non-numeric death date
Bug #423523 reported by
solrize
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Open Library |
New
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Undecided
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Edward Betts |
Bug Description
LA2 points out a non-numeric death date (basically the author put in a blurb saying he was still alive and writing) in:
http://
I'm opening this bug to request general comments/discussion about what we should do about stuff like this. Should we apply some kind of syntax checks to the death date field? We don't, and basically can't, for other fields like publication date.
Changed in openlibrary: | |
assignee: | nobody → Edward Betts (edwardbetts) |
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We need to invent a date type that can handle dates like:
1952
10th July 1952
2nd Century
1832 or 3
ca. 1642
We could add a boolean to the author page with a name like 'alive' or 'living person'.