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===Other Files===
===Other Files===


Files containing formal documents, scanned newsletters, and so on should have multi-component names reflecting the nature of the particular material, with a standard naming convention chosen to allow coverage of both existing and future material of the same type.
Files containing formal documents, scanned newsletters, and so on should have multi-component names reflecting the nature of the particular material, with a standard naming convention chosen to allow coverage of both existing and future material of the same type. This is the desired format:


For most formal documents, this will include at least the type of document and some form of date.  For example, for meeting minutes it will need to include at least some sort of name/abbreviation of the committee/body that was meeting and the date of the meeting, as well as the actual word "minutes" (because the same committee/body might well have other associated documents, also identified by date).
'''SHORTTITLE_ARTICLENAME_AUTHOR_YEAR-MONTH-DAY_VOLUME-ISSUE-PAGE'''


For periodicals, in some cases it may be appropriate to use a volume/issue number convention rather than a dateHowever, this is best limited to cases where the original periodical used a consistent numbering system throughout its existenceThere are some periodicals which, although they maintained a similar purpose and similar name over many decades, switched how they numbered volumes, perhaps when a new editor took overIn such cases it probably makes sense to use issue date (in most cases year and month) as the primary identifier, even if it was also labeled with volume/issue numbers.
'''SHORTITLE''' is the common source abbreviation. The ones assigned so far are:
* LPNews (LP News)
* LPledge (Liberty Pledge or Libertarian Pledge)
 
'''ARTICLENAME''' is a shortened form of an article nameAn example would be David Nolan's "Case for Libertarian Political Party" which might be listed as CASEFORLIBPARTY.
 
'''AUTHOR''' is the last name of the author.
 
'''YEAR-MONTH-DAY''' is the publication or listed dated which should be in that format (using hyphens).
 
'''VOLUME-ISSUE-PAGE''' is the volume, issue, and page numbers which should be in that format (using hyphens).
 
Not all documents will have all of these fieldsHere are some examples of how this would workPage 2 of the October 1982 (volume one, issue two) issue of Libertarian Pledge would be: LPledge_1982-10_V1-I2-P2
 
Elements of items are separated by hyphens and items are separated by underscores. Please message ~~CarynHarlos with any questions.


==Needed conventions==
==Needed conventions==

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