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GavinRobinson: /* Citing military records and historians */ updated WOI and ACI templates

2017-11-14T16:32:30Z

‎Citing military records and historians: updated WOI and ACI templates

Mia: Added note re unable to do personal family history research for people

2017-05-01T10:59:43Z

Added note re unable to do personal family history research for people

GavinRobinson: /* Citing military records and historians */ updated

2016-08-11T17:55:09Z

‎Citing military records and historians: updated

GavinRobinson: /* Templates to help editors */ deleted PageRef template

2016-04-17T16:09:18Z

‎Templates to help editors: deleted PageRef template

GavinRobinson: /* Adding references and citations */ Zotero tips

2016-04-11T14:02:12Z

‎Adding references and citations: Zotero tips

GavinRobinson: /* Categories used on this site */ link to hierarchy page

2016-04-11T13:55:56Z

‎Categories used on this site: link to hierarchy page

GavinRobinson: /* Adding references and citations */ now got Wikipedia templates

2016-04-11T13:54:54Z

‎Adding references and citations: now got Wikipedia templates

GavinRobinson: /* Templates used on this site */ updating template names

2015-07-03T16:24:01Z

‎Templates used on this site: updating template names

GavinRobinson: /* Categories used on this site */ updating with new categories

2015-07-03T16:13:46Z

‎Categories used on this site: updating with new categories

GavinRobinson: /* Adding references and citations */ link to cat

2015-07-03T16:09:41Z

‎Adding references and citations: link to cat

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 * To cite A.F. Becke, ''Order of Battle of Divisions'', use {{tl|Cite Becke}}
 * To cite British Army Orders, use {{tl|Cite AO}}
-* To cite British Army Council Instructions or War Office Instructions, use {{tl|Cite ACI}}
+* To cite War Office Instructions, use {{tl|Cite WOI}}. These were issued up to the end of 1915, then they were replaced by Army Council Instructions. TNA, WO 293 includes copies of all instructions issued from 1914 to 1915.
 * To cite the British Army Lists use:
 ** {{tl|Cite Army List M}} for the Monthly Army List

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 ==== A link is broken? For example, some of the lists of personal narratives might not work anymore. ====
 You could try googling to see if the site has been moved, or was saved on the [[http://archive.org/ Internet Archive]. Failing that, add a note with the name of the author and the site with the broken link to the [[Lists of personal diaries, letters, memoirs|Research in progress]] section in case someone else is later able to find it, and so we can notify the site with the broken link.
 == Understanding military terminology, records and research ==

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 * To cite A.F. Becke, ''Order of Battle of Divisions'', use {{tl|Cite Becke}}
 * To cite British Army Orders, use {{tl|Cite AO}}
-* To cite the [https://livesofthefirstworldwar.org/ Lives of the First World War] project, use {{tl|RefLives}} [this one might be split up into different templates in future]
+* To cite British Army Council Instructions or War Office Instructions, use {{tl|Cite ACI}}
 === Referring to a unit's war diaries ===

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	* {{tl\|About}} - add extra information about a page if its name is ambiguous.		* {{tl\|About}} - add extra information about a page if its name is ambiguous.
−	* {{tl\|Pageref}} - formats page numbers in source references. Is used by other templates but can also be used for sources without a specific template. [this might be made obsolete by future changes to citation templates]
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	=== Infoboxes ===		=== Infoboxes ===

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 === Adding references and citations ===
 The [http://tools.wmflabs.org/makeref/ MakeRef] site is useful for formatting references for use on these pages.
-[[:Category:Citation templates]] lists templates that you can use to cite widely used sources more easily. We now have the Wikipedia citation templates such as {{tl|Cite book}}. These are also listed in [[:Category:Wikipedia citation templates]].
+[[:Category:Citation templates]] lists templates that you can use to cite widely used sources more easily. We now have the Wikipedia citation templates such as {{tl|Cite book}}, which are also listed in [[:Category:Wikipedia citation templates]]. These templates automatically create COinS metadata which can be captured by reference management software such as Zotero. If you're using Zotero, you can set it to export references as Wikipedia citation templates, so you can drag and drop references from your Zotero library straight into wiki pages that you're editing.
 == Categories used on this site ==

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 == Categories used on this site ==
-See [[Special:Categories]] for the full list of all categories used on the site.
+See [[Special:Categories]] for the full list of all categories used on the site. [[Category hierarchies]] explains how the main groups of categories are arranged.
 [[:Category:Countries]] arranges pages by country, then by service, then by type.

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 == Templates used on this site ==
 Some templates have been set up to help consistently format references and link out to other projects; they're listed above in [[FAQ_and_help#Citing_military_records_and_historians|Citing military records and historians]].
 Others help create shortcuts for specific tasks or do various things on the backend of the site. Each template has a documentation page, which is automatically included in the template page. As templates use wiki markup, you might not be able to see the detail of the template itself except in Edit view.
 === Templates to help editors ===
-* [[Template:About/doc]] - add extra information about a page if its name is ambiguous.
-* [[Template:Pageref/doc]] - formats page numbers in source references. Is used by other templates but can also be used for sources without a specific template
+* {{tl|About}} - add extra information about a page if its name is ambiguous.
-* [[Template:WarDiaryNoneAdmin/doc]] - add this to pages about purely administrative military units that did not keep diaries so they're automatically added to [[:Category:Units with no official war diaries]]
+* {{tl|Pageref}} - formats page numbers in source references. Is used by other templates but can also be used for sources without a specific template. [this might be made obsolete by future changes to citation templates]
-* [[Template:WarDiaryNone/doc]] - add this to pages about units that did not operate outside their home country and therefore did not need an official diary. It automatically adds the page to [[:Category:Units with no official war diaries]]
 === Infoboxes ===
 Some discussion of these infoboxes is also on their talk pages [[Template talk:Infobox command structure]] and [[Template talk:Infobox military unit]].
-* [[Template:Infobox military unit/doc]] summarises information about an individual military unit or formation, such as a regiment or division
+* {{tl|Infobox military unit}} summarises information about an individual military unit or formation, such as a regiment or division
-* [[Template:Infobox command structure/doc]]
+* {{tl|Infobox command structure}}
-* [[Template:Infobox theatre of war/doc]] is designed to record information about a specific units' deployment to a specific theatre of war. The infobox can be repeated as necessary to allow for multiple engagements.
+* {{tl|Infobox theatre of war}} is designed to record information about a specific units' deployment to a specific theatre of war. The infobox can be repeated as necessary to allow for multiple engagements.
 === Other templates ===
-* [[Template:DisambPage]] - used to automatically add a page to the list of [[:Category:Disambiguation pages]] that exist to help distinguish similar names from each other.
+* {{tl|Disambiguation page}} - used to automatically add a page to the list of [[:Category:Disambiguation pages]] that exist to help distinguish similar names from each other.
-* [[Template:Microformat message]] - microformats help add structure to text so computer programs can do more with them.
+* {{tl|Microformat message}} - microformats help add structure to text so computer programs can do more with them.
-* [[Template:Battalion]] - contains the basic structure of a battalion page that's preloaded into new pages
+* {{tl|Battalion}} - contains the basic structure of a battalion page that's preloaded into new pages
-* [[Template:BritishBrigade/doc]] - used in [[Template:Infobox command structure/doc]]
+* {{tl|BritishBrigade}} - used in {{tl|Infobox command structure}} [will be obsolete once level names have been finalised]
-* [[Template:Tl]] - template [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Tl inherited from Wikipedia]] that shows how the template name would be used in code
+* {{tl|Tl}} - template [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Tl inherited from Wikipedia]] that shows how the template name would be used in code
-* [[Template:Tlx]] - another template [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Tlx inherited from Wikipedia]] that shows how the template name would be used in code
+* {{tl|Tlx}} - another template [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Tlx inherited from Wikipedia]] that shows how the template name would be used in code
-* [[Template:Navbox]] - see [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template:Navbox MediaWiki documentation]
+* {{tl|Navbox}} - see [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template:Navbox MediaWiki documentation]
-* [[Template:WPMILHIST Infobox style]]
+* {{tl|WPMILHIST Infobox style}}
-* [[Template:Wo95import/doc]] and [[Template:DiscoveryData/doc]] are added automatically to imported pages.
+* {{tl|Wo95import}} and {{tl|DiscoveryData}} are added automatically to imported pages.
 [[Category:Help]]

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 == Categories used on this site ==
-=== National armies ===
+See [[Special:Categories]] for the full list of all categories used on the site.
-<nowiki>[[Category:Canadian_Army]]</nowiki>
+[[:Category:Countries]] arranges pages by country, then by service, then by type.
-<nowiki>[[Category:Australian_Army]]</nowiki>
+[[:Category:Units]] arranges unit pages by type then by country.
-<nowiki>[[Category:Indian_Army]]</nowiki>
+[[:Category:Units and sources]] includes sub-categories that group pages by linked resources that they have or need.
 == Templates used on this site ==