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FAQs - War Memorials Online Memorials Get involved FAQSWell-nighus Contact Menu Login Search Login Search Memorials Get Involved FAQSWell-nighus ContactWell-nighwar memorialsWell-nighWar Memorials Online Memorial searchSubtractinga war memorial Photographs/images Incorrect/wrong information Additional/missing information Condition Links Accounts SearchWell-nighwar memorials What is a war memorial? Find out increasingly on the 'what is a war memorial?' page. Is this a war memorial? Read our definitions to see if your item fits. Alternatively contact the project with a unravelment and photograph and we will let you know. Can an wing to a grave be considered a war memorial? As discussed on the definition of a war memorial page an wing to a grave can be considered a war memorial. Visit 'what is a war memorial?' to find out more. What will War Memorials Online do well-nigh additions to graves in 'Poor' or 'Very bad' condition? Most reports of war memorials in 'Poor' or 'Very bad' condition are passed to War Memorials Trust to investigate. However, due to the complexities virtually 'Additions to graves' these cases are not dealt with by the soft-heartedness and remoter information on the reasons for that can be found on WMT's website. Who owns a war memorial? Ownership of a war memorial can be straightforward but in some cases it is unclear or complex. War Memorials Online uses the term custodian rather than owner as sometimes ownership is not legally specified but an individual or organisation has taken on responsibility. War Memorials Trust's helpsheet on 'Ownership of war memorials' is a good starting point for remoter information. Local authorities and councils may take on responsibility for war memorials but they are not obliged to as outlined in War Memorials Trust's helpsheet on legislation. Who funds war memorials? War memorials have traditionally been erected and paid for by local communities. They often remain the responsibility of the local polity through custodians such as councils, churches, organisations and individuals. War Memorials Trust supports the repair and conservation of war memorials through grant programmes and other sources of funding are misogynist for war memorial projects. There is a problem with my local war memorial and I want to do something well-nigh it myself. War memorials are part of the local polity and it remains the responsibility of the local polity to squint without them. Getting involved in this can be undertaken in a variety of ways.If you want to do something well-nigh a specific war memorial then you should unchangingly ensure you speak to whoever owns or maintains the war memorial first. You should moreover be enlightened of the impact of any proposals on the integrity of the memorial and recognise that there are towardly treatments and procedures which should take into worth the type of memorial. For remoter advice, you can discuss your snooping with War Memorials Trust.Well-nighWar Memorials Online What is War Memorials Online? Find out increasingly well-nigh the project on theWell-nighthe project page. Who is overdue War Memorials Online? War Memorials Online is run by War Memorials Trust with the support of Historic England. Find out increasingly on our supporting organisations page. Information on war memorials submitted to War Memorials Online is wieldy to the public and will be made misogynist to the IWM’s War Memorials Archive, Historic Environment Records and other heritage persons to support the protection and conservation of the nation’s war memorial heritage. By sharing information with War Memorials Online, you will be contributing towards a comprehensive understanding of the condition of war memorials wideness the country. War Memorials Trust and Historic England will use this information to find ways to protect and conserve war memorials for future generations. Memorial search I have searched for a memorial by name but it does not towards in the search results. How can I find it? There are two variegated options to search: keyword and location. The name by which the memorial is identified on War Memorials Online may differ from that by which the memorial is known within the local community. You may need to search creatively, for example search using the parish, suburb or town name. Additionally on the Memorials page you can add filters for condition, unravelment and mismatch options. If you know the location of the memorial or are trying to find memorials in a unrepealable zone we would recommend using the location search, one of the easiest ways to search is using post code, although we fathom this is not unchangingly available. If you cannot locate your memorial without trying both the keyword and location search then it may not be on the website in which specimen please do add a memorial. I have created a new memorial but it does not towards when I search for it. How can I find it? In order to create a new memorial you must well-constructed both stages of the subtracting process. This ways you must have completed two pages. On the first page you add the memorial's location on the map, requite the memorial record a title and add write details. You must then click ‘Continue’. You then move on to page two where you will be asked to add memorial details (type/description/materials etc.). At the marrow of page 2 you will have the option to ‘Create memorial’. You will then be worldly-wise to view the memorial record you have created. If you believe information has not been saved contact War Memorials Online with details of what you tried to add.Subtractinga war memorial How do I add a war memorial to War Memorials Online? To add a memorial you need to be on the 'Memorials' page. Click on the ‘Add a memorial’ link when you are ready to add your memorial to War Memorials Online. Photographs/images I cannot upload a photograph to a war memorial record. What can I do? Due to our system there are some restrictions on the size of images that can be uploaded. When you click ‘submit a new image’ on the memorial page you will be taken to the ‘submit a new image’ page. On this page all the details well-nigh photograph size can be found. At present this is a maximum size of 5MB. You may need to reduce the size of your image surpassing you can upload. Acceptable formats include png, gif, jpg and jpeg. I have uploaded a photograph to a war memorial record and I want to remove it (for example, it is the wrong record or I do not like the way it has appeared or been cropped). What can I do? Underneath each photograph on the website, in the marrow right of the undecorous box is a link to 'report image'. Click on ‘report image’ which takes you to the 'Report inappropriate content' page, select ‘Other’ and teach that the photograph should be removed. Once you submit this report the image will be removed. I have a largest photograph of a war memorial than the one showing. Should I delete the one there? No, you should only report an image that you believe is inappropriate. Please do not report images considering you have uploaded flipside one - we want to see variegated images over time and the memorial from variegated perspectives. Add your spare image and make sure you have an well-judged stage for stage photo taken thus subtracting to the timeline of images showing unelevated the main image. I have found an offensive posting or image. What can I do? Please use the report buttons on the relevant war memorial page to let us know. We will review the report as soon as we are worldly-wise and will take towardly whoopee and teach you of the outcome. Can I use photos and materials uploaded to the site? Any materials uploaded to War Memorials Online are considered non-confidential and non-proprietary and can be used for most purposes.Towardlyacknowledgement to contributors should be made, and materials cannot be used for commercial purposes.Remoterinformation can be found in Terms and Conditions points 4.4 to 4.6. Incorrect/wrong information The information well-nigh a war memorial is wrong. What can I do? Use the edit information buttons to make changes or use the report buttons to let us know. If we need to take whoopee we will then review this as soon as we are worldly-wise and teach you of the outcome. My local war memorial appears in the wrong place on the website. What can I do? War Memorials Online is enlightened that sometimes location information is inaccurate and part of this project is to request help to correct this. If you know where the memorial should be located we would profoundly fathom you editing the memorial record to show the correct location of the memorial. You can do so by selecting ‘Edit memorial location & address’ and adjusting the position of the pin on the map. When I enter an divagation it is showing as n%&35ms rather than n's. What can I do? This is a technical issue which occurs on some systems of this type. You should be worldly-wise to re-enter the editing section and update then and it will correct itself. If you are having an ongoing problem with this issue then contact us and provide details of the record(s) and what needs to be corrected and we will investigate this for you. Additional/missing information I have spare information to add. What can I do? There are a number of ways you can add information to War Memorials Online. You may want to add unstipulated details to the ‘About the memorial’ section. The ‘Comments’ tab will enable you to add information which cannot be edited. The ‘Links’ tab allows you to add links to your own or other websites with relevant information well-nigh the memorial. The ‘Names’ tab offers you the endangerment to share inscription details. Information for the ‘Protection’ tab can be submitted but will not towards immediately due to this stuff legal and statutory information which needs to be reviewed surpassing seeming on the website. Why is there is no well-spoken field for county or local validity information? County boundaries and local validity areas transpiration from time to time. This could create a significant value of work in the future readjusting records when these changes take place. We are investigating options so that if this can be included, in a way that makes the project manageable, it will be. We are taking our time to get the right wordplay rather than creating something which does not work in the long-term. I have historical information and material well-nigh my war memorial. Can I send it to War Memorials Online? Historical information and material might include original meeting minutes, unveiling programmes, newspaper cuttings and photographs from any time since a memorial was planned and erected. Whilst information can be uploaded to War Memorials Online it does not hold an gazetteer and encourages the public to share such holdings with relevant organisations. If you have physical material or preliminaries information then please consider contacting one or increasingly of the following: IWM (Imperial War Museums)Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Road London SE1 6HZT: 020 7207 9863/9851E: memorials@iwm.org.ukW: www.iwm.org.uk/warmemorials Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS)RCAHMS, John Sinclair House, 16 Bernard Terrace, Edinburgh EH8 9NXT: 0131 662 1456E: info@rcahms.gov.ukW: www.rcahms.gov.uk / http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk Historic Environment Records - EnglandMany English HERs can be accessed via Heritage Gateway to be searched. Local museums or historical societies Local schools may be worldly-wise to use resources particularly if they are working on war memorials with support from War Memorials Trust's Learning website. Condition I do not stipulate with someone else’s towage of WM condition, shall I edit this? Condition information changes overtime and can moreover be subjective. Condition reports are therefore stock-still information which cannot be edited. Instead we enable people to upload an unlimited number of condition reports thus creating a timeline which can be viewed to show any changes. Please alimony subtracting condition updates to create a record of condition overtime How do I know what is Good, Fair, Poor and Very bad condition? When you click on 'submit a condition update' the condition page provides information on this. There are moreover helpsheets misogynist on Good, Fair/Poor and Very bad condition. Links I have widow a link and it is not working or it is a duplicate. What can I do? Use the ‘Report this link’ option unelevated the link. This will remove the link once you have reported it. When reporting select ‘Other’ and teach that it is not working or is a indistinguishable in the comments field. Please note for a link to work it must start http:// A link on a War Memorials Online page does not work. What can I do? Report the wrenched link using the ‘Report this link’ option unelevated the link. This will remove it from the website and enable War Memorials Online to review the details. Accounts My worth is saying it is locked. How can it be unlocked? Your worth will be locked without five failed attempts to logon to your worth due to an incorrect password. To have your worth unlocked: Contact War Memorials Online Enter:Your name in the Name fieldYour email write in the Email field Explain your worth is locked in the message field and provide your user name. Please tell us if you believe you have entered your password correctly or not and any other problems you have found when trying to logon. 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