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Help:Conventions
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[edit] Names
- Create pages using "Firstname Middlename Surname" if all three are known, where surname is maiden name if available. Be careful to capitalize properly.
- Duplicated names should be disambiguated using roman numerals, for example,
Charles Sharp Middleton II
- The "lastname" field should always be the person's most used married name
[edit] Parent's names
- If nothing is known about a parent, leave the parent's name blank.
- Identify mothers by their full Maiden name if known, otherwise by their first name + married name (this changed as of 20 Nov 2007). Be sure to make the mother's prefix "Mrs" in her page, otherwise there's no way to tell an unmarried Elizabeth Haynes from an Elizabeth née Unknown who married a Haynes.
- Identify fathers by their full name if known, otherwise their first name. Since men usually carry their family names with them, this is unlikely to be a problem in practice.
[edit] Dates
- Dates are best entered in YYYY-MM-DD format, although see help:Dates, and will be rendered like this: 16 Sep 2007
- An unknown date should be entered as "?" meaning unknown. Leaving it blank means either that it hasn't happened yet (still alive) or you want to keep it a secret. If the death date is left blank, the software won't display the birth date anywhere, as a security feature. To override this, if you don't want to use "?", put something in the death field like
|death=
[edit] Web Pages
- All non-person pages must start with "Web:" and then the initials for whom the web page is being created
- Let's say we wanted to make a web page for Nellie Edith Middleton and wanted to link to it from her page. We might put
[[Web:NEM-Notebooks|diaries]]
somewhere in the biography section of her page, or as a parameter:|website=Web:NEM-Notebooks
- Having saved the page, you'd click on diaries and be prompted to create Web:NEM-Notebooks. Go ahead and create it and enter your stuff. Done!