Why not have a Name Study Home Page?

Question

After spending some time working on ONS categories, mostly a matter of standardising or rationalising category names, I was struck by the lack of space pages and/or links to them.

a) Every ONS should surely have a space page where all the details of the study are made available. Perhaps we could call them the Home Page?

b) Those details do not belong on category pages.

c) Every category should then have at the top a link to the Home Page e.g.

[[Space:XXXX Name Study|The XXXX Name Study Home Page]]

d) At the same time The Home Page should not have links to the categories e.g. [[Category: Yorkshire, XXXX Name Study]] because that means the Home Page appears right at the bottom of the category amongst the profiles.

e) If the Home Page has links to a variety of categories that exist, they should take the form:

[https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:County, XXXX Name Study The County XXXX Name Study Category''']

which just opens the correct category.

I believe the underlying principle of a space page fits the ONS guidelines. Perhaps they might be extended to encourage the use.

Answer 1

Every ONS should have a freespace page.  In the current wave of creating new ONSs, they all have a freespace page.  It says there must be one on the Project page and on the FAQ page. A redirect cannot be created without one. There were some a long time ago which did not have them, and I am slowly getting round to all of them.

If you look at a more recently-created ONS, you will see that it has a freespace page.  It obviously used to be a policy that you didn't have to have one.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:One_Name_Studies#Getting_Started_with_a_New_One_Name_Study

Comments

Yes, thanks, Ros. It may be that I just couldn't find them because of the lack of references/links. That's why I was suggesting that all categories need a direct link.

But don't studies have owners, who should be dealing with this? It seems a bit much to expect you to do it all.

A quick example is Coat.

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Could you provide a link to the Coat ONS, please?  That is one of the reasons I am only able to work slooowly on this, because without a freespace page and relevant category link, they do not appear on the ONS index...

Yes, the PM should sort this out, but if they didn't realise they had to have a freespace page in the first place, then...  Although they will still need to contact me to arrange the badge and the redirect..

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