Familypedia:Classification conventions (geographic names)

This page describes conventions for determining the classification of Familypedia geographic location articles in categories and properties. For naming conventions, see Genealogy:Naming conventions (geographic names). By following modern English usage as determined by the English Wikipedia, we avoid arguments about how a place ought to be classified, instead asking the less contentious question, how it is classified in a collectively arbitrated authority such as Wikipedia.

Administrative subdivisions
Familypedia uses wikipedia's administrative subdivision hierarchies as a proxy for regional hierarchies. It is recognized these are not the same thing. Documentation from church and civil records generally will refer to

Natural features
Landmarks such as city squares, mountains or lakes should use the street address property.

United Kingdom
Subdivision1: While citizens of the United Kingdom consider England, Scotland and Wales as countries equivalent to France, Netherlands or Denmark, they recognize that the status from a political science sense of the term is that these constituent countries are not sovereign nations that can make treaties independent of the UK, have a seat at the United Nations, and so on. These are each regarded by wikipedia as first level administrative subdivisions (see wikipedia source).

Guidance on particular items of note in the UK follows:
 * Ceremonial & historical counties
 * Counties
 * Locations in London: county=Greater London.  Values of locality may be the components of Greater London described in the wikipedia article including the city of Westminster and the boroughs of London.
 * Regions of England: