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On Adger, David which means David Adger

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Borgatya (talkcontribs)

Thank you for youe reply but I think you ARE wrong because you misundertand the proper order of the names. In the western usage the given names stand at the edge of the personal names so one calls them as first names and the family names or surnames come to the end of the personal names. This is the teason that in English you call him David Adger and not Adger David but you HAVE NOT observed the very little comma between the names: Adher, David. You may know that the most important element of each personal names is the surname/family name and one can register the persons in the alphabetical order of their sirnames and in the scintific publications the surnames/family names come first and the comma indicates that the first element in front of the comma (Adger) is the surname/family name and the second element behind the comma (David) is the given/first name. In the eastern usage like in Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Hungarian (my mother tongue) language the surname/family names come first and given names stand in the second place which is more logical because the surnames/family names are the more saliant part of the names. So you can see that Adger, David mens David Adger, they are equal so I was right when I had chosen the GND ID Adger, David for linguist David Adger. Thank you fpr xor kind attention.~~~~

MisterSynergy (talkcontribs)

Hey Borgatya, thanks for the comment. Unfortunately, it misses the point. Whether we write him "Adger, David" or "David Adger" does not matter here. Not at all. I chose the spelling "Adger, David" in User talk:Borgatya#On David Adger because GND does so as well.

If you need more evidence about GND ID (P227) usage and the general unsuitability of Tn type entries, please have a look at Property talk:P227. There is overwhelming community consensus *not* to use them here, as they contradict basic principles of external identifiers. You may not like the community consensus, but I guess it would be best to act according to it, rather than investing in a goal you cannot reach.