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@samhainnight i had a colleague at uni of sri lankan extraction who had 8 names (I think, maybe it was 10), his nominal "last name" was up around 20 characters long. he always had fun with official forms when they asked "please enter your full name"

23 October at 0:15 | Open on aus.social
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Samhain Night 4 Harris

@ajft I had to squish my middle names into one to get it to fit on my driver's license. To this day, I cannot fill out any government form on line because my name doesn't fit the standard format.

23 October at 0:19 | Open on mstdn.social
ajft

@samhainnight I have two middle names, once long ago a friend was working at the admin section of the uni I studied at, she found two files of my records, "Lastname, Firstname, middle1" and "Lastname, Firstname, middle2". One of these folders had one piece of paper, the other one had everything else. I believe she quietly merged the two and threw out one (allegedly, unofficially, etc)

23 October at 0:21 | Open on aus.social
Moz

@ajft @samhainnight when I asked for my police records using FOI I eventually got three back because apparently the cops couldn't spell my last name. The first one I got back had it misspelled (but the record was me) so I asked again using common misspellings and got more matches :)

23 October at 1:03 | Open on fosstodon.org
jack is updating your database

@moz @ajft @samhainnight having worked in system administration in vaguely similar spaces it feels very bad to prematurely merge potential duplicate records because they usually cannot be gracefully unmerged if you've made a mistake

I've had fantasies of making a CRM where, instead of a person's record being this monolith and everyone/everything's updates being mixed in irretrievably, all the updates are marked with how the user identifies the subject:

"Joe Bloggs, owner of joebloggs@gmail.example"

"Joe Bloggs, subject of record ID 24601 in the old system"

"Joe Bloggs, resident at 22 West Wallaby Street"

"Joseph Bloggs, resident at 22 West Wallaby Street"

and if it transpires some of these identifiers are for the same person, you can link them and the users see a combined record with all the updates made against all the linked identifiers. but if it turns out you made a mistake you can unlink the identifiers and separate the Joseph Wallaby casenotes from the Joe Wallaby casenotes

@moz @ajft @samhainnight having worked in system administration in vaguely similar spaces it feels very bad to prematurely merge potential duplicate records because they usually cannot be gracefully unmerged if you've made a mistake

I've had fantasies of making a CRM where, instead of a person's record being this monolith and everyone/everything's updates being mixed in irretrievably, all the updates are marked with how the user identifies the subject:

23 October at 10:08 | Open on beige.party
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