User talk:Clarissa Caldwell
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Meanings Search Feature... (1)
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Very nice! --Sabertooth 22:54, 7 April 2009 (MDT)
Glad you like it! We're working on the name display now.
Also -- as you may have noticed -- things haven't been as fast as we'd like, so we're trying to figure out how to speed them up.
Name display...? Do you mean its font, another page...? --Sabertooth 01:11, 10 April 2009 (MDT)
Bots...! (1)
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So, our own [Joshua.]bot is spamming us now...!? If a bot commits vandalism, is it considered "bot-ulism?" :-P --Sabertooth 19:18, 15 March 2009 (MDT)
Recent changes... (1)
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Hello, again. On your "Recent Changes" page, is there a way to screen out Joshua.bot's "import full name" entries so we can track "real user" edits? --Sabertooth 11:38, 27 February 2009 (MST)
Where's Aaron...? (1)
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127.0.0.1 deleted the male name Aaron. Can you restore it? --Sabertooth 23:03, 29 January 2009 (MST)
Yeesh. Woops. Thanks, should be back now.
You may want to restore Derrick, too, minus the vandalism, of course. --Sabertooth 14:35, 30 January 2009 (MST)
Pretty sure Derrick was only junk -- never a real page. If it was, it's history has disappeared... odd!! Going to create the page now, though, it's a good one to have... Thanks for keeping an eye out!
Related Names (1)
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One thing I would like to see, if feasible, is the break-up of the Related Names section into the following:
Name ancestry: preceding forms or derivation, if derivative or compound
Name variants: exotic [non-American] forms or American form of this name, if exotic
Masculine/Feminine form: specifically, to the header form of the name
Twin names: suggested twin names
Spelling variations: alternative spellings
Name descendants: next generation names that immediately hail from this one
Name derivatives: this name as it is in use with various affixes
Shortened forms: nicknames & clipped forms. --Sabertooth 10:59, 27 November 2008 (MST)
Yes -- this is a very good point. We have it set up so that you can write [Nicknames = ] in the template, but I'm not sure when we'll be able to officially mark it as 'separate.' It'd probably be best, too, to keep it relatively simple for name novices and to avoid over complication.. Maybe we can select three basic categories to break it down to? i.e., which ones are the most important?
Three would be kind of hard (for me), but maybe:
Name ancestry/derivation,
Name variants + Spelling variations + Masc/Fem form,
Name descendants + Name derivatives + Shortened formsI would drop twin names, altogether.
Also, the name profile would be tighter, if the second and third sections were more specific to the profile name. For example, Joan would be a desendandant of Jo-Ann, whose lineage is Yowchannah, Iohanna, Johanna, Joanna, Joanne; but would not appear on the Jane page because it is a separate branch, even if they share a common ancestor.
And the descendant forms should be their simplest forms. THEIR variations and descendants should be detailed on their own pages. --Sabertooth 18:38, 30 November 2008 (MST)
This makes sense -- and I think it's a very good idea. Little reasons why this might not happen for awhile: 1) We only have one programmer, and he has a million and six things to do
2)I worry that most people don't have such extensive knowledge of the origin of names, etc (unlike you!). While it'd be wonderful to have such stratified, clear explanations, I also want it to be accessible to the average visitor who wants to add a page -- at least until we have a lot of names.
Alas, I don't think this feature will happen soon, though I will certainly add it as a future project. In the meantime, maybe we can use the "ORIGIN & HISTORY" section as a way to clarify the relations between names, and when the time comes, it will be easy to create the new sections. I'm open to other solutions if you have them -- I really appreciate your ideas!!
