User:Janaeelizan7/sandbox/28

Project
Currently, on the Wiki, there are several pages containing bullet-point lists of Civil War ships or regiments. To make these lists easier to read, look at, and to find things, we are inputting the information into tables. The following will primarily be a copy and paste project

Step 1
[Colored Troops Units task list] Confederate Ships task list Union Gun Boats task list Union Ships task list

Decide which task list you want to work on, put your name down, and then open up a blank sandbox. create a section at the top for what letter you're working on: ==A== and then copy the following code: and then save your page.

Step 2
Go to the task list, and open up the wiki page you are going to be transferring to the table; these are listed in the task list. In your sandbox page, click the edit source next to the table, and enter in the information from the bullet point list on the wiki page in the applicable spot. It should look like this when done. |- When you have entered the information in for the first one copy and paste in the following code for however many other entries you will be adding. You can copy over all that you'll need at once or do it one at a time after entering in the information for the previous entry. You will paste the code in after the |- and before the |}
 * width="14.2%" align="left"|Abeona
 * width="14.2%" align="left"|December 21, 1864 to August 17, 1865
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 * width="14.2%" align="left"|Class: Side-wheel steamer
 * width="14.2%" align="left"|Description

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