Names and places
With Names & places switched on, the reader marks the persons and the places a eulogy names, in the 2004 Latin and Italian editions: persons in amber, places in blue. Hovering over a mark, or focusing it with the keyboard, opens a card about it. This page explains what is marked, how a name is found in the text, which marks belong together, and how a mark is linked to Wikidata.
Who counts as a person
Each eulogy's persons are listed once, from the Latin edition: the saints and blessed it commemorates, in its text and in its footnotes (the lists of companions). Every person is known by their Latin name, in the nominative, whatever the case the text prints it in and whatever the edition.
When a eulogy names two persons of the same name, they are numbered: the second is "the 2nd of this name in this eulogy", and so on. The martyrs of Lyons on 2 June, for example, include two women named Pompeia, and the list says so: the second is "another Pompeia". The number is part of who a person is, so the two are always two persons, never one.
How the list of persons tells a second person from the same person named again:
- in a list of companions, a name printed again is another person of that name;
- in the text, a name printed again is the same person, unless the text says it is another (alius, alter, altera in Latin);
- a name printed in pieces, with another name of the person in between (cognomento, seu, qui et), is one person, and so is a name with a parenthesis inside it (a religious name followed by the secular name and the surname).
How a name is found in the text
A person's mark is placed where the edition prints their name, whatever its form:
- in Latin, the name in any of its cases (Pauli, Paulo, Paulum for Paulus), with its particles (a Sancto Ioseph, de), and with the other names the text gives the person;
- in Italian, the Italian form of the name: the one the eulogy's subject gives in Italian, or the Latin name with its given names translated (Ioannes becomes Giovanni) and the surname kept; failing that, the surname alone, widened to the whole name printed around it;
- in a list, the persons are printed in the same order in both editions, so each is looked for only between their neighbours in the list;
- where the edition misprints a name, and the misprint is recorded (see Notes, misprints and errata), the name is found as printed.
A mark the matcher is not sure of is never placed on its own: it is proposed to the curators, who accept it, correct it or reject it.
Which marks are tinted together
Hovering over a person tints every mark of that person in the eulogy: in its text, in its footnotes, and, when two editions are compared side by side, in both columns. Marks of different persons are never tinted together, even when they share a name: the two Pompeias above are tinted apart. A place's mark is tinted alone.
What makes two marks the same person is the person's Latin name and number in the eulogy, not their Wikidata item: most of the persons a eulogy names have no item at all.
Wikidata
A person is linked to a Wikidata item only when exactly one item passes every check: a human being, with the status of a saint or a blessed, under a matching name, and, where the eulogy marks the day of death, dead on that day. A one-word name in a list of companions is linked only when the item died on the eulogy's very day: a famous namesake is likelier than the obscure martyr. Every other case is decided by the curators, and a person with no item has a mark with no link.
A place is linked to its Wikidata item through the site's gazetteer, with its modern country, which places it on the map; its role in the eulogy (place of death, see, burial…) is shown on its card. See Data and sources for where all of this is kept, and Contributing to report a wrong mark or a wrong item.