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Default venting a crawl space

The crawl space is only under the family room of our home and I'm beginning
to have a dampness problem. I have corrected the downspout which exited too
close to the house. The lawn has no grade away from the house and short of
having a swale cut (I'm considering it) there is no way to achieve a
gradient. So anyway, I've thought that I'd lay 6 mil poly in the crawl
space but I think that vents will be a good idea. The problem here is that
the ground level is just a couple of inches from ground level. The siding
is only 2" of the ground. Should I dig wells and install vents or is
covering the dirt enough?
TIA,
Chuck