User talk:Ccsmith

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Again, welcome! Kara 14:55, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

Virginia parishes
Sorry Elder Smith. I'll fix these Virginia parish categories. I've been doing it piecemeal and will need to figure out which counties each parish serves. Should have it done by the end of the week. Murphynw 17:55, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

Montgomery County, Kentucky Navbox
Hi Charles,

Jimmy suggested that I leave you a note about your work on the Montgomery County, Kentucky page. I see that you have successfully created a county navbox. At the moment you've added the code for the navbox directly to the page, which is OK, but if you wanted to use the navbox on many pages, the way to do this is to create the navbox in the "Template" namespace. If you are new to the wiki this will be new to you, but I'm willing to guide you through the process. --Steve 21:14, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

Blanking out pages
Hi, I'm Dorothy Horan. I work with the pages that describe digital collections published in fsbeta.I've notified that you have blanked out redirects from some articles in the wiki, including ones that we created. When that happens, the wiki users are led to a blank page which might lead them to believe that there isn't another article available to give them that data.

What we need to do with those pages is to mark them for deletion. The redirects are supposed to be temporary until someone who deletes pages can delete the non-essential pages.

Thanks for helping out! Let me know if you have any questions. -- Horandm 30 November 2010.

Categories for US Military categories
Hi Charles, I have today amended some categories relating to US military categories (for example Category:Illinois - Military). I noticed that many of these categories had themselves as the category, resulting in a category loop. The change I've made is to have them added to two category, 1) relating to the state and 2) relating to US State Military Records. I've sorted the state category with the word Military and the US State Military Records with the name of the state. I hope you see the logic behind this change. --Steve 12:55, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

Categories for Civil War Pages
We appreciate your willingness to try to improve the Wiki. We have a team that is creating pages for the Civil War regiments for 33 states. Most pages are not done, so please don't change anything yet. Please contact me before changing anything.

Would you please change all categories of the Ohio in the Civil War pages back to what they were? I really do want Ohio - Military - Civil War, 1861-1865, NOT Ohio - Military. The same for the Arkansas in the Civil War pages. The categories have not be made yet, but I'll do it soon. Thank you, Marilyn

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Spelling
Henry995 You have created FamilySearch Centre pages for Britain with Americanised spelling of the word Centre (Center) may I suggest that you edit these to the correct English spelling throughout the page(s) as Americanised spellings are not popular outside the USA/Canada.


 * I agree with Henry, English users would not search for a family history center but a family history centre. Also do we need to have the word England in the title? Yes with these are the official names, but they are not the common names that patrons would search for. Finally the Isle of Wight is part of England so doesn't need it's own category. --Steve 07:12, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

Hi Charles, I see that you created the page FamilySearch Wiki:Family History Centers Naming and Content. I have added a proposed style guide regarding this issue to that page. --Steve 08:01, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

Stubs
Hi Charles, just to let you know that I have created a new stub template FHC-stub to indentify FHC articles that need filling out with detail. I have included in the stub template a link to the instructions and guidelines for FHC and so I have replace the current code for this link with the template. Once a page has been edited with the details of the center then the stub template can be removed. Until then each article in addition to being categorised by with the other FHC in the same state/country they will be be found in Category:Family History Center stubs. --Steve 12:11, 15 April 2011 (UTC)

Jersey Family History Centre
Hi Charles, I see that you have renamed the Jersey Family History Centre to add the city name. However as I explained on the talk page, it is only named this within the LDS Church. As the wiki is written with a general point of view, I think it is important that articles are named using terms that are most common, ie those that will be used by most people to find them. --Steve 07:07, 1 July 2011 (UTC)

Spanish and Portuguese content in the English wiki
Hi Charles, I noticed that today you have created FHC-stub Spanish template, and previously the FHC page outline Spanish and FHC page outline Portuguese templates. These template belong in either the Spanish or Portuguese Wikis and not in the English language wiki. There is a template H-langs that can be used to link an English article to the article on the same subject in the other wikis. Content in the English wiki should always be in English. --Steve

Edits to FHCpage
Hi Charles, please review the comments I have added to the Template talk:FHCpage. I would welcome your feedback. --Steve 05:30, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

Baker City FHC
This might surprise you. I'm native of Baker City, Oregon. FamilySearch continues to use "Baker" instead of "Baker City" despite the fact the locals do not refer to Baker at all since at least 1985. Even the wards there are referred to as Baker City First Ward and Baker City Second Ward and officially as such in meetinghouse locator directory. They are not going to look for Baker Oregon FHC, they're looking for Baker City, Oregon FHC. Dsammy 17:13, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
 * There is a workaround solution to this. actual page stays and masked Baker Oregon... and type |Baker City Oregon Family History Center. Search engine pick up this one, and nobody the wise to it. Dsammy 19:24, 30 August 2011 (UTC)