Gender changes
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1MarthaJeanne
Someone has been changing 'female' and 'male' to 'Female' and 'Male'. The help uses lower case and the computer doesn't recognize the two as being the same, making it hard to see the proportions.
I've changed the ones that affect me back, but I'd really rather not have a editing war.
I've changed the ones that affect me back, but I'd really rather not have a editing war.
2AndreasJ
Could the Powers That Be Teach the poor computer the insignificance of casing here?
(Now I am aware some people have tried to make casing variants significant in similar contexts, but that’s not, I think, something to encourage.)
(Now I am aware some people have tried to make casing variants significant in similar contexts, but that’s not, I think, something to encourage.)
3MarthaJeanne
I have put in a RSI, but I thought I'd mention it here, too.
4kristilabrie
>1 MarthaJeanne: "The help uses lower case and the computer doesn't recognize the two as being the same, making it hard to see the proportions." Sorry, can you clarify what you mean here, perhaps with a specific example? Thanks.
5kristilabrie
NB (for myself, later): the RSI https://www.librarything.com/topic/338040
6bnielsen
If you go to an author page like:
https://www.librarything.com/author/lindgrenastrid
The help text for the gender field (which appears when you start to edit the field) says:
"female," "male," "n/a" or enter as free text
It seems silly to distinguish between Female, female or FEMALE, but the statistics for the field do exactly that making it less easy to see how many "Female, female or FEMALE" versus "Male, male, MALE" authors you have.
I'd also like to input Male / Female rather than male / female, but don't do it for exactly this reason. (I do a lot of data sanitation at work, so I'm all too familiar with the True/False, true/false, t/f, 1/0 blah blah blah chaos this can cause).
https://www.librarything.com/author/lindgrenastrid
The help text for the gender field (which appears when you start to edit the field) says:
"female," "male," "n/a" or enter as free text
It seems silly to distinguish between Female, female or FEMALE, but the statistics for the field do exactly that making it less easy to see how many "Female, female or FEMALE" versus "Male, male, MALE" authors you have.
I'd also like to input Male / Female rather than male / female, but don't do it for exactly this reason. (I do a lot of data sanitation at work, so I'm all too familiar with the True/False, true/false, t/f, 1/0 blah blah blah chaos this can cause).