2012/2/13 emijrp <[email protected]>

> 2012/2/13 Mathieu ONeil <[email protected]>
>
>> Hi Emir
>>
>> This is a great initiative, thanks for setting it up.
>>
>> I have a question: isn't it usual to list authors like this: Lastname
>> Firstname?
>>
>>
> Hi Mathieu:
>
> I have thought several times about this. Authors name is shown in many
> places:
> * Page titles for their biographies
> * Author field in publication infoboxes
> * In cells in dynamic tables
> * While exporting in BibTeX, CSV...
>
> I think that every case is different, so, I'm open to suggestion about
> when to use "Firstname Lastname" or "Lastname, Firstname".
>

I'd prefer calling it "Firstname FamilyName" or "FamilyName, Firstname".
It's clearer ...


>
> Anyhow, this needs a change in how names are filled and probably it
> requires a new semantic property, or split name into two chunks (or 3 for
> middlename).
>
> Regards,
> emijrp
>
>
>> At present you have Firstname Lastname, as in:
>>
>> Adam S
>> Alejandro L
>> Angela B
>> etc
>>
>> Is this appropriate - sorry for being awkward!?
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>> Mathieu
>>
>>
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