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== Bot?  ==

Hi Steve, A website address has changed on us. Would it be possible to have a bot replace http://www.census.gov/geo/www/maps/stco_wall_2003/stco_wallmap.htm with http://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/maps/county_wall.html&nbsp;? Thanks for your consideration, [[User:Murphynw|Murphynw]] 19:20, 21 August 2013 (UTC) 

:Hi Nathan, I have actioned [[Special:ReplaceText]] to replace the URL as given above. I notice that these were all in the [[File namespace]]. I used the [[Special:LinkSearch]] and the results suggest that I have changed them all. --[[User:Cottrells|Steve]] {{toolbar|[[User talk:Cottrells|talk]]|[[Special:Contributions/Cottrells|contribs]]}} 15:12, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

::Excellent. Yes, they should have all been in the [[File namespace]]. Thanks Steve! [[User:Murphynw|Murphynw]] 21:59, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

== Making the width of the Digital Collections templates equal to the width of the infobox templates  ==

Hi, Steve. On nearly every US county page, the Digital Collection banner is above the infobox template, yet they do not exactly line up with each other. See [[Crane County, Texas]] for example. Any way to fix the width of those banners? In the ones we were playing with, the instuction | info-w = 500px had NO effect, even changing it to 600 px. [[User:AdkinsWH|AdkinsWH]] 21:09, 29 August 2013 (UTC) 

== Thank you  ==

Steve, I completely missed that you added the silver star to my page last month. Thank you so much! I have really enjoyed working on the wiki and will miss it a lot. And many thanks to you for everything you have given to the program over the last few years. You are one of our stalwarts and deserve a silver star yourself. In fact, I'm going to go give you one now.&nbsp;:) I'm glad to know that although we as staff members might come and go, there are people like you who are always willing to give. Thank you. -- [[User:VasquezJL|janellv]] {{toolbar|[[User talk:VasquezJL|talk]]|[[Special:Contributions/VasquezJL|contribs]]}} 18:35, 18 October 2013 (UTC) 

== Old/Unused Page and Category  ==

We on the Wiki Support Team have been reviewing categories and their pages in an effort to streamline the categories. In regards to the template page {{tl|Okina}} , we were wondering if this page and it's category, [[:Category:MSIE font fix templates]] continue to be needed. [[User:Parrisl|Parrisl]] 03:15, 1 December 2013 (UTC) 

:Hi LaVera, it looks like that template is not currently being used in any content pages of the wiki, however I think the need for it could reoccur, so I have added a documentation subpage that explains why the template has been created. Hope that helps. --[[User:Cottrells|Steve]] {{toolbar|[[User talk:Cottrells|talk]]|[[Special:Contributions/Cottrells|contribs]]}} 21:26, 1 December 2013 (UTC)

== Digital Collections Button  ==

Steve, I was working on Davidson County, Tennessee on the DC button - have changed from the "keyboard" to a treble clef and clock - and it has changed all other states - of which I had NO intention of doing. Not sure what to do to get the keyboard back into other states. [[User:Wyzer17|joy]] 21:14, 5 December 2013 (UTC) 

:Hi Joy, it appears that you edited the {{tl|DC button}}, which is the underlying template used on many of the individual state versions. The template that you should have edited for Tennessee is {{tl|TNDC}}. I have copied the code you worked on for Tennessee to this template. --[[User:Cottrells|Steve]] {{toolbar|[[User talk:Cottrells|talk]]|[[Special:Contributions/Cottrells|contribs]]}} 21:59, 5 December 2013 (UTC)

== FHL template  ==

Hi, Steve, The catalog has changed for U.S. place name searches. It now requires United States, then the state. Do we need to go in an physically change each one where we have used the FHL template? I don't want to do any changes until I know what magic you can do with this. I don't want a situation where we have {{FHL|United States, United States, [state].... for example. [[User:AdkinsWH|AdkinsWH]] 16:50, 19 December 2013 (UTC) 

== New External Link template?  ==
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Hi, Steve. We need an external link template for Ancestry.com, since we will increasingly point to specific items for a state or county. (Not census and the big stuff.) The problem arises when we may now need 3 links: 1 for the FHL (AncestryInsititution.com); another for whatever the LDS Account link will be, and the third for just Ancestry.com. What they will all have in common is the database ID. For example: http://search.ancestryinstitution.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=2117 

If we don't have all three links, do you suggest we just tell people how to access it each time we make the link? Would love your take on how to handle this. Thank you, thank you. [[User:AdkinsWH|AdkinsWH]] 16:41, 3 April 2014 (UTC) 

:[[User:Murphynw|Nathan]] has previously created three templates {{tl|Ancestry}}, {{tl|AncestryInstitution}} and {{tl|AncestryLibrary}} that creates 3 different URLs. At the moment you can't change the link text - it will always say link. I think that could be changed to allow the contributor to provide different link text. Also is what you really asking for is to have one template that produces all three links in one go? --[[User:Cottrells|Steve]] {{toolbar|[[User talk:Cottrells|talk]]|[[Special:Contributions/Cottrells|contribs]]}} 17:08, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

== Creating a list of family organizations  ==

Steve, I have some questions about the design changes on an article that lists family organizations that have a Facebook page. See [[Surname Pages and Groups on Facebook]]. We are expanding that list to include family organizations with a website and/or Facebook page. We have questions about the layout design of the page and welcome your suggestions: 

*There are a lot of family organizations so we want to create alphabetical links to a separate page for each letter of the alphabet. I'm pretty sure there is a template we can use for this. Do you know if there is an article in the wiki that is already using the TOC template with links to sub-pages? I'm thinking it would be easier to copy what has already been done, rather than figure out how to do it from scratch. 
*Should there be a separate column just for the surname of the organization? I believe the content would be easier to visually scan if the surname was the only text in the first column, but there could be 100 "Smith" family organizations, so maybe the idea is not so great. Suggestions? 
*Does a separate column for the Facebook page and another column for the website link work okay? Any other suggestions? 
*The list currently has a short description of the family organization. Should we continue adding this content? Is the description helpful to those who are looking for family organizations? 
*What about family organizations without a website or a Facebook page? There are a lot of organizations who can only be accessed through snail-mail. Should this content be added as well?

Thanks in advance for your suggestions. I have added the same list of questions to the discussion page of the article. [[User:JensenFA|Fran]] {{toolbar|[[User talk:JensenFA|talk]]|[[Special:Contributions/JensenFA|contribs]]}} 20:26, 21 April 2014 (UTC) 

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:Hi Fran, good to hear from you. There was already in the wiki a template that did this for categories {{tl|CatAZ}} but I could not find a TOC Template that would link to pages in series. I found a suitable template in Wikipedia and have ported it over to the wiki. It is called {{tl|A-Z multipage list}}. It's note quite looking as good as it could, so I will be tweaking it. I have set up the "H" page in this series [[Surname Pages and Groups on Facebook: H]], other pages would need to follow that format. I know you have asked for more feedback and I will try to come back on those as well. --[[User:Cottrells|Steve]] {{toolbar|[[User talk:Cottrells|talk]]|[[Special:Contributions/Cottrells|contribs]]}} 16:58, 25 April 2014 (UTC) 
::Thanks Steve! We are going to be making the changes today to the page and add all the subpages. We are trying to decide on the name of the page we should change it to because the purpose of the page has expanded to more than Facebook. We will include all family organizations that we can find, so we need to link to those who have websites, Facebook pages, a Wiki page, or include their mailing address if that's the only way to contact them. So now the page name needs to be more inclusive of all organizations, associations, groups, etc. Hope to have all the pages set up today and ready to populate! [[User:JensenFA|Fran]] {{toolbar|[[User talk:JensenFA|talk]]|[[Special:Contributions/JensenFA|contribs]]}} 18:09, 30 April 2014 (UTC)

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== Testing a new template<br>  ==

Hi Steve, With all the discussions about the wiki becoming outdated (and all the outdated pages I have come across) I thought something like this might help ([[Template:Auto-outdated|Template:Auto-outdated]]). I know there is a maintenance template to mark outdated articles but this is a slightly different approach to keep them from becoming outdated in the first place. Is anything like this currently available? I realize the parser calculations are a bit lengthy but until functions like “AgeParse” are available this is the only way I could figure out how to do it; the 1970 calculation would not work without storing a variable.<br> <br>Questions: Is there a way to limit the initial parameter to positive integers? Is the use of <nowiki>{{!}}</nowiki> necessary in the coding in place of the bar? Is there an advantage to using named versus unnamed parameters for inputting the categories? Is there a way to overcome the unusual glitch wherein the resulting categories are not added to the category page, [[:Category:Auto-outdated]], unless a null edit is performed (even though they are added to the page itself)?<br>Thanks for your patience as I am still learning. 

Luccagenes 14:16, 3 August 2014 (UTC)<br><br><br> 

== Maintenance tag on an archived page.<br>  ==

Steve, on a related note (but separate), there is a maintenance tag on an archived page ([[Community News/Archive 2|Community_News/Archive_2]]) that was inadvertently saved with the archive and is now showing up in the outdated category listing. I was going to replace the current tag with a "notice" box with the text transferred to the new box (just to eliminate of the maintenance tag) but it is requested that the archive page not be edited. Is it okay to make this correction? Luccagenes 17:16, 21 July 2014 (UTC)<br> 

Repaired (removed from category page) by adding the empty category as the parameter for the "outdated" template <nowiki>{{outdated|category=}}</nowiki>. Luccagenes 21:22, 27 July 2014 (UTC) 

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== Links-core?  ==

Steve, I have 4 pages (some are templates) that I want to be able to link to their "edit page" directly from an internal link in order to eliminate a repetitive step by the users. Your Links-core may be the way to do this but I am not sure how to implement this yet. Can you offer assistance?<br>Luccagenes 13:33, 3 September 2014 (UTC) 

== England Infobox Error  ==

Hi Steve, I'm not sure what's causing the error with the infobox template on [[Colchester St Giles, Essex]]. [[User:Murphynw|Murphynw]] 18:45, 3 September 2014 (UTC) 

== Links to Catalogue - Suffolk ==

Some time ago you used the function of search and replace to put material in Suffolk parish pages. Since the links to the family history library have been dysfunctional for over a year now that part of the text needs to be changed. Example - [[Tannington, Suffolk#Resources]]<br> old text - <strike>Refer to {{H:title|copy and paste Parish link from FamilySearch Catalogue to this place. |Suffolk_in_the_FHL_Catalog|label= the parish |link=yes|dotted=yes|external=no}} and {{FHL|England%2C+Suffolk%2C|subject|disp=Suffolk }} in the FamilySearch Catalogue for available records.</strike><br> new text - <strike>Refer to the wiki article, [[Suffolk in the FamilySearch Catalog]], for available records.</strike><br> I don't know how many have the old text by now, but think there must be a lot of them. 

=== wait a minute ===

The links don't work on that page neither, so I think it would be best just to remove the link.<br> new text - Refer to the FamilySearch Catalog for available records.<br> Do they want people linking to the catalogue? If not, what is the correct '''Url''' to the catalogue.<br> I hate to have hundreds of broken links on the pages, its been like that for over a year.

== RecordSearch Template ==

Hi, Steve. I'm wanting to use the "access=waypoints" function in Template:RecordSearch, but it just goes around in circles. Are you available at all to fix this?[[User:AdkinsWH|AdkinsWH]] 23:55, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

== Removing public records (opt out) ==

Steve, the site&nbsp;https://familysearch.org/wiki/en/Talk:United_States,_Public_Records_%28FamilySearch_Historical_Records%29#Public_record_availability_on_familysearch&nbsp;tells me that I can go somewhere to remove or opt out of the display of public records regarding me. That site gives me a link created by you but the link takes me back to the page discussing public records. Then right below the link attributed to you Dorothy Horan attempts to replicate what you said on your link, but the first step, clicking on a link to get to that site, doesn't have a link. So today this does not work. Can you help?&nbsp;The public record about me is full of mis-information and personal information that is noone's business but my own. Certainly you know about the many protests regarding the availability of this information. Thanks. David Dalton

:Hi David, looking at the article [[United States, Public Records (FamilySearch Historical Records)]] the section present in October 2013 has for a reason unknown to me been removed. 
:The link in question (to Manage Your Public Records) was
::{{url|1=http://www.peoplefinders.com/manage/?partner=familysearch}}
: NB. [https://familysearch.org/wiki/en/index.php?title=United_States,_Public_Records_(FamilySearch_Historical_Records)&oldid=1480026#How_to_Remove_Records_from_the_U.S._Public_Records_Collection link to old version of the page from Oct 2013]. --[[User:Cottrells|Steve]] {{toolbar|[[User talk:Cottrells|talk]]|[[Special:Contributions/Cottrells|contribs]]}} 15:50, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

== possible deletion ==

Can this be deleted?  https://familysearch.org/wiki/en/Template:Archive_list/check25
[[User:Sjkennedy|Sjkennedy]] 12:06, 3 September 2015 (UTC)
:The page you linked to is part of the template {{tl|Archive list}} and if it was removed it would break that template and the pages that use it. (see [https://familysearch.org/wiki/en/Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Archive_list/check25 list of pages using the template]). --[[User:Cottrells|Steve]] {{toolbar|[[User talk:Cottrells|talk]]|[[Special:Contributions/Cottrells|contribs]]}} 12:50, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

== Double redirects  ==


https://familysearch.org/wiki/en/Special:DoubleRedirects   FYI Just to let you know you have created 14 double redirects you might want to fix. Thanks. [[User:Sjkennedy|Sjkennedy]] 13:13, 15 January 2016 (UTC)