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Revision as of 19:32, 1 September 2010
The content of a town article is up to the contributor. It is helpful though to use the infobox in each case at the beginning. The infobox will give some summary detail of the town.
If the infobox is used then the article will automatically be categorised within "Towns and villages of [county]. If it is not used then add at the end:
[[Category:Towns and villages of (county as appropriate)]]
(If an infobox is added later, the category line can be deleted as the infobox will do it.)
Contents
Infobox town
The infobox template looks for certain data fields, and it does not matter is they are not all completed, as long as "county=" is completed in order that the box can properly categorise the town.
The "latitude" and "longitude" fields expect an absolute value in degrees and fractions of a degree north and east, not minutes and seconds, and without "N" or "S" nor "E" or "W", which will be added by the infobox. This means, for example, that 3° 45' W should be written "-3.75"
The available fields are:
Usage
Fields (blank template)
{{Infobox town | name= | welsh= | gaelic= | irish= | scots= | cornish= | jerriais= | dgernesiais= | manx= | county= | riding= | island= | picture= | picture caption= | latitude= | longitude= | os grid ref= | population= | census year= | post town= | postcode= | dialling code= | LG district= | constituency= | website= }}
Completing the fields
All of the fields above are optional apart from "county=" (which may be given as "territory=" or "bailiwick=" as appropriate. For general guidance see Guide to town and village articles. For specific key fields:
Name, county etc:
- name - The name of the town as it will appear at the head of the box. It can be left out if the article has the same name but it is usually filled in.
- cornish, gaelic, jerriais, welsh etc - the name in the appropriate language, if it is appropriate to the particular village to have another language's version, for example for a Gaelic-speaking village (or one which was Gaelic speaking in recent history).
- county - The county in which the town lies. If it is on the boundary, the county it is mainly within. Alternatively the fields county 1 and county 2 can be employed where appropriate. For an overseas territory or crown dependency, the field territory or bailiwick may be used instead. They are functionally interchangeable.
- island - Do not use this field if the island on which the town is found is Great Britain or Ireland nor if it is Anglesey or the Isle of Man as the "county" field deals with that.
Picture
- picture - The file name of a picture on Commons, without the "File:" element.
Location fields
For these fields we recommend finding the place on Streetmap as it has a tag at the bottom "Click here to convert coordinates." which will give you the grid reference, latitude and longitude and nearest postcode all in the right form for use in the Infobox:
- os grid ref - do not put spaces in the grid ref. It will create a link directly to Ordnance Survey
- latitiude and longitude - use a decimal number (as Streetmap provide). The programme will convert it to degrees, minutes and seconds.
- postcode - just the first half of a postcode should do.
Townland
A town or village in Ulster or the Republic of Ireland might also be a townland or share its name with a townland. For these, there is the optional "townland" field:
|townland=yes
- will categorise the place also in "Townlands of [county]".
Examples
Example 1: Abingdon
Abingdon | |
Berkshire | |
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The River Thames at Abingdon looking towards St. Helen's parish church | |
Location | |
Location: | 51.667 N, -1.283 W |
Grid reference: | SU4997 |
Data | |
Population: | 36,626 |
Post town: | Abingdon |
Postcode: | OX14 |
Dialling code: | 01235 |
Local Government | |
Council: | Vale of White Horse |
Parliamentary constituency: |
Oxford West and Abingdon |
Website: | Abingdon Town Council |
Example 2: Youghal
Youghal Irish: Eochaill | |
County Cork | |
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The Clock Gate | |
Location | |
Location: | 51.951671 N, -7.845612 W |
Grid reference: | X102781 |
Data | |
Population: | 6393 |
Local Government | |
Website: | www.youghal.ie |
Using references
Where references are used within braces (<ref>(text)</ref>), always add a "References" section at the end, containing the code {{Reflist}}