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The WikiProject on Australian places is a project aimed towards the standardisation of articles on the cities, towns and suburbs of Australia.
Articles maintained by this WikiProject are grouped in Category:WikiProject Australian places articles by using the place=yes parameter with the ((WP Australia)) template.
Usage: ((WP Australia|place=yes))
Scope[edit]
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This project applies to the eight capital cities and their suburbs, regional cities and their suburbs, towns and other communities and settlements with some official endorsement in Australia. Where existing standardisation exists, such as for the "Cities" – actually groupings of suburbs in major cities corresponding to Australian metropolitan local government areas (e.g. City of Unley in South Australia) – this project should absorb any existing standards and consensus.
The main focus of this project, however, is to standardise articles about Australian municipalities for which no standardisation exists. Specifically this means we are targeting communities with a population of less than about 15,000, especially those which aren't already using an "Australian city infobox" or "Australian suburb infobox" template.
Article alerts[edit]
Articles to be split
- 22 Jul 2020 – Pukatja, South Australia (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Diannaa (t · c); see discussion
Parentage and descendants[edit]
Parent project(s): WikiProject Australia (a child of WikiProject Countries)
Descendant project(s): 6 pre-existing WikiProjects for capital cities of Australia; 3 other Australian city projects (see also: Category:WikiProject Australian cities); 1 Australian region-level project; 7 Australian state-level projects
- Australian state-level projects:
- WikiProject New South Wales started June 2007 (New South Wales minus the scope of Sydney and Riverina)
- WikiProject Northern Territory started May 2007 (Northern Territory)
- WikiProject Queensland started October 2007 (Queensland - replaced WikiProject Gold Coast)
- WikiProject South Australia started October 2007 (South Australia)
- WikiProject Tasmania started October 2004 (Tasmania) - replaced WikiProject Hobart)
- WikiProject Western Australia started December 2006 (Western Australia)
- WikiProject Victoria started December 2006 (Victoria)
- Australian state-level project not yet started:
- WikiProject Australian Capital Territory not yet started (Australian Capital Territory - to replace WikiProject Canberra)
- Australian capital city projects:
- WikiProject Adelaide started October 2004 (Adelaide)
- WikiProject Brisbane started January 2005 (Brisbane)
- WikiProject Canberra started October 2004 (Canberra)
- WikiProject Melbourne started April 2004 (Melbourne)
- WikiProject Perth started March 2005 (Perth)
- WikiProject Sydney started September 2004 (Sydney)
- Australian region-level project:
- WikiProject Riverina started February 2007 (Riverina region of NSW)
- Australian regional cities projects:
- WikiProject Geelong started January 2006 (Geelong)
- WikiProject Townsville started August 2006 (Townsville)
Related pages[edit]
Similar WikiProjects
Related Portals
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Participants[edit]
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General strategy and discussion forums[edit]
Pre-existing standards and consensi:
- We have previously named almost all Australian towns and cities in the format: Town/city name, State name (e.g. Nowra, New South Wales). There are various exceptions such as Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Hobart, Adelaide, Perth and Canberra (Darwin would also qualify by Australian rules, but leads to a disambiguation page due to global use). Note that as of November 2010, this policy is under dispute (see this discussion) and subsequently many articles on Australian towns and non-capital cities have been moved to more concise titles (eg Wagga Wagga).
- Where the town/city name has or is likely to have other uses, a link from the appropriate disambiguation page should be made (eg. Darwin contains a link to Darwin, Northern Territory, and Kingston contains links to several Australian towns).
- A redirect from Town/city name should be made whenever the name by itself does not presently require disambiguation (eg Nowra redirects to Nowra, New South Wales) and from Town/city nickname if it's extremely common (eg. Wagga).
- Where the Town/city, State name format still has conflicts (such as Springfield, Victoria and Springfield, Victoria (Macedon Ranges)) add a regional term to the secondary location. Often this can be the local government area; but a more general term may be necessary when the less notable one spans multiple LGAs.
- Due to disambiguation issues, the article about the state of Victoria is Victoria (Australia).
Tasks:
- to be added
Place term definitions
- Territory — a region of Australian land directly administered by the Commonwealth government
- Territory (state) — a territory of Australia which is mainly treated like a state; refers only to either Northern Territory, Australian Capital Territory which are administered by state-level governments; or possibly Norfolk Island; see: States and territories of Australia
- Local Government Area, LGA, City (council), Rural city, Town (council), District (council), Region/Regional (council), Shire, Borough, Municipality/Municipal council, Community government council, Aboriginal council, Island council, Area — a bounded area of land administered at a local-level government (the third level of government in Australia); the land of states is typically sectioned completely into LGAs; see Local Government Area
- Electoral division — federal electorate; see Divisions of the Australian House of Representatives
- Electoral district — a state-level electorate (e.g. Morphett)
- Landmark
Populated places:
- City, Regional city — in common understanding, a metropolis in Australia (e.g. Sydney)
- Town — in common understanding, a densely-populated place which isn't a city; see Town#Australia for official meaning
Geographical features:
- Ocean
- River
- Lake
- Mountain
- Valley, Glen
Templates[edit]
- ((WP Australia)) - used on article talk pages to identify and assess Australian place name articles. Remember to add place=yes to automatically group the article into the WikiProject.
Infoboxes
Stub templates
Incomplete list:
- ((Australia-geo-stub))
- ((Australia-road-stub))
Referencing templates
- ((BoM Aust stats))
- ((Census 2016 AUS)), ((Census 2011 AUS)) or ((Census 2006 AUS))
- ((Gazetteer of Australia))
- ((DoL suburb image)) NSW only.
- ((NSW GNR)) NSW only.
Categories[edit]
- Category:Geography of Australia
- Category:Australian capital cities
- Category:Coastal cities in Australia
- Category:Port cities in Australia
- Category:Geography of the Australian Capital Territory
- Category:Geography of New South Wales
- Category:Geography of the Northern Territory
- Category:Geography of Queensland
- Category:Geography of South Australia
- Category:Geography of Tasmania
- Category:Geography of Victoria (Australia)
- Category:Cities in Victoria (Australia)
- Category:Regions of Victoria (Australia)
- Category:Towns in Victoria (Australia)
- Category:Geography of Western Australia
Lists[edit]
- we have lists of our cities and towns already -- to be added
- Articles in Category:Postal codes of Australia list all the placenames used for mailing addresses.
Useful Resources[edit]
These are useful online resources to find information for articles.
National
- Placename information
- General Data
- Demographic information by postcode search via domain.com.au
- Population can be looked up from the ABS website
- Geoscience Australia has a wealth of information about placenames, and is the place to find Lat/long co-ordinates
- Climate - Bureau of Meteorology
- Miscellaneous Data on localities at Wilkins Tourist Maps
- Locality Descriptions and history at Walkabout Australian Travel Guide
- Distances between locations search page at travelmate.com
- Post Office opening/closing dates - useful for actual settlement dates of towns/name changes at Premier Postal History. As of January 2021 there are over 2700 locations which reference links to this site.
- In January 2021 Premier Postal was taken over by Phoenix Auctions and the information incorporated in the Phoenix website. The Premier Postal website is still available but most of the links from Wiki no longer work. Work has commenced on converting the links to the Phoenix website.
- At the same time the URL's are being converted to link direct to the location on the Phoenix website using the "filter" option in the URL, instead of having to re-enter the location after using the reference.
- To obtain optimum results, the following rules should be used when adding or converting the URLs
- Replace any blanks in the location name by either an asterisk or a full stop - leaving the blank in, will bring up an error.
- Prefix and suffix the location with an asterisk which also show any surrounding post offices which may be helpful
- There may be some differences in location names where an apostrophe or full stop may be included in wiki and not in the post office name or vice versa.
- An example is Kellys Plains, New South Wales which contains an apostrophe in the post office name http://www.phoenixauctions.com.au/cgi-bin/wsPhoenix.sh/Viewpocdwrapper.p?SortBy=NSW&filter=*Kelly's*Plains*
- 27 January 2021. The https url option which was not operating from the old website, is now functional again. As a result the links to the old website are now working again. This takes the pressure off the conversion to the new website. The conversion will continue but at a slower rate as its priority has dropped.
- Google Street View- for pics in External Links- copy URL of selected pic. BUT copy/paste 3rd Coordinate over both the first 2 to align pin and pedestrian icons on associated map (see Wannon River).
- LGA National
- Electorate
- Area Statistics from the ABS
- 2011 Census - select State Suburb, Local Government Area or Statistical Local Area.
- 2006 Census - select State Suburb, Local Government Area or Statistical Local Area.
- 2001 Census - select Urban Centre/Locality, State Suburb, Local Government Area or Statistical Local Area
Australian Capital Territory
- Placename Information
- Electorate
New South Wales
- Placename Information
- Geographical Names Board of NSW has a search site, and you can download their whole database of names.
- Aboriginal place names around Sydney Harbour and Botany Bay
- New South Wales Department of Lands [dead link] Imagery of NSW localities with borders and names of nearby localities.
- LGA
- Electorate
Northern Territory
- Placename Information
- Electorate
Queensland
- Placename Information
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages look in the section titled 'Resources categorised by type'
- General Data
- LGA
- Electorate
South Australia
- Placename Information
- LGA
- South Australia History
- Manning Index
- Flinders Ranges Research
- Electorate
Tasmania
- Placename information
- Electorate
Victoria
- Placename Information
- Electorate
Western Australia
- Placename Information
- Electorate
Australian Antarctic
- Placename/feature information
Tools[edit]
- Main tool page: toolserver.org
- Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
- Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
- Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
- Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.
