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Welcome to the Australia Project Categories Team page.

If you would like a category added or renamed for you, go to Categories Waiting to be Added or Renamed and, in "Edit" mode, post a link to the profile, to which you want the category added, plus any information you have for the category, under the heading, "Categories to be Added", and the category to be renamed under "Categories to be Renamed"

Category Guidelines for Australia Project

Team Leader: Margaret Haining

Team Members:

1 What we are doing in 2024
2 Help Pages

What we are doing in 2024

Category Maintenance

Checking existing categories for any that need a Category Info Box (CIB) added. The CIB column is on the left hand side of the report.
CIBs can be added to locations (Location), cemeteries (Cemetery), churches (Congregation), and schools, universities, hospitals, hotels, prisons, war memorials (Structure). See this page for templates of CIBs to add to categories.
If you find any categories that need a CIB added, but don't feel confident to add them correctly, add a link to the category and "Needs CIB" to the relevant section on the category request page.
- New South Wales
- Queensland
- South Australia
- Tasmania
- Victoria
- Western Australia
- ACT - Margaret Haining
- Northern Territory DONE

Category Additions to Profiles & Movement of Profiles

Scott Davis Adding SA cemeteries & locations to profiles.
Peter Kane Adding cemetery and WW2 categories to profiles.
Ronald Bradford Adding cemetery and military categories to profiles.
Susan Stopford DBE Suggestions 885, 886, 887.
Karyn Homburg Adding war memorial categories to profiles.

Partial Cemeteries Reports Add the existing cemetery category to profiles that already have a Find-a-grave memorial on the profile, If WBE is installed, the reports have an (add) button beside each profile, that opens an edit page ready to save.
Category: Australian Imperial Force, World War I Profiles that may need the Great War sticker amended, and/or a unit category added, in order to remove them from the high level category. If the required category doesn't exist, add the request to the category request page.
Category: Australian Army, World War II Profiles that may need the WW2 sticker amended, and/or a unit category added, in order to remove them from the high level category. If the required category doesn't exist, add the request to the category request page.
Category: Australia, Needs World War 2 Category or Sticker or Both If the required category doesn't exist, add the request to the category request page.
Category: Australia, Immigrants Profiles that may be able to be moved to lower level migration categories. If the required category doesn't exist, add the request to the category request page.
Category: Australia, Notables Profiles that can be moved to the lower level Notables sub-categories.
Error 885 Using Top Level Category Incorrect top level category needs to be changed to a lower level category. Susan Stopford
Error 886 Died Before Category Time Frame Susan Stopford
Error 887 Born After Category Time Frame Susan Stopford

New Category Creation

Danny Stapleton Creating WW1 troop ships.
Scott Davis Creating SA cemeteries & locations.
Margaret Haining Creating cemeteries, and Category Request page
Karyn Homburg Creating SA war memorials with structure CIB.

Categories Waiting to be Added or Renamed
Missing Cemeteries Create new cemetery categories for those cemeteries not on WikiTree, but profiles exist on WikiTree with Find-a-grave memorials.
Category: Royal Australian Navy, World War II Categories for RAN ships for World War II to be created, with a link to and from the parent ship category. Profiles from parent ship category.
Category: Royal Australian Air Force, World War II Profiles moved to squadron categories. Some squadrons need renaming.
Category: Australian Army, Vietnam War Reorganisation of categories to fit sticker.
Category: Royal Australian Navy, Vietnam War Reorganisation of categories to fit sticker.
Category: Australian Army, Korean War Reorganisation of categories to fit sticker.
Category: Royal Australian Navy, Korean War Reorganisation of categories to fit sticker.

Help Pages

Collaboration on Categories Team

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Private Messages: Contact the Profile Managers privately: Margaret Haining, Gillian Thomas, Veronica Williams, and Australia Project WikiTree. (Best when privacy is an issue.)
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Memories of Categories Team

Comments on Categories Team: 17

Troy Phillips

With regard to checking cemeteries categories - the following Data Doctor reports can be searched for "Australia" (not sure if there is a smarter method to focus on Australia only?):

Cemetery Categories without CIB ( https://www.softdata.si/wt/Cat/Err_7001.htm )
Cemetery Categories missing preferred category ( https://www.softdata.si/wt/Cat/Err_7003.htm ) or not in correct format ( https://www.softdata.si/wt/Cat/Err_7007.htm )
Cemetery Categories at same coordinates (https://www.softdata.si/wt/Cat/Err_7029.htm )
Cemetery Categories with duplicate parameters ( https://www.softdata.si/wt/Cat/Err_7032.htm ) includes same findagraveID, same wikidataID etc
Cemetery Categories referencing FindAGrave cemetery that does not exist (https://www.softdata.si/wt/Cat/Err_7049.htm )

posted Mar 14, 2023 by Troy Phillips

Margaret (Gale) Haining

Hi Troy, thanks for those, yes I get those as part of the Categories suggestions lists when they come out, generally 3 or 4 times a week. You'll find the cemetery categories are pretty much error free. I went all our Australian categories a few years ago and corrected all the category errors. Since then, I pretty much get them when they appear on the lists.

Cemeteries are the only ones that have so many different suggestions, locations don't have a "without CIB" suggestion, congregations and structures don't have any at all.

All that aside, by far the best and smartest way to check for missing CIB's and category suggestions, is to use "Navigate" on the category page, that shows both. Have a look at Queensland Places, you'll see on the left hand side, any categories that don't have a CIB and if you scroll down, you'll see any category errors (a dark pink line under the relevant category). https://plus.wikitree.com/function/WTWebCategoryNavigate/Category.htm?category=Queensland,%20Places

posted Mar 15, 2023 by Margaret (Gale) Haining

Scott Davis

Ooh. It looks like I should be counted as a member of this team too please.

I'm not sure if I'm confident enough to say "done" to the table above, but I add some categories to any profile I read that doesn't have them, and make new location and cemetery categories as I notice they are required. The table at https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Space:South_Australia_Cemeteries_Progress is gradually getting filled in, including removing duplicates where confirmed.

My focus is South Australia, particularly the rural parts of the Adelaide Hills and Plains. I tend not to create voyage categories as I am not familiar with the sources to choose/create the parent ship category.

posted Mar 13, 2023 by Scott Davis

Margaret (Gale) Haining

Hi Scott, I've added you to the team, welcome aboard! As I said in the GG post, there is a wide range of category interests and experience, and all contributions are appreciated. Thank you for adding SA cemeteries and locations, Is this report of missing cemeteries in SA any use to you? There apparently about 213 SA cemeteries without a category on WT, that have profiles on WT with a FG source. https://wikitree.sdms.si/Categories/FindAGraveCemeteries/OceaniaAustraliaSouthAustraliaMissingCemeteriesSmall.htm

The table on the page is just for checking the existing categories for a CIB, not for ALL the possible categories being added, I might need to make that a bit clearer.

Yes, ship voyages are bit more involved, you're more than welcome to continue adding requests to the request page.

Please do message me if any questions, regards, Margaret.

posted Mar 14, 2023 by Margaret (Gale) Haining

Scott Davis

Thanks Margaret. The cemeteries there should be roughly the complement of the categories on the progress page - showing how much more work there is! I've added all the profiles from that report for the cemetery (Alma South) I created this morning. I'll try to remember to check this report more often as at the moment, I've probably only been moving cemeteries from "missing" to "partial" in https://plus.wikitree.com/Categories/FindAGraveCemeteries/OceaniaAustraliaSouthAustraliaPartialCemeteriesSmall.htm

posted Mar 14, 2023 by Scott Davis

Steve Thomas

Margaret, I am confused.

Does "Done" mean that a category has been completed? Or maybe "more work is required and welcomed? "

posted Mar 14, 2023 by Steve Thomas

Margaret (Gale) Haining

Hi Steve, the table is to record which sections of the current categories have been checked to see if any need a CIB added. I added a bit to clarify the purpose of the table. "Done" means that the Queensland currently existing cemeteries and congregations have been checked to see if any needed a CIB added.

posted Mar 14, 2023 by Margaret (Gale) Haining

Margaret (Gale) Haining

All good Scott, only so many WT hours in the day! At least getting missing ones onto WT means they are available for others to use. This will be an ongoing project for quite a while, thanks for all your help. :)

posted Mar 14, 2023 by Margaret (Gale) Haining

Steve Thomas

Hi Margaret, maybe not much help to the Australian Project, however I have learnt a lot about the parallel language categories. The most outstanding I have seen recently was written in Ukrainian, with useful translations to Polish, German and English. Category:Королівство_Галичини_та_Володимирії (in English 'the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria'). Google Translate is my best friend.

posted Mar 13, 2023 by Steve Thomas
edited Mar 13, 2023 by Steve Thomas

[Living Rayner]

HI Margaret, I should join this group as well, as I am always repairing and creating categories to the standard. Freeform to CIB. Locations, Structures, Cemeteries, Ships, Voyages, WWI and WW2 units, and some themes.

posted Mar 01, 2023 by [Living Rayner]

Margaret (Gale) Haining

Thanks Craig, I've added you to the team.

posted Mar 02, 2023 by Margaret (Gale) Haining

Peter Kane

I guess I should join this group. I'm working through the cemetery reports and the WW2 profiles to categorise them to the current standard

posted Mar 01, 2023 by Peter Kane

Margaret (Gale) Haining

Thanks Peter, I added you to the team, cheers, Margaret

posted Mar 01, 2023 by Margaret (Gale) Haining

Steve Thomas

Thanks Margaret. I am still very committed in the Category Team.