Wikipedia:WikiProject Antigua and Barbuda/Manual of Style

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This is an overview of the styles and conventions that are currently in use on Wikipedia for articles pertaining to Antigua and Barbuda. These have been decided through the application of Wikipedia policies, current usage, and user consensus on WikiProject Antigua and Barbuda.

As needed, this document may be expanded. If you think that any of the guidelines given here should be altered, please discuss it at WikiProject Antigua and Barbuda in order to reach a consensus rather than making the change on your own.

Places

In article text

It is not necessary to identify the "Museum of Antigua and Barbuda" for example as being located in "St. John's, Saint John, Antigua and Barbuda" (use "St. John's, Saint John", or simply "St. John's" if Saint John is already established) in articles that identify an Antigua and Barbuda location. Instead, the location should be identified with the information City, Parish/Dependency, Antigua and Barbuda, or equivalent wording.

The structure of City, Antigua and Barbuda, along with comparable listings of other international locales, may be used as a convention in articles about non-Antiguan and Barbudan topics, such as sports figures. (You can usually find this in tournament results postings, etc.) Using the same structure as the article, add the cities of Antiguan and Barbudan. For example, use Antiguan and Barbudan parishes and dependencies as well, if there are American states present. Since most Antiguan and Barbudan cities are not well-known abroad, they ought to be linked on first mention.

Article names

Cities can have clear titles if they are either named uniquely or are without a doubt the most important location that goes by that name. WikiProject Antigua and Barbuda/Manual of Style/List of undisambiguated communities is a list of Antiguan and Barbudan settlements that have not been clarified using the parish or dependency name.

Note the following considerations:

1. Cities may be moved if they (a) have a distinctive place name or (b) serve as the primary function for which their name is used. If a city meets criterion (a) and there are no other Urlings in the world, then it is not valid to cite Urlings' lack of international fame as a reason to keep the article at Urlings, Saint Mary (or Urlings, Antigua and Barbuda). A city's relative international fame, or lack thereof, may have some bearing on criterion (b).
2. Towns, villages, neighborhoods, and other smaller communities cannot be eligible for a page transfer unless their population is similar to that of a city. At this scale, significance is excessively arbitrary and circular. I consider the argument that "mine is more important than yours because mine is the one I've heard of" to be a reasonable standard.
3. While population and Google-hit comparisons between cities bearing the same name can be useful in identifying primary usage, they are not sufficient on their own to draw firm conclusions. Some cities, for instance, are larger than the namesakes of their namesakes in other nations, yet they do not meet the criteria for primary usages because, for historical, political, or cultural reasons, at least one of their lesser namesakes has more worldwide significance. A user in Antigua and Barbuda will see results pertaining disproportionately to the Old Road in Saint Mary, while a user in St. Kitts and Nevis will see results pertaining disproportionately to the Old Road Town in St. Kitts. As a result, determining "which one comes up most often when I search on Google" is not a conclusive measure. Additionally, Google searching is geolocated, meaning that users in different areas will get different sets of results.
4. Cities might also lose out to non-city issues in terms of primary usage. For instance, Potters Village is the only location with that name, but it cannot be regarded as a significant topic because potters' work eclipses it.
5. A disambiguation page is intended just to direct users to the appropriate article among others that may have the same title; it is not intended to function as a search index for all Wikipedia articles that merely have a word in their titles, according to Wikipedia:Disambiguation.
6. If "City" is already a redirect to "City, Parish" on Wikipedia, then an article is usually a contender for such a page relocation. If "City" is a blank redlink, an article would also be a good candidate for such a page shift. Since Wikipedia is a work in progress with constantly added pages, a name's uniqueness is not necessarily shown by the absence of an existing article with the same plain title.

Prior to now, agreement mandated that a page move discussion occur in every situation before a page could be moved. However, this is no longer the consensus position; simple cases can now be shifted whenever they want. If there is any doubt as to what would be the best name, or if there is good reason to think that there would be a disagreement, then a discussion should still happen. However, if you think that a page change that has already happened is inappropriate, don't just move the page back to the disambiguated title; instead, initiate a debate on the talk page and ask that the page be moved back to the comma-parish title.

The proper title format for cities that do not meet the requirements for undisambiguated titles is City, Parish (also known as the "comma convention") or City, Antigua and Barbuda. Beyond the parish or dependency, other localities that require more clarification are their principal division, community, or parish.

The title format of dedicated city categories must always match that of the main article about the city. In other words, if the article is at Urlings, use Urlings instead of Urlings, Saint Mary, in the category names; if it is at Carlisle, Saint George, use Carlisle, Saint George instead of just Carlisle when naming the associated categories.

If there is any meaningful history to be written about a past or alternative geographic name, it should be included in a separate article; otherwise, it should just serve as a link to the location's current name.

Wikipedia:WikiProject Antigua and Barbuda/City moves reviews which Antigua and Barbuda cities are most likely or least likely to be eligible for page movements.

Neighbourhoods

As mentioned in points 1 through 6 above, article titles for neighborhoods (and other communities inside communities) must take into account the same factors that apply to municipalities.

Neighbourhood, City is the proper title format for neighborhoods that do not qualify for undisambiguated titles (not Neighbourhood (City), as the "bracket convention" is often reserved for geographic features and constituencies).

Neighbourhood, Parish, as opposed to Neighbourhood, City, may be the designation used when a neighborhood is acknowledged as a separate region.

Neighbourhood, Antigua and Barbuda is not the appropriate title for an article on a neighborhood.

Constituencies

On Wikipedia, electoral districts are referred to as constituencies in accordance with electoral commission conventions. Use ConstituencyName (parliamentary constituency) where it has to be identified, or ConstituencyName (Antigua and Barbuda parliament) if the constituency shares the same name as a parish.

Notability of places

No matter the subject, articles must adhere to WP:Reliable sources, WP:Neutral point of view, and WP:Verifiability. Wikipedia's notion of "inherent notability" for geographic locations does not release articles from these content guidelines. A community is not automatically entitled to a subpar, unreferenced standalone article just because it exists, even though any named community is legitimate as a prospective topic for a properly cited article.

Communities should always have their own articles since they may always be referred to, at the very least, the census data from the Statistics Division. If a neighborhood's article is too short to be more than a stub, it should be pointed to the relevant portion of its community's article or to a suitable spin-off article of the municipality (like a neighborhood article or an omnibus "Neighbourhoods in City" side article) until a properly referenced article about the neighborhood as a stand-alone topic can be written.

Parish names and "Saint" vs. "St."

Refer to a parish as Saint Example, Saint Example, Antigua and Barbuda, or simply as "the" parish. A parish should never be referred to as St. Example or St. Example Parish. When referring to a community's name, such as St. John's or St. Phillip's, use "St." alone.

Population and demographics

Use of census data

All population estimates and demographic data must be cited in accordance with WP:RS and WP:V. The population estimate and demographics from the most recent official Statistics Division census serve as the primary, authoritative source for population data in articles, however some additional sources may be incorporated. Avoid rounding off population figures or demographics, performing your own statistical analysis to arrive at an original study estimate, and citing unofficial population estimates like the neighborhood welcome sign.

Official population updates

In addition to the most recent national census data, between-census properly sourced intercensal population and demographic updates from a government source like the Statistics Division or the Barbuda Council may be provided.

Centre

Certain neighborhoods—like "Urlings-Central"—may be referred to as "Central". This does not always imply that this is the city's "downtown area" or that this is the actual city. A component of Urlings is "Urlings-West", Urlings-West is not a separate village west of Urlings.

Geography

The conventional protocol for a geographical feature that needs to be clarified (such as a valley, island, mountain, or creek) is "Name of Feature (Antigua and Barbuda)". If it isn't enough, pick a more precise disambiguator, such the area, the parent river, or the lake or ocean into which the creek empties.

Law

When writing an article about a piece of legislation, don't call it "Bill #"; instead, use the short name of the legislation, whether it has been passed into law or not. As per WP:NC-GAL, the long form name (An Act to XYZ) is in place as a redirect to the short form name (XYZ Act), which is recommended whenever practical. Add simply the jurisdiction when a title needs to be clarified.

Elections

The naming conventions for election articles are as follows:

• YYYY Antiguan general election
• YYYY Barbuda Council election
• YYYY ConstituencyName by-election
• YYYY ConstituencyName by-election (Antigua and Barbuda), if required

Currency

When an unprefixed dollar sign, such as $123.45, is used in an article that is clearly Antiguan and Barbudan, the Eastern Caribbean dollar is regarded as the default currency. For the benefit of readers from other countries, the currency should be noted as soon as a dollar sum appears. XCD$123.45, EC$123.45, or any other statement indicating that the dollar numbers are Eastern Caribbean can be used to specify this. To prevent confusion, foreign currencies in Antiguan and Barbudan articles should always be identified, notably the US dollar (e.g. US$45.67).