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Names of individuals are added in their "firstname surname" form, without titles (such as Professor, Dr, Mr, Mrs etc). Variants and common misspellings will redirect to the default name. If accents exist like for [[Gráinne Conole]] they will be added but with natural fallbacks such as [[Grainne Conole]]. | Names of individuals are added in their "firstname surname" form, without titles (such as Professor, Dr, Mr, Mrs etc). Variants and common misspellings will redirect to the default name. If accents exist like for [[Gráinne Conole]] they will be added but with natural fallbacks such as [[Grainne Conole]]. | ||
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Revision as of 18:57, 4 January 2008
This page describes what we want to achieve, not what is currently achieved.
It is not a full description. The details of the naming scheme and the penumbra of alternates is really tedious unless you are a wiki editor - things like curly versus straight quotes, commas in names of Universities and ampersand usage.
Standard abbrevations for organisations, like TVU for Thames Valley University, redirect to the "official" full university name (usually as listed in the copyright/legal section on the institution web site) - as do common alternative phrasings (e.g. using Sheffield University instead of University of Sheffield) and common misspellings.
Institutions whose legal name is not in English have their native language names added as linking entries.
Names of individuals are added in their "firstname surname" form, without titles (such as Professor, Dr, Mr, Mrs etc). Variants and common misspellings will redirect to the default name. If accents exist like for Gráinne Conole they will be added but with natural fallbacks such as Grainne Conole.
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