User:Nhprman/placetemplate

Genealogy:Place template proposal for discussion
Below is a proposed template for cities and towns in G-Wiki. It is geared towards genealogical research, emphasizing resources in each location family historians can use.

I expect this will be used to link from towns and cities of persons who have articles here.

Please discuss this in my Discussion/Talk Section and let me know if this is the best thing you've ever seen, a 'good first step', that I’m way off base, or if you have other or better suggestions to improve it.

Note that it is not meant to utterly duplicate the main Wikipedia entries for cities and towns. In fact, that would be pointless, in my view. However, a link to the Wikipedia article for each location would not be out of order.

Census figure tables (editor should deleting those not relevent) are meant to cover only census data publicly available to genealogists in each country. If my research was off on dates, please let me know or add other available years. (Note that Canada released their 1911 census just this past summer .)

An sample of the first table is located on my user page.

Personally, I think this concept (arising from a conversation with User:Robin_Patterson which many of you may have seen) is a sound one, and helps build this community. If someone in authority is happy with this, feel free to create it as as template immediately.

The text of the proposal’s introduction - modeled on the "Genealogy:People" template, starts below. Nhprman

=Introduction= ''First copy to the town or city page the whole of the "You may copy this:" section. Fill in what you can. Feel free to link to Wikipedia or this Wiki.

''Lines or blocks starting with "" are comment sections, which don't show on the page. Remove the comment tags to make the lines 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 copy this:
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