Person talk:Maria Van Baalen (1)


From Maria Van Baalen (4): Duplicate [19 dec 2010]

Lidewij, I think there is now a duplicate page for Maria at Person:Maria Van Baalen (1). What was your reason for creating a new page for her? Knowing that may allow me to help with this a little better. --Jennifer (JBS66) 12:21, 19 December 2010 (EST)

Jennifer, something went wrong, but I don't know what. 1 (one) Maria Van Baalen is enough. I thought soon look again, maybe that I see. --Lidewij 12:29, 19 December 2010 (EST)
Ok, I'll merge the two together then. --Jennifer (JBS66) 12:33, 19 December 2010 (EST)
I wonder if you changed a Van to van. One example is this: if you edit Maria's page, you see she has two spouses, one with Van and the other with van (lower case). In this instance, the spelling must match the page title, which is Cornelis Kuit and Maria Van Baalen (1). So, changing spelling in the fields here would cause an error. --Jennifer (JBS66) 12:40, 19 December 2010 (EST)
That it could be. Why Maria Van Baalen, not Maria van Baalen?
Well, the page title is Person:Maria Van Baalen (1), because that is how the page was titled when Coret's gedcom was imported. Page titles are different than person's name that appears in the blue box. You'll notice that her name appears correctly, with the small van, inside that blue box. If there was a big mistake in the person's name, like vn instead of van, then you can rename the page by clicking rename (this will change the title). I don't advise doing this for Van/van though... that is a long story :-) --Jennifer (JBS66) 13:16, 19 December 2010 (EST)
When there is a mistake in the person's name I call again.--Lidewij 13:32, 19 December 2010 (EST)
Can all the same mistakes places in an act be changed?
What do you mean by act? If you mean Coret's longitude and latitude mistakes, that can only be fixed one-by-one. --Jennifer (JBS66) 13:16, 19 December 2010 (EST)
Then I do it one-by-one.--Lidewij 13:32, 19 December 2010 (EST)
All Y in death field remove? --Lidewij 12:59, 19 December 2010 (EST)
Some gedcoms, depending upon the home software used, are imported with a Y in the death field (it happened in my gedcom as well). This apparently marks that the person is no longer living. It is unnecessary information on a page, so when I see them, I delete it. This also is done one-by-one. --Jennifer (JBS66) 13:16, 19 December 2010 (EST)
Oke. --Lidewij 13:32, 19 December 2010 (EST)