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== "Local Histories" or "Histories" heading on county pages? ==

I'm getting ready to launch a project to [[FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Linking to Books in the BYU Family History Archives|link wiki pages to 1300 titles in the BYU Digital Archives]] and I need some help solving a problem first. I noticed on [[Frederick County, Maryland|Frederick County, Maryland]] that in the alphabetical list of headings/record types for the county, histories of the county are not listed under "H" for "Histories" but under "L" for "Local Histories." Even though each of these headings currently contains no content (so the headings are close together and can be scanned pretty easily) I didn't see "Histories" or "History," so I didn't think the county page had a section on histories. Not until I clicked Edit did I see that there's a section for "Local Histories." I believe this is a problem. I do not think it wise to list histories under "L." The word "Local" is merely a descriptor for histories, and I believe most users won't think to look under "L." I believe most indexes, phone books, and directories do not alphabetize items under their descriptors (adjectives) but under their main designations, which are nouns. But rather than going and changing all the county pages to fit "my way," I'd like to know what the rest of you think. [[User:Ritcheymt|Ritcheymt]] 19:23, 15 May 2009 (UTC)