Wikipedia:WikiProject Country subdivisions

Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to country subdivisions. This page and its subpages 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 inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

Scope
This WikiProject aims primarily to provide information and a consistent format for the country subdivisions of the world.

Current tasks

 * Use only one infobox template?
 * Improve Naming conventions (country subdivisions) bring it to policy status.
 * Wikipedia_talk:Naming_conventions_(country_subdivisions)
 * country specific
 * Regencies of Indonesia do not all use yet "X Regency" format as is wanted by WikiProject_Indonesia/Naming_conventions. Maybe help them.
 * Districts of Laos need help.

Parentage
The parent of this WikiProject is Countries.

Descendant WikiProjects
The descendants of this WikiProject are:
 * Chinese provinces
 * Chinese cities
 * Chinese counties
 * Finnish provinces
 * French régions
 * French départements
 * German districts
 * Indian states
 * Indian districts
 * Indian cities
 * Japanese prefectures
 * Japanese districts and municipalites
 * Norway
 * Pakistani districts
 * Philippine LGUs
 * Polish voivodships
 * Russian federal subjects
 * Swedish counties
 * Swedish provinces
 * Swedish municipalities
 * Swiss municipalities
 * Thai provinces
 * Thai districts
 * UK subdivisions
 * UK subdivisions (Northern Ireland)
 * UK subdivisions (Scotland)
 * UK subdivisions (Wales)
 * Ukrainian subdivisions
 * U.S. regions
 * U.S. congressional districts
 * U.S. states
 * U.S. counties
 * U.S. Special Districts
 * Vietnamese provinces

Similiar WikiProjects

 * for historical subdivisions: WikiProject Former countries / Subdivisions bureau

Participants

 * Earl Andrew 03:52, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC) -- User_talk:Earl Andrew
 * Golbez -- User_talk:Golbez
 * Big Adamsky 13:09, 30 January 2006 (UTC) -- User_talk:Big Adamsky
 * Húsönd -- User talk:Húsönd
 * David Kernow (belatedly!)
 * Escondites
 * Buaidh
 * MrPanyGoff (talk) 11:59, 17 February 2011 (UTC)
 * CsikosLo

Structure
First of all, the name is very important. The standard is still being drafted. People redirected here from articles should please look at the table on that page and see how it can be improved. No one knows how every single subnational entity is named; we need your help!

None of the structures here are to be imposed upon the child WikiProjects. Those are typically run by people who know their countries very well, and know exactly how to express them. For all other countries, this structure is useful until an organized project can be made.

Each article should at the very least contain the basic information - Name, local name, population if available, geographic location within country, etc. An infobox should be supplied even if not enough information is available; an infobox will likely need to be designed, a global one for those countries without specific projects. Those with specific projects likely already have a template.

Each article should list the subnational entities contained within that entity; i.e. an article on a U.S. state would include a list of the counties in that state, or a link to said list.

Hierarchy definition
No classification of this project has been defined.

Goals
The goal of this project is to create an article for every country subdivison. Each such article should be named consistently and contain an infobox.

Naming
Reduce number of variants of article titles for country subdivisons - create a standard disambiguation format. Include category names.
 * Naming conventions (country subdivisions)
 * WikiProject Country subdivisions/Naming

Infoboxes

 * Category:Geography infobox templates
 * Category:Country subdivision infobox templates
 * Template:Infobox Settlement - also used for country subdivisions, consider standardising on that one. Use WP:BOTREQ to get bot help.

Templates

 * WikiProject Country subdivisions/Templates