[Tagging] 'name' variation tags standardisation

[Eugene Alvin Villar]

On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Cartinus <cartinus at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> On Saturday 26 June 2010 06:18:08 Eugene Alvin Villar wrote:
> > name:alt:de is the German translation of the alternate name
> > name:de:alt is an alternate German name
>
> You really expect that people can keep something like that straight?
>

It's somewhat logical. an element to the right of a colon qualifies
everything to the left. additional right elements makes further
qualifications.

name -> name
name:alt -> alternate name
name:alt:de -> German of the alternate name

name -> name
name:de -> German name
name:de:alt -> an alternate German name

And if people can't keep this straight, there's always the wiki. ;-)

I actually like the idea of converting alt_name to name:alt or
name:alternate. It makes it possible to distinguish an alternate German name
from a German translation of an alternate name if ever people want to tag
that. We can't do this distinction at all with alt_name.
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