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missing slashes in NAME #5005

Open mariannevanharten opened 3 weeks ago

mariannevanharten commented 3 weeks ago

When I add a new person from who I only know his/her NICK, the name is incomplete stored and displayed. Because there is no known GIVN or SURN, the name should be 1 NAME // but the stored data is 1 NAME The consequence of this is: there is no NICK shown on the person page. i.e. 1 NAME 2 NICK Marianne

Norwegian-Sardines commented 2 weeks ago

I would have entered this as:

1 NAME “Marianne” // 2 NICK Marianne

Normally I don’t like including the nickname in the NAME tag, but this is a special case!

mariannevanharten commented 2 weeks ago

The case of this comment: webtrees should at least add the two slashes after 1 NAME

fisharebest commented 2 weeks ago

We have the convention that // indicates an unknown surname.

So if we automatically added //, then it would imply that the individual DID HAVE a surname.

It may be the case that this individual is from a culture that does not use surnames.

webtrees uses the NAME field for display. If you want the nickname used in the display name, then it should be included here.

I would use the solution suggested by @Norwegian-Sardines (with or without the //)

arbor95 commented 5 hours ago

Hallo Marianne, would you please answer or close this issue.