The standard use on the English Wikipedia is so that the last name comes
first, the first and last options allow the program to automatically format
it,

Alex

On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 11:08 PM, Patrick Conley <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Alex & George,
>
> Wikipedia doesn't distinguish first/last name:
>
> {{Literatur
>  | Autor=
>  | Titel=
>  | Auflage=
>  | Verlag=
>  | Ort=
>  | Jahr=
>  | ISBN=
> }}
>
> http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorlage:Literatur
>
> It is only the peculiarity of the English template.
>
> - Patrick
>
>
> Am 16.03.2011 22:31, schrieb George Oates:
> > Hi Alex -
> >
> > Open Library doesn't distinguish first/last name, so we can't do that
> split.
> >
> > Be great to have this info linked to from Wikipedia in spite of that, if
> possible!
> >
> > Cheers,
> > george
>
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