Wikipedia:WikiProject Cities#Template for a U.S. City

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Welcome to WikiProject Cities

Scope

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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 {{tl|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. Then proceed toward most popular cities and regional centers, as well as capitals and important cities of sub-national administrative area.

Portal

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Article alerts

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=Articles that need...=

  • attention ({{PAGESINCATEGORY:WikiProject Cities articles needing attention}})
  • infoboxes ({{PAGESINCATEGORY:WikiProject Cities articles needing infoboxes}})

Templates

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

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  • {{tl|WikiProject Cities}} – Talk page project banner

=Infoboxes=

Infoboxes are not required.

  • {{tl|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 an example.
  • {{tl|Infobox Australian place}} – Australian variation of the standard infobox.
  • {{tl|Infobox Russian inhabited locality}} – for cities in Russia.
  • {{tl|Weather box}} – for presenting temperature and precipitation information in a standard format
  • {{tl|Geographic location}} – Links to the surrounding areas

=Userbox=

  • {{tl|User WPCities}}

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Participants

A list of members of WikiProject Cities, together with some of their interests, is at Wikipedia:WikiProject Cities/participants. To join the group simply add yourself to the list, in alphabetical order.

Progress

Article guidelines and conventions

Taskforces

Related WikiProjects

The parent of this project is WikiProject Countries.

=Climate=

For proposed infoboxes/city climate graphs, see: WikiProject Climate

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Resources

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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.

  • [http://census.ac.uk/guides/inter_census.aspx International census resources] – An index of census sites for different world geographies
  • [http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu Eurostat] – Census & demographic data from the European commission
  • [http://www.census.gov/ U.S. Census Bureau] – Census & demographic data (the [http://factfinder.census.gov/ FactFinder] is also useful here).
  • [http://www.ons.gov.uk/census U.K. Office for National Statistics] – Census & demographic data
  • [http://www.thegreenpapers.com/slg/ The Green Papers: United States (of America) Federal, State, and Local Government] – General information on US data; also includes more specific information on [http://www.thegreenpapers.com/slg/im.phtml incorporated municipalities]. You can get specific information on towns in a given state by going to [http://www.thegreenpapers.com/slg/localities.phtml?state= http://www.thegreenpapers.com/slg/localities.phtml?state=] (and putting the state's two-letter postal abbreviation at the end of the URL).
  • [http://www.sister-cities.org/ Sister Cities International, Inc.] – Information on sister cities programs and relationships among cities.
  • Any postcard first published in the U.S. before 1978 without an explicit copyright notice is PD.

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