User talk:Djbrewer

Hi Djbrewer

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Bo

How does X work?
I can't change a duplicate reference on the Ramsey Essex England parish page. --Djbrewer 16:55, 20 April 2012 (UTC)


 * In Wikitext, go down to the area in your article where it shows a template for reflist (the first one), and delete that template. Then where it says References, put the == in front of that template so that References  is set up as a Header 2.  If that doesn't make sense, let me know. Lynda 21:34, 23 April 2012 (UTC)

Gazetteers
Hi Djbrewer I know that many people are using the 'The Vision of Britain' as a source for a parish histories. County gazetteers are a much better source than the brief comments about parishes on 'The Vision of Britain'. For small parishes I think it is a waste of time to link directly there. The 'The Vision of Britain' is far from a comprehensive resource for many places. Google books has put many Gazetteers online as free and searchable. I don't understand why nobody is using these as a source. There far superior to the brief comments found in the national gazetteers. These gazetteers that are on Google books are out of copy write. Even if they were in copywrite that is no reason to link to them. The reason I made the descriptions so long was to create interest. There is nothing like as short boring description of a place. Suffolk has online directories and gazetteers for 1844, 1855, 1865, 1874, 1896. One will find populations numbers, estate owners, manors, principal resident and there occupations, information about churches, market towns, regional descriptions, etc.. Google has made them every name searchable so one can within seconds search the entire book and find anything you may be looking for. It is a library. I could link directly to one gazetteer but since there are 5 of them I link to the Suffolk Gazetteers page that I created and put clear directions on how to use them and incorporate them into the parish histories. I'm hoping that someone will build on what I have started. Everything you have done to those pages I am working on I will undo unless it is an improvement. There is already a link to 'The Vision of Britain' on every page. I created those pages to be built on rather than to be torn down. It would be a much better use of your time to link to the many county gazetteers. Norfolk has many gazetteers but I see no one has even made one reference to them. If there are county gazetteers every parish page should link to them. I'm wondering when someone is going create a page with links to all the county gazetteers on Google books and other places. I'll put this comment on the England Gazetteer discussion page as well. Donjgen 18:30, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

Hi Djbrewer. Sorry for getting carried away with my last remark. I have been communicating with a administrator trying to sort this out. There are various sections on every parish page that are being ignored. There is a civil registration section to note the district. Church Record section to note church records and church jurisdictions; Gazetteer section to note the gazetteers. Go to Metfield, Suffolk to see how I have organized the gazetteers. For many of the small parishes in England the brief comments in the Gazetteers could hardly be considered a 'Parish History'. Anyway - Concerning the Suffolk Parishes, there is a need to add a link to the catalogue in the resource section, put a civil registration district in the civil registration district section, etc. Go over to Wiki:WikiProject_English_parishes Hopefully these wikiproject  pages will be getting more activity in the future. Also Wiki:WikiProject_EnglandDonjgen 18:44, 14 July 2012 (UTC)