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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
- Define departments.
- 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))
- We need to edit the text of the section about the conventions for naming cities in order 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?
Articles currently under review
- none at the present time
- none at the present time
- Arad, Israel
- Poole
- Los Angeles, California
- Melbourne
- Holywell, Eastbourne
- Meads
- Chiprovtsi
- London
- Davenport, Iowa
Announcements
- The peer review for * Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan has now concluded. Please click on the city name (previous link) to view the review for suggestions on improving the article. Dr. Cash (talk) 14:38, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
- Good article nominations for Omaha, Nebraska, Tameside, and Ashton-under-Lyne have concluded and the articles were promoted. The good article nominations for Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan and Sandhikharka have concluded; the articles were not promoted. Dr. Cash (talk) 15:43, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
- The peer reviews for Šalata, Royal Tunbridge Wells, and Smithfield, London have concluded. --Starstriker7(Say hior see my works) 02:00, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
- Royal Tunbridge Wells was promoted to Good Article status. epicAdam(talk) 21:33, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
- The good article nomination for Elkhart County, Indiana has closed. The article was not promoted. epicAdam(talk) 15:34, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
- The featured article review for Omaha, Nebraska has closed. The article was not promoted. epicAdam(talk) 20:24, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
- Alanya was featured on the main page as Today's Featured Article on September 6, 2008. Kensplanet (talk) 04:00, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
- Mangalore was promoted to featured article status on August 31, 2008. -epicAdam(talk) 20:44, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
- The peer reviews for Montreal and Lincolnshire, Illinois have closed. -epicAdam(talk) 20:44, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
- The FAR for History of Limerick has closed. The article was demoted. -epicAdam(talk) 20:36, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
- Peer reviews for Saint Paul, Minnesota, Beijing, Kirkcaldy, Lucknow, Banagher, and Dysert, Fife have now been closed. Click on the city name to view the review. Dr. Cash (talk) 14:24, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
- The featured article candidacy for Sale, Greater Manchester has closed. It was not promoted. Click here to view the review. Dr. Cash (talk) 14:24, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
- The Peer Review for Mangalore has closed. Comments regarding the article's improvement can be found here. It is now a featured article candidate. Kensplanet (talk) 16:03, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
- The Featured Article Review for Ahmedabad has concluded. The article was kept. Dr. Cash (talk) 15:07, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
- The GAR for Los Angeles, California has closed. The article was demoted. epicAdam (talk) 19:14, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
- The FAC for Mangalore has failed. The review is available here for an explanation of the issues. Kensplanet (talk) 16:16, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
- The FAR for Jerusalem has closed. The article was demoted. Kensplanet (talk) 16:16, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
Contents |
Templates
Templates are used within articles to provide a consistent look to the messages placed into them
- {{WPCities}} - Talk page project banner
- {{Infobox Settlement}} - Standard infobox template for most types of settlements like cities, towns, villages, etc.
- 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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- {{Infobox Australian Place}} - Australian variation of the standard infobox.
- {{Infobox Indian Jurisdiction}} - Indian template
- {{Infobox Weather}} - for presenting temperature and precipitation information in a standard format
- {{Geographic Location (8-way)}}-Links to the surrounding areas
userbox
- {{User WPCities}}
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 | ||
| Alanraywiki | U, T, C | Southern California cities | |
| 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 | |
| Critical Chris | U, T, C | I live in Oakland and enjoy editing articles on Oakland's neighborhoods. I've formally submitted the article on Oakland's Lakeside Apartments District for peer review. Also, I believe the original assessment of this article underestimated the neighborhoods significance...at the present Oakland's Planning Commission is revising height and zoning regulations around the entire Central Business District, to include next to areas of primary historic importance. | |
| Cyberjunkie | U, T, C | ||
| Darwinek | U, T, C | ||
| Davodd | U, T, C | ||
| Davumaya | U, T, C | North American cities, primarily United States Midwest. Templates, graphics, etc. Dabble in Hong Kong related pages. | |
| 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 | ||
| Dulaney Ward | 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. | |
| Epicadam | U, T, C | ||
| 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. | |
| JD Lambert | U, T, C | Significant contributions to Rome, Georgia. | |
| 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 | ||
| Kensplanet | 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 | Hamilton, Ontario and surrounding area. | |
| Nichalp | U, T, C | ||
| Noah03 | U, T, C | Northeast cities. Contributed significantly to (and nominated) the NYC article with a lost account. | |
| 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. | |
| onewayout12 | U, T, C | I'll be working on Yolo County, CA cities. | |
| Orlady | U, T, C | I contribute to numerous articles about U.S. cities, particularly but not exclusively in Tennessee. | |
| 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 | ||
| Presidentman | <spanstyle="white-space: nowrap;">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 | ||
| Rdrgz93 | U, T, C | California, especially Monterey County | |
| RJN | U, T, C | ||
| Rko202 | U, T, C | Alabama, Arizona, Florida, New Jersey, and New York cities. | |
| 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. | |
| Starstriker7 | U, T, C | I'll edit in whatever viable information I come across. | |
| Suyogaerospace | U, T, C | Mumbai | |
| 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 | ||
| Thomas_Paine1776 | U, T, | ||
| TheSuave | U, T, C | London and New York City articles | |
| 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.
Yosef.garibaldi.gmail (talk) 14:52, 3 September 2008 (UTC) thanks for the good faith : ) ... |
|
| Zodiiak | U, T, C | Working on bringing Newark, NJ back to FA status. | |
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 | |||||||
 FA |
9 | 18 | 12 | 24 | 5 | 68 | |
| A | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 | ||
 GA |
3 | 15 | 20 | 22 | 8 | 68 | |
| B | 93 | 155 | 188 | 195 | 30 | 661 | |
| C | 11 | 25 | 49 | 1 | 86 | ||
| Start | 80 | 63 | 216 | 2412 | 132 | 2903 | |
| Stub | 28 | 14 | 290 | 3713 | 262 | 4307 | |
| List | 1 | 6 | 13 | 3 | 23 | ||
| Assessed | 215 | 278 | 759 | 6431 | 441 | 8124 | |
| Unassessed | 6 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 4707 | 4723 | |
| Total | 221 | 280 | 762 | 6436 | 5148 | 12847 | |
Article-naming conventions
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.
Article-structure guidelines
Related WikiProjects
The parent of this WikiProject is the WikiProject Countries.
Climate
For proposed infoboxes/city climate graphs, see WikiProject Climate
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, Rome, Sheffield, Somerset, Surrey, Sussex (West and East), West Midlands, Vienna
- New Zealand Cities
- Auckland
- US cities and regions
- Ames, Austin, Atlanta, Bluegrass Region (KY), Boston, Cape Girardeau, 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:
- Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. States
- Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Counties
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Geography of Poland
- Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Special Districts
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Japan/Districts and municipalites
- WikiProject Urban studies and planning
- WikiProject Architecture
- WikiProject UK geography
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.
- Notes on CT municipalities. This page also has a list of incorporation dates, and notes which entities were originally incorporated as part of Massachusetts.
- Notes on NH municipalities. Also has incorporation dates.
- Also available for =MA, =RI
- More info at: United States (of America) Federal, State, and Local Government
- Official list of CT cities, towns, and boroughs updated url (2008-07-03)
- America As It Was - a huge resource for vintage postcards in the U.S., organized by state. Any postcard first published in the U.S. before 1978 without an explicit copyright notice is PD. Lots of photos, aerial views, and maps of many U.S. cities.
- MCDs and incorporated municipalities in US states, a chart
- Census geography overview
- Census glossary
- Info on PA municipalities
- PA municipalities - List of municipal incorporation dates and dates of first settlement (For a given county, look for a link labeled (for example) "Adams County Municipalities Incorporation Dates")
- Postal abbreviations for US states, which do not appear to be on Wikipedia.
- FIPS 55-3 files fields legend
- FIPS 55-3 codes legend
- FIPS place code files
- Michigan's system of local government (in some ways more a lightweight public-relations piece by the state than a completely accurate delineation, but useful nonetheless)
- Official 2000 Census count for Michigan cities, villages and townships a complete listing of official entities by county
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