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Prisoners of War
Description
The definition for Prisoners of War on wikitree is someone who is held in custody by an enemy power during or immediately after an armed conflict
Add to Profile
If you do not know the country they fought for or conflict add to the high level category by placing this line in the profile
- [[Category:Prisoners of War]]
If more information is known, you can use the {{Roll of Honor}} template to display an image and short description to the profile, and add the profile to the category, cut and paste the following to the profile text below the ==Biography== section, replacing <item> with actual value:
- {{Roll of Honor
- | category = <Prisoners of War>, <United States of America>, <World War II>
- | image = <Roll of Honor Template-16.jpg>
- | description = <a Prisoner of War>
- | war = <World War II>
- | rank = <rank> (if listed, will display, else will use profile prefix if present)
}}
- using this template, you will see the following on the profile page, with the profile also being added to the category identified.
if not using the template, you can enter the category explicitly with one of the following formats, from least to most desirable, replacing <item> with actual value:
[[Category: Prisoners of War]]
[[Category: Prisoners of War, <country of service>]]
[[Category: Prisoners of War, <war>]]
[[Category: Prisoners of War, <country of service>, <war>]]
Create New Country
To create a new Country sub category for a war, add the following line to the profile or war category, replacing <item> with actual value:
- [[Category: Prisoners of War, <country>]]
After saving, the new category should appear in RED, select it and cut and paste the following to the text of the category, replacing <item> with actual value.
For most of the <country of service> Armed Forces it will be Spanish, Mexican, Russian, etc. Check for those already created in Category: Military
- {{ProjectCategory|Roll of Honor|Roll_of_Honor}}
- [[Category: Prisoners of War]]
- [[Category: <country of service> Armed Forces]]
- ----
- {{Military Help |POW Country}}
- ==Sources==
- <references />
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After saving, if you added the category to the war category, go back to it, edit, remove the new category name and save. If you added to a profile, it should show in BLACK and is now a member of that category.
Create New War
To create a new War sub category for a country, add the following line to the profile or country category, replacing <item> with actual value:
- [[Category: Prisoners of War, <war>]]
After saving, the new category should appear in RED, select it and cut and paste the following to the text of the category, replacing <item> with actual value.
Cut and paste the following to the text of the category, replacing <item> with actual value:
- {{ProjectCategory|Roll of Honor|Roll_of_Honor}}
- [[Category: Prisoners of War]]
- [[Category: <war>]]
- ----
- {{Military Help | POW War}}
- ==Sources==
- <references />
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After saving, if you added the category to the country category, go back to it, edit, remove the new category name and save. If you added to a profile, it should show in BLACK and is now a member of that category.
Create New Country War
To create a new Country War sub category for the country and war, add the following line to the profile, country or war category, replacing <item> with actual value:
- [[Category: Prisoners of War, <country>, <war> ]]
After saving, the new category should appear in RED, select it and cut and paste the following to the text of the category, replacing <item> with actual value.
Cut and paste the following to the text of the category, replacing <item> with actual value:
- {{ProjectCategory|Roll of Honor|Roll_of_Honor}}
- [[Category: Prisoners of War, <war>]]
- [[Category: Prisoners of War, <country of service>]]
- [[Category: <country of service>, <war>]]
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- {{Military Help | POW Country/War}}
- ==Sources==
- <references />
- ----
After saving, if you added the category to the country or war category, go back to it, edit, remove the new category name and save. If you added to a profile, it should show in BLACK and is now a member of that category.
Adding the Profile to the Roll of Honor
The Roll of Honor is kept on a free space page.
go to Space:Prisoner of War and edit the page.
Scroll down until you get to the wikitable section.
Add information below the last line of the table header (when displayed it will sort alphabetically, so where in the list you add it is not important)
- ! scope="col"| Other Information
- |-
Cut and paste the following to the table, replacing everything with actual values for that person:
- | [[Wiki ID | Last Name]]
- | First/Middle Names
- | Date Of Birth as DD MMM YYYY
- | Date Of Death as DD MMM YYYY
- | Conflict
- | Country
- | [[Image:xxxx |90px|??]] (xxxx is an image of the Flag of Country)
- | POW<other info> <place of death> <branch of service> [[image:|35px|??]] (can display a small image if desired)
- |-
For example:
- |[[Aaron-211|Aaron]]
- |Hubert Charles Titus
- |22 Oct 1919
- |7 Dec 1941
- |WWII
- |United States of America
- |[[Image:WikiTree Profiles Roll of Honor-1.jpg|90px|??]]
- |POW Philippines US Army [[Image:Photos-320.jpg|35px|??]]
- |-
save the page.
Basic Level
This is the narrowest/most defined level we are creating categories for, i.e. we will not have POW categories for a unit, branch or battle.
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