Results seem more like re-ordered names vs variations

[wsiegelman]

This is a great concept and would be very useful. However, the only variations I see are

• first name, last name
• first name initial, last name
• last name, first name

Should the tool be called name re-ordering vs variations? I assumed variations would show results like
Dmytro Firtash or Dmytrii or Dimitry
Igor Kolomoisky or Ihor or Kolomoiskii or Kolomoisky or Kolomoiskiy
etc.

And this is a very basic one:
Joe Biden or Joseph Biden

[Kai]

Hi @wsiegelman. You're right. There should be more variations included in the result. Rest assured, the current version is only the bare minimum for what might be useful to a researcher, and I hope to add more features to it soon. 😄

Also, I see you're new to github. Welcome to the world of collaborative software development! I'd like to offer some tips to you and others for contributing to this project, so I wrote them up here: CONTRIBUTING.md

Once you've read that, I would encourage you to open a new issue on the alias-generator codebase. There are already a few open issues about alternative spellings, but none with these specific examples or Ukrainian names in general, which would probably be quite useful to many researchers.

[Kai]

We now have Joe -> Joseph and similar in alias-generator 4.0.0.

Follow bellingcat/alias-generator#8 for work on spelling variations.