Wikipedia:WikiProject Portuguese geography

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Welcome to WikiProject Portuguese geography!
Map of Portugal
Map of Portugal

Contents

[edit] Aims

  • To create general guidelines and standards to use in articles related to Portuguese geography (e.g. municipalities, parishes, regions, rivers, mountains).
  • To facilitate & encourage translation of existing Portuguese articles from other wikis.
  • To attract Portuense editors to the English WP and work together on articles and copyediting

[edit] Members

[edit] To do

  • Expand the main article, Geography of Portugal.
  • Improve the Subdivisions of Portugal article.
  • Analyze the present standard for articles about Portuguese districts (e.g. District of Faro) and propose any changes.
  • Analyze the present standard for articles about Portuguese municipalities (e.g. Alcácer do Sal) and propose any changes.
  • Analyze the present standard for articles about Portuguese parishes (e.g. Cedofeita) and propose any changes.
  • All of the ~4200 Portuguese parishes have an article in PT Wiki, help translating them according to the guidelines.

[edit] Guidelines

[edit] Municipalities

  • Introduction
  • Infobox
  • Geography
    • Rivers
    • Mountains
    • Other geological features
  • Location and subdivisions
    • District of the municipality, former region (province), NUTS II and III
    • Borders
    • List of parishes
    • Cities and towns
  • History (for the district capitals perhaps a separate link would be good)
    • Foundation and foral
    • Important events in the history of Portugal
    • Important events in the municipality
  • Government
  • Demographics
  • Economy
  • Culture
    • Cuisine
    • Artifacts
    • Music and dances
    • Holidays, feasts, feiras and calendar events
    • Religion
    • Sports
  • Turism
    • Beaches
    • Resorts and hotels
    • Points of interest
  • Buildings and architecture
    • Ex-libris
  • Transportation
    • Major roads and highways
    • Trains
    • Airports, heliports, air-bases
  • Education and research
  • Sister cities
  • See also
  • References
  • External links
  • District template

[edit] Parishes

  • Introduction
  • Infobox
  • Location
  • Demographics
  • History
  • Heraldry
  • Landmarks


  • Don't forget that the disambiguation format should be Parish (Municipality).

[edit] Templates

[edit] Municipalities with all the parishes created and formatted

Add any municipalities you find (they are just a few). Several municipalities in Azores, Madeira and the municipality of Bragança already have all the parishes with article, however, they are not formatted according to the standards.

[edit] Project news

  • I'm creating several templates of the "parishes by municipality" type, if you want to help, check Template:Parishes of Almada, for example. Mário 17:10, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hub pages

[edit] Main

[edit] Districts

[edit] Municipalities

[edit] Parishes

[edit] Related Projects