Norway Project - Categories

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Location categories are the categories most used on Norwegian profiles. But there are also categories grouping cemeteries, migration, genealogy resource pages, maintenance categories and more. Those relevant to Norway can be found in the top-level category Category: Norway.

Contents 1 Location Categories 1.1 Using Parish Categories 1.2 Where to find parish categories 1.3 Unknown Norwegian Location 2 Explaining Norwegian Place/Location Categories 3 Maintenance Categories 4 Do you want/need a Norwegian category created? 4.1 Category Instructions

Location Categories

Profiles should always be placed in the lowest location category possible. That usually means the parish category where the person was born, married, lived for a long time, or died. It should never be the country, province, county or hundred. You should only add a location category to a profile if you have a source that state the fact.

If you have an ancestor born in Norway but you do not know where, please use Category: Norway, Unknown Location and add what you know, for instance a province name, in the biography.

Sometimes even a smaller category within the parish can be used. This could be the farm, croft or village. Location category names for locations follow the same general principles as Location Fields. This means, for example, place names in native languages and using the names that people at the time used and not using a street address, building name, church, hospital, etc.

Using Parish Categories

Since the Norwegian parishes are so important for genealogy in Norway it is very helpful to categorize your profiles by parish. Two or three location categories on a profile is usually enough.

We strongly recommend the nifty new tool in the edit toolbar on biographies for finding and adding parish categories.

When a parish category is getting filled up - nearing 200 categorized profiles - you may want to create subcategories for villages, hamlets or farms. Only if it is necessary, subcategorization could proceed another level, with different farms as subcategories of a village, but the general rule is to avoid creating extra layers of navigation.

Where to find parish categories

While editing a profile, you can find categories using the category picker. It's the little button just above the edit box that almost looks like a little ladder. Start typing the name of the parish and it should be listing suggestions after a few typed letters.

Unknown Norwegian Location

If you have an ancestor born in Norway but you do not know in what parish, please use Category: Norway, Unknown Location. Any additional info about a location, a province or perhaps a village name should be added to the bio in order to help find the correct location for the profile.

Explaining Norwegian Place/Location Categories

• Norwegian Location Category Structure
• About Norway

Maintenance Categories

Profiles that need work can be sorted into different maintenance categories, like "needs biography", "needs birth record" or "unsourced". A maintenance category can also be created for a specific Team to work on.

This is where you find Category: Norway, Maintenance Categories

Do you want/need a Norwegian category created?

If you want help creating a Norwegian related category, you can send a message to the Nordic Project Google Group if you are a Nordic Project Member or you can contact the members of the Nordic Category Team Nordic Project Categories Team

Category Instructions

If you already know how to create a category, please also consider if it is a needed category before adding it. Preferably also communicate with someone in the Nordic Project Categories Team. Otherwise, you may find that unapproved category structures could be deleted and your hard work wasted.

Useful links - help pages for Help:Category_Creation_and_Removal and Help:Personal_Categories

Also, these are some "ground rules" for categories (at least since 2020) that you must consider.

• No categories should use ref tags (<ref> </ref> or <references/>)

• No categories should use headings of any level (== Level 1 Heading == or === Level 2 Heading === etc.)

• No categories should have a divider/horisontal line at the beginning or end of text.

• All categories should have a brief description and/or state the purpose of the category so the user can be sure it would be the correct category to add to a profile. This text should be at least 50 characters long.

However, please do not add to much info! If there is much info about the topic of the category, create a free-space profile with the information and add a link to the free-space profile in the category text.

All of the points above will generate an error for the Categorisation Project.