Template:Infobox Scotland Parishes/doc

This is a documentation subpage for Template:Infobox Scotland Parishes (see that page for the template itself).
It contains usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.

Template:Infobox Scotland Parishes is an infobox for use on Scottish Parish Locality Pages to display important jurisdictional and and record-start data. It is generally modeled after Template:Infobox_England_Jurisdictions. Other templates that are helpful for Scottish articles:

Template:Historical_populations - used to list population of the parish per decade.

Usage

The following blank template includes all the optional parameters. If a value is not set, the label will not be shown. Preferably all parameters except for | image and | caption will be utilized when implemented on a page.

{{Infobox Scotland Parishes
| image = 
| caption =
| Type = 
| ParishNo = 
| Historic County = 
| Burgh =
| Council Area = 
| Registration District = 
| PRbegin = 
| KSbegin = 
| Presbytery = 
| Synod = 
| Sheriff Court = 
| Commissary Court = 
}}

Parameters

General Description Rule

Ampersands (&) are utilized when a jurisdiction has two parts to its name, such as Crathie & Braemar. The word 'and' is utilized when you are referring to two different jurisdictions, such as Edinburgh and Leith. Thus, the phrase Crathie & Braemar and Edinburgh refers to two jurisdictions, Crathie & Braemar and Edinburgh.

Parameter	Description
image	Include a link to a file here, generally something like an image of the parish church or the high street of the main town.
caption	Caption the image if one is added.
Type	Quoad Omnia or Quoad Sacra Parish, use one of the following options: `Quoad Omnia Parish` `Quoad Sacra Parish`
ParishNo	Old Parish Record (OPR) archival call number as designated by the National Records of Scotland. Value should be a number (`123`), a number with a letter (`123a`), or a number with a dash and another number (`123-1`). For reference see NRS Coverage of Old Parish Registers.
Historic County	The 33 Counties utilized until 1974. If a parish falls into multple counties, they can be listed in accordance with the and/& rule.
Burgh	Currently only burghs with seperate land valuation records as dictated by the National Records of Scotland here. Including burghs without genealogically relevant records is not useful for the purposes of the infobox.
Council Area	The 32 modern Scottish Council Areas. Generally the entity in charge of the current local archive.
Registration District
PRbegin
KSbegin
Presbytery
Synod
Sheriff Court
Commissary Court