User:SvareJM/Sandbox/Categories and Locality Parameters

Locality categories for Historical Records articles are created by the location parameter in the infobox. The value in this field should be the locality of the record collection. I.e., if a collection is for Minnehaha County, South Dakota, the value should be Minnehaha (South Dakota). If it’s a national collection, such as, Brazil, the value should be Brazil. location = Minnehaha (South Dakota) or location = Brazil Every time you create a new article you should always check the categories at the bottom of the page to make sure there are no red categories. If there are, it means the category does not exist. And you stand in jeopardy of being first against the wall when the revolution comes.

In the case of red locality categories, you probably just need to identify to what existing locality category the one you have just created is a sub-category.

So, let’s say you created the first-ever article for Ward County, North Dakota, and entered this as the location parameter: Ward (North Dakota). location = Ward (North Dakota) When you look at the categories at the bottom of the page, you see this: Ward (North Dakota) FamilySearch Historical Records. The normal response would be for you to panic, realizing that you have done something which is going to move you to the head of the line when the revolution comes. However, because you are a seasoned professional, you know the solution is to identify the parent category which will remove the red link.

To do this, click the red link to open a new window to create this category. In the edit area enter the name of the next-level up locality followed by FamilySearch Historical Records with two square brackets before and after the text. Like this: North Dakota FamilySearch Historical Records and preview the page to make sure there aren’t any red locality category links.

In some cases you may need to create another category. This should only happen if you are creating a new article for a municipal-level collections, such as Utah, Davis, Bountiful, Permits for Burning Orchard Cuttings. In this case, the location parameter would be Bountiful (Davis), and the LOC_01 parameter would be Davis and LOC_02 would be Bountiful. location = Bountiful (Davis) LOC_01 = Davis LOC_02 = Bountiful The article category displayed at the bottom of the page would be Bountiful (Davis) FamilySearch Historical Records and the parent category would be Davis (Utah) FamilySearch Historical Records, and the parent category for that would be Utah FamilySearch Historical Records. You probably have noticed by now the term in parentheses is the immediately superior jurisdiction: City (County), then County (State).