Wikipedia:WikiProject Worcestershire/How to write about places in Worcestershire

Settlements can often be difficult to write about. Everyone knows his own locality well, but  not  everyone knows how to  write well, and possibly not  everyone  who  wants to  improve an article comes from the county, region, or even the country. Some good faith editors may  not  be aware of the sensibilities of local  culture, customs, and language. This page will help editors to gain  quick access to  some of the more important  tips and recommendations for article composition and anyone who is not  from the country, may  wish to  read this in  more detail, as it  will  differ slightly  from other English speaking parts of the world.

Location, location, location
Because the Worcestershire project is more about articles about  places than anything  else (schools and people come closely  afterwards), a recommended  list of the items to  include in  the page  format is shown below, but contributors of major chunks and /or creations of new articles should take time to read the complete UK geographypage -  especially the closing section that contains all the prerequisites for GA, and in particular the notes pertaining to  Notable People, and the use of adjectives and adverbs such as recent,  recently, current, currently, as the content  gets out of date very  quickly.; and avoid weasel words, such as "it is believed that", "is widely regarded as", "some have claimed". (GA criteria); and avoid peacock terms, such as "beautiful", "famous", "popular", "well-known", "significant", "important" and "obvious". (GA criteria) There is also a tendency that  should be avoided, to  speculate on  future events and area planning - Wiki  is not  a crystal ball and only  deals with  things that  exist  or existed.



Pronunciation
The IPA rendering of the place names in  the UK may have been written by non-English  editors and may  therefore not  accurately  reflect the general British English  or RP pronunciation  of a place. On-going discussions on Wikipedia have not  (by  Feb 2010) reached a consensus as editors from various parts of the English  speaking  parts of the world do  not  share the same opinions. Some may insist that the IPA for British place names should show American English pronunciation, while others maintain that  the IPA should show the local accent, and others would prefer the most  widely understood RP. If you come across an IPA spelling that  does not represent the normal  or standard pronunciation  of the name of your settlement, in  order to  avoid an edit war, discuss your proposed change on  the article's talk page where you  can  enlist  either support or opposition for it.

Parishes
A lot of debate about the unusual WP:GA article Malvern ( situation could have been spared by reading this first: For civil parishes or community council areas in England and Wales, the Template:Infobox England and Wales civil parish has been developed. Please note that where the article discusses a parish-level entity containing a series of settlements (e.g. Ingatestone and Fryerning or Askam and Ireleth), this infobox is suitable as the only template. Where the article discusses a civil parish with a single major settlement, please use Template:Infobox UK place in the lead, but consider using the parish infobox in the Governance section. Where the parish entity is coterminate (or near-coterminate) with a settlement, use Template:Infobox UK place.

Format
Generally, the page format should follow this sequence. Not all headers/sections are required and headers should not have blank content. One-line section content should be merged into another relevant, hierarchical  section. One-line paragraphs should be avoided in any  section..
 * 1) Infobox: See WikiProject UK geography/How to write about settlements
 * 2) lead, aka :introduction, lede See WikiProject UK geography/How to write about settlements. See also WP:LEAD).
 * 3) Toponymy: history of the settlement's name. See WikiProject UK geography/How to write about settlements.
 * 4) History (pre history; Middle Ages; 20th century; 21st century)
 * 5) governance (county; district; civil parish; ward) See WikiProject UK geography/How to write about settlements.
 * 6) Geography (more about where it is, and geophysical  features, mountains,rivers, etc. See WikiProject UK geography/How to write about settlements.
 * 7) Demography (population statistics and growth; type of population - if important) See WikiProject UK geography/How to write about settlements.
 * 8) Economy (the general trade(s) mainly practiced in the area; large firms, famous firms. See WikiProject UK geography/How to write about settlements.
 * 9) Culture and community (local customs, traditions, landmarks, media, #amenities (large sports facilities, theaters, cinemas), where standalone sections are not appropriate.
 * 10) Amenities (large sports facilities, theaters, cinemas,
 * 11) Transport: (current access by road/rail/air) See WikiProject UK geography/How to write about settlements.
 * 12) Education: secondary schools, colleges & universities (primary school a re not  notable, but  their number can be mentioned) See WikiProject UK geography/How to write about settlements.
 * 13) Places of worship (churches, mosques, synagogues, religious meeting places, etc. See WikiProject UK geography/How to write about settlements.
 * 14) Sport (large facilities and/or complexes. Notable permanent teems. See WikiProject UK geography/How to write about settlements.
 * 15) Notable residents/people connected with… (All persons under this section must satisfy Wikipedia:Notability (people).) See See WikiProject UK geography/How to write about settlements.
 * 16) See also - links to any  relevant  Wikipedia articles.
 * 17) Compass (a template with compass directions for nearby and no so nearby settlements, with clickable links to their Wiki Cpages.
 * 18) References (No bare URLs. Must  show : date accessed in  British  English, e.g.: Retrieved 12 February 2010.  - no  commas).
 * 19) Further reading (books. Should follow the recommended syntax for citations or use a book  citation  template. Don't list  books that  have already  been cited in the references section.
 * 20) External links (Wiki is not  a link farm -  other editors are very quick to  delete any  that are not  appropriate).