User:LibraryGeek/Creating a new country
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- On the article page, click "Edit source" and scroll to the bottom of the edit window.
- Add
[[Category:Libraries in ]]
and add country name. - Hit "Show preview" and scroll to bottom of the page.
- Right click on the red link and open in new tab.
- In the new tab, add
{{Libraries in country||}}
and add country name. - Hit "Show preview". Open the links to Wikipedia, Commons and Portal in new tabs.
- If the Wikipedia article gives a different name, change the country name to match.
- Review the article to determine continent. Contries in Central America and the Carribean are classed as
North America
. Countires spanning across the Eurasian border are classed asEurope|Asia
. Add the continent name. - If the country name takes the form of "Republic of Blah", add
|sort=Blah, Republic of
after the continent. - If the Commons link reports no page exists, add
|commons=no
after the last parameter. - Verify the portal link goes to an active page. Smaller countries may have a redirect to a larger covered area.
- Hit "Show preview" again, to update the page and scroll to the bottom of the page.
- Verify the category links are all valid. If there are red links, the country or continent links might not be correct.
- If all's well, enter your Edit summary:
Creating new subcategory.
and hit "Publish page". - Click on "Talk" and enter
{{WikiProject Libraries}}
. In Edit summary, enter:Tagging category for WP Libraries.
Hit "Publish page". - Return to the original article and hit "Show preview". Scroll to the bottom of the page and verify the red link is now valid.
- Enter your Edit summary:
Add to WikiProject Libraries categories.
Hit "Publish changes". - That's it! Links to the new subcategory to the appropriate higher level categories have already been built by the template.