Timeline for Should we edit names and acronyms that are not spelled correctly?
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| Feb 6, 2023 at 13:09 | history | edited | Maarten BodewesMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 23, 2019 at 3:29 | comment | added | Maarten Bodewes Mod | I'm not going to worry about technical difficulties of a tool if we don't even have such a tool, if you don't mind. And as said, we'll get back to it if it does become an issue. | |
| Oct 23, 2019 at 2:59 | comment | added | Squeamish Ossifrage | Here is an example where it is correct to say ‘Aes’: crypto.stackexchange.com/q/75230. The fact that this is in a quotation makes it unlikely to be detected by any sort of automated process of applying the proposed changes. | |
| Oct 23, 2019 at 0:51 | comment | added | Maarten Bodewes Mod | @SqueamishOssifrage OK, but then we could list the different names, right? As long as we agree that not all spellings are correct, because currently many questions and sometimes answers make a bit of a mess out of it. | |
| Oct 23, 2019 at 0:08 | comment | added | Squeamish Ossifrage | Any rules you set down here should be justified not by your say-so but by reference to consistent usage in the cryptography literature. Where the usage is not consistent, these rules are not helpful. For example, Taher Elgamal does not write his name as ElGamal. One can make the case for Elgamal or for ElGamal by reference to existing literature, but you are overreaching by setting down a rigid rule here. | |
| Oct 22, 2019 at 21:46 | comment | added | Maarten Bodewes Mod | @Maeher That's a good idea and ifwe make such a list then people can just copy Damgård so it becomes easier to get right. Unfortunately I cannot seem to train my Firefox webbrowser to suggest the correct names, and then mistakes are made. | |
| Oct 22, 2019 at 21:44 | history | edited | Maarten BodewesMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 22, 2019 at 20:36 | comment | added | Maeher | Generally I agree. However, we might need a list of what we consider canonical names. E.g. Damgård is rarely spelled correctly. (And even the canonical workaround as far as I understand Danish rules "Damgaard" is rarely used) So what do we consider correct? | |
| Oct 22, 2019 at 18:33 | comment | added | Maarten Bodewes Mod | Yes, we might, although I don't have any strategy in my head yet on how to dot that. But I think it is important that we take more care for new questions / answers first - especially for new users / in the review queue - or the stack will just keep building up. User initiative is of course highly appreciated! | |
| Oct 22, 2019 at 18:30 | comment | added | kelalaka | Can we use the Community user for some of these changes? Vigenere has 344 results Vigénere has 279. That requires a lot of changes. | |
| Oct 22, 2019 at 18:19 | history | edited | Maarten BodewesMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 22, 2019 at 18:14 | history | edited | Maarten BodewesMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 22, 2019 at 18:04 | comment | added | Maarten Bodewes Mod | And as always, please please please consider the title of utmost importance when editing questions or when even contemplating editing a question!!! | |
| Oct 22, 2019 at 18:01 | history | answered | Maarten BodewesMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |