Wikipedia:WikiProject Japanese districts and municipalites

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First, an important note for everyone to remember:

A few Wikipedians have gotten together to make some suggestions about how we might organize data in articles about Japanese districts and municipalities. These are only suggestions, things to give you focus and to get you going, and you shouldn't feel obligated in the least to follow them. But if you don't know what to write or where to begin, following the guidelines below may be helpful. Mainly, we just want you to write articles!

1 Disclaimer
2 Title
3 Scope
4 Parentage
5 Descendant Wikiprojects
6 Similar Wikiprojects
7 Participants
8 Naming
9 Structure
10 Hierarchy Definition
11 General Strategy and Discussion forum
12 Template

[edit] Disclaimer

This document is still an early draft.

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WikiProject Japanese districts and municipalities

[edit] Scope

This WikiProject aims primarily at having a standard guidlines for Japanese district and municipality pages.

[edit] Parentage

The parent of this WikiProject is the WikiProject Japanese prefectures.

[edit] Descendant Wikiprojects

[edit] Similar Wikiprojects

WikiProjects with a similar scope are:

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[edit] Naming

Note: the following scheme is still somehow tentative.

Each city should be named [[{City name}, {Prefecture name}]]. The prefecture name should be capitalized. e.g.; Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Sapporo, Hokkaido
Each district should be named [[{District name} District, {Prefecture name}]]. See Districts of Japan#Confusing cases in Hokkaido for exceptional cases. (two districts share the exact same name in the same subprefecture)
Each town and village should be named [[{Town or Village name}, {Prefecture name}]]. When more than one town or village within a prefecture share the same name, use parentheses to disambiguate names. That is, it should be named [[{Town or Village name}, {Prefecture name} ({District name})]]. See Asahi, Azuma, and Ichinomiya for example. If the name conficts with a city name, use "city" with all lowercase letters instead of the name of the district it belongs to unless the city name is famous.