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Website Overview
Editing Guidelines
- How to edit a page
- How to add bold or italics
- How to add a bulleted list
- How to add a numbered list
- How to make section headings
- How to rename or move an article
- How to add an article
- How to start a new page
- How to add links to an article
- How to change your site preferences
- How to use talk pages
- How to rename (move) a page
- How to use redirect pages
- How to revert a page to an earlier version
- How to delete pages
- How to use tables
- Help:Talk pages
- Help:User pages
- How to use the recent changes page
- How to sign your posts on talk pages
- Talk pages
- Page history
- How to cite sources
- What links here
- How to search
- How to add Links
- How to log in
- Recent Changes
Style Guidelines
Robert - these are just my suggestions, but we'll need to discuss. There will probably be more as we think of them.
General Site Guidelines
- Dates: our preferred format is 12 Jan 1892.
- Name capitalization: The preferred format is for names to be in upper/lower case, such as this: John Whitney. Please refrain from all capital surnames such as WHITNEY unless the original source has it thus.
Archive Page Guidelines
- Spelling, upper/lower case, date formats, etc. should be in the format of the original source.
Family Group Record Guidelines
- All of the General Site Guidelines apply to the Family Group Records as well.
- The name of the page should be of the form "Family:Surname, Given Middle (birth_year-death_year)". If either year is not known exactly, use, for example, a1701 (after), b1701 (before), c1701 (circa or about), s1701 (say, for guesses), or ? (no idea). If the date is a double date, such as 1700/1, use 1701.
- The first mention of the names of primary individuals (the subject, wives, and children) should be bolded to allow for easy location by readers.
