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Conventions for data entry
Name prefix - may be used to enter titles for individuals
How to enter (last updated Mar 2017)
- Enter title in full while editing an existing Person page.
Exceptions
- No exceptions noted at this time.
See Help for rationale, examples & tips.
Examples and tips
- Be careful when searching the database for pages which may contain entries in the Name prefix field. When sorting alphabetically, our program will use anything entered in the Name prefix field as the beginning of the name.
- Examples
- Lafayette Morrow was a medical doctor. His collaborators have chosen to enter the title "Doctor" in his Name prefix field, so a search on the name "Lafayette Morrow", sorted by page title, returns his page under the letter "D" and not "L".
- add additional examples, if you wish
- Note: When editing a Person page, the first name row is the Primary display name, therefore entries in that row must be agreeable to the collaborators on that page. Alternate name rows are provided for entering alternate names. See Name row conventions for details.
Why enter data this way?
- We specify a mixed case style for all name fields for consistency and because it is the community standard our members chose during the development of this site. Other researchers may have used all upper case in the past to mark certain individuals as belonging to a specific tree or family. This practice should not be used here, since Person pages do not belong to any one user or family, and we provide the option of defining User Trees to identify pages that belong to a user-defined group.
- The following are not allowed in the Name prefix field, because not all researchers use them in the same way, and their use can adversely affect Browsing, Searching and page listings in the wiki:
- numbers, such as 1, 2, III, etc.
- placeholder words, such as Infant, Daughter, Wife, etc.
- abbreviations, such as xxx., etc.
- acronyms, such as FNU, MNU, UNK, NN etc.
- punctuation, such as ?, (), [], ", ', periods, etc.
- See Name suffix conventions for suggestions on how some of these could be entered.
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