User:Janaeelizan7/Sandbox/4

Step 1: Adding Populated places
1. Go to the Populated Places or Places/Locations heading on the page and see if it has already been completed. On some counties this section has not been completed yet. If this is the case, then co to the section where, alphabetically it should fall, and type in ==Populated Places== and then save it. This will create a new section that you can now click on. If the county has a large city or has anything strange about its populated places, then send a Yammer message to Janae. You may need special and unique instructions for this particular county before you working.

2. Copy the following template and paste it on the page below the section header:


 * For a complete list of populated places, including small neighborhoods and suburbs, visit [HOMETOWN URL HomeTown Locator].  The following are the most historically and genealogically relevant populated places in this county:

3. After copying the above information onto the page, go to HomeTownLocator.com

4. Scroll down the page until you see a blue box with a list of states. Select the state you are working in.

5. After you are redirected to your state page, scroll down the page until you see a list of the state’s counties. Select the county you are working on.

6. After you are redirected to your county page, select the tan “Cities” tab (NOT the red Cities one).

7. You will then be redirected to a page with a list of populated places. Copy the page's URL and replace HOMETOWN URL in your template with that URL. It should look something like the following:
 * For a complete list of populated places, including small neighborhoods and suburbs, visit HomeTown Locator.

You will need to change your Hometown Locator link for every county you work on. 8. It's important to always give a reference to where we obtained the information we add to the wiki. Look up the county on Wikipedia and copy the URL on the top of the page. You'll be using this Wikipedia page again, so just pull it up on a separate tab on your web browser. 9. After the Home Town Locator link you should see the reference. Fill in the NAME OF ARTICLE, paste the Wikipedia URL in the URL section, and fill in the DATE with today's date. 10. It should look like this when done.

12. Save your work. COMPLETED EXAMPLE OF LINK AND CITATION: For a complete list of populated places, including small neighborhoods and suburbs, visit HomeTown Locator. The following are the most historically and genealogically relevant populated places in this county:

Adding Links to Populated Places
1. The first step to this was copying and pasting the template which you should have already done. :) 2. In the template, there are invisible tables for different types of municipalities (ex. cities, towns, villages, etc.). They look like this:


 * cities-col1=
 * cities-col2=
 * cities-col3=


 * boroughs-col1=
 * boroughs-col2=
 * boroughs-col3=

. If there is a Wikipedia article to any of the populate places, add the URL to Wikipedia. Example: Cedar 2. Whether a list of populated places has been completed or not on the page already, go to Wikipedia and search for the county. Wikipedia should have a list of the populated places. Even if there is already a list of populated places on the Wiki county page, it is good to double check. 3. Referring back to the Wikipedia page for the county, add the populated places to the template. You will have to count up and separate the places to make even columns. For example, if there are 12 townships, put 4 townships in alphabetical order in | townships-col1= but put them between the div tags (example:

6. If no wikipedia page exists, just put in the place name.

7. For localities already listed on the county page but not in Wikipedia, do a Google search to make sure the place is in the county you are working on. If it appears to exist, place the locality in the correct position in the table to the best of your ability.

8. After you fill in all localities and there is no place listed under a specific type of locality (such as Ghost Town), remove the heading from the page.

9. Review the following wikitext code for Aurora County, South Dakota to make sure you fill out the template correctly:

Example of this template on the Aurora County, South Dakota page