Template talk:Houston family tree
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From my talk page:
Big question - why are you slapping the family tree templates with "unreferenced" tags? And by whose authorization are you running this automation to do this? Has there been a discussion somewhere about changing the policy of how family trees are done? Are you acting on your own to do this? And why the navbox addition? First of all, navboxes don't have to have referencing. And secondly, templates are easily transcluded without being navboxes. What's the point in what you are doing?— Maile (talk) 21:34, 19 April 2015 (UTC)
@— Maile . I have copied your questions here because this seems the most relevant public talk page, because I edited this page adding a request for citation and you removed it.
The templates in Category:Family tree templates are not navigation templates. Indeed in many cases they are only used in one article and ought to be moved into article space as translucence templates are confusing for inexperienced editors and a barrier to their editing them (One of the things I have been changing is the headers so that they are editable from article space).
I am using
I disagree with your statement "First of all, navboxes don't have to have referencing". Like all information that appears in article space this information fall under
- [SNIP]
- Mary Houston (1898–1977)
- William Houston m. Mary Ball
- Isabella Houston
- Mary Houston
- m. Col. Matthew Wallace
- m. Gen. William Wallace
- [SNIP]
Mentioned in another article is not really relevant however, as for example, I have pointed out in Template talk:Kennedy family tree#Inline citations. The small amount of the Kennedy family tree for which I added citations was taken from the two article that are at the top of the tree, but the number of entries in the tree for which those two articles contained reliable sources was only 5 out of 16 members, and in fact there was no reliable citation in the two articles to confirm that they were father and son!
The source given is:
- Sam Houston State University – Houston genealogy, Star of the Republic Museum, Samuel Houston Family Tree, Retrieved November 23, 2013
Although it states "Retrieved November 23, 2013" but there is no link provided. There is no date of publication author, or page numbers, and no ISBN or other identifier so that the publication can be found.
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The other issue is that the content of this template is not editable by user editing an article. To do that they need to know about template space. So I am going to alter the heading so that it is editable from within articles. -- PBS (talk) 08:31, 20 April 2015 (UTC)
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]Date problems
How exactly does a woman born in 1852 give birth in 1850?
Antoinette Power Houston (1852–1932)[ii] m. Dr. William S. Lorraine Bringhurst (1844–1913)[iii] Antoinette Bush Bringhurst (b.1850)[viii] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.110.21.196 (talk) 17:24, 14 June 2015 (UTC)
Andrew Jackson Houston (1854–1941)[ii] United States Senator m. Carrie Glenn Purnell (1858–1884)[iii] Ariadne T. Houston (1979–1969)[ix] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.110.21.196 (talk • contribs) 17:31, 14 June 2015 (UTC)