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Old 01-11-2014, 08:25 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by LadyKate View Post
Yeah, the anomalies in the language of names makes some weird. Like the De La Whatever names. The montreal phone book is full of last names "de la whatever" "st whatever" "le whatever"

Another think that I find to be a pain is so and so, Jr.

Whan I do a search for names with a comma in them (usually an indicator of last, first name ) and fix them in bulk I find it screws up the ", Jr".

Been thinking of searching for ", Jr and replacing them with " Jr" or "_Jr" lol.
My easy solution to author last name suffixes is to delete them completely. When I copy/paste the name without the , Jr. , Sr., I, II, III, the bibliographic site whose search box I paste it into usually treats that name without suffix as a pseudonym of the name with suffix. The pre-suffix comma would also be an issue for some settings of the author_sort tweak.

Author sort with the de, de la, etc is an issue. Discussed elsewhere. Needs to be set correctly manually in Manage Authors, on case by case basis.

Dots after initials is another story. I use those because ISFDB likes them pasted into their search box.

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