Wikipedia:WikiProject Succession Box Standardization
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Succession Box Standardization is a WikiProject hoping to standardize throughout Wikipedia all the succession boxes to the current format agreed upon by prominent members of the succession box-editing community.
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[edit] Scope and goals
- Add succession boxes to all individuals who served in a succession of individuals (MPs, Senators, Congresspeople, monarchs, CEOs, &c.).
- Replace all old HTML-based succession boxes with current format (Template:start series).
- Phase-out the use of templates such as Template:succession box two to two and Template:succession box three to one.
- Add full dates for reigns or terms of all succession box holders when possible. Dates constitute the de facto ascension to a title, generally the date their predecessor died in the case of noble and regnal successions (for other titles, the date should reflect when they took power).
- Ensure that the dates are formatted according to the Wikipedia Manual of Style:
- Wikilink dates containing month and day of month so that date preferences can work.
- If a date does not contain a month and day of month, do not wikilink it.
- Dates should reflect the dominant style of the nation of the office or title. Offices and titles in the United States and Canada should be rendered as [[Month DD]], [[YYYY]], while offices and titles in the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand should be rendered as [[DD Month]] [[YYYY]].
- Add dynasty/house information (Template:s-hou) for dynasts at the header of succession boxes if known and undisputed.
- Separate types of offices held (in the following order beginning with first title held then proceeding from there.). Honorary titles held concurrent with other titles (ie Duke of Cornwall for Prince of Wales) are not neccessary to list.
- Politicial Offices (Template:s-off)
- Regnal titles (Template:s-reg)
- Noble titles (Template:s-nob)
- Assembly (Parliament) Seat Holders (Template:s-par)
- Honorary title(s) (Template:s-hon)
- Recalling that most honorary titles were once substantive; drawing hard lines here will be difficult.
- Titles held in pretence (Template:s-pre)
- Expand usage of Template:S-tul for titular and pretentious titles (thereby replacing the usual s-ttl templates on those pages) and Template:S-non for fields lacking a predecessor and/or successor.
Replace Unicode en-dash (–) with character entity (–) for database streamlining. (The database does not like the use of the Unicode en-dash for some reason, or so I have been told.)(see talk) Also, implementing spaces between the dates and the en-dash seems reasonable for better appearance.- Cite sources across all succession lists (use Template:s-cite. This is a growing concern among users in favor of an increased reliability in Wikipedia as a whole.
[edit] Still to Work Out
- Standardize the assembly/parliament/congress district problem. Expand research into predecessors and successors for districts in areas lacking succession lists.
- Determine who should be listed as predecessors and successors in the event of title changes (i.e. Charles X of France as King of France to Louis Philippe of France as King of the French). Perhaps create a Template:qif in s-bef and s-aft for title changes.
- Clean up and possibly find a new home for Template:S-start/Instructions.
- /Guidelines: put up experimentally to house guidelines and examples developed here, links to other projects and their preferred format (the Peerage, for instance).
- /Offices: in conjunction with the above, a list of offices tracked by succession box.
[edit] List of participants
- KuatofKDY — Founded this project and created the current succession box templates used throughout Wikipedia. I work in all pages that feature succession boxes, as well as relavent related pages such as regnal lists and the like. I hope to remove all ancient HTML succession boxes and replace them with the current format. I am also interested in starting pages for monarchs and their kin who are not yet noted.
- Choess — Longtime installer of succession boxes, including rather pathological ones.
- Ardric47—I mostly agree with all of the goals that are listed above.
- john k — I've not looked closely at the specific goals yet, but I think standardization is a good idea, and would like to be a part of any discussion on the subject, as I've put up a lot of succession boxes. john k 22:23, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
- Mackensen As Choess and John.
- Stilltim: US politicians, especially Delaware
- DLJessup: has done some work with standardizing succession boxes
- Alkari: I support most of this project's objectives, and would like to become involved with standardization. I'm primarily interested in royal and noble titles, as well as political ones.
- Adam Bishop: Per Choess, John, and Mackensen.
- OwenBlacker: As most of the above ;o)
- Wjhonson: Gadfly who purpose is to compel better standards, that are actually useful. And I can't spell.
- The Duke of Waltham — Being a great proponent of standardisation, especially when boxes (of all kinds) are concerned, and having a great interest in titles (especially titles of nobility, which I have been studying for some time now), as well as a natural tendency to categorise and classify, I believe that I can make myself useful here, even without prior experience in succession boxes.
[edit] List of Completed Pages
[edit] Sample Project
[edit] External resources
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page (Peers, baronets, Members of Parliament, and Privy Counsellors)
- Office Holders in Modern Britain (A large number of political offices, generally 1660–1782)
- Office Holders (Various other office holders not included in the above compilation)
- Members of the Long Parliament
[edit] Similar WikiProjects
[edit] UserBox
Use {{User WP:SBS}} for a unique Succession Box Userbox, just in the style of all our edits!
