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Nomination for merger of Template:Infobox UK place

 Template:Infobox UK place has been nominated for merging with Template:Infobox settlement. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 22:10, 25 April 2026 (UTC)

move request related to the recent lat/long cleanup

talk:circles of latitude between the 55th parallel south and the 80th parallel south § Requested move 11 May 2026 Arlo James Barnes 20:06, 12 May 2026 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Exploration of Jupiter

Exploration of Jupiter has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 19:29, 14 May 2026 (UTC)

Discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals) § RFC: Should we remove mentions of public transport access from infoboxes

 You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals) § RFC: Should we remove mentions of public transport access from infoboxes. Zackmann08's proposal seeks to remove the parking= and publictransit= parameters from several infoboxes. Thryduulf (talk) 22:27, 22 May 2026 (UTC)

Short Descriptions for settlements

Hi. Should short descriptions contain the state/county that they are in or just the country? I was lead to believe that they should state this. For example, Southend-on-Sea says "City and unitary authority in Essex, England". Davidstewartharvey (talk) 11:02, 24 May 2026 (UTC)

Generally both, see wp:Short description#Examples. The Southend-on-Sea short description looks good to me. Thincat (talk) 11:36, 24 May 2026 (UTC)

Thanks. There are editors who are currently taking these out for some reason. See Kingswood, Surrey. Davidstewartharvey (talk) 13:14, 24 May 2026 (UTC)

Oh, yes. To begin with that edit looked odd to me but now I see that it has avoided having "Surrey" in both the title and the short description. That seems right because the short description is intended to complement the title and not repeat it. User:Revirvlkodlaku's edit was done using the Wikipedia App (which I don't use) and maybe it doing something similar to what {{Auto short description}} does. Thincat (talk) 16:53, 24 May 2026 (UTC)

@Thincat, thanks for reading that correctly. As you pointed out, the short description should ideally not restate the page title, and this is why I removed "Sussex". You're also right in pointing out that on the WP app, when changing the s/d, I don't have the option to leave an edit summary. Revirvlkodlaku (talk) 17:44, 24 May 2026 (UTC)

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Vital articles lists

If anyone is interested in helping optimize the WP:Vital articles/Level 5 geography lists, there a lot of changes proposed on Wikipedia talk:Vital articles/Level 5/Geography and Wikipedia talk:Vital articles/Level 5/History and geography. If you vote there, the changes can be passed. Melozone crissalis (talk) 21:38, 3 June 2026 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Panaji#Requested move 28 May 2026

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Panaji#Requested move 28 May 2026 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPath^talk 03:58, 12 June 2026 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Unguja#We need to rename this article

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Unguja#We need to rename this article that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. –Maltazarian ^{ᚾparley$\lor$investigateᛅ} 15:18, 18 July 2026 (UTC)

Need some sourcing for Peruvian articles

A Peruvian town has shown up at AfD, and it appears that none of these towns may have acceptable sourcing. This one has none; some others I found are sourced to Wikimapia, which of course doesn't cut it. Given our constant struggle with bogus towns we really do need something, so if anyone is aware of something better than GNS we would like to know about it, or better still, someone can go through these and find some sourcing. Thanks in advance, Mangoe (talk) 11:29, 23 July 2026 (UTC)

Problems with OS Maps in Geohack

There are at least two dead links for UK OS maps in the list, and several of the others have issues working for me. Is there someone who should be alerted to this? Mangoe (talk) 14:40, 30 July 2026 (UTC)

@Mangoe: In the left sidebar you should see a heading "Page actions" below which are some entries like:

• Template
• Talk
• Read
• View source
• History

The first and third are the same. If you're confident, go for the fourth one; otherwise, leave a message at the second one. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 17:09, 30 July 2026 (UTC)

Got it, thanks. Mangoe (talk) 17:56, 30 July 2026 (UTC)

Peer Review for map

A Peer Review has been created for the map article, as part of preparation for a WP:FA nomination. Any feedback would be appreciated. Noleander (talk) 22:53, 2 August 2026 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Territorial changes of Poland immediately after World War II#Requested move 27 July 2026

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Territorial changes of Poland immediately after World War II#Requested move 27 July 2026 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Fortek67 (talk) 14:41, 4 August 2026 (UTC)

Technical Report: Global Boundary Module Refinement (Mount Grammos Ridge)

The localized coordinate overrides currently applied to the high-altitude sector of the Mount Grammos ridge have caused a fatal compilation mismatch, resulting in a persistent server-side layout failure ("Script error: No such module Location map"). This structural lock-up occurs because the manual user-generated inputs cannot resolve mathematically with the global database core.

To restore technical stability and enforce strict platform metadata standards, the data must be permanently anchored to the synchronized primary geospatial frameworks of both neighboring frontier nations. The definitive state data layers confirm an absolute geodetic consensus that places the alpine basin containing Lake Gistova entirely within the sovereign territory of Greece:

- Official Albanian State Data (ASIG Geoportal): The State Authority for Geospatial Information (ASIG), operating under the supervision of the Albanian Prime Minister's Office, provides the definitive national geospatial framework at: https://geoportal.asig.gov.al/map/?auto=true. When activating the high-resolution 2007 20-CM Orthophoto layer and navigating to coordinates 567362.404 E, 4470179.392 N (Albanian National Projection System), the aerial imagery produced by Albania's own official agency clearly depicts the lake entirely south of the border ridge/watershed line, proving no Albanian boundary vector crosses or includes the water body. - Official Albanian Military and Territorial Planning Data: This boundary placement is unequivocally supported by the National Territorial Planning Agency (AKPT) via their live ArcGIS Web Application Viewer (https://www.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=ff270e99f5be45f19c7b7a1e3e618b27&extent=2313524.2226%2C4918645.5462%2C2315293.0232%2C4919436.1917%2C102100), which excludes the basin from its administrative boundaries.

   Furthermore, the official, declassified military-grade charts from the Instituti Topografik të Ushtrisë (Albanian Military Topographic Institute)—archived and verified globally under the East View Geospatial 1:50,000 Scale Topographic series, where you can zoom in directly to inspect the features (https://shop.geospatial.com/publication/0K48DGWKGBQ44E21WWYBAJKMS7/Albania-1-to-50000-Scale-Topographic-Maps), and the 1:100,000 scale series (https://shop.geospatial.com/publication/38PCREFVGPMH4RPD0MSAVZHMV6/Albania-1-to-100000-Scale-Topographic-Maps)—confirm that the watershed line runs north of the lake basin.

- Official Greek State Data (Hellenic Cadastre): The precise parcel-level coordinate grids of the Hellenic Cadastre (Ktimatologio) confirm the exact alignment of the frontier line matching the high-altitude basin, visible directly via their dedicated GIS viewer platform: https://maps.ktimatologio.gr/?locale=el#widget_6=active_datasource_id:dataSource_1,center:2315771.2285014763%2C4919221.239006859%2C102100,level:15.138323635502697

Unilateral promotional tourism profiles, crowdsourced commercial tracking logs, and outdated consumer app rendering errors do not override sovereign legal baselines or bilateral international protocols. To preserve platform integrity, I request that the advanced administrative board review this technical file, clear the local template conflict, and lock the master mapping module strictly to these verified state cadastral layers.

Respectfully submitted, Aetolia Independent Researcher of Alpine Cartography & Geodesy Aetolia (talk) 08:30, 7 August 2026 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Development region

The article Development region has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Disambiguation page with only 2 entries

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion based on established criteria.

If the proposed deletion has already been carried out, you may request undeletion of the article at any time. Bearian (talk) 13:56, 7 August 2026 (UTC)