Comments on: The Modernist Versions Project: Versioning Part III of Nostromo http://editingmodernism.ca/2012/02/mvp-nostromo-pilot-project/ Mon, 09 Jun 2014 19:02:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.17 By: kmikalson http://editingmodernism.ca/2012/02/mvp-nostromo-pilot-project/comment-page-1/#comment-1104 Mon, 05 Mar 2012 19:59:56 +0000 http://editingmodernism.ca/?p=4052#comment-1104 This is a really interesting post, as I have just finished compiling a list of just under 700 person names, including their variations, that are printed in the 10 issues we have of Le Nigog. I faced many of the same problems. For example, what to do when there are several different Héberts, all occasionally referred to simply by their last name? And the very odd editorial decision: is God a person name? Is Jesus? Should they be tagged as the same person? What about Satan and the Virgin Mary? I was not expecting such a simple task to lead me into religious dilemmas.

I tried to be as consistent as possible in my recording of names, but as a subjective reader I still had the urge to include titles in the proper names for some people and not others, and spent quite a while debating whether women should be tagged as “Madame Blank” when men were simply tagged as “Blank.” It is good to know that someone else is also encountering these problems, it makes the time I spent pondering them seem less wasted.

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