User:Brz7/Formats for articles on geographical entities

The formats for articles on geographical entities should be standardised wiki-wide.

Country level/ subdivisions of the country level

There are various ways to subdivide a country: Country subdivision.

City (Town, Village

Cities

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Cities#Template_for_a_U.S._City of Wikipedia:WikiProject Cities
• Proposal for a city template by user Derek.crashman (April 17 2007)
• Other proposals for city templates
  • Discussion on overlap with county article, notable natives and points of interest
  • Discussion on (deletion of) notable natives section, Londoner
  • Addition of sections on nature

Municipality, County

Municipalities

• WikiProject Dutch municipalities
• WikiProject French communes
• WikiProject German districts
• WikiProject Japan/Districts and municipalites
• WikiProject South African municipalities
• WikiProject Swedish municipalities
• WikiProject Swiss municipalities
• WikiProject Ukraine/Subdivisions

Counties

• Template_for_a_U.S._County
  • Discussion on overlap with country article

Province (Region#Political_regions)

Country (Nation, State)

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Countries#Sections and Wikipedia:WikiProject Countries/Templates of Wikipedia:WikiProject Countries

Entities beyond the country level

Subregion

Continent

World / Earth

• Ongoing discussion on whether a (and which) format should be used in the world article or whether the format should not be used at all (and use World (adjective) with a format): discussions here and here.