On Wednesday 23 June 2004 18:44, Lars Aronsson wrote:
Karl Eichwalder wrote:
The (western) concept of first and surname is just one system and [...] The surname often changes - tell me the surname of Ludwig Tieck's sister
This problem is bigger than Wikipedia's category system. Personal names, especially in older times, are both ambigious and have different versions of spelling, leading to the need for disambiguation pages (where one name leads to many people) and redirects (where many names lead to one person). I'd be interested in learning about any wiki that uses a different approach (than Wikipedia's) to this.
If a person (or anything else) is known under multiple names, is it be possible to add it to categories with them and will it appear there multiple times? If not, should it be possible?