Category: Sheridan Township, Michigan [closed]

Question

I created a cemetery for Woods Cemetery, Sheridan Township, Michigan, (which didn’t exist), but it didn’t show there was a duplicate Sheridan Township, Michigan as it was in red so now it’s duplicated.

Needs merge ?

Why did it show red text in CIB when it existed upon creating the cemetery?

See https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Sheridan_Township%2C_Michigan

And

Here https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Sheridan_Township%2C_Clare_County%2C_Michigan

Note: the original Sheridan Township didn’t have a CIB

Maybe I can learn something new? It appears Michigan categorizing is more challenging from what I see in g2g

Answer 1

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Sheridan_Township%2C_Clare_County%2C_Michigan that is the correct category.

Townships are named with the county, with a few exceptions. Charter Townships in Michigan are named without the county, as in XXXX Charter Township, Michigan.

Comments

Hi Natalie,

I went to the categorization project page and is there a link to how to categorize townships? I see the School Series page!! 

I can categorize the basic USA cemetery but would like to expand my ability to categorize. Maybe a YouTube video series is available?

Thank you for all your collaboration in updating this Cemetery for Michigan as it was in regards to creating a cemetery for our Civil War Vets. 

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You're welcome.

First, for townships:https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Category_Names_for_Regions#United_States_of_America.27s_Regional_Categories What is not quite up-to-date in that help is that in eastern PA, townships are often like the NJ townships, and this really is mostly in the areas around Philadelphia. We have Radnor Township (an incorporated township) in Delaware County and it's named that way, but the place is locally known as Radnor, Pennsylvania, so it could be named that way (but isn't for whatever reason).

 All I can say is that I learned by diving in and asking questions and studying how things were done. I made a lot of mistakes, but learned from every one. Our categories are not perfect, of course, and there are exceptions for everything. I did try, while I was leader of Categorization, to help people learn by creating a couple of school series pages. (I believe they may need to be updated at this point.)

What you should know for creating cemetery categories is that the CIB should now be applied to every new cemetery category. It's a database category suggestion when a new one is added WITHOUT the CIB. See: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Automated:DBE_Categories_Suggestions for suggestion number 7001, the first one in the list. As of this moment, there are 381 cemetery categories without a CIB applied. What parameters must be included? name=, parent=, coordinate=, location=. If one of them is missing, it shows up in suggestion 7003!  

Anyway, we also have a basic setup when a category is created with a location, which is created as Location, Theme. This was approved several years ago in order to improve consistency in our category naming. This is why you see categories like [[Category:United States, Notables]].

So, my advice is that to become a better categorist, practice adding/creating categories. If you are unsure about a name, ask in g2g and tag "categorization". Someone should be able to help you out.

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Thanks 

I was wondering if the CIB was mandatory as I always use a CIB and I only categorize cemetery pages for the civil war vets that need them. 

This is very helpful 

Answer 2

I learned something new, once I looked up CIB and found that it stands for Category Info Box. I could better follow what this question was all about.

Then Google showed me prior posts where that was part of the discussion.

I am interested in Categorization, though so far, only ventured into cemeteries, and don't always get those right.

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Cemetery categories is where I began as it goes along with my U.S. Civil War Project collaboration. 

This g2g helped me get started see https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/452059/how-do-i-add-a-cemetery

But Natalie’s Lesson #2 2 of school series 4th paragraph says basically the same. So both are very helpful 

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Thanks Andrew!

This info goes into my "how to use Wikitree" background file.

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That’s awesome!

The problem was the townships for me so I have to keep in mind 

“Townships are named with the county”

“Except charter townships” 

I’m still learning and run into a snag sometimes 

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I hear that, especially if Michigan is new territory for you.

I used to live in Michigan, and that's when I first heard of "towns" having the name "XXX Township". They don't always use the name "Charter" when they're talking about them.

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Definitely a learning curb! In New York they have Hamlets which gets fun too!

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As a person that worked in Macomb County, Michigan Equalization I can tell you that Michigan doesn’t have towns;  there are cities, townships and villages in the county.  The reason they remain that way is due to the way they created their government.  Most do not describe themselves as "Charter Township", and there are only 139 Charter Townships in the state. By the way, there is a city named Clinton in Michigan also so the Township designation is important.