Kozakh Posted August 31, 2013 Share Posted August 31, 2013 Hi everyone. I wanted to address one thing - names DB for soldiers of Soviet Union. Sorry if this was raised up before. What I wanted to say, is that names list is not done very well. Here are the problems I found: - Common Russian/Ukrainian names are missing (Alexey, Andrey, Bogdan, Valeriy, Gennadiy, Stepan, Fedor, Ruslan), - Soft versions of regular names (Dima -> Dmitriy, Sasha -> Alexander, Max -> Maxim, Pasha -> Pavel, Kostya -> Konstantin*, Zhenya -> Evgeniy*). * means not present in the list. - Misspelled (Daniel should be Daniil) or non-slavic (Paul). - Only Russian surnames in the list (ending with -ov, -in, -ev). Ukrainian surnames commonly end with -o (Kovalenko, Kirsenko, Makhno, Pyatko, Shevchenko, Klichko), -uk (Kravchuk, Shevchuk, Tarasiuk), some are descendants of cossack "nicknames" (Perebiynis, Dyban, Kuchma). Not a full list by any means, just to give you some examples. Ofc, this can be easily fixed by modding soldiernames file, which I did, I just wonder if devs can take a look at this and fix in some future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crusherven Posted August 31, 2013 Share Posted August 31, 2013 Anything that gets more names out there is a plus in my book. I don't like seeing a lot of repeats. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zekram Bogg Posted August 31, 2013 Share Posted August 31, 2013 Additionally, is there a check made to ensure that names aren't repeated? I mean, it doesn't seem like that would be complex, but it might be, so I dunno. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted September 1, 2013 Share Posted September 1, 2013 Thanks. We'll update accordingly. Can you have a look at the female names too? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kozakh Posted September 2, 2013 Author Share Posted September 2, 2013 Ok, female names are interesting. For some reason, there is a lot of pretty uncommon or even exotic names: Dina, Inga, Lucya, Nika, Renata, Emma, Marta. They do exist, but are quite rare. At least I haven't met any girl with such name At same time, a lot of really common names are missing, for example: Yulia, Oksana, Ludmila, Anastasia, Irina, Viktoria, Nina, Tatyana, Maria, Daria, Elizaveta, Natalia. Also, Katerina should be Ekaterina, if written in full. Again, no ukrainian surnames in the list. Ukrainian female surnames usually have same form as male surnames, and usually end with -ko. Here's some examples: Piddubna, Maslo, Kovalenko, Bykhovets, Berko, Romanets, Sviatenko, Sokorenko, Kolyadenko. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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