[Babase] another repeat sname - NAV
Jeanne Altmann
babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Thu, 20 May 2004 20:41:40 -0400
I am too if we determine that it hasn't been used; I have a nagging feeling
that it might have. If you've checked biograph Daphne, just send a message
to Amboseli and check the non-updated list in the names notebook; that
should do it.
jeanne
At 07:20 PM 5/20/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>I am OK with Nido.
>
>With respect to Steph's suggestion about updating the working list, Jeanne
>and I talked about this the other day. I think that I need to take a new
>list downloaded from as recent a version of biograph as possible. Or
>perhaps Daphne should email it to Amboseli after babase has its 2003
>update and after I go to Amboseli.
>
>This list should have two columns in alpha order, the short name and the
>long name.
>
>Susan
>
>>I like Nido as a name (if it's not already taken!).
>>
>>As a thought - perhaps Susan (sorry Susan! more work!) should check the
>>list of names their working from in Amboseli. We used to only have
>>options listed that we had already made sure wouldn't produce conflicting
>>snames. This might be a long-ish task, but it's going to be problematic
>>if it keeps occurring.
>>
>>-steph
>>
>>--On Thursday, May 20, 2004 3:58 PM -0400 Daphne Onderdonk
>><donderdo@princeton.edu> wrote:
>>
>>>Hi all,
>>>
>>>I just ran into the problem of a non-unique sname again while I was
>>>trying to update the census data (fortunately it caught the problem and
>>>wouldn't let me!). NAV was used for both Navy and Nutty's infant
>>>Navajoe (born Aug 03). Navajoe was only around for 17 days before he
>>>died, so it seems pretty obvious to me that that's the name we should
>>>change. How about Nido (like the milk powder)? Or do we have to go
>>>with a name from the list of possibilities in Amboseli? (I'm not
>>>familiar with the naming rules.)
>>>
>>>I would like to finish the update ASAP, so the sooner we can resolve
>>>this issue the better. And we need to figure out why this has happened
>>>a couple of times.
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>Daphne
>>>
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