User:Caileigholdroyd/Sandbox/Regimental Histories

Purpose
Many of the locality pages for Latin America were created before we had established a way to format collections in the Manual of Style. This project will consist of correcting the links on the locality pages to match the Manual of Style.

Project Leader
Amber Larsen

Task List
Task List

Instructions
1. Open up the link to a Regiment Wiki page by clicking the link in the "Wiki Pages" column.

2. Open up the corresponding link to the book for that page in the "Links to Books" column.

3. That should take you to a page with the digital book. Below the digital book, there should be a catalog entry. It looks like this: 4. Check the wiki page to see if it already has the book on the page under "Other Records". If it is already on the page, fix it to this style outlined below. If it isn't on the page, add it as the last bullet of resources.

5. Next, copy the template to the Other Records section of the regiment page:


 * *LASTNAME,FIRSTNAMEAUTHOR. BOOKTITLE. PLACEPUBLISHED : PUBLISHERNAME, YEAR. Online at: [URL Archive.org].

6. Add the information found on the cover page of the book and the details portion of the page. Using the information on the details page, fill in the template. The example is taken from this page.


 * LASTNAME,FIRSTNAMEAUTHOR is: Hurst, M. B.. This information is found under the title where it says, "by Hurst, M. B. (Marshall B.)." If the name isn't in last name, first name order, please put it in that order.
 * Book Title is: History of the Fourteenth Regiment Alabama Vols. With a List of the Names of Every Man That Ever Belonged to the Regiment. Input the title exactly how you see it on the cover page of the book; in between the four apostrophes ( ).
 * The only thing you would change is capitalizing the first letters of nouns/adjectives. Do not capitalize short prepositions and articles (the, and, of, a, to, etc.)
 * This digital book does not appear to have a specific publisher. The "PLACEPUBLISHED: PUBLISHERNAME, YEAR." for this example would be Richmond, 1863. This was found on the information area, "Publisher." Other books may say a city or town name and an actual publishing company, for instance, "Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Everts & Richards, 1975." Just take as much information as the book and details area provides and remove what doesn't exist.


 * Do your best to be thorough and add the correct information to the template. If the information you are looking for is not on the details area or within the first few pages of the digital book, you may remove that section of the template and move forward to find the other information.

In code, this example looks like this: *Hurst, M. B. ''History of the Fourteenth Regiment Alabama Vols. With a List of the Names of Every Man That Ever Belonged to the Regiment.'' Richmond, 1863. Online at: [URL Archive.org].

7. Take the link of the book from the Links to Books column on the task list.

8. Paste the link in to the template

*Hurst, M. B. ''History of the Fourteenth Regiment Alabama Vols. With a List of the Names of Every Man That Ever Belonged to the Regiment.'' Richmond, 1863. Online at: Archive.org.

9. Click "Show Preview" and make sure everything looks good.

10. Enter "/* Other Records */ Regimental Histories Project" as the Summary and click save.

Examples:
 * Hurst, M. B. History of the Fourteenth Regiment Alabama Vols. With a List of the Names of Every Man That Ever Belonged to the Regiment. Richmond, 1863. Online at: Archive.org.
 * Kvasnicka, Robert M., compiler. The Trans-Mississippi West, 1804–1912, Part IV, A Guide to Records of the Department of the Interior for the Territorial Period, Section 3: Records of the General Land Office]. Washington, DC: National Archives and Records Administration, 2007. Online at: Hathitrust

Example on a page