User talk:Adam Anderson
Creating Accounts
Hi Adam, just briefly a word about account names. We usually take the name as people would use it on a publication. It can have middle names or the initial of a middle name (with a dot) and it will have blanks (or dashes) between the components.
I also create Database objects for anyone on the database. This is the list:
The database objects are useful since we allow people to connect statements to their persons - like in an "autopsy" Statement: "I have seen this unique document in a private collection". in this case they will user their personal Database object to refer to. Creating the database items for the participants takes more time than to open an account - accounts are generated (as you have seen) in a matter of seconds on the create account menu. --Olaf Simons (talk) 20:10, 18 May 2021 (CEST)
Iberian Places
Just briefly. It looks as is Wikidata has unnecessary objects which we can/should filter out by focusing on the INA IDs - bt which to keep? the lower numbers of two with the same municipality code, so it seems. Let me clean that list before we do the input, since we will have some stupid matching problems otherwise. (The French places were easier to run a clean input...) --Olaf Simons (talk) 00:51, 27 September 2021 (CEST)
Akkadian language
The general terms human, place etc. might be better preserved in English. You will want names and particular professions and positions in Akkadian and explained in English - so the Akkadian place name and the English answer instance of place. Test a handful of people, particular hierarchical positions, and historical places to get the interesting reading. --Olaf Simons (talk) 23:03, 5 October 2021 (CEST)
VIAF
Hi Adam, is http://www.viaf.org/viaf/7349082/#Anderson,_Adam_L._1978- your authority file? It is from Brigham Young University 2004, but another middle initial...--Martin Gollasch (talk) 11:47, 6 October 2021 (CEST)
- on second thought - another one... --Olaf Simons (talk) 12:36, 6 October 2021 (CEST)