Some formatting/misc suggestions

Some formatting/misc suggestions

Hi Christie,

Lots of great info on Manitoba Archives so far! I've got a few small suggestions:

  • Religious Archives/ First Nations archives are nested under 3. "University Archives". Perhaps these could be separate sections on their own?
  • I'm wondering about the Legislation section...although I am going to suggest to move it somewhere rather than at the end (where it seems like a tag-on), I'm not sure where it would fit in. It might even go right up at the top as a subsection under 1 Provincial Archives, say 1.3 after Holdings. My reasoning for this is that it is a encompasses all of your below information, if we're looking at a hierarchy of themes., and it also adds to the administrative context of your wiki.
  • Lastly, (you were probably going to do this already), perhaps you could add embedded links for all the archives you mentioned under "Religious Archives" and also for the "Other Municipal Archives". Then your reader can click and explore!

JT

TungJessica (talk)‎03:24, 3 April 2015

Thanks for catching that nesting error! I was moving my sections around a couple days ago and obviously messed it up a bit... I agree that having the legislation section at the bottom is not ideal... I'm going to merge the lists of "religious archives" and "other municipal archives" into section just called "more archives" or something at the bottom - do you think that would help balance things out? (and I will add some links!)

ChristineWaltham (talk)‎04:29, 3 April 2015

Yes, I think you could just merge them as something like "other special archives" with an introductory paragraph saying something about the diversity in Manitoba? Also, question for you: how did you get your references to make sub references?! like [1] 1.0, 1.1, 1,2?? that would very much help me reduce my page since it is FULL of "Ibid"s

TungJessica (talk)‎06:30, 3 April 2015

In the first reference you format it like this: [1] and then for any further references that are the same you can just put [1] and it will make it a sub reference!

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 www.abcd.ca
ChristineWaltham (talk)‎20:08, 3 April 2015

oh... that actually formatted the references oops SO I'll just link you to the page I found it on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners (it's under the "same references used more than once" section)

ChristineWaltham (talk)‎20:10, 3 April 2015

THANK YOU, Christie! that will be very helpful. half my wiki is taken up by citations at the bottom. JT

TungJessica (talk)‎20:54, 3 April 2015
 
 
 
 
 
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