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Originally Posted by effCup
The thread for Anette Dybdal has been renamed to Josephine Moore. A title-only search for Anette Dybdal fails to find her, even though that name is present in the titles of some subsequent posts in that thread.
Can mods. say why they chose/privileged that name, amongst her several candidate names? |
Yes, firstly It hasn't been renamed, it's just been simplified. The original thread title was Josephine Moore. Over the years three aka's -- including Anette Dybdal -- were added to the title. Last year it was decided to move all aka's from titles to the first line of the first post, and this policy was implemented section-wide during full-section cleaning. This cleaned up our index pages, while keeping aka's visible in a general search, and also if a mouse cursor is placed on the thread title
Because aka's, publisher's names, and the other blurb we used to entertain, is now no longer a part of the title, they won't show in title searches. But none of the data is lost, and as mentioned above, they are visible in general searches
In this case, the thread retained its original title. In other cases, original titles were changed because a title with
first name / last name was thought more desirable than a more ambiguous single name only
There will always be cases where Members don't agree with a title -- that's fine, because this is a Forum, and we can discuss it. But please remember that many of the names and aka's are likely to be and indeed are fake, we are not CSI, and assigning an appropriate name for a title is often a judgment call and not a science