Template:NonDefaultSurname

This template intentionally does not generate any output. Instead, it serves to let us quietly mark pages where a surname may not follow present-day practice (surname as last and family name).

Surname practice is of particular interest on WeRelate, since the default processing behavior for Person pages is to create categories, for each surname string, permuted by each location of an event in the person's lifetime. Such categories being essentially useless if the surname string does not designate related people across several generations.

In the future, we may have support or practice that allows us to suppress default surname category assignment. This template may serve to easily attach such behavior to existing pages or, at least, to let us systematically find our way back to pages where practice may be revisited.