Wikipedia:WikiProject French communes

This WikiProject is an attempt to formulate a template for the French communes and to eventually create an article for each of the 36,782 communes.

Reason for a template is the lack of structure for most of the communes articles, which usually contain some loosely organised phrases. This WikiProject tries to suggest a structure for communes articles which would make them more structured, while also giving them a common look and feel.

Title

 * WikiProject French communes


 * Use the following template on talk pages:

The code for that is:
 * If the above is now deprecated in favour of the new version, can we hope that someone will design code for a bot to replace the old one with the new version? Dickie (talk) 19:35, 13 December 2008 (UTC)

Scope

 * Status page

Newsletter
See here.

Parentage

 * WikiProject France
 * WikiProject French régions
 * WikiProject French départements

Descendant Wikiprojects

 * No descendant WikiProjects have been defined.

Similar Wikiprojects

 * WikiProject Swiss municipalities
 * WikiProject Paris Streets

See also: WikiProject Subnational entities

Participants
If you would like, you can add this userbox to your page:


 * LizzieMack I've joined after the origianal project was complete. I'm now working on translating the commune's articles from French wikipedia so that they are no longer stubs.
 * Mlane78212
 * Olivier
 * smb1001
 * Dl yo ns 493  Ta lk  21:56, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
 * NYArtsnWords
 * Stevage
 * Chris589
 * Jackaranga 21:30, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Blofeld the Bald Yes this is a very important task that needs doing I'll help fill them in eventually.
 * Lesgles ( talk )
 * Dickie 08:26, 24 October 2007 (UTC) Done a few already, before I knew about this project
 * Petrovic-Njegos--Petrovic-Njegos 02:22, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
 * AlbertHerring - I really ought to join, having done a bunch already
 * Basketball 110   what famous people say
 *  jj137  (talk)  21:25, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Editorofthewiki 21:18, 2 March 2008 (UTC) Just what Wikipedia needs!
 * Markussep Talk
 * Kiwipete
 * Utsav Sanghani
 * Acs 4b T C U
 * Madridrealy good idea, this needs to be done.
 * Williamgeorgefraser Burgundy, Centre, Auvergne
 * GDuwen, Im working on some of this articles, so Im joining the project.
 * User:Buggie111, I've edited most of them on Simple, so I've decided to help out here. My goal: make one not so important (i.e. Y) a Start class article
 * Kudpung: communes in Vaucluse, Gard, Drôme, & part of Bouches-du-Rhône.
 * Yottie - Created most of the existing communes on the simple English wikipedia (~5k), could help out here.
 * Francis Hannaway I have tidied up the translation on the Bagnoles de l'Orne page.
 * Liam987 - I have been formatting external links to the INSEE site with, and changing descriptions like "[...]located in eastern France" to "[...]located in eastern Metropolitan France"
 * Marianne Casamance - Born near Paris, I live in Vaucluse
 * Max Pine
 * User:A smart brainy man - Mostly around Île-de-France, translating articles from French Wiki
 * Sadenar40000 -Currently focusing on organizing the commune articles in proper expansion by translation from French Wikipedia categories, once that organization is done I intend to progressively work through said categories and translate the content of their paired French articles into English Wikipedia
 * User:Epluribusunumyall

Where to find information
Wikipedia articles:
 * Communes of France
 * Lists of communes of France
 * Administrative divisions of France

Other wikis:
 * it:Wikipedia:WikiProject/Geografia/Antropica/Comuni_francesi
 * fr:Wikipédia:Projet:Communes de France
 * nl:Wikipedia:Wikiproject Franse gemeenten (with maps using coordinate-data)

Infobox
All French communes should have one of the following templates:
 * Infobox French commune

See the documentation for instructions how to use this template, and how to copy the info box from the corresponding commune on the French wikipedia. Don't forget to add the correct region/department categories and interwiki fr: tag to the article.

Other valuable examples of infobox can be found at the following articles:
 * Lyon
 * WikiProject Paris Streets

Reference stub article
Suggested reference article for discussion purposes: Le Puy, Doubs

Naming
Commune articles should simply be named Commune unless this is ambiguous with an existing Wikipedia article. In that case, they should follow Commune, Département

For example, Anse (not ambiguous), Claret, Hérault (ambiguous otherwise).

Categorising
All communes should belong to the category "Category:Communes of département". Further proposals are on the talk page.

Municipal and cantonal elections 2007 postponed to 2008
Note to editors: a law passed at the beginning of December 2005 has extended all current mayoral mandates to March 2008 (to avoid an "electoral traffic jam" in 2007). Reference -- Picapica 10:19, 29 December 2005 (UTC)