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Capital Hill or Capitol Hill ?

Is the capital of the Northern Mariana Islands "Capital Hill" or "Capitol Hill"? Please weigh in at Talk:Capital Hill, Saipan if you care. —  AjaxSmack  22:59, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

Archived some threads

I've archived some inactive threads to subsections which were notifications about discussions that have since been closed. — Cirt (talk) 09:01, 2 February 2014 (UTC)

Gauss-Boaga

Can somebody look over Gauss-Boaga projection. I just translated some parts of the Italian page because I needed the information for the Uni. --Tobias1984 (talk) 12:39, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

Is there a recommended/standard article format for places (cities, towns, counties?)

This may not be the appropriate place to ask, but I asked at Misplaced Pages:Help Desk and was "sent" over here:

I've been trying to clean up the articles on cities, counties and other institutions in my local area and was wondering of there was a Misplaced Pages standard or recommended form for the whole of such articles. (I've looked and can't find one, but that may be user error.) Most pages on geographic locations seem to have the same parts (History, Geography, Population, Government, Attractions) but in no particular order. I would like to help beat things into some kind of regular shape, if it exists. Thanks!

--Digitalican (talk) 21:09, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

WP Cities has some for general usage and links to specific locales: Misplaced Pages:WikiProject_Cities#Article_guidelines_and_conventions CRwikiCA talk 14:17, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
Apologies for replying a bit late Digitalican, but the UK Geography WikiProject has a guideline for writing about settlements which covers just this issue. Obviously it's aimed at UK settlements, but I don't see why it's general principles can't be applied to settlements outside the UK. PaleCloudedWhite (talk) 01:39, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

Thank you! This is exactly what I was looking for. I would certainly like to see general guidelines for talking about settlements across all of Misplaced Pages. --Digitalican (talk) 14:03, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

Hotspot infoboxen

FYI, {{Infobox hotspot custom}} and {{Infobox moon hot spot data}} are under discussion, see Misplaced Pages:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2014_February_18 -- 70.50.151.11 (talk) 00:39, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

Kush/Mountain articles

User:Tabnak has created a large number of pages about mountains. They are in need of clean-up, and some may not be worth keeping, but the topics may well be notable. I'm asking members of this WikiProject to help, since I lack the expertise to determine their value.

Tabnak created "List of mountains with Kush in the name", which was deleted per Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/List of mountains with Kush in the name. Tabnak created a number of articles that another user merged into Kush (word). That page is currently being discussed at Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Kush (word). Hindu Kush (Kunar) is being discussed at Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Hindu Kush (Kunar).

Tabnak also created all of the following.

Thanks for your attention. Cnilep (talk) 07:33, 22 February 2014 (UTC)

Here are three new additions to the list.

Cnilep (talk) 02:12, 24 February 2014 (UTC) (last updated 02:27, 3 March 2014 (UTC))

EMEA map

I think EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Africa) article deserves a map. If any of the map masters have some time, it would be nice to have such a map. Thanks. —  Ark25  (talk) 03:13, 23 February 2014 (UTC)

Four-paragraph leads -- a WP:RfC on the matter

Hello, everyone. There is a WP:RfC on whether or not the leads of articles should generally be no longer than four paragraphs (refer to WP:Manual of Style/Lead section for the current guideline). As this will affect Misplaced Pages on a wide scale, including WikiProjects that often deal with article formatting, if the proposed change is implemented, I invite you to the discussion; see here: Misplaced Pages talk:Manual of Style/Lead section#RFC on four paragraph lead. Flyer22 (talk) 16:28, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

X (region)

FYI, the usage of some potentially ambiguous "(region)" names is up for discussion, see Talk:Northland Region -- 70.50.151.11 (talk) 05:55, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

Radium Hot Springs, British Columbia

Please participate in talk:Radium Hot Springs, British Columbia move discussion, we are having a rather heated conversation -- 70.50.151.11 (talk) 05:44, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

Logan Lake, British Columbia

Please participate in talk:Logan Lake, British Columbia move discussion, we are having a rather heated conversation. -- 70.50.151.11 (talk) 05:44, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages talk:Articles for creation/La Union, New Mexico

Dear geographers: This old Afc draft is about a "Census designated place". Does Misplaced Pages have articles about census designated places on a geopolitical basis? Or should this be deleted as stale under db-g13? —Anne Delong (talk) 20:41, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

CfD discussion for societies and cultures

There is a discussion going on right now at WP:Categories for discussion that involves changing the category names for all cultures, from, for example, "Afghan society" to "Society of Afghanistan". I can see that next will be changing "German culture" to "Culture of Germany" and the like. This would be for all ethnicities, nationalities and cultures.
If you would like to weigh in, the conversation is occurring at Misplaced Pages:Categories for discussion/Log/2014 March 27#Society by country. Liz 15:12, 29 March 2014 (UTC)

CfD on Category:Rivers of the Boundary Ranges etc

See Misplaced Pages:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2014_April_17#Category:Rivers_of_the_Boundary_Ranges on the Categories for discussion page.

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