Template talk:RecordSearch

Name of this template
Thomas Lerman raised the question about the name of this template in a forum post. His suggestion was RecordSearch. I would not object to a name change, but I think the reason I choose CID still holds.

Firstly I noticed that Horandm was creating article for various record search collections, such as England Cheshire Nonconformist Church Records and including at the bottom of the article a line of code that included a CID ref. Why this is being done and why the coding is in a particular format is still unclear to me.

I also coded the template to include an optional display text parameter, but if that is not given the default display is
 * CID #######

Finally, when coding an article, templates with short titles are easier to type. --Steve 20:41, 9 August 2009 (UTC)