Cities Wikia talk:How to add a city

It would seem sensible to add a country category to the "main" page for every city. For some countries a state category would be useful too. Robin Patterson 00:45, 22 Sep 2005 (UTC)

An easy start to a page will often be to copy the Wikipedia article (all or some of it). At least three other wikicities make use of that facility. So I'm going to make the required acknowledgment into a simple template:enWP for adding to the new or expanded page where content from the "en" WP is used. Robin Patterson 00:45, 22 Sep 2005 (UTC)


 * Continent, country and state categories are fine with me, as is the Wikipedia template. (Thank you, Robin, for that.)
 * Another useful template is Template:Infobox city.
 * Personally, I hope we don't stop with the "factual" information that is appropriate to the Wikipedia. I'd like to see people add "personalized" information about the places where they live and the things there which they enjoy.  Demographic information is good, but if that kind of information is all we have, we're not adding anything to what the Wikipedia already has.
 * I hope we can share the things we like and help others (residents and visitors) learn about good parts of our towns and cities.
 * --CocoaZen 02:51, 23 Sep 2005 (UTC)

SubCategories or Places in Categories
I sort of think it makes more sense to put the main city pages under the state, region, country, etc. rather than the category pages (which makes them sub-categories). Opinions? --CocoaZen 15:44, 7 August 2006 (UTC)


 * I'm not sure what you mean there. Whatever it is, one possible answer is that we can have both. Robin Patterson 19:24, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

= What about Metro Areas? = I want to start putting in some information about restaurants in the Washington DC metro area. But the truth is, most of the restaurants I go to are not actually in Washington, but in the surrounding suburbs that are separate cities. In particular if you go far enough north, you really can't consider it part of DC anymore. So what do we do? A lot of cities are like this: there is a greater metro area that encompasses what most people will travel in, across different small cities. (contributed 2007-08-03T18:18:26 by User:Bitfreedom)


 * Despite 21 years working in local government I have no desire to respect local authority boundaries on this site. We have a London page that covers 30 boroughs and two cities. And I presume from the last novel I read (The Street Lawyer, by John Grisham) that there's plenty of Maryland and Virginia in the "Washington" area too. Go for it! Robin Patterson 01:33, 4 August 2007 (UTC)