Wikipedia:WikiProject Adelaide/Suburbs

Acknowledgement

WikiProject Adelaide would like to acknowledge WikiProject Sydney suburbs as the source for the majority of the information published here - we follow where they began.

Progress

Suburbs
Main article: List of Adelaide suburbs
Category: Suburbs of Adelaide

Completed suburbs: 1% finished

Of 478 articles, 6 are counted as complete. All existing articles are in their appropriate category.

Featured suburbs: 0% finished

Of 478 articles, 1 are counted as featured.

Naming Conventions

Suburbs of Adelaide should be named {Suburb name}, South Australia.
Check to see if {Suburb name} exists, and if it does, leave a note about the alternative use as a suburb of Adelaide at the top. If there is a disambiguation page, add an entry for the suburb if it is not already there

Exceptions

Adelaide - A well-known entity that happens to be the only place called so.
North Adelaide - Ditto.
Port Adelaide - Same again.

Standards

The minimum requirements for an article to be considered complete are:

An explanation of the suburb's location.
A history of the area, including (at a bare minimum) how it was created and when.
An explanation of the suburb's name.

For an article to be considered a featured suburb it must be of high quality. It must have all the attributes of a normal featured article (this means a good lead section, excellent prose, etc.), and must also have the following information:

A map, showing where the suburb is located in Adelaide. Tip: getting a good map under an acceptable copyright / license is not currently very easy, but attempts are being made to improve this.
Population statistics (can be found from the Bureau of Statistics Office). Tip: The ABS website is a very hard to navigate - so to find the right document, search google for POA5015 (replace "5015" with the right postcode for your suburb) or do a Google search using the term "site:www.abs.gov.au suburbname". This can be more accurate since the postcode can sometimes include multiple suburbs. Then you can then download the data (an XLS Excel file) as a Zip file.
Transport information (e.g. does the suburb rely of buses, trains, ferries, etc.).
Information about local events if applicable(e.g. community festivals, council-organised events, etc.).
Information about local landmarks or features, along with pictures of these landmarks or features.
A more complete section on the suburb's history (e.g. notable historical events, times when the suburb grew quickly, etc.).
Notable citizens who were born or lived in the suburb (optional, but if they existed then they should be in the article). Tip: they only need to be in list form, together with less than 20 words saying who they were.
A reference section. All facts need to be attributable to an external source of information (say a newspaper report/cutting, book about the town, local council document).
Information about any prominent local organisations (churches, historical societies, local clubs, etc.). If you prefer, you can just include links to local organisations in an External Links section.
Added brownie points go to anyone who researches the area and puts in a section detailing the past aboriginal culture of the area.
Optional: Politics (local issues, what state and federal electorate the suburb is in, who are the current local members, is it a safe Labor seat/safe Libs seat/marginal seat).

Don't let this hold you back, however! If you have more information than what is on this page then please, by all means add it! Also, if you only have a bit of information about the suburb, then please add it to the page and use the template below to mark it as a suburb stub.

Example articles

Waterfall Gully - this article is the first feature article on a suburb, and an Adelaide one at that. It is thus an exemplar for other suburbs.
Yarralumla - a Canberra suburb similarly featured and also a good example.
Summer Hill - an example of a suburb meeting the requirements and on its way to feature standard.

List of Suburbs

The following is a general list of Adelaide suburbs that may or may not meet the above criteria. See this page for a complete list of Adelaide suburbs.

Complete

Semi-Complete

Incomplete/Some Information

Stubs

City of Marion suburbs:

All other City of Burnside suburbs:

All other City of Unley suburbs:

City of Mitcham suburbs:

Brown Hill Creek, South Australia

Templates

Template:Infobox Australian place - Created for use by all places in Australia
Template:Adelaide-geo-stub (note that some Adelaide suburbs may still be marked with Template:SouthAustralia-geo-stub)
Template:City of Marion suburbs - place this at the bottom of suburb articles for City of Marion suburbs by typing {{City of Marion suburbs}}. Likewise templates have been created for all the other councils in Adelaide, which can be added appropriately by {{City of ..... suburbs}}
Template:Adelaide Hills - To be used at the bottom of articles relating to the Adelaide Hills.

Wanted pictures

If you require pictures, or would like to help with sourcing them, then take a look a this page.