Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-25626-20170728051121/@comment-25626-20170805184524

Ok, I've got the pipling figured out for the year templates. So using Franklin D. Roosevelt as an example: we can put "1882"  in the "birth" section in FDR's historical figure template and have him go into the "1880s Births OTL" category without having to create an "1882 Births" subcatgory.

So as far as I am concerned, we can create templates for just about everything. There will be mutiple templates for nationalities that will be story specific, e.g., US Southern Victory, US Worldwar, etc, but they can all be directed to Category:Americans. A lot of work, but I think these templates will streamline the article creating process, and give us tremendous flexbility in renaming categories. See, e.g., the shift from "Category:Bottomlands Characters" to Category:Down in the Bottomlands Characters.

I'm still trying to figure out the best way to to handle the political offices, i.e., should they be in the succession box or should we figure out a way to put them in the character templates. If we do the former (again, using FDR as an example) then POTUS will be among FDR's last categories, coming after all the key historical categories and the story specific templates, which I think will look untidy.. On the other hand, I've always felt putting political offices in the "occupation" section of the template to look untidy. Another option might be to create "political offices" as an option in the character infoboxes--that will probably look less terrible.