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.
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
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
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 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.
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.
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).