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Each article should at the very least contain the basic information - Name, local name, population if available, geographic location within country, etc. An infobox should be supplied even if not enough information is available; an infobox will likely need to be designed, a global one for those
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None of the structures here are to be imposed upon the child WikiProjects. Those are typically run by people who know their countries very well, and know exactly how to express them. For all other countries, this structure is useful until an organized project can be made.
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First of all, the name is very important. The standard is still being drafted. People redirected here from articles should please look at the table on that page and see how it can be improved. No one knows how every single subnational entity is named; we need your help!
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Each article should list the subnational entities contained within that entity; i.e. an article on a U.S. state would include a list of the counties in that state, or a link to said list.
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The goal of this project is to create an article for every country subdivison. Each such article should be named consistently and contain an infobox.
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Reduce number of variants of article titles for country subdivisons - create a standard disambiguation format. Include category names.
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If you are not currently a project participant and wish to help you may still participate in the project or its parent project
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This WikiProject aims primarily to provide information and a consistent format for the country subdivisions of the world.
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countries without specific projects. Those with specific projects likely already have a template.
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do not all use yet "X Regency" format as is wanted by
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No classification of this project has been defined.
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Knowledge:WikiProject Subnational entities

WikiProject
inactive
related projects
Teahouse
WikiProject Geography
status should be changed
Guide to WikiProjects
Directory of WikiProjects
Dealing with inactive WikiProjects
Shortcut
WP:WPCSub
Wikipedians
project
country subdivisions
talk page
to-do list
A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project
the tool's wiki page
the index of WikiProjects
Use only one infobox template?
Knowledge:Naming conventions (country subdivisions)
Wikipedia_talk:Naming_conventions_(country_subdivisions)#Move_requests
Regencies of Indonesia
Knowledge:WikiProject_Indonesia/Naming_conventions#Subdivisions
Districts of Laos
Countries
Chinese provinces
Chinese cities

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