[ANSTHRLD] online OP
Kimberly Langhans
sarapenrose at yahoo.com
Wed May 14 11:44:42 PDT 2008
As a scribe, I regularly refer to both the OP and the O&A for spellings - I use the O&A to check for the "real", registered spelling and I check the OP only on the off-chance the recipient has a preferred spelling listed in their OP entry that is different than the registered one. I *never* use the name/device registration information in the OP - I don't even look at it.
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--- On Wed, 5/14/08, Jay Rudin <rudin at ev1.net> wrote:
> From: Jay Rudin <rudin at ev1.net>
> Subject: Re: [ANSTHRLD] online OP
> To: "Heralds List, Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc." <heralds at lists.ansteorra.org>
> Date: Wednesday, May 14, 2008, 11:33 AM
> Daniel de Lincoln wrote:
>
> > I think that registration information should not be in
> the Roll of
> > Precedence. If maintained religiously, it's a
> duplication of effort
> > with the on-line Armorial; if not, it's
> out-of-date and unreliable.
>
> I used to agree, until I was told what the entry is
> actually used for.
>
> You are correct, if you think the code is about the
> individual, rather than
> about the name. But the OP is where scribes go to find out
> if somebody
> already has an award being considered, and to find the
> spelling of the name
> for the award scroll. The code actually means, not that
> the person
> represented by this entry has (or doesn't have) a
> registered name, but that
> the actual name listed was (or was not) verified in the
> armorial when
> entered into the OP.
>
> The code of "No" is often out-of-date, if you
> think it means "this person
> has no registered name". What it really means,
> however, is "When this name
> was added to the OP, there was no registered
> spelling." Therefore the
> herald who entered the data has no definitive form of the
> name, so the
> spelling in front of you might not be correct. That
> statement remains true
> even after the name is registered, until somebody checks
> the registered
> spelling against the entry, at which point the code is
> updated.
>
> Similarly, the code of "Yes" doesn't mean
> "This person has a registered
> name," but rather "You can stop here and not
> check the Armorial, because
> this is the registered form of the name." That's
> always up-to-date except
> for the relatively few people who change the registered
> form of their name.
>
> (Of course, when people keep using different forms, such as
> "Danthing of
> Lynkplace", it's impossible to keep up.)
>
> Robin of Gilwell / Jay Rudin
>
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