Category talk:Geography of Australia by state or territory

Naming conventions
Active editors have been developing standards throughout 2008, mostly for New South Wales. That includes the creation of templates to make page creation fast but comprehensive. Other states and territories should be modelled on those wherever practicable. See in particular Template:Ausregcat and Template:Navbox Ausdiv.

Use of those templates is just one reason for having Australia-wide naming conventions.

For NSW, all placenames are meant to be of the form "Place, New South Wales" (for localities from hamlet level up to conurbations and regions and including parishes) or "Place County, New South Wales" or "Place Shire, New South Wales" or "City of Sydney, New South Wales" etc. That does not always match Wikipedia's name, unfortunately, but maybe WP will standardise in that direction eventually.

With several thousand parishes spread over NSW, some duplication of names may appear. So be wary. Not all parishes are yet in link form in the county lists, so a full search may be the only good way to check, rather than trying to rely on "What links here".

The same sort of thing will probably apply in other states too.

Names of geographical features such as rivers and mountains should probably follow Wikipedia unless exceptions come up for consensus.

Category structure
We follow Wikipedia-type standards where practicable. If your ancestor's birthplace is untraceable but has its state stated, the "Born in ..." will have to be at a higher level than we like, but that may be all that somebody needs to climb a brick wall, so it is better than nothing.