Wikipedia:WikiProject Netherlands/Dutch municipalities task force

Welcome to the Dutch municipalities task force
Scope

This task force aims to improve the quality and maintain the consistency for articles regarding Dutch municipalities. This does not only include municipalities, but also other civil divisions, including cities, towns, villages, hamlets, sections of municipalities, and neighborhoods. Please see the talk page for the current discussion about this task force.

Goals
  1. Tag all populated places in the Netherlands. (more info)
  2. Include/update a location box for all municipal articles. (info, status) Completed 13 June 2013!
  3. Update the infobox for all municipal articles. (info, status) Completed 24 July 2014!
  4. Increase the quality of the articles within the scope of this task force.
WikiProject Dutch municipalities
Map of Dutch municipalities
CategoriesMunicipalities of the Netherlands, Populated places in the Netherlands
Parent
project(s)
Netherlands, Cities
Project banner template{{WikiProject Netherlands}}
Userboxes{{User Dutch municipalities task force}}
{{User:Presidentman/Ubx/Dutch municipalities}}
Has goals?Yes
Assessment/Assessment

Membership

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Membership is open to everyone, feel free to add your name to the member list when you want to join this project.

As a member you can freely use these userbox templates on your user-page to indicate your membership of this project.

{{User Dutch municipalities task force}} or {{User:Presidentman/Ubx/Dutch municipalities}}

 This user is a member of WikiProject Dutch municipalities

Copy paste the text within the brackets and the brackets themselves to display either one of these user boxes on your user page.

Articles

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This task force covers all articles concerning municipalities and its divisions, including cities, towns, villages, hamlets, sections of municipalities and neighborhoods in the Netherlands. This task force is meant to administer certain work on these articles, in particular to improve the quality and maintain the consistency between articles. Note that you are welcome to help whether or not you feel yourself a member of the task force and that any improvement to these articles is increasing Wikipedia's coverage of Dutch municipalities. Whether you are interested in these articles in general, one particular article in specific or a subtopic within each article, some of the resources provided might be of use to you.

In particular take note of the following:

  • Assessment – Lists an overview of all the articles that have been tagged within the scope of this task force and explains how to bring other articles within the realm of this task force.
  • Structure – Provides guidance on the structure to be used for articles within the scope of Dutch municipalities task force.
  • Templates – Describes the templates that can be used for all articles within this task force.
  • Status – Provides the current update status of articles for some improvements that can be made to all articles.

Sister work groups

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This task force can be seen as descendent of both WikiProject Netherlands and WikiProject Cities, which deal with topics relating to either the Netherlands or cities, both of which apply to all articles within the scope of Dutch municipalities task force.

There are similar projects to this one as well, an incomplete list is:

Resources

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At some of the following places useful information can be found that might aid you in developing the articles within the scope of this task force.

An overview of Wikipedia policies and guidelines: