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Creating and editing pages
(Note: title likely to change)

1 Before you start
2 Adding new Person and Family pages
3 Editing existing Person and Family pages
4 Deleting
5 Managing data quality

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(Text below this line is for organizing purposes only. It will be removed before final release, and replaced by a properly-formatted help menu.)

Key: EXISTING = existing help page; REPLACES = replaces one or more existing help pages; NEW = new help page

Before you start

Remember: Enter information only about deceased individuals born after 700 AD. WeRelate policy does not allow pages for living individuals (with minor exceptions), and does not host ancient genealogy.

D: intended to be included on the menu page (alternatively, we could just have a link to the policy page and title the link "Take a quick look at WeRelate policy")

C: a good place to transclude a policy statement template if we go that route

Consider defining a tree first NEW

explains the concept

explains why you might want to create a tree before you start adding your genealogy to WeRelate (FTE and also the ability to share the tree with others so that they can watch pages)

explains how to create a tree (from MyRelate menu item Trees or from Add GEDCOM)

includes Help:FAQ/My Trees

Understand the difference between Help:Adding new vs editing NEW

C:page title is still a little odd

D: explains the importance of updating existing pages instead of creating new – but only if you are sure of the match (better to create new if not sure, but do some research to determine – don’t leave it all up to others);

D: it is each contributor’s responsibility to integrate (check Help:Before you import your GEDCOM for ideas);

D: respect information already there – change facts only with a solid source

C: includes relevant content from Help:Finding and creating wiki pages EXISTING which should then be deleted

Experiment in the Sandbox EXISTING

link should be clear on the purpose

Adding new Person and Family pages

Help:Adding new Person pages NEW

REPLACES Help:Creating a Person page NEW & drafted (see also Help:HowTo/Add a new Person page, which has images)

TO DO: refine together with name and date conventions pages

includes a link to Help:Editing a Person page for filling in the new page

Help:Adding new Family pages NEW

explains the various ways to add a family page – add menu or from a person page either displayed or in edit mode;

stops at adding the page

includes a link to Help:Editing a Family page for filling it in

Editing existing Person and Family pages

Help:Editing Person pages NEW

REPLACES Help:Person pages tutorial, Help:Person pages and WeRelate:About person pages, using the first as the basis and incorporating anything of value from the latter two and from the help notes in Portal:Person (replace the help notes in the portal page with a link to this help page);

assumes a starting point of either just having added the page or having it displayed and needing to click edit (could reference navigation help for how to find the page);

includes filling in facts and narrative;

includes how to reorder marriages (drag and drop, but not on a newly added one),

links to (and possibly includes portions of) Help:Conventions/Place page title, Help:Images TBD, Help:HowTo/Cite a source;

includes Help:HowTo/Use notes, Help:HowTo/Rename a page (which REPLACES Help:How to rename a page and needs further work to update links to deleting and merging pages), Help:HowTo/Watch a page, and Help:HowTo/Save a page (which addresses the change summary, minor change, Watchlist and tree checkboxes);

includes and links to conventions for facts, narrative and page title;

includes Help:FAQ/Person pages

(FAQ should include: Where do I add the marriage date?);