Category talk:Places

Alright. I'm declaring this the official root node of a "place hierarchy" that works something like wikipedia's stub categories Geography > Place-Related becauase they've probably already face our situation and fixed it "about right".

I'm requesting that this we rename this "Wiki Places" (and make it a subcat of "Wiki Lists") to go with "Wiki Age" and "Wiki Size" and so on.

So here's the game plan:

1. We have a "region (one or two levels) > countries > optional provinces/states if the country is really "big" > Cities > local neighborhoods or insitutions or whatever". It's a tree structure.

2. No pages should have two separate "Place Categories" unless there's a compelling reason... like sister cities or something. Sister city wikis should have those two cities, not the continent they happen to share. But many wikis are probably either "ageographical" (which maybe should get a category?) or obvious.

2. Individual articles should be "at the right generality if they're actually general" and and as local as they can get if they're not... so long as it doens't lead to "vanity categories" where they're the only thing in the category. Example: if you have a wiki about a specific neighborhood of New York City then it doesn't deserve it's own "New York City Neighborhood Category" until the New York City category already has like maybe three places that obviously could be categorized with the more specific neighborhood cat.

Here's the basic tree stucture we should be slowly editing towards (taken from the wikipedia stub page cited above):

• Africa
  • African Countries as Necesary (From Algeria to Zimbabwe alphabetically)
• Asia
  • Central Asia
    • As Necessary (From Afghanistan to Uzbekistan alphabetically)
  • East Asia
    • Japan
    • China
    • Korea
  • Middle East
    • As Necessary (From Bahrain to United Arab Emirates alphabetically)
  • South Asia
    • As Necessary (From Bangladesh to Sri Lanka alphabetically)
  • South East Asia
    • As Necessary (From Brunei to Thailand alphabetically)
• Australia and Oceania
  • Australia
    • Australian Provices...
  • Oceania
    • As Necessary (From Fiji to Tonga alphabetically)
• Europe
  • As Necessary (From Albania to United Kingdom alphabetically)
• North and Central America
  • Canada
    • As Necessary (From Alberta to Yukon Territory alphabetically)
    • As Necessary (From Barbados to Haiti alphabetically)
  • Central America
    • As Necessary (From Belize to Panama alphabetically)
  • Greenland
  • Mexico
  • United States
    • As Necessary (From Alaska to Wisconsin alphabetically)
• South America
  • As Necessary (From Argentina to Venezuela alphabetically)

Cities as it's own thing

Love your energy on this new plan, Jennifer. Just one thought. Wikis about cities are special. I'm not sure they're more special than wikis about countries or states or anything else, but I want to make sure we don't lose the fact that WikiMaas is about a city when it's categorized in it's correct place in the place hierarchy. Know what I mean? TedErnst | talk 14:26, 19 October 2006 (EDT)