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• In my experience, the best way to add coordinates information to Wikipedia articles (and Commons images) is by using the Geolocator tool, which calls itself "the Swiss Army Knife of georeferencing and geotagging". The best way to find this tool is by googling "geolocator swiss army knife", an easy search to remember. The tool uses google earth to help you find the coordinates of the place you want to geotag (you do it by pointing a pointer at the desired place), and then produces the coordinates in a "coord" (or Commons "location") template form that you can copy and paste straight onto a Wikipedia or Commons page, as appropriate. Bahnfrend (talk) 09:58, 31 May 2013 (UTC)
  • Thank you for that. I was just about to mention the same. The very idea of doing any of this stuff manually makes half of my face twitch. With geolcator it can be a really fun research game... it can get a little addictive though. --U5K0'sTalk_{Make WikiLove not WikiWar} 16:12, 31 May 2013 (UTC)
    • Yes, it can. And it's also important to bear in mind that using this tool isn't original research, but extraction by electronic means of information already published in a reliable source. Bahnfrend (talk) 23:43, 31 May 2013 (UTC)
  • Yes, thanks User:Bahnfrend et al. I just corrected the geo-coords for Downtown Disney (Disneyland Resort), which had been mistakenly placed in Florida vice California. This is a good gardening task. Chris Troutman (talk) 19:52, 2 June 2013 (UTC)
• I know about point coordinate templates. Is there something for polygons/regions? Shyamal (talk) 03:33, 4 June 2013 (UTC)