No it's not, I will update you on the conversation on English Wikipedia, there are several things we could modify including using the '' |ol = " variable for the OL ID number which automatically links to Open Library instead of the url,
Alex On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 7:47 PM, George Oates <[email protected]> wrote: > Right, Frankie. It's a terrible rats nest! > > The one cataloging "policy" for people's names is to use "natural order" in > a > single field over Lastname, Firstname in separate fields. > > So, Alex - we're not going to be able to support your request. I hope > that's not > a blocker! > > Cheers, > george > > > On 3/17/11 4:34 AM, Frankie Roberto wrote: > > > > On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 9:21 AM, Alex Stinson <[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > > 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, > > > > > > It's odd - lots of people seem to prefer (or just perhaps be used to) > seeing > > "Lastname, Firstname" - on another project I worked on, seeing names in > this > > order is one of the top user requests. > > > > Splitting a single name into first names and surname is doable, but not > entirely > > trivial. You might think that you could simply hive off the last word > from the > > name, but you have to remember to account for hyphenated double-barrelled > > surnames, and surnames prefixed with additional words like "von" or "van" > (as in > > Dick Van Dyke). Plus there are a few special cases of people with double > > barrelled surnames that aren't hypenated (such as "Helena Bonham Carter) > which > > you'd miss and would somehow have to fix by hand. > > > > Then, in any views, you'd have to remember to not rely on the surname > field > > being present, as there are plenty of people who don't have (or commonly > use) > > one (eg Madonna and many Brazillian people). So you'd have to have some > extra > > logic defaulting to just using firstnames if surname is blank. > > > > Finally, just to confuse matters even more, the convention in some > countries in > > to place the family name before the given name (known as 'Eastern Order') > - > > however, according to > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_name#Name_order, > > when transliterated into the western alphabet, some people choose to swap > the > > order around, whereas others don't. > > > > All in all, you can see why it's conceptually easier to just have a > 'name' field > > for the most common form of someone's name, with 'alternate names' for > any other > > forms...! > > > > Frankie > > > > -- > > Frankie Roberto > > Experience Designer, Rattle > > 0114 2706977 > > http://www.rattlecentral.com > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Ol-discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss > > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Ol-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > [email protected] >
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