FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject New York/Tasks-Newspaper Links

WikiProject New York Progress Chart  Wiki Project New York Tasks - Newspaper Links

Description
The purpose of this task is to add links to online digital newspapers to the corresponding town and county pages.

Instructions
1. Nathan has created a google doc that contains all the newspaper links necessary to copy and add to the corresponding County and town page.

2. You will be putting links for a newspaper on both the corresponding town and the county page.

3. On Nathan's google doc, go to the county you are working on and determine what towns you will also need to add the links to.

4. Now go to the wiki pages (both county and town).


 * a. If the county does not have a heading for Newspapers, add to the county page "Newspapers" as a heading 4.
 * b. If the town page does not have a heading for Newspapers, add "Newspapers" as a heading 3.

5. Under the "Newspapers" heading on the county and applicable town pages, type (or copy and paste) the following, and then Save the page:



6. Open again the "Newspapers" section for edit in wikitext.

7. Go back to Nathan's google doc and copy the applicable Newspaper entry. You need only copy Column C.

8. Now, in wikitext, paste the copied entry to the correct county and/or town page under the template you added in number 5. It should automatically format the link for you.

9. If there is more than one newspaper to list, add the newspapers in chronological, then alphabetical order. Do NOT allow a blank line to appear between two bulleted newspaper listings.

10. For any New York City newspapers please add each newspaper under
 * New York City Newspapers
 * All five "boroughs": Bronx County, Brooklyn, New York (Manhattan) County, Queens County, and Richmond (Staten Island) County Newspapers
 * Applicable neighborhood Newspapers, if any neighborhoods are named in Nathan's list.

11. If you have any questions, go to David Dilts for more information.

Example of how it looks in wikitext
=== Newspapers ===

:*The Long Island Traveler 1872-1898. :*The Mid-Island Mail 1935-1941.