Consistency Things

[JaredCubilla]

As stated in tons of previous issues (#125, #142, #69), we need a lot more standards for things. Different inputs end up with really weird things happening on themes.

[ocram]

If we want everything to be machine-readable and analyzable, yes.

But as it is now, the plain strings without any requirements allow tool/theme authors to print the phone numbers, dates, etc. just as they have been entered by the users.

And it allows users in Japan to enter their study type even if it doesn't match the titles from US/Australia/Canada/Europe that may have been defined in the specification at that point.

When adding the input, either the tools or the user has to transform a user-readable date (e.g. December 31, 2000) into a machine readable one. Same for all the other values, e.g. phone numbers.

[olivif]

I think we have already covered the cases mentioned here in other issues, if there is anything specific that we haven't covered please re-open.