On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Arturo Vázquez <[email protected]>wrote:
>
> I understand that making such a change at this state is going to be
> almost impossible but... Could we force all book entries to follow the
> format {Surname, Name} at least from now onwards?
>
No, that's the opposite of what the data entry convention is. Names are
supposed to be entered in normal name order.
> At present, I've seen some book entries in which the author has been
> introduced following that format, but this doesn't seem to be the
> general rule... so there is no pattern nor format established for all
> the books to follow... it's pretty chaotic.
>
The names in Last, First format tend to be old imports from library data
which haven't been cleaned up yet. They are getting cleaned up gradually.
A small percentage of them may be people making new entries and ignoring
the documentation, but hopefully that doesn't happen often.
Here's what's immediately above the author name data entry field:
Name Please use natural order. For example: Leo Tolstoy not Tolstoy, Leo. **
Required field.*
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Tom
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