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The current situation – Pat Nolan's database, and tools to use it, make it so that any name only appears once, with a hierarchy. "PTC" is at the bottom of that hierarchy, in the sense that only folks that aren't already listed in another category appear theirthere. Examples – Michael Kramer is a team member ; Gregory Desvignes is the postdoc of an affiliate. So neither appears in the "PTC" list. Thus, a LAT author wanting to add PTC people to the list of eligible authors for a paper , the author has to first click PTC, and then go through the lists to click on the other people one-by-one. Only a few of us know who those "other people" are, thus making it arcane for a given author to give PTC contributors the opportunity to receive their due credit for timing contributions.
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