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Based on a search of Wikipedia's articles related to Jordan, I've found some articles that I believe are about places in Jordan, and could usefully have geographical coordinates added.
The articles in question are listed in Category:Jordan articles missing geocoordinate data. At the time of writing, some examples included:
- Al-Mufti House
- Corinthium column
- Husainyyat
- Madaba Governorate
- Municipality of Greater Amman
- Punon
- Tell Juhfiyeh
...and there are many more, as well. At the time of posting this notice, there were 55 articles in this category needing geographical coordinates.
Why add coordinates?
By adding coordinates, a Wikipedia reader can easily view the location on a street map, nautical chart, topographic map, by satellite photo, realtime weather map, and in many other ways. Coordinate data makes an article eventually appear in various services such as Google Maps' Wikipedia overlay, Google Earth, and Wikipedia's own internal map service. Coordinate data also helps readers looking for geographically-based data, such as locations near a reference point, or related information.
How can I do it?
The articles are all marked with {{coord missing}} tags, which need to be replaced with {{coord}} tags that contain the location's latitude/longitude coordinates; or you might be able to add coordinates to an existing infobox. You can find out how to do this at the Wikipedia:Geocoding how-to for WikiProject members.
Please let me know if this is useful, or if I can help in any way. -- The Anome (talk) 22:41, 26 October 2008 (UTC)