Wikipedia:WikiProject Cities

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Welcome to WikiProject Cities

Scope

This 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 U.S. municipality notes.

Goals

Define departments.
Visit the Capital City article of every Nation to rate it for priority and class with {{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. Dr. Cash 06:20, 27 August 2007 (UTC))[reply]
Then proceed toward most popular cities and regional centers, as well as capitals and important cities of sub-national administrative area.

Article Assessment

Portal

Cities portal

Article alerts

Did you know

21 Aug 2025 – Kikwit (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Vigilantcosmicpenguin (t · c); see discussion

Articles for deletion

18 Sep 2025 – New Discovery, Indiana (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Mangoe (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
18 Sep 2025 – Malapardis, New Jersey (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by GTrang (t · c); see discussion (9 participants)
18 Sep 2025 – Madalline, Indiana (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Mangoe (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
17 Sep 2025 – Leatherwood, Indiana (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Mangoe (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
15 Sep 2025 – Ferndale, Indiana (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Mangoe (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
14 Sep 2025 – Cincinnati, Parke County, Indiana (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Mangoe (t · c); see discussion (5 participants)
13 Sep 2025 – Bethany, Parke County, Indiana (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Mangoe (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
13 Sep 2025 – Banner Mills, Indiana (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Mangoe (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
11 Sep 2025 – Alma Lake, Indiana (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Mangoe (t · c); see discussion (2 participants; relisted)
11 Sep 2025 – Lakeport, Arkansas (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Numbermaniac (t · c); see discussion (2 participants; relisted)

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Proposed deletions

19 Sep 2025 – Poleta, California (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by WeirdNAnnoyed (t · c): Non-notable location. GNIS is insufficient for notability, as is existence of a post office. Satellite view just shows a couple of buildings beside a long-abandoned railroad grade. Could only find information about the nearby Poleta Formation (a g ...
17 Sep 2025 – Dikwal (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Svartner (t · c): Total lack of WP:SIGCOV.

Categories for discussion

18 Sep 2025 – Category:Entertainers from Worcester, England (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Kaffet i halsen (t · c); see discussion
18 Sep 2025 – Category:Entertainers from Yeovil (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Kaffet i halsen (t · c); see discussion
18 Sep 2025 – Category:Entertainers from Whitby (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Kaffet i halsen (t · c); see discussion
18 Sep 2025 – Category:Entertainers from Whitstable (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Kaffet i halsen (t · c); see discussion
18 Sep 2025 – Category:Entertainers from Wigan (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Kaffet i halsen (t · c); see discussion
18 Sep 2025 – Category:Entertainers from Winchester (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Kaffet i halsen (t · c); see discussion
18 Sep 2025 – Category:Entertainers from Weston-super-Mare (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Kaffet i halsen (t · c); see discussion
18 Sep 2025 – Category:Entertainers from Weybridge (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Kaffet i halsen (t · c); see discussion
18 Sep 2025 – Category:Entertainers from Ware, Hertfordshire (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Kaffet i halsen (t · c); see discussion
18 Sep 2025 – Category:Entertainers from Torquay (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Kaffet i halsen (t · c); see discussion

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Redirects for discussion

17 Sep 2025 – Bumpass (talk · edit · hist) →Bumpass, Virginia was RfDed by Duckmather (t · c); see discussion
09 Sep 2025 – Sagelebu (talk · edit · hist) →Zagreb was RfDed by Thepharoah17 (t · c); see discussion
09 Sep 2025 – זגרב (talk · edit · hist) →Zagreb was RfDed by Thepharoah17 (t · c); see discussion
07 Sep 2025 – জাগরেব (talk · edit · hist) →Zagreb RfDed by ArthananWarcraft (t · c) was closed; see discussion

Good article nominees

24 Aug 2025 – Mayiladuthurai (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by En.saravanan (t · c); start discussion
24 Aug 2025 – Mayiladuthurai district (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by En.saravanan (t · c); start discussion
22 Feb 2025 – Le Touquet (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Szmenderowiecki (t · c); see discussion

Articles that need...

attention (165)
infoboxes (518)

Templates

Templates are used within articles to provide a consistent look to the messages placed into them.

Project banner

{{WikiProject Cities}} – Talk page project banner

Infoboxes

Infoboxes are not required.

{{Infobox settlement}} – Standard 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 Infobox template page. See San Jose, California for an example.
- {{Infobox Australian place}} – Australian variation of the standard infobox.
- {{Infobox Russian inhabited locality}} – for cities in Russia.
{{Weather box}} – for presenting temperature and precipitation information in a standard format
{{Geographic location}} – Links to the surrounding areas

Userbox

{{User WPCities}}

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WikiProject Cities.

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.

Progress

Article guidelines and conventions

Taskforces

Related WikiProjects

The parent of this project is WikiProject Countries.

Climate

For proposed infoboxes/city climate graphs, see: WikiProject Climate

Descendant projects

Descendant WikiProject Cities include:

African cities

Lagos

Asian cities and city-states (non-Indian)

Australian cities

Canadian cities

European cities and regions

Indian cities

New Zealand cities

Auckland

U.S. cities and regions

^◇ = Inactive WikiProjects

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Resources

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.

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
The Green Papers: United States (of America) Federal, State, and Local Government – General information on US data; also includes more specific information on incorporated municipalities. You can get specific information on towns in a given state by going to http://www.thegreenpapers.com/slg/localities.phtml?state= (and putting the state's two-letter postal abbreviation at the end of the URL).
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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