Familypedia:Model place page/procedure

User:Robin Patterson's method of creating wanted pages for localities and counties. It requires the right-hand editing tools panel to be open so that the four green one-click templates show.

Circumstances
See a red link for a locality or county in an individual's infobox? If you know it should be corrected or redirected to a known article, get in and fix it. If still a red link, proceed:

Two easy templates and preview

 * Click the link to open in new window
 * Ensure pointer is in the edit box
 * Click the Bdm template; hit "END"; click the "Usedwps" template
 * Highlight all and copy
 * Tab (to reach the edit summary box)
 * Paste (because that's usually an adequate summary)
 * Preview

Try Wikipedia and use it or Google to fill your new page

 * Right-click on the page name in the Wikipedia acknowledgment, to get Wikipedia in a new window; now there are four likely scenarios:
 * Wikipedia can't find it; take up the invitation to search Wikpedia (and move to the next scenario if successful); in extremely rare cases you will fail - divert to Google or similar and see if you can find the place and write your own summary from that; example Ballydian,_County_Down; and you can use trywp as an interwiki link to help people continue trying for it on Wikipedia
 * Wikipedia has it as a disambiguation page: we want those, so "Edit", "Select all", "Copy", and go back to your article and Paste at the beginning, deleting the Bdm there and in the edit summary. Preview if you like, then Publish. Find the page you probably want for your original search, and start over with it if it's a red link (a little simpler because your Wikipedia disambig page can take you straight to the WP article). If it's not a red link on the disambiguation page, check it, and if appropriate use its name to correct the individual's infobox. Then close any WP window(s) you have no need to keep open.
 * Wikipedia redirects you to another page: OK, we want that redirect too. Copy the redirect to your waiting page, cutting both templates on the page and delete the Bdm from the edit summary. Preview if you like, then Publish. Click on the new red link, paste those two cut templates into the page then tab to paste them into the edit summary, move your pointer back to just in between them on the page and copy the Wikipedia redirect as described above. Then start over with the target page if it's a red link - but you will probably reach scenario 4 quickly because you already have the right WP page open.
 * Bingo! Right first time! (Fortunately, this is the commonest scenario.) "Edit", "Select all", "Copy", and go back to your article and Paste between the two templates. If the Wikipedia article ends with interlanguage links such as Londres, please either delete them all or comment them out: we may find a use for them later but it's hardly worth the trouble of commenting them out.

Add the Bdm subpage
This is an anticlimax, one of the best-value-for-money page-creations you'll ever do. Four clicks and a tab plus two typings of one digit.
 * Click the "Births etc" tab then ensure that your pointer is in the newly-presented blank edit box
 * Click the "Bdm" template and type "1" for a locality but "2" for a county (and don't move your pointer away and don't move your typing finger too far either)
 * Tab to reach the Edit summary
 * Click "Bdm" again and type "1" for a locality but "2" for a county
 * Publish

Now admire what you have created in just seven moves.