User blog:Robin Patterson/Couple histories - new category and project page

I've created a Category:Couple histories (with a brief explanation on it) and a more explanatory project page with a suggested preload. This can save repetitious typing and amending for a slice of family history that can appropriately appear as a section of each of the articles for a married or unmarried couple and even on the page for any of their children (particularly a first child). It works with one of the lesser-known aspects of template syntax.

The idea arose from my creation of the history of the meeting and marriage of my parents: Bill and Gretta Patterson's life together. Other similar pages had been written by other people but not incorporated in individuals' articles. I've now incorporated one of those too.

I hope one of our gurus can produce a modified version of Showfacts children that can display a standard-looking table of the children of a specified couple, because that would often be a good place to have such a table, especially for an individual who produced children with the help of more than one partner.