Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian places

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Australian places articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	Total
FA				2		2
FL	1					1
FM					1	1
GA				11		11
B	2	5	4	963		974
C		1	3	1,405		1,409
Start		1	7	3,969		3,977
Stub			1	3,773		3,774
List			3	20		23
Category				5	152	157
Disambig					3	3
File					1	1
Project					4	4
Redirect				37	19	56
Template					30	30
Assessed	3	7	18	10,185	210	10,423
Total	3	7	18	10,185	210	10,423
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 51,109			Ω = 5.04

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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

WP Australia

}} template.

Usage: {{WP Australia|place=yes}}

Scope

Unassessed articles	Requests
Unassessed Australian places articles	10
Australian Capital Territory	-
→ Canberra	0
New South Wales	102
→ Sydney	15
→ Riverina	0
Northern Territory	13
South Australia	9
→ Adelaide	2
Tasmania	42
Victoria	64
→ Melbourne	0
→ Geelong	0
Queensland	2
→ Brisbane	0
→ Townsville	0
Western Australia	4
→ Perth	0

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

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

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)
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)
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

Similar WikiProjects

Related Portals

Portal:Australia

Related Collaborations

Australian collaboration of the fortnight

Related Regional notice boards

Australian Wikipedians' notice board

Related groups of Wikipedians

see Category:Australian Wikipedians

Participants

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General strategy and discussion forums

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
  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

{{
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

{{Infobox Australian place}}

Stub templates

Incomplete list:

{{Australia-geo-stub}}
- {{
  Canberra-geo-stub
  }}
- {{NewSouthWales-geo-stub}}
  - {{Sydney-geo-stub}}
- {{NorthernTerritory-geo-stub}}
- {{Queensland-geo-stub}}
- {{SouthAustralia-geo-stub}}
  - {{Adelaide-geo-stub}}
- {{Tasmania-geo-stub}}
  - {{Tasmania-geo-stub}}
- {{VictoriaAU-geo-stub}}
  - {{Melbourne-geo-stub}}
- {{WesternAustralia-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.

Lists

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

These are useful online resources to find information for articles.

National

Placename information

History of Places in Australia

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

Australian Local Government Association

Electorate

Federal Electorate Search

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