Template:Infobox Australian Place

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This template employs intricate features of template syntax. You are encouraged to familiarise yourself with its setup and parser functions before editing the template. If your edit causes unexpected problems, please undo it quickly, as this template may appear on a large number of pages. Remember that you can conduct experiments, and should test all improvements, in either the local /Sandbox or your user space before changing anything here.

Usage

To use this template

1. Copy the relevant blank template from the Blank Infobox Template Page into the beginning of your document, remembering to put the code at the very top of the article and the first word of the article on the very next line.
2. Enter values for the fields as outlined in the table below. Fields left blank will automatically be hidden.
3. Preview.
4. Save the page with an appropriate edit summary.

Examples

• Examples of this template can found on the Examples Page.

Fields

All fields used by this template are optional. The following fields are available:

Notes

Type

The infobox type affects the colour of the top bar of the infobox.

• Yellow: city
• Pink: suburb
• Green: town
• Blue: lga
• Purple: region
• Grey: undefined

Footnotes fields

Any references should be placed within the respective "_footnotes" field and not within the field reserved solely for a numeric value. For example, place the reference used for the area of City X in the parameter {{{area_footnotes}}} and not in the {{{area}}} parameter. Otherwise, an error may result.

Unformatted numbers and expression errors

Certain fields require numeric values to be entered in an unformatted/raw fashion—i.e. 1000.0 NOT 1,000.0. If an expression error is present, simply remove any commas or spaces from the number.

Coordinates

For coordinates, use {{coord}} with display=inline,title. Please do not be overly precise.

Dist#, Dir# and Location#

This is the distance and approximate direction to another location. The '#' is replaced with a number between 1 and 5. Therefore distances for up to five locations can be listed using the range 'dist1' - 'dist5'. Direction from the locations can be specified use 'dir1' - 'dir5' and the locations can be listed as 'location1' - 'location5'. Each dist# must be partnered with an appropriate location#. Dir# is optional.

Where to find information

• WikiProject Australian places - Useful Resources
• Australian Bureau of Statistics
• LGA links for each state
• Bureau of Meteorology > "Climate tables" (4th heading)

Microformat

The HTML mark up produced by this template includes an hCard microformat, which makes the place-name and location parsable by computers, either acting automatically to catalogue article across Wikipedia, or via a browser tool operated by a person, to (for example) add the subject to an address book. Within the hCard is a Geo microformat, which additionally makes the coordinates (latitude & longitude) parsable, so that they can be, say, looked up on a map, or downloaded to a GPS unit. For more information about the use of microformats on Wikipedia, please see the microformat project.

hCard uses HTML classes including:

Geo is produced by calling {{coord}}, and uses HTML classes:

Please do not rename or remove these classes.

When giving coordinates, please don't be overly precise.