Michael Smethurst wrote:
Seem to remember at the time I asked what the line of demarcation would be
between people as people and people as organisations. Are you just saying
music artists? What about actors, politicians, bloggers? Music artists who
act? Actors who become politicians? Politicians who blog?
Feels like you're splitting the world into 2 camps: celebrities and others.
Unless it's clearer what the logic is going on here I'm not happy to do this
You have three ways of formatting a name for use in an address book.
1. n (family-name, given-name, additional-name, honorific-prefix,
honorific-suffix)
Where you can mark up the explicit parts of the name with the above
class names.
See http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard#Property_List
2. fn n
Where the name can be guaranteed to be one of the defined formatted name
structures
* given-name (space) family-name
* family-name (comma) given-name
* family-name (comma) given-name-first-initial
* family-name (space) given-name-first-initial (optional period)
See http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard#Implied_.22n.22_Optimization
3. fn org
Where it is the name of not necessarily a person, but of an organisation
with a varied naming structure.
http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard#Organization_Contact_Info
There is a clear demarcation line here.
If you can guarantee that the name will be given as family-name,
given-name, etc... then Option 1 is used.
If you can at least guarantee the the name will be valid as a formatted
name, then Option2 is used.
If neither of those two can be guaranteed, you're left with Option 3 or
nothing.
There is a strong case for considering artist names as their
organisational name. Their names are widely varying, and often have
nothing to do with the persons individual name itself.
--
Paul Wilkins
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