FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Standardizing County Info

Purpose
The purpose of the project is to standardize sections in the County Information section of county pages

Contact
Danielle Batson

Task List

 * South Dakota: Task List

Instructions
There are various instructions and additional instructions for each state and their county pages in the wiki. Please only follow the instructions for the appropriate state:
 * South Dakota
 * North Dakota
 * Montana

Instructions For South Dakota County pages
1. Go to the Task List and sign up for state and a span of counties in that state to work on.

2. Go to the first county in the Boundary Changes section under County Information at the top of the page.

3. For the first date in the list, make the date it was created a bullet and take off the first date and replace it with “Parent County:” in bold. Make sure the date is somewhere else in the bullet - add if need be.

4. If there is an additional bullet with a date, change it to bold and make sure a bullet is in front of it.

5. Put a bullet in front of County seat:

6. Fix any space issues in the sentences – like a space after the colon

Example: *Parent County: Perkins County was created 3 November 1908 from Butte County. *County seat: Bison

12. In the Edit Summary field, type in: Fixed formatting and save the page.

13. Return to the task list and go to the next wiki page on your list.

Examples
County page: Perkins County, South Dakota page