Use full name for competitors instead of firstname and lastname?

[timhabermaas]

There are few issues with full_name = first_name + last_name:

• For Hungarians it's full_name = last_name + first_name
• Some people don't have last names
• Some people don't have first names
• ...

See also: http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-personal-names#singlefield

What do we need the separation between first and last name for?

[fw42]

Hm. Yeah good point, never really thought of it. I think the only place where I use it is for sorting (sorting by last name makes sense for the checklist, because many families (same last name) arrive together and then it's easier to find people).

[fw42]

I'm okay with changing it to only one name field and then hacking something (split, reverse, sort) for the checklist...

[fw42]

Looks like the WCA db also stores it as one field

[fw42]

Going to close this. Lets reopen it if it actually becomes a problem.

[timhabermaas]

Reopening because of #187

[fw42]

@SAuroux what do you think about this?

[SAuroux]

I see no issue with only one field. In the database, it is one string
anyways. :)

2015-07-02 21:02 GMT+02:00 Florian Weingarten [email protected]:

@SAuroux https://github.com/sauroux what do you think about this?

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