Wikipedia:Geographical infoboxes

Wikipedia has a large number of geography related infoboxes, for a very partial listing see Infobox templates. One of these templates appears on most articles for cities, national subdivisions, and countries, which as a group are likely 5-10% of Wikipedia's articles. This guideline suggests a common look and feel for these templates, using styles defined in mediawiki:common.css, to help ensure a consistent visual appearance for geography-related articles.

1) These guidelines shall apply to Template:Infobox Country, all similar country-specific infoboxes, and all city and national subdivision infobox templates, collectively called geographical place infoboxes.

2) All geographical place infoboxes shall use CSS class, as defined in mediawiki:common.css with no style overrides.

3) No geographical place infobox shall use embedded  in corresponding label and value cells to define subrows.  This technique makes the content difficult to understand if using a non-visual browser (such as a screen reader).

4) Row labels shall use the HTML  tag (or wikitable equivalent, i.e. !).

5) Collections of related rows shall use no CSS styles to create or inhibit borders other than the,  , and   styles defined in mediawiki:common.css.


 * The guidelines are not agreed yet, see Wikipedia talk:. Template:Infobox City, Template:Infobox U.S. state, and Template:Japanese prefecture all conform to this guideline. Template:Infobox Country currently does not.