User:Nhprman/Templatenation

Introduction to the nation template
This is a standard template for use in creating articles about nations in Genealogy:Wikicities.

''Nation articles are designed to create historical context for individuals and places with articles on G-Wiki, and to be a useful resource for genealogists researching in those individuals and places. They are not meant to be clones of Wikipedia pages or be exhaustive histories of each nation.''

''To begin, create a blank place page on which to put your article. You can do this by editing the page at Starting pages and the click on the link you have created.''

''When naming nation articles, use the standard names for nations. Use Australia, rather than Commonwealth of Australia (or worse, Australia, Commonwealth of.) ''

Then, copy-and-paste the entire "You may copy this:" section, below, to the blank article page you’re creating.

''Fill in what you can. Lines or blocks starting with "" are comment sections, and text between them does not show up on the page. Remove the comment tags to make the lines between them visible when you have some information that fits in that section.''

Where you can't find anything to go under a particular heading, leave that heading surrounded by its comment tags, to make it easy for a later editor who can use the heading.

''You may simply delete census data charts that are not relevant to the nation. Some census dates are not included, since they have been not been made available to genealogists. However, charts can certainly be expanded to include other dates and data.''

''For the "info box," which will hover in the upper right-hand corner of your screen, you will need to find your nation's flag at List of flags, and save the relevent one to your computer. Using the "Upload file" link to the left of this article, upload the flag (noting the name in the description box) to Genealogy:Wikipedia. (Note that it will not automatically link from the standard Wikipedia.) Then, using the .PNG or .JPG name of the file when asked to in the "Image:" section of the box.''