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Names are prefixed by Person.
Individual names [must|WikiMust] be entered as ''!PersonSurnameFirstName''.
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WikiObjection: What's wrong with SurnameFirstname or even FirstnameSurname? -- DavidLucifer
+[VectorHermit] As the Wiki provides very limited means for grouping and subgrouping material, the choice of prefices for groups of related material will provide a clustering effect in indices.
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+[VectorHermit] Technically this approach is faulty, as labels should not carry meaning (they are attributes of an entry), and the approach adopted here is inherently a "single rooted effect." Nevertheless, we work with what we have. When this is CMFed the Person label can be stripped, as can other labels, e.g. VectorX, PlaceY, WikiZ, having accomplished their major task (as I see it) of serving as the primary means of establishing which items are related.
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+[VectorHermit] Were we not to adopt a convention, then automated identification of the entry components will not be possible, given that the wiki provides no attribute template facility. We use Surname before Lastname simply because this is the primary approach taken by other biographical and lexicographical systems (e.g. This ordering is used by all libraries (including the other methodological conventions shown below, as well as by the DublinCore).
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Where names contain prefixes (e.g. van, von, der, de, L'), these [must|WikiMust] be omitted. e.g. Hendrick van der Loon becomes ''!PersonLoonHendrick''.
Where multipart names exist, if these are hyphenated, the hyphen [must|WikiMust] be retained. If comprised of space separated words, the spaces [must|WikiMust] be removed.
