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We encourage contributors to look for ways they can improve WeRelate pages. This might be undertaken while integrating your research or as a volunteer activity while taking a break from research on your own family tree.
- Note: If you are doing this as a purely volunteer activity, it is generally advisable to avoid pages that were just added or edited, in case the contributor had further changes pending.
Some suggestions on how to improve a page:
- Add a missing source citation.
- Update an existing source citation by adding a link to the specific online record or journal page.
- Replace a broken link.
- Replace or supplement a less reliable source with a more reliable one.
- If an event or fact isn't already linked to the source citation that supports it, link it.
- Research an issue or discrepancy. Update the data if appropriate, or document the research done and the uncertainties remaining.
- Bring the page more in line with WeRelate conventions (e.g., change an all-caps surname to mixed case, reduce event repetition).
- Select Show preview and see what WeRelate does automatically.
- It will consolidate exactly duplicate notes and source citations. To ensure this is complete, you might have to select Show preview twice (once to consolidate notes and then to consolidate the sources that refer to them).
- This might also fix some red-linked place names and/or remove non-standard place display names (e.g., showing "USA" instead of "United States"), since the place name standardization has improved over time.
- If this is all you did, don't forget to mark it as a minor edit and Save the page.
Remember to follow Wiki etiquette. It's always a good idea to leave a quick note in the Summary field at the bottom of the page, especially if the reason for the change might not be evident to everyone watching the page (e.g., bringing the page more in line with WeRelate conventions, which some watchers might not be up-to-date on).
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