User:Caileigholdroyd/Sandbox/Latin America Parish Page Instructions

Project Leader
Caileigh Oldroyd

Purpose
Adding content to the Latin American parish pages in the English Wiki.

Websites

 * Catholic Hierarchy for histories

Part 1 - Adding Alternate Names
1. To add alternate names, look under column D, "Alt Names". 2. Add the alternate names in bullet form. Each name is separated by a comma on the spreadsheet.

Example:
 * Santo Cristo de Esquipulas de la Agonía
 * Santo Cristo de la Agonía
 * La Agonia (Santo Cristo de Esquipulas)
 * La Agonia
 * Iglesia La Agonia

Part 2 - Adding Histories
1. First copy this sentence and add it under the "History" subheading on the parish page. 

PARISHNAME is in the Diocese of DIOCESENAME within the Metropolitan Archdiocese of San José de Costa Rica. Administratively it is part of the neighborhood of NEIGHBORHOOD, district of DISTRICT, canton of CANTON, and province of PROVINCE.

2. Fill in the information. Diocese name is under column E, "Diocese" Location information is in column B.
 * The location column has the information in reverse order of what is presented below. Some may not have a district or neighborhood. It is okay to fill in just what is on the spreadsheet. Just take out the jurisdictions it doesn't have. 
 * Alajuela, Alajuela, Sarapiquí 
 * Alajuela is the Province, Alajuela is the Canton, and Sarapiquí is the District. 

This example would look like this on the page: 

San Miguel Arcángel is in the Diocese of Ciudad Quesada within the Metropolitan Archdiocese of San José de Costa Rica. Administratively it is part of the district of Sarapiquí, canton of Alajuela, and province of Alajuela.

3. Check Catholic Hierarchy for a history of the parish's diocese (diocese is found in column E).
 * The history or the diocese is under "Historical Summary" and in table format.



4. Copy this sentence and put it after the first sentence you populated. Then add the information from the table to the sentence.

The DIOCESENAME was EVENT on DATE from FORMERDIOCESENAME. Records kept at the parish level likely stayed within the parish, but records made before EVENTYEAR may be housed in another archive depending on how they decided to keep the records.

Here is an example with the information filled in:

The Diocese of Ciudad Quesada was erected 25 July 1995 from the Diocese of Alajuela and the Diocese of Tilarán. Records kept at the parish level often stayed within the parish, but records made before 1995 in a defunct parish may be housed in another diocesan archive depending on how they decided to keep the records.

5. Edit the paragraph as needed to fix grammar.