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This WikiProject is an attempt to formulate a template for the French communes and to eventually create an article for each of the 36,782 communes.

Reason for a template is the lack of structure for most of the communes articles, which usually contain some loosely organised phrases. This WikiProject tries to suggest a structure for communes articles which would make them more structured, while also giving them a common look and feel.

Contents 1 Title 2 To-do list 3 Scope 4 Newsletter 5 Parentage 6 Descendant Wikiprojects 7 Similar Wikiprojects 8 Participants 9 Where to find information 10 Structure 10.1 Infobox 10.2 Reference stub article 10.3 Naming 10.4 Categorising 11 Municipal and cantonal elections 2007 postponed to 2008 12 See also

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WikiProject French communes

Use the following template on talk pages:

WikiProject France / Communes	(Rated NA-Class)	FranceWikipedia:WikiProject FranceTemplate:WikiProject FranceFrance articles
France portal v • d • e This page is within the scope of WikiProject France, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of France on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.  NA  This page does not require a rating on the project's quality scale. This page is supported by WikiProject French communes.

The code for that is: {{WikiProject France|commune=yes}}

If the above is now deprecated in favour of the new version, can we hope that someone will design code for a bot to replace the old one with the new version? Dickie (talk) 19:35, 13 December 2008 (UTC)

[edit] To-do list

edit · history · watch · refresh  To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject French communes:
Here are some tasks you can do: Requests: Add photos for all communes without them. Verify: Add citations to reliable sources. Expand: All commune pages. Other: Add more information (this also going along with expanding) and reference this information.

[edit] Scope

Status page

[edit] Newsletter

See here.

[edit] Parentage

Wikipedia:WikiProject France

Wikipedia:WikiProject French régions

Wikipedia:WikiProject French départements

[edit] Descendant Wikiprojects

No descendant WikiProjects have been defined.

[edit] Similar Wikiprojects

Wikipedia:WikiProject Swiss municipalities

Wikipedia:WikiProject Paris Streets

See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject Subnational entities

[edit] Participants

If you would like, you can add this userbox to your page:

{{User:Basketball110/French commune member}}

• Olivier
• smb1001
• Dlyons493 Talk 21:56, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
• NYArtsnWords
• Stevage
• Chris5897
• Jackaranga 21:30, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
• Blofeld the Bald Yes this is a very important task that needs doing I'll help fill them in eventually.
• Lesgles (talk)
• Dickie 08:26, 24 October 2007 (UTC) Done a few already, before I knew about this project
• Petrovic-Njegos--Petrovic-Njegos 02:22, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
• AlbertHerring - I really ought to join, having done a bunch already
• Basketball110 _{what famous people say}
•   jj137 (talk) 21:25, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
• Editorofthewiki 21:18, 2 March 2008 (UTC) Just what Wikipedia needs!
• Markussep ^Talk
• Presidentman (talk) Random Picture of the Day
• Kiwipete
• Acs4b ^{T C U}
• Madridrealy good idea, this needs to be done.
• Williamgeorgefraser Burgundy, Centre, Auvergne
• GDuwen, Im working on some of this articles, so Im joining the project.

[edit] Where to find information

Wikipedia articles:

• Communes of France
• Lists of communes of France
• Administrative divisions of France

Other wikis:

• it:Wikipedia:WikiProject/Geografia/Antropica/Comuni_francesi
• fr:Wikipédia:Projet:Communes de France
• nl:Wikipedia:Wikiproject Franse gemeenten (with maps using coordinate-data)

[edit] Structure

[edit] Infobox

All French communes should have one of the following templates:

• {{Infobox French commune}}

See the documentation for instructions how to use this template, and how to copy the info box from the corresponding commune on the French wikipedia. Don't forget to add the correct region/department categories and interwiki fr: tag to the article.

Other valuable examples of infobox can be found at the following articles:

• Lyon
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Paris Streets

[edit] Reference stub article

Suggested reference article for discussion purposes: Le Puy, Doubs

[edit] Naming

Commune articles should simply be named Commune unless this is ambiguous with an existing Wikipedia article. In that case, they should follow Commune, Département

For example, Anse (not ambiguous), Claret, Hérault (ambiguous otherwise).

[edit] Categorising

All communes should belong to the category "Category:Communes of département". Further proposals are on the talk page.

[edit] Municipal and cantonal elections 2007 postponed to 2008

Note to editors: a law passed at the beginning of December 2005 has extended all current mayoral mandates to March 2008 (to avoid an "electoral traffic jam" in 2007). Reference -- Picapica 10:19, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] See also

• Wikipedia:Do you speak French?