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Sources
The catalog of citeable people and organizations. These are reference entries, not login accounts.
People and organizations
- A person needs a given name, a surname, or both.
- An organization needs its official name, and may add an acronym.
- Names are unique. Acronyms ignore punctuation and case, so
C.I.A.andCIAare the same entry. - Lists and pickers show the acronym when there is one, otherwise the official name.
Dates and notes
- People may carry an optional date of birth and death, including BC dates. Organizations do not show dates.
- Notes take light markdown — bold, italic, strike, code, and links.
- Acronyms are not tags. Tags stay categories.
Browsing
- The rail splits people and organizations (asterisk is both), then letters of surname or org name, then topic tags.
- Dice and A–Z are a random source or the catalog in surname/org order. Date added is not used. Mine and + are for your entries. Compose stays behind plus.
Who can do what
- Thumbs up/down on a source. Signed-in only; click again to clear.
- Create: any signed-in member. The source LDAP groups are for moderation, not for creating.
- Edit: the author, or source mods. Delete: source mods and hub.
- Visibility is not yours to set — sources are always public. Only source mods and hub change that.
What links back
- A source page lists the posts that cite it, the works it contributed to, and the quotes attributed to it.