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Wikipedia:WikiProject Finnish provinces

This WikiProject is an attempt to formulate a common template for the Finnish provinces. It suggests a structure for the county articles which would make them more structured, while also giving them a common look and feel.

Table of contents

1 Title

2 Scope

3 Parentage

4 Descendant WikiProjects

5 Similar WikiProjects

10 Historical Provinces

15 Miscellaneous topics

16 External Links

17 Work in Progress

Title WikiProject Finnish provinces

Scope This WikiProject aims to structure the articles for the 6 provinces of Finland, their municipalities and cities.

Parentage The parent of this WikiProject is the WikiProject Countries

Descendant WikiProjects None so far, but could include Wikipedia:WikiProject Finnish regions[?] and Wikipedia:WikiProject Finnish municipalities[?]

WikiProject historical provinces in Finland

Participants

Coordination The effort should be coordinated with the Finnish Wikipedia.

Structure

The article should start with a good introduction, giving the name of the province, its location in Finland, bordering provinces, seas or lakes and such. Also give a few facts about the county.

Next, there is a table with quick facts about the province. A template for the table can be found at the bottom of this page. The contents are as follows:

The official name of the province in Finnish and Swedish (xx lääni/ xx län) is to go on top as the caption.
A picture of the province coat of arms. A good source is required for this. It should be no more than xx pixels in width.
Residence city: The seat of residence for the Governor (maaherra/landshövding).
Land area: The area of the province in square km (km²) and the ranking.
Population: The number of inhabitants, the ranking and the population density. Also include a year for the census.

The rest of the article should consists of a few short paragraphs. These paragraphs should give an outline of the history and politics etc. If the need arises the link to a full article is also provided for.

The heading should look like:

== Municipalities ==
''Main article: [[Municipalities of _]]''

Template

When applying this template to a county stub or article (which already all exist), it should be common practice to create a temporary page to work on, with the following notice:

''This temporary page is being used to expand and convert the article [[_]] over to the new format proposed at [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Finnish provinces|WikiProject Finnish provinces]]. Please feel free to add or edit anything on this page to help in the conversion process.''

Don't forget to replace the "_" with the name of the article being converted.

To notify readers/writers that a new page is being created, place the following text on the country article itself:

'''A new page based on the new [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Finnish provinces|template]] is being worked on at [[_/Temp]], please make any changes you want to make on that page.'''

Definition paragraph.

xx lääni
xx län

coat of arms

Recidence city

Xxxxx

Governor

Xxxxx

Area
- Total

Ranked xth
xx,xxx km²

Population
- Total (Year)
- Density

Ranked xth
xxx,xxx
xxx/km²

Historical Provinces For History, Geography and Culture see: _, _