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Originally Posted by Manichean
@chaley: Thanks for the explanation. The UI issue Kovid brought up is pretty important, though- I think that, at least to the user, there shouldn't be much of a change in the edit metadata dialog(s). If you implement it that way, you should try to keep the author field the way it is, as a single text input, and apply a standard split into first and last names, say according to the comma behaviour. Then, for the non-standard cases, you might provide a manage author dialog from within the edit dialog that allows the user to fine-tune and manually select what goes into the respective name fields and how the name should be composed.
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I am not going to implement anything. I can easily live with what is already there, and I don't feel like dealing with the controversy any change would cause.
