FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Sweden Province Pages

Purpose
The Province pages for Sweden are quite bare and need to be cleaned up a bit. We'll be adding and taking away things on the Province pages to make them more user-friendly.

Contact
Amber Larsen

Task List
Task List

Step 1 - Pick a Province
1. Go to the Task List and sign up for a Province page to fix. 2. Go to the Province page.

Step 2 - Delete These Things
3. Delete the following if they appear:
 * Delete  Back to Sweden► 
 * Delete  Europe [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]]Sweden [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]]Province Name Province  at the top of the page.

Step 3 - Add These Things
4. Add the breadcrumb (replacing the capitalized items in link5 with the corresponding words):

5. Add   at the very top of the page above the breadcrumb. 6. Add  == References  ==   at the very bottom of the page. 7. Back at the Task List, click on the respective Wikipedia link for your Province, and add the following under any pre-existing information under the History section of the page:
 * From the introduction and the History section of Wikipedia, find the following type of information:
 * The date/time period the original Province was founded or created.
 * What state/country it belonged to at different periods of time.
 * Historically significant events (fires, earthquakes, battles) that may have damaged genealogical records.
 * Rephrase the historical information whenever possible so we are not directly copying Wikipedia.
 * The last bit of information should give the population of the Province (this can be found in the Wikipedia-page sidebar).
 * FORMAT (replace capitalized words with respective information):


 * The population of PROVINCE NAME was roughly ROUNDED POP. NUMBER people in YEAR.

If there is a problem or a question about any of these parishes, email amberlarsen@familysearch.org with the parish information or contact through Yammer.

Example of Fixed Pages

 * Blekinge Province, Sweden Genealogy
 * Hälsingland Province, Sweden Genealogy