Alternate spellings of names in Factbook

MJ. Smith
MJ. Smith MVP Posts: 53,667
edited November 2024 in English Feedback
In adding community tags, I have run into several people that initially I could not find in Factbook - despite the fact that my source was contemporary and the entry standard. For example, Modab/Medab - I had to find a passage including the person in order to find the spelling in the Factbook.

I would like a method as simple as the one used for typos to report alternative spellings (and missing entries) for Factbook. It would make a substantial increase in the usefulness of Factbook to have these updates.

Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."

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  • Sean Boisen
    Sean Boisen Member, Logos Employee Posts: 1,452
    It seems to me that the existing box at the bottom of the Factbook page serves the purpose of suggesting alternate spellings: "I suggest you add Modab and Medab as alternate spellings".
  • MJ. Smith
    MJ. Smith MVP Posts: 53,667
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1333391#Comment_1333391
    @sean-boisen-11 If it is being checked regularly, I agree. But the forums have reported cases of official email addresses for other data not being checked so there's a bit of a PR issue on data as a whole.

    Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."

  • Rosie Perera
    Rosie Perera Member Posts: 26,202 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I would like this for the Atlas as well. For example, I was looking for Ein-Karem, the place where Mary, pregnant, visited her cousin Elizabeth. I'd seen it spelled that way on a map, and a search in all my resources in Logos confirmed several instances of that spelling. But I couldn't find it in the Atlas. Turns out it's spelled En-Karim there. All such known alternate spellings should be accepted. I'll add a separate suggestion for this, though, so it can be tracked separately.

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