Familypedia:County navigation templates

(See Category:County navigation templates.)

Introduction
Since late 2007, the "place" aspects of this site focus more and more on counties (or near-equivalents). For the British Isles we focus on the traditional (i.e. pre-1970s) counties, while elsewhere we tend to use present-day boundaries but (ideally!) with extensive cross-references about former counties and the former states and countries places were in. Some countries, such as Australia, use regions as the main equivalent if counties are of little significance or had so many changes as to cause confusion. The county navigation templates include: The following sections are about the latter class, because in October 2008 they are still being created and have been applied on only a fraction of potential pages.
 * those for the county main pages and categories, devised by User:Phlox in late 2007 and applied semi-automatically to over 4,000 articles, needing little attention from current users; they appear on county main category pages, but those are best created using inclusive templates such as Template:ctycat for America and Template:ctycat-eu for Europe.
 * templates for (subsidiary) county-related categories, devised in the Australasian Spring 2008 by User:Thurstan and User:Robin Patterson; they generally combine the county page template with other links and appropriate wording and categories, all done very simply in about half a line of code that can generally be memorised.

Names
Some have the long form such as "Died in UK" but all should have shorter versions, such as d-uk, where:
 * b=Born in (done for UK, US)
 * br=Birth records of
 * bu=Businesses in (done for UK)
 * ch=Church records of
 * cm=Cemeteries in
 * cn=Census of
 * ct=Court records of
 * d=Died in (done for UK, US)
 * di=Directories of
 * dr=Death records of
 * f=Families of (done for UK, US)
 * g(?)=Geography of (including maps and settlements subcategories, see Category:Geography of Adams County, Illinois)
 * h=History of (including the subpages on archeology, prehistory, and timeline, which are unlikely to justify categories of their own on this wiki)
 * i(?)=Images of
 * lm=Landmarks of
 * lr=Landowner records of
 * m=Married in (done for UK, US)
 * mi=Military records of
 * mp=Maps of (done for UK, US)
 * mr=Marriage records of
 * ob=Obituaries of (a subcategory of "Death records"?)
 * pr=Probate records of
 * q=Queries about (if this turns out to be distinct from "Talk about")
 * r=Resided in (done for UK, US) (including families subcategory)
 * s(?)=Settlements in (could have link to CuriousFox)
 * t(?)=Talk about (the "Community messages" linked in the top line of the navbox)

What gets transcluded

 * 1) Template:navcty, or the equivalent for UK etc, which puts the big navbox for the county right at the top of the page.
 * 2) WikiMedia link, sometimes. Commonest will be Template:alsoWP, suitable for categories that have a Wikipedia near-equivalent, such as: "People from" (which can be used on "Born in", "Families of", and "Resided in"); "Cemeteries in" (which is somewhat rare in WP at the county level; we are ahead of WP there, so this should link to the state). For maps and other images, use Template:commonscat with images for the state, because WP is much poorer and even Commons does not have full county coverage; see Template:mp-us. Those two fit tidily in the top right below the navbox.
 * 3) Bold intro summary, right under the navbox (flush left), mentioning the county, state, and country.
 * 4) Template:catmore+ (which can follow the intro in the same code line to save space), the link to the existing or proposed main page for the category, with invitation for readers to create and/or use it.
 * 5) Paragraphs indicating which subcategories might be appropriate. "Families" templates also have a note suggesting that categories with a surname in front could be better as "Surname in place" categories.
 * 6) Categories for:
 * 7) County (no need for pipe because categories list by PAGENAME)
 * 8) "Born" etc about/in/of State (with pipe to list by county)

Instructions for use of templates
(This is currently on the same page in a "noinclude" but could be moved to a standard "/doc" subpage, which would require more clicking by users but could have protection advantage and small advantage for server load. User:Thurstan set one up for Template:Born in UK.)


 * 1) Bold main paragraph saying what this is for and how to use it
 * 2) Optional notes about how to create similar sets of templates (see "Born in US" and "Born in UK")
 * 3) Notes about adapting for other countries on same continent
 * 4) Categories for the template (piped so that the abbreviated versions list next to the full names), e.g.:
 * 5)  — whole set will be in this one —
 * 6)  — the words "people in" are changed appropriately: history, maps, organizations (e.g. businesses and farms), records, ...