Wikipedia:WikiProject Swedish provinces

This WikiProject is an attempt to formulate a common template for the Swedish historical provinces. It suggests a structure which would make them more structured and give them a common look and feel.

Title WikiProject Swedish provinces

Scope This WikiProject aims to structure the articles for the historical Provinces of Sweden.

Parentage The parent of this WikiProject is the WikiProject Swedish counties

Descendant WikiProjects The descendant WikiProject is WikiProject historical provinces in Finland

Participants

• Mic

Coordination The effort should be coordinated with the Swedish Wikipedia.

Structure

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

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 name of the province in Swedish is to go on top as the caption.
• A picture of the province's coat of arms, if possible with the duckal crown attached. A good source is required for this. ((It should be no more than xx pixels in width.))
• Province flower (flora): The symbolical flower for the province (landskapsblomma), in Swedish or English, and Latin.
• Province beast (fauna): The symbolical beast for the province (landskapsdjur), in Swedish or English, and Latin.
• Counties: The county or counties that the province belongs to and is divided upon.

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

The heading should look like:

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

The sections are:

• County or Counties - A brief description to the current county or counties to wich province belongs. This entry could deal with current administration or politics but should not be exhaustive but rather refer to the separate entries for the respective counties.
• History - The history of the province. More modern history might belong in the county article. There should be no disambiguation into separate articles for provinces and counties with the same name. (County history links could point to province history articles.)
• Geography - A quick description of the province's main features togeather with a reference to the provinces bordering on to it.
• Heraldry - This should include the blazon (blasonering) of the coat of arms for the province. A good source of the blazons translated into English is needed for this. (An alternative could be to give the blazon in Swedish, but please refrain from translating this if you don't have proficiency in the terminology used in heraldry!) There should be no disambiguation in to separate articles on heraldry for a County or a Province with the same name or coat of arms.
• External links - Link for a province could include tourist sites for the province or official websites about the county or counties involved.

Template

When applying this template to a province 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 Swedish provinces|WikiProject Swedish 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 Swedish provinces|template]] is being worked on at [[_/Temp]], please make any changes you want to make on that page.'''

Definition paragraph.

County/Counties For Administration, Politics and Municipalities see: County of _[?]

History Main article: History of _[?]

Geography Main article: Geography of _[?]

Culture Main article: Culture of _[?]

Heraldry Main article: Heraldry of _[?]

External Links

Template

Reference links:

• Sweden
• Provinces of Sweden
• Counties of Sweden

Provinces

• Blekinge
• Bohuslän
• Dalarna
• Dalsland
• Gotland
• Gästrikland
• Halland
• Hälsingland
• Härjedalen
• Jämtland
• Lappland
• Medelpad
• Norrbotten
• Närke
• Skåne
• Småland
• Södermanland
• Uppland
• Värmland
• Västerbotten
• Västergötland
• Västmanland
• Ångermanland
• Öland
• Östergötland

Different templates

Provinces in both Sweden and Finland

• Lappland
• Västerbotten

Provinces in Finland

• Egentliga Finland (Varsinais-Suomi)
• Karelen (Karjala)
• Nyland (Uusimaa)
• Satakunda (Satakunta)
• Savolaks (Savo)
• Tavastland (Häme)
• Österbotten (Pohjanmaa)

Autonomous Province of Finland

• Åland