[tirrigh-heralds] Conflict checking my name

[Judy Harcus]

I usually set the limit to the maximum 500.  It doesn't hurt to set the 
number high but if you set it too low, it misses some.  The limit isn't 
how many it will display per page, but how many it will display at all.  
If there are only 29 hits, and you set it to 500, you will still only 
get 29.

Your check could have missed some (for example if there had been a 
'ravensson' or 'wulffstan').

I prefer to find too many than too few.

I checked 'hrafn', 'rafn', 'raven', 'ravn'.
I checked '^w.lf' (but that had 527 hits so separately checked '^wulf', 
'^wolf'), '^ulf'.
I also tried '^w\S+l\S+s' to allow for multiple vowels or multiple 'f's.

I didn't find any conflicts either.

Alicia

Wulfstan Hrafnsson wrote:

> So I went to http://oanda.sca.org/oanda_np.cgi 
> <http://oanda.sca.org/oanda_np.cgi>to conflict check my name.
>
> First things first: I decided to check both names in their full forms 
> before looking at alternate spellings, parts of the names, etc. 
>
> So I entered "Wulfstan" under the broad, case-insensitive search.  I 
> left the number of results to display at 25 (to keep the page size 
> reasonable to look at) and got 30 hits.  (As an aside, a narrow search 
> returned 29 results).  So I reset the display to 35 and tried again.  
> A few had Wulfstan as a given name but all with quite different 
> surnames, and some had it as a surname.
>
> A similar search for "Hrafnsson" returned only 10 results, all with 
> very different given names.
>
> Searching for "Hrafn" returned 93 results, so I widened the display to 
> show 95 results.  Nothing that appears to conflict.
>
> Looking at the hints page on the search form, I decided to try 
> allowing alternate vowels.  So "W.lfst.n" got a try.  43 hits.  No 
> obvious conflict.
>
> For the patronymic, I tried ".r..nss.n" - the H is optional, the 
> vowels could be different, and there could be an F or a V.  42 hits 
> this time.  This returned hits of "Hrafnssen", which I expected, and 
> "Normansson", which I didn't, as well as some other weirder ones.  No 
> conflict that I could see, so I took out an S to check again.  Only 13 
> hits for that, none even close.
>
> Either the name is clear or I've missed something.  I'm hoping for the 
> former, personally.
>
>

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