Editing Encyclopedia:WikiProject Cities

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<center>'''<big>Welcome to WikiProject Cities</big>'''</center>
<div style="border-bottom: 2px dotted #484898">'''<big>Scope</big>'''</div>
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This [[Wikipedia:WikiProject|WikiProject]] aims primarily to provide information and a consistent format for cities of the world. "Cities" include municipalities and other civil divisions, including cities, towns, villages, hamlets, townships, unincorporated communities, sections of municipalities, and neighborhoods. For specific details on U.S. municipalities, see [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Cities/U.S. municipality notes|U.S. municipality notes]].
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<div style="border-bottom: 2px dotted #484898; margin-top:5px;">'''<big>Goals</big>'''</div>
# Define departments.
# Visit the Capital City article of every Nation to rate it for priority and class with {{tl|WPCities}}. (Note: This has largely been done for capital cities in North/South America, Europe, Africa, and part of the Mid-East. Still needs to be done for Asia & Oceania, and possibly the Caribbean. [[User:Derek.cashman|Dr. Cash]] 06:20, 27 August 2007 (UTC))
# Then proceed toward most popular cities and regional centers, as well as capitals and important cities of sub-national administrative area.
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==Portal==
* '''''{{portal-inline|Cities}}'''''

==Article alerts==
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===Articles that need...===
* [[:Category:WikiProject Cities articles needing attention|attention]] ({{PAGESINCATEGORY:WikiProject Cities articles needing attention}})
* [[:Category:WikiProject Cities articles needing infoboxes|infoboxes]] ({{PAGESINCATEGORY:WikiProject Cities articles needing infoboxes}})

==Templates==
[[Wikipedia:Template index|Templates]] are used within articles to provide a consistent look to the messages placed into them.

===Project banner===
* {{tl|WikiProject Cities}} – Talk page project banner

===Infoboxes===
Infoboxes are not required.
* {{tl|Infobox settlement}} – Standard [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style (infoboxes)|infobox template]] for most types of settlements like cities, 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 [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style (infoboxes)|Infobox template page]]. See [[San Jose, California]] for an example.
** {{tl|Infobox Australian place}} – Australian variation of the standard infobox.
** {{tl|Infobox Russian inhabited locality}} – for cities in Russia.
* {{tl|Weather box}} – for presenting temperature and precipitation information in a standard format
* {{tl|Geographic location}} – Links to the surrounding areas

===Userbox===
* {{tl|User WPCities}}
{{User WPCities}}<br />
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== Participants ==
A list of members of WikiProject Cities, together with some of their interests, is at [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Cities/participants]]. To join the group simply add yourself to the list, in alphabetical order.

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==Progress==
* List of {{subpages}}
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Cities/Core|Our core list of 50 cities]]
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Cities/Popular pages|City articles sorted by page views]]
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Cities/Top 100 US Cities Article Classes|Article status for the 100 largest cities in the U.S.]]
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Cities/Capital city templates|Goal to have a city guide navigation for every world capital city]]

==Article guidelines and conventions==
* [[/Settlements: Article structure|General guidelines]]
* [[Wikipedia:Naming conventions (geographic names)|Naming conventions (geographic names)]]
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Canadian communities#Structure guidelines|Canadian communities]]
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Indian cities#Basic India conventions|Indian cities]]
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Japan/Districts and municipalities task force/guideline|Japanese municipalities]]
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject UK geography/How to write about settlements|UK settlements]]
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Cities/US Guideline|US cities]]

==Taskforces==
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Cities/National capitals|National capital taskforce]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Cities/Regional capitals|Regional capital taskforce]]

==Related WikiProjects==
The parent of this project is [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Countries|WikiProject Countries]].

===Climate===
For proposed infoboxes/city climate graphs, see: [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Climate|WikiProject Climate]]

===Descendant projects===
'''Descendant WikiProject Cities include:'''
{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Cities/List of city WikiProjects}}

'''Related WikiProject Cities pages:'''
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Cities/German names|WikiProject Cities/German names]]
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Cities/Names issues|WikiProject Cities/Names issues]]
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Indian cities|WikiProject Indian cities]]
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Pakistani cities|WikiProject Pakistani cities]]
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Germany/Cities|WikiProject Germany/Cities]]

'''Other related projects include:'''
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Architecture|WikiProject Architecture]]
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Geography of Poland|WikiProject Geography of Poland]]
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Ghost towns|WikiProject Ghost Towns]]
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Japan/Districts and municipalities task force|WikiProject Japan/Districts and municipalities task force]]
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject UK geography|WikiProject UK geography]]
*  [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Urban studies and planning|WikiProject Urban studies and planning]]
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. counties|WikiProject U.S. counties]]
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Villages|WikiProject Villages]]

==Resources==
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The following list of links might be useful to editors when editing or maintaining city articles. Please feel free to share any useful links that you think others might find useful.
* [http://census.ac.uk/guides/inter_census.aspx International census resources] – An index of census sites for different world geographies
** [http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu Eurostat] – Census & demographic data from the European commission
** [http://www.census.gov/ U.S. Census Bureau] – Census & demographic data (the [http://factfinder.census.gov/ FactFinder] is also useful here).
** [http://www.ons.gov.uk/census U.K. Office for National Statistics] – Census & demographic data
* [http://www.thegreenpapers.com/slg/ The Green Papers: United States (of America) Federal, State, and Local Government] – General information on US data; also includes more specific information on [http://www.thegreenpapers.com/slg/im.phtml incorporated municipalities]. You can get specific information on towns in a given state by going to [http://www.thegreenpapers.com/slg/localities.phtml?state= http://www.thegreenpapers.com/slg/localities.phtml?state=] (and putting the state's two-letter postal abbreviation at the end of the URL).
* [http://www.sister-cities.org/ Sister Cities International, Inc.] – Information on sister cities programs and relationships among cities.
* Any postcard first published in the U.S. before 1978 without an explicit copyright notice is PD.

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