Wikipedia:WikiProject Succession Box Standardization/Guidelines

General

Barring special cases to be enumerated, the "years=" parameter should consist of two years joined by an en-dash. For incumbents, the second year should be replaced by "present".

Parliamentary offices (s-par)

S-par has the following parameters, at present:

• uk for Parliament of the United Kingdom
• gb for Parliament of Great Britain
• en for Parliament of England
• sct for Parliament of Scotland
• wal for National Assembly for Wales
• ni for Northern Ireland Assembly
• us for Congress of the United States of America
• ca for Parliament of Canada
• ie for Parliament of Ireland (to 1801); NB not to be used for Dáil Éireann or Seanad Éireann
• ie/oi for the Oireachtas (i.e. Dáil Éireann or Seanad Éireann)
• eu for the European Parliament

The following standards govern membership in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, Great Britain, and England (for membership in the House of Lords, see s-reg and s-rel):

• Members of Parliament for a given constituency in England before 1707, in England or Scotland before 1801, and in the United Kingdom after 1801 should have the correct header above the succession box for that constituency. Members of Parliament who served for one constituency before one of those dates and another (or the same, non-consecutively) after that date should have headers for both Parliaments, but the headers should only appear once. (For instance, a person serving in the Parliament of England for constituency 1 and the Parliament of Great Britain for constituencies 2 and 3 should have the following templates, in this order: s-par|en, succession (1), s-par|gb, succession (2), succession (3).) Members of Parliament serving for a single constituency in multiple Parliaments should have the heading of the later Parliament: for instance, a Member of Parliament representing an English constituency from 1689 until 1710 should have that succession box placed under an s-par|gb header.
• In constituencies which returned multiple members, all predecessors and successors should be listed, separated by a single <br/>. Members of Parliament simultaneously representing the constituency should be listed after the name of the constitituency in small type. If one of the other members represented the constituency throughout the length of the subject's term, the date range may be omitted; otherwise, the years between which that member served should appear after the member's name.
• When a Member of Parliament is the first or last to represent a particular incarnation of a constituency, because it has just been created or abolished, the predecessor or successor should read [constituency abolished] or [constituency created].
• Years should be wikilinked to the election at which a given Member of Parliament was elected to the office, or at which a successor was chosen, e.g., 1983–1989. Note that in the second example, the Member of Parliament ceased to represent the constituency in 1989 (due to death), but the successor was not chosen until 1990, in a by-election.

Example (names and years have not been wikilinked):

Military offices (s-mil)

Military offices include:

• Colonelcies of regiments
• Commanderships-in-chief
• Offices of the Board of Ordnance

It does not include military ranks as such.

Titles of nobility (s-reg)

This encompasses titles in the various Peerages and Baronetages of the British Isles, and continental titles which belong to a single person at any given time. It does not include courtesy titles.