User:Nathan Fisher/sandbox

  Welcome to WikiProject Village   Scope  This project to better organize information in articles related to villages. This page and contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please make suggestions and proposals on the talk page, and see the to-do list below (Note: This page is constructed courtesy WP:WikiProject Geography)  Goals 
 * 1) Revive this Wiki Project.
 * 2) Add WikiProject Villages to every village.
 * 3) Develop and implement a common structure to village articles
 * 4) Clarify and improve topic structure
 * 5) Develop some neglected aspects of the topic
 * 6) Ensure NPOV
 * 7) Get all village articles up to A Class standard

Articles that need...

 * attention
 * infoboxes

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

Project banner

 * WikiProject Villages – Talk page project banner

Infoboxes
Infoboxes are not required.
 * Infobox settlement – Standard infobox template for most types of settlements like Villages, 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.
 * Infobox Australian place – Australian variation of the standard infobox.
 * Infobox Russian inhabited locality – for Villages in Russia.
 * Weather box – for presenting temperature and precipitation information in a standard format
 * Geographic location – Links to the surrounding areas
 * Country geographyin "Geography of (Country)" articles, see Category:Geography by country.
 * Infobox islands for islands
 * Infobox mountain for mountains
 * Infobox lake for lakes
 * Infobox river for rivers
 * Infobox crater for craters

Userbox

 * User WikiProject Villages

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

Assessments
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).

Article guidelines and conventions

 * General guidelines
 * Naming conventions (geographic names)
 * Canadian communities
 * Japanese municipalities
 * UK settlements

Related WikiProjects
The parent of this project is WikiProject Geography.

Human geography

 * WikiProject Protected areas
 * WikiProject Countries
 * WikiProject Country subdivisions

Historical human geography

 * WikiProject Former countries
 * WikiProject Subdivisions of former countries

Physical geography

 * WikiProject Rivers
 * WikiProject Lakes
 * WikiProject Mountains
 * WikiProject Glaciers
 * WikiProject Caves
 * WikiProject Waterfalls
 * WikiProject Volcanoes
 * WikiProject Deserts

Other

 * WikiProject Maps
 * WikiProject Urban studies and planning
 * WikiProject Geography of India
 * WikiProject Australian places

Portals

 * Portal:Atlas
 * Portal:Geography

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


 * Geographic references
 * International census resources – An index of census sites for different world geographies
 * Eurostat – Census & demographic data from the European commission
 * U.S. Census Bureau – Census & demographic data (the FactFinder is also useful here).
 * U.K. Office for National Statistics – Census & demographic data

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