caption: A Person, Animal, or Organization exhibiting agency.
color: #ff0000
created: 20200115231447676
creator: soren
icon: $:/core/images/tag-button
modified: 20210827234120899
modifier: soren
refexplorer-hide: true
tags: Meta Public
title: PAO
type: text/vnd.tiddlywiki

\define invalidFilter()
[tag[PAO]!prefix[Mr]!prefix[Ms]!prefix[Mx]!prefix[The]]
\end

Tiddler type, the name of which stands for “''P''erson, ''A''nimal, or ''O''rganization.”

See $:/sib/Tools/PaoList for a list of all PAOs, and $:/sib/Tools/MissingPeople to find PAOs that have been referenced but not had a tiddler created.

!! Linking

If a person, animal, or organization is referenced anywhere in the wiki, it should virtually always have its name written ~CamelCase to create a PAO tiddler. The tiddler need not contain any meaningful content; it can be blank except for the title and the PAO tag. This is a matter of searchability -- if you do this, you can quickly jump to all tiddlers that mention a person if all you remember is the person's name, and you can move between ideas that mention the person using the ReferenceExplorer.

Sources should be connected to their authors by linking to the author or authors' PAO tiddler somewhere in the body text.


!! Naming conventions

In addition to being tagged `PAO`, PAOs should have names which begin with `Mr`, `Ms`, or `The`. The first two indicate a person/animal and indicate gender (my intention is to use `Mx` for non-binary people, but I haven't needed it yet). `The` is used for organizations. Note that the titles of tiddlers which do not represent organizations should consequently not begin with //The// to avoid confusion; see OurNamingConventions.


!! Tags and fields

P's, A's and O's need not be part of ConsensusPhysicalReality. When one comes from a work of fiction, it should additionally be tagged <<tag Character>> and have its `universe` field populated with an appropriate universe key (see the explanation in [[Source]]).


!! Private person replacement

When building a private wiki using the `tzk` build tools, the `replace_private_people()` builder may be used to replace the names of people who aren't tagged <<tag Public>> throughout the wiki, in order to prevent anything you say about those people from becoming searchable on the web.


!! In this wiki

Currently, there are <$count filter="[tag[PAO]]"/> PAOs:

<ul>
	<li><$count filter="[tag[PAO]prefix[Mr]]"/> male</li>
	<li><$count filter="[tag[PAO]prefix[Ms]]"/> female</li>
	<li><$count filter="[tag[PAO]prefix[The]]"/> organizations</li>
	<li>
		<$count filter=<<invalidFilter>>/> folks with an unrecognized PAO prefix:
		<ul>
			<$list filter=<<invalidFilter>> >
				<li><<currentTiddler>></li>
			</$list>
		</ul>
	</li>
</ul>