User talk:SvareJM/Sandbox/Cumberland Test

Jeff

I added Workington the one other town with multiple parishes

My initial thought would be that the municipalities themselves would need to be pages We would tell visitors to the parish pages to check the municipality pages that we look at the parish pages and see what is NOT PARISH SPECIFIC and move them to the municipality - Good examples of things to move would be lists of non-conformist churches as they are not tied to the parish but rather to the community, plus bibliographic material about the community, links to community maps, etc.

I admit I won't have much time to work on this probably till August but am more than willing to take a crack at it then for these communities and see what happens. I have 19 powerpoints to continue to update and then prerecord before the end of July when I will be teaching at IGHR. That on top of taking care of my wife and her health issues.

Paul

21 June 2023
Thanks for adding Workington to the list. I'm hoping this can be an iterative experiment. I have complete agreement with the rest of the team there is a need to identify municipalities that contain multiple parishes. By adding information here we can demonstrate the strengths and limitations of various solutions. This list of municipalities does a good job of listing places, but I think will not do a good job of listing information pertinent to the municipalities, and will just clutter the page and hamper it's effectiveness. What do you think of as a next step you add a small amount of information regard a couple of these places to this page right after the name of the place? Then we can see if my suspicion is correct, and I can share it with the team and get some input on how we should transition it to another page. There's no hurry, just let me know what you think. SvareJM (talk) 08:28, 21 June 2023 (MDT)

21 June 2023
Jeff, I think you are correct. Adding information to THIS Municipality page about the individual municipalities will very quickly loose its effectiveness. What I had thought would be better would be to have a separate page for each municipality. That way as much information as desired can be added for the municipality, just as you would for an individual county or parish. It would be easy to highlight the multiple parishes on the municipality page. The harder part is defining what information should be on the parish page within the municipality and then training people to go from the parish to the Municipality. People tend to go to the parish because that's what they have been trained to do on the system, and they are often coming in looking from parish records seeking other sets of records. At least that would be my assumption - maybe wrong or right? Maybe you have more user information on how and why users come to an individual page.