User talk:Cottrells

Contributor Training
Steve ... I need to revert the changes you made to the New Contributor Training page yesterday. I had moved the copies of Judy's old lessons to another page because they are not the handouts I give with my classes and I do not want it causing confusion. Thanks, Jane evancol 11:12, 4 April 2012 (UTC)


 * HI Jane, please go ahead and make the changes you need to make. I am a little confused as the only change I made to the page FamilySearch Wiki:New Contributors Training/Prior Lessons was to make the link an internal link rather than an external link. The link before and after the edit went to the same file (or at least duplicates of the same - due to the filename issue). See my comments about the issue on Judy's talk page. --Steve 12:13, 4 April 2012 (UTC)


 * I had moved her lessons to a separate page and just had a note on the bottom of that page indicating old prior lessons were available and a link. When you made the change, it brought the lessons back to my main page. I would tell you how it happened, but if you don't know, there is absolutely no way I understand it !!!!
 * I had moved her lessons to a separate page and just had a note on the bottom of that page indicating old prior lessons were available and a link. When you made the change, it brought the lessons back to my main page. I would tell you how it happened, but if you don't know, there is absolutely no way I understand it !!!!

Thanks Steve. Jane evancol 12:21, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

STEVE ....  Kindly ignore this entire exchange. Apparently, I have lost my mind. Sorry for the interruption to your day!!! Jane

RecordSearch template
Hi Steve --

This one's got David Dilts and I stumped. We can't understand why the RecordSearch template is directing people to the FamilySearch home page, rather than the specific census database page. The problem is occurring on this page: Template:Census Online Florida. (Third column, all links, except 1940 links are having the problem.) Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you. Murphynw 22:19, 20 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi Nathan, there was a fix needed for the links to browse collection and waypoints. Part of the URL has changed from show to index. However the main use of the template linking to the collection search screen was working OK. I took a look at the Census Online Florida and found that the links in the 3rd column under the FamilySearch heading were not using the RecordSearch template. I have changed the links for the 1945 State Census. You can just follow these examples for the rest of that column. I did also notice that the links in the column headed Internet Archive were using the RecordSearch template and not linking to www.archive.org at all! --Steve 11:08, 21 April 2012 (UTC)

New Society Info Box Template
Hi Steve! I’d like to create a new template based on the Infobox Societies template that would have a little bit more information. Is it possible for you to help me? I’d like it to be the same blue look but include some separators bolded on a gray background like on the County Infobox US County template. It would include the following with the bolded words as the separators: Name of Society; Society Logo; Date Established; Contact Info; Address; Telephone; Website; Facebook; Twitter; Society Meeting; Address; Day of Meeting; Time of Meeting; Society Building; Address; Hours; Society Officers; President; Vice President; Number of Members; Affiliations; Cost of Membership; Date last updated. Oh, and can there be that gray thin line between the logo and "date established" like in the original society info box? Thanks! BatsonDL 23:04, 24 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi Danielle, I'm not sure why you would want a new template, when we can improve the current one with the suggestions that you have made. Therefore I have made some of the changes to Infobox Societies, but not all the changes you've requested. I have run out of time just now, but I will work on the others soon. --Steve 13:23, 25 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi Steve, Oh, I didn't think of that because I didn't want to step on any toes of those that created the original one. But that works for me! And this is looking great already! Thank you! BatsonDL 22:29, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Oh wait! I forgot to add an email address and fax under the contact info. Can we add that too? Sorry about that... BatsonDL 22:38, 25 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi Danielle, I've added the parameters that you asked for that weren't already included in the template. Please let me know if any items need moving around or tweaking. I was the person who put together the template originally and I welcome any suggestions to enhance or improve it. Thanks for giving me this opportunity to work with you on this. --Steve 16:31, 26 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Steve, this is so great! Thank you for taking the time to update it for me. I've been playing with it and I couldn't get the Facebook portion to work like the affiliations part. Is there a trick? Oh, and somehow the name of the society is going outside of the box. Thank you for doing it so fast. This has helped me and my project a ton. Thank you! BatsonDL 22:16, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

Danielle, I have tweaked the template a little more and adjusted your example used in User:BatsonDL/Sandbox 10. The colours used for the name title of the infobox are designed to be changeable, using the parameters name_color and back_color. I've added a note to the documentation giving the code to use to blend the title into the rest of the table. Another example using different colours, can be see in Dorset Family History Society. Also I changed the affiliations parameter so that it goes to the wiki page for FGS rather than an external link. You could use either, but I think the internal link shows users to more content in the wiki. --Steve 07:22, 27 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Steve, Perfect! And thanks so much for keeping me straight on this. We are going to recruit some societies to make their own pages so I was trying to make a scaled down version of the template with only the essentials so they wouldn't get too confused. And I'm glad you changed the affiliate.  I totally forgot about the wiki page.  Thanks again! BatsonDL 18:25, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

Hi Steve.

Sorry ment to add here. I removed the Move template because as I searched the England (County) and found only a very few that were marked county. I also felt to move a talk page with out the (county) page was not logical to me. I agree that making all the England counties into county pages would be more logical. I just do not see doing one talk page. Think changing the regular pages would be a better move in my mind. Sandralpond 15:45, 27 April 2012 (UTC)