blue80 U, T, C
Bob rulz U, T, C Focus mostly on cities in Utah, but also plan to be involved in reviewing featured article candidates.
Brien Clark U, T, C Southern California.
Brz7 U, T, C
Buaidh U, T, C Focused on U.S. states of Colorado and Wyoming.
CoolKoon U, T, C Interested/Involved mainly in the cities of Bratislava and Budapest.
Cradel U, T, C Albanian Cities (including : Albania , Kosovo , Montenegro , Macedonia and last + least the shitty country
Cyberjunkie U, T, C
Darwinek U, T, C
Davodd U, T, C
DDStretch U, T, C UK geography, including its counties, districts, civil parishes, towns, cities, and villages. Special interest in Cheshire and its settlements, etc.
Dr. Cash U, T, C
Editor19841 U, T, C I can help with cities and towns of the western United States.
EdwinCasadoBaez U, T, C Could help out greatly for Dominican Republic cities; helping with Santo Domingo, D.R. City article buildup.
Ezhiki U, T, C Can help with Russian cities and towns.
Folks_at_137 U, T, C Scattergun approach; try to extend coverage outside North America.
Freechild U, T, C Washington, New Mexico and Nebraska.
FreshFruitsRule U, T, C Can help with towns and cities in Canada.
Gregorik U, T, C Central Europe mostly.
Harpchad U, T, C
Hdt83 U, T, C Remove vandalism and nonsense edits. Tags cities with the Wikiproject Cities. Mostly in Washington State but will go around to others.
Hjal U, T, C San Franciso Bay Area, California, parts of Indiana & Minnesota.
Huwmanbeing U, T, C Working to create/improve articles for cities and towns in western Indiana.
Indoles U, T, C Majority of my contributions will be to NYC-related articles.
Jamesontai U, T, C San Francisco, California; Melbourne, Florida and the surrounding Florida Space Coast cities.
Jasenlee U, T, C
Jaxfl U, T, C Mainly Florida and Georgia cities.
Je suis U, T, C
Joowwww U, T, C Cornwall towns and city, Chinese cities
Justmakingonearticle U, T, C Michigan and Macedonia cities and towns
Jza84 U, T, C Work closely with WP:GM and WP:UKGEO and have developed WP:UKCITIES
Kaldari U, T, C
Kraftlos U, T, C Cities in Washington for now.
krm500 U, T, C
Leitz U, T, C
Lostvalley U, T, C
LouI U, T, C
Ludahai U, T, C Currently working on the Taichung City page (which is in serious need of attention) and in the future will work on other central Taiwan pages.
Macgreco U, T, C
Mal U, T, C The Belfast Project.
Maurice27 U, T, C Spanish Cities.
Meco U, T, C Norway initially.
MJCdetroit U, T, C
MKS U, T, C Love social sciences what can I say.
Mm40 U, T, C I'll edit anything and lives in NJ, U. S.
Mpalmer22 U, T, C I work with Peter Greenberg and have a collection of Off-the-Brochure guides to a number of cities. Please contatct me at mpalmer at yoiva.com if you would be interested in them.
MTLskyline U, T, C I mostly focus on cities in Quebec, Canada
Nando Cdl U, T, C Latin American Cities
Nach0king U, T, C
Napoleon_Dynamite42 U, T, C
New4325 U, T, C Nebraska's cities
Nhl4hamilton U, T, C At your service.
Nichalp U, T, C
Noldoaran U, T, C
NuclearVacuum U, T, C I am into world cities and forming some standards for city articles and templates (like Templates of city populations).
O U, T, C Chinese cities, occasionally U.S. cities.
OHWiki U, T, C Working on bringing Mansfield, Ohio to GA status, I may also try to help-out on other Ohio city articles as well.
Patricknoddy U, T, C
Pentawing U, T, C
Petersam U, T, C
Pigsonthewing U, T, C Chiefly interested in the use of coordinates, infoboxes and microformats (see the microformats project).
Postoak U, T, C
Ram-Man U, T, C
Raphaelmak U, T, C Mainly Hong Kong. Trying to bring articles on other cities in the world to FA status.
Redjar U, T, C
RJN U, T, C
Rko202 U, T, C Alabama, Arizona, Florida, New Jersey, and New York cities.
Rudget U, T, C Helped bring: Didsbury, London, and Manchester to GA Status, and helped bring Manchester to FA status. Currently trying to bring Greater Manchester, to GA status and Crawley to FA status.
Rvwedd U, T, C
Sahmeditor U, T, C
Seraphimblade U, T, C
Seth Ilys U, T, C Coordinator of the User:Seth Ilys/Dot Project.
SilkTork U, T, C
Skillz187 U, T, C Helping with Miami-Dade County municipalities.
Susanlesch U, T, C Plate is full but maybe can edit.
Taifarious1 U, T, C I work on NZ cities, Mainly Auckland but extensively on Los Angeles related arts. I created WikiProject Los Angeles and Wikiproject Auckland aswell.
The lifted lorax U, T, C Ecuador, especially in the southern provinces. Currently working on Loja and surrounds. I'll update other Ecuador stubs as I visit the cities.
ThePromenader U, T, C
TREYWiki U, T, C Erie, PA.
Trodaikid1983 U, T, C Colorado cities, Mountain West region.
Trulystand700 U, T, C Eastern seaboard cities, New York City.
Vaoverland U, T, C
vbofficial U, T, C I am trying to help with as many Southern Ohio cities and cities along the Ohio River. I am also trying to contribute to cities I have visited, especially in the Outer Banks, NC region.
Vidioman U, T, C I've been working on communities in Northern Ontario and some in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
Vpuliva U, T, C Been working on communities in Maryland and some in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Virginia, New York, Georgia, and South Carolina (generally American East Coast cities).
Wikiacc U, T, C
Wikipedian1234 U, T, C I can help with cities in Maryland and other places on the east coast.
WTGDMan1986 U, T, C I was actually looking for a WikiProject Canada userbox, but that's OK--I can help remove vandalism.
Zodiiak U, T, C Working on bringing Newark, NJ back to FA status.

[edit] Progress

Click on the category listing in the table below to view all articles in that category. See the article's talk page for more information about the article's status, including its featured article review process, good article review process, and peer review (if available).

WikiProject Cities
articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 8 18 13 23 5 67
A 1 1 1 1 4
Good article GA 2 16 19 17 5 59
B 96 149 176 191 29 641
Start 77 52 195 2145 108 2577
Stub 27 14 280 3150 154 3625
List 1 4 12 2 19
Assessed 211 250 688 5539 304 6992
Unassessed 1 1 3 1 4347 4353
Total 212 251 691 5540 4651 11345

[edit] Article naming conventions

See also: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (city names)

Each city shall be called by the common name of the city, followed by its state:

All other possible common names for the city should re-direct to the main city entry. Ideally, it should be that every city has an entry titled in the CITY NAME, STATE NAME manner. New York City, Chicago, and Philadelphia are the sole exceptions to this rule. It should be noted that several other exceptions to this rule have been suggested, and this has been debated numerous times in the past, with no consensus being reached. Please bring up possible exceptions at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Cities before moving articles.

In the event of a naming conflict (e.g. a township and a borough having the same name), it should be called by its city, county (with the word "County" removed), and state. Also if the location is a township only, you should attach the word "Township" to its name. (Example: [[Manor Township, Lancaster, Pennsylvania]]).

A discussion forum to develop a standard for international cities which have changed hands in modern history and therefore had another "official" name can be found at /Names issues.

[edit] Article structure guidelines

[edit] Related WikiProjects

The parent of this WikiProject is the WikiProject Countries.

[edit] Climate

For proposed infoboxes/city climate graphs, see WikiProject Climate

[edit] Descendant projects

Descendant WikiProject Cities include:

Asian cities and city-states
Dubai, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore
Australian cities
Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Geelong, Melbourne, Perth, Sydney, Townsville
Canadian cities
Montreal, Ottawa, Prescott-Russell, Toronto, Vancouver
European cities and regions
Bedfordshire, Belfast, Belgrade, Brighton, Bristol, Cheshire, Cornwall, Devon, Greater Manchester, Hertfordshire, Kent, Frankfurt, London, Munich, North East England, Porto, Sheffield, Somerset, Surrey, West Midlands, Vienna
New Zealand Cities
Auckland
US cities and regions
Austin, Atlanta, Bluegrass Region (KY), Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Columbia (MO), Cumberland-MD-WV-PA, Dallas-Fort Worth, Erie, Houston, Jacksonville, Indianapolis, KYOVA Region (KY, OH, WV), Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Louisville, Miami, Myrtle Beach, New Orleans, New York City, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, San Francisco Bay Area, Santa Barbara County (CA), Seattle, Shreveport, Southern California, Syracuse, Tampa Bay Area, Youngstown
See also: List of U.S. WikiProjects


Related WikiProject Cities pages:

Other related projects include:

[edit] External links

The following list of links might be useful to editors when editing or maintaining city articles. Please feel free to share any useful links that you think others might find useful.