A stupid (
) or lazy question: how do you report things to Curran?
When you go into a profile, below the biographical section, there are three buttons. A Blue button to compare skaters head-to-head; a Yellow button labelled "Search Stats"; and a Green button labelled "Add/update".
It is the Green button you want. It takes you to the
"Contribute Data" page. (Actually, I never noticed it until there now, but there is a link to it at the bottom of every page as well, labelled "Contact/Contribute").
There are 5 options, each of which takes you to a different form. I usually just use "Contact", as it seems to be a catch-all form that is not for specific things.
And then, just fill it out. It has a big box for your message, so I usually put a whole pile of things into the one form, so that I am not clogging up his inbox!
This question of multiple spellings creating confusion and multiple records is an important one to me. I would like to see the definitive spelling for each skater be the one the ISU uses, but we keep getting different ones, especially in names transliterated from Cyrillic. Eventually, every ISU sanctioned competition attaches a result, regardless of country represented, to a single profile.
Here's Katarina Kulgeyko's results, showing both USA and ISR, for example:
http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs_cr_00013339.htm
It works in dance, too.
http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs_cr_00007558.htm
Zlobina & Sitnikov skated for bot AZE and RUS.
I think Curran is working towards the same goal of having everybody listed by their ISU accepted spellings. But when you have as many as 32,672 profiles, it would take forever to go through them all individually looking for mistakes!
He was extremely grateful when I told him about all the profiles that Zoe Jones had under her various surnames. Because, when you are looking at tables of results, there is no way of knowing that Zoe Jones, Zoe Wood and Zoe Wilkinson are all the same person. Although, in this case, he used her current married name (Wilkinson) rather than her maiden name which the ISU uses (Jones). But, she hasn't done any ISU competitions since before her first wedding, so that is probably why they still have her as Jones.
As for the examples you used, yes the Competition Results pages list which country they were representing at each competition. But, the main Bio page itself only has the most recent country the skater represented under their name.
Katarina Kulgeyko
http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00013339.htm
Zlobina & Sitnikov
http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00007558.htm
Although, when looking up ISU Bios for US Nationals, I did notice that a few profiles for partnerships did have the partners listed as representing different countries to each other. Which I thought was funny looking, given the system that we have where skaters represent countries, as opposed to representing themselves, or their clubs, etc.
But, for a private enterprise like Stats On Ice, I think that Curran has done a great job. Hey, it says a lot when a mere skater can do something off his own bat that the might of the ISU can't even be bothered doing. (I said it before at least a year ago, but the ISU Results site badly needs to be overhauled and turned into a fully searchable database).
Anyway, I hope this has helped to answer your questions
CaroLiza_fan
