Wikipedia:WikiProject Villages
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This project to better organize information in articles related to villages. This page and all subpages of this page 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 make suggestions and proposals on the talk page, and see the to-do list below (Note: This page is constructed courtesy WP:WikiProject Geography)
- Revive this Wiki Project.
- Add {{WikiProject Villages}} to every village.
- Develop and implement a common structure to village articles
- Clarify and improve topic structure
- Develop some neglected aspects of the topic
- Ensure NPOV
- Get all village articles up to A Class standard
Article alerts edit
Wikipedia:WikiProject Villages/Article alerts
Articles to be merged
- 19 Oct 2023 – Rajadanga (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Kranti (community development block) by Timtrent (t · c); see discussion
Articles to be split
- 15 Apr 2023 – Kaithalkuchi (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by MPGuy2824 (t · c); see discussion
- 13 May 2021 – Shamlaji (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Redtigerxyz (t · c); see discussion
Articles for creation
- undated – Draft:Chornoholova (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC was declined by BuySomeApples (t · c) on 09 Dec 2023
Articles that need... edit
Templates edit
Templates are used within articles to provide a consistent look to the messages placed into them.
Project banner edit
- {{WikiProject Villages}} – Talk page project banner
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Infoboxes edit
Infoboxes are not required.
- {{Infobox settlement}} – Standard infobox template for most types of settlements like Cities, towns, villages, etc.
- {{Infobox Australian place}} – Australian variation of the standard infobox.
- {{Infobox Russian inhabited locality}} – for Villages in Russia.
- {{Weather box}} – for presenting temperature and precipitation information in a standard format
- {{Geographic location}} – Links to the surrounding areas
- {{Country geography}} – in "Geography of (Country)" articles, see Category:Geography by country.
- {{Infobox islands}} – for islands
- {{Infobox mountain}} – for mountains
- {{Infobox lake}} – for lakes
- {{Infobox river}} – for rivers
- {{Infobox crater}} – for craters
Userbox edit
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Participants edit
A list of members of WikiProject Villages, together with some of their interests, is at Wikipedia:WikiProject Villages/participants. To join the group, simply add yourself to the list, in alphabetical order.
Article guidelines and conventions edit
A general template/model of how village articles should be structured, and particularly what sections and in what order, doesn't seem to exist yet. The most common models are however summarised in some related WikiProjects; some examples follow and can be used as inspiration until a guideline is developed.
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Cities/Settlements: Article structure (very brief)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject UK geography/How to write about settlements (with a lot of detail on section content)
- Naming conventions (geographic names)
- Canadian communities
- Japanese municipalities
Related WikiProjects edit
The parent of this project is WikiProject Geography.
Human geography edit
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Protected areas
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Countries
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Country subdivisions
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Cities
Historical human geography edit
Physical geography edit
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Rivers
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Lakes
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Mountains
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Glaciers
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Caves
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Waterfalls
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Volcanoes
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Deserts
Other edit
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Maps
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Urban studies and planning
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Geography of India
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian places
Portals edit
Resources edit

The following list of links might be useful to editors when editing or maintaining Village articles. Please feel free to share any useful links that you think others might find useful.
Definitions from Wiktionary
Media from Commons
News from Wikinews
Quotations from Wikiquote
Texts from Wikisource
Textbooks from Wikibooks
Resources from Wikiversity
Wikipedia:Geographic references
- International census resources – An index of census sites for different world geographies
- Eurostat – Census & demographic data from the European commission
- U.S. Census Bureau – Census & demographic data (the FactFinder is also useful here).
- U.K. Office for National Statistics – Census & demographic data