Feedback please!

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Hi there!

I just "finished" building this space. What is missing?

I would welcome feedback on how cool it is or isn't. Does it fit the general idea of how to construct spaces? etc.

When it gets to the family links, it's a tad confusing, so I will likely continue to edit and refine as I exhaust the possibilities of this thread of reseach (hence "finished").

[[Space: Groombridge Place|Groombridge Place]]

hummm, how about this then:

http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Groombridge_Place

in Policy and Style by Sheila Smail G2G6 Mach 2 (23.6k points)
I don't know about "cool" but I'd be proud to have built that page.
Very nice Free Space page !
I'm new, and this is very inspiring! :)

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Very nice. Good job on the use of Space profiles, Sheila.

Suggestions having to do with wikitree profile markup "language":

1. Revise the link to the Royal Society something like the one you have for "Location":

[http://royalsociety.org/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28Surname%3D%27packer%27%29 Royal Society Records]

to make it more obvious there's a link there.

2. Avoid "ibid." as a footnote. If you inadvertently add another footnote in the text between the first citation footnote of the Royal Society and the footnote labeled only "ibid," the ibid will refer to the wrong reference.

Later EDIT: An option for multiple references to the same source is to list the Royal Society link as a Source. Then any need footnotes to that link can simply be <ref>Royal Society Records</ref> as many times as needed. The user can look above the Footnotes and click on the Royal Society link.
by Bruce Veazie G2G6 Mach 6 (62.6k points)
selected by Maggie N.
Thanks Bruce - very helpful ideas. Good catch on the ibid - no more ibids for me! :)

A minor housekeeping point, you might also consider adding the author's name for "The history and topographical survey of the county of Kent..." so that it is formatted consistently with your other sources. Example:

Hasted, Edward. The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent. Vol 3. (1797), pp.275-300

would better mirror your existing reference:

Maidment, Barbara. A History of Groombridge Place, 2nd edition (2005), p.24.

--- expanded discussion ---

I realize the version you have used of the Hasted reference is the default citation generated by BHO, but if you use their tool to generate the citation in other formats, you will find every other format includes the author somwhere in the citation. Using their MLA citation as an example:

Edward Hasted. "Parishes: Speldhurst." The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 3 (1797): 275-300. British History Online. Web. 04 September 2013. <http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=62858>

--- sidebar/digression ---

I would however argue that BHO's MLA format is incorrect/outdated. In MLA: author is given surname, given names/initials; the publisher information should still be given if known (in this case it is) and the overall reference should arguably read as:

Hasted, Edward. "Parishes: Speldhurst." The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent. Vol. 3. Canterbury: W. Bristow, 1797. pp.275-300. British History Online. Web. 04 September 2013.

As we (wikitreers) like to include links to references where possible, it would be appropriate (in keeping with MLA format) to include the link in it's usual spot at the very end of the citation enclosed in angle brackets, or to just link the chapter or work.

+3 votes
Wow! Nice place and nice space.  You can find it again on your Free-Space Watchlist.  There is a link at the top of your regular Watchlist to your Free-Space Watchlist.
by Kitty Smith G2G6 Pilot (649k points)
+2 votes
Very nice (I don't do 'cool'). The best of it is that it has given me some new ideas.
by anonymous G2G6 Pilot (281k points)

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