5j9/citer

Bug: USA Today citations have "Today, USA" as second author

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madprogramer commented

Hey!

I was just wondering why no one has made a good open source tool for online citations yet, and discovered citer today!

So in appreciation for all of your hard work, have a bug report!

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Because of how the webpage is formatted, "USA Today" gets captured as the second author, together with Brian Truitt.

<ref name="Truitt Today 2019">{{cite web | last=Truitt | first=Brian | last2=Today | first2=Usa | title=The infamous 'Han shot first' scene in 'Star Wars' has changed yet again on Disney+ | website=USA TODAY | date=2019-11-12 | url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/movies/2019/11/12/star-wars-disney-plus-changes-controversial-han-solo-greedo-scene/2576097001/ | access-date=2021-07-03}}</ref>

I can actually look into forking and fixing this myself next week, if no one else beats me to it!
Cheers!

5j9 commented

I can't figure out why the fix works on my machine but not on toolforge.

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5j9 commented

Ok, apparently USA Today may respond with a different layout according to user's IP address. I have saved the raw HTML content of the page as it is received on toolforge at https://gist.github.com/5j9/ec831edb740363191e21c4f500cb9a09#file-usatoday_toolforge-html-L86 .

The issue relies in this part:

{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Brian Truitt, USA TODAY"}

They are obviously misusing the name field to promote their website's name and that confuses Citer.

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madprogramer commented

Staged roll-out! You gotta love it, but you also just have to hate it sometimes :}

Maybe there could be two implementations to check which version of the site the client is on?

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5j9 commented

Maybe there could be two implementations to check which version of the site the client is on?

Yeah, but I'm trying to avoid adding site-specific rules... For now, I decided to ignore all uppercase author names. I hope it won't cause too many false negatives. 🤞

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daniel-barrows commented

All-uppercase surnames are commonly used in East Asian names to clarify which of the names is to be regarded as a surname, as many East Asian cultures haven't standardized the representation or order of names in Latin Script. See, for example, Robinson, Emily Claire. (2006). A guide to names and naming practices. Government of the United Kingdom / Interpol General Secretariat.

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