Help:Titles

Before creating a new entry, first create a specific, descriptive title.

Titles should be clear, brief and, as this is a history site, titles should include a date, if at all possible.

Titles should not usually be generic (like: Chicago LGBTQ History). But numbers of entries in the Historiography section have generic titles.

Title formats

• Title: Subtitle; Place, Month day, year

Example: Buggery case: Mathew Giles; New Hampshire, July 4, 1663

• Author: Subtitle, Place, year

Example: John D'Emilio: "Gay Power," Chicago, 1966

• Title, year-year

Example 1: John W. Sterling and James O. Bloss, 1870-1918; Example 2: The Lesbian In Literature, 1967-1981)

• Title, year

Example: Ma Rainey's "Prove It On Me Blues," 1928

Note: Do not use special characters such as & and % in entry titles, they will cut off the title in the middle. You can use quotations marks in entry titles, but you cannot begin a title with quotations.

Once you have your title, enter it into the Search box to see if there is a entry that already has the same title or that has similar content.

If there is an entry with similar content that is not protected, add your content to the existing entry.

If there is not an entry with the same name or content there are several ways to create your new entry. See Create an Entry