WikiProject:Adding New Collection Links

Part 1 - Analyze the Collection Link
1. Locate a collection to add on the New Collections Spreadsheet: All - Formatted List tab. 2. Add your name to column B to sign up for that new collection. 3. Click on the link for the new collection found in Column F. 4. Review the description of the collection to see where the information was obtained from.
 * a. If the information states that is from FamilySearch, skip to Part 3.

Examples of Wording: Original data: Austria, Births and Baptisms, 1651-1940. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.
 * b. If the name and dates of the collection, match FamilySearch or another website, skip to Part 3.


 * c. If there is no indication that this is the same databases from FamilySearch, go to Part 2.

Part 2 - Creating the Collection Link
1. Open up a Sandbox page where you can create the new link. 2. Create the new link by using the following wikitext code listed below: More Instructions found on the Manual of Style

All Websites BUT FamilySearch *DATE-DATE [URL DATABASENAME] at WEBSITENAME — index & images, ($) FamilySearch Collections With RecordSearch Template *DATE-DATE at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index & images

Part 3 - Creating an Also As
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Part 4 - Placing the Link on Wiki Pages
1. The collection needs to be analyzed before determining where it should go. Use the guidelines here to help you determine where it should go: