Template talk:Family Group Record Format

Templates

We currently have a Start a new page page which allows family outlines to be started with a template. I propose that we might need two templates - an advanced template for users who know what they're doing, and a beginners template. This easy to use template would add in just the basics and would help to get people up to speed without causing them to run away in fear of the advanced template. We could even 'tag' pages created with this method so more advanced users could go in later and bring them up to the more advanced level.

- Tim Doyle 08:05, 2 February 2006 (CST)

Links

Folks:

How much do you think we ought to link?

Should we link every occurrence of, for example, John¹ Whitney's name to his family group record? Should we include at the bottom of his family group record links to every source we have that mentions his name, and not already listed in the References section?

Also, should we link every place name ("Isleworth"), unusual term ("propounded"), organization ("Merchant Taylors"), historic event ("King Philip's War"), and so on, to the Wikipedia entry for it?

On another related matter, how much of the text from a source should we include in the main narrative on a family group record, how much in a footnote, and how much omitted entirely?

It seems reasonable to do some of this, but not all. Where do we draw the lines?

Is our time better spent getting the family group sheets posted, like Andaleen is doing, and in reasonable shape with regard to sourcing, and leave some of the rest of this to others, or at least until later?

- Robert 10:42, 28 February 2006 (CST)