Person Entity Pages — Batch 3: The Long Tail of Authors

IMP: IMP-14
Date: 2026-07-30
Prior specs: IMP-8/9 (2026-07-01-person-entity-pages-design.md), IMP-12 (2026-07-01-author-entity-pages-design.md), IMP-16 (2026-07-01-referenced-people-relationship-map-design.md), IMP-17/18/19

Summary

Create ~35 person entity pages for uncovered authors, editors, and anthology co-contributors identified through a gap analysis of the three categories deferred from Batch 2: anthology/multi-editor works, raw/articles bylines, and uncompiled raw/repos pointers. Extend the relationship vocabulary with co-contributor. Update the fuller-people.md registry and maintain bidirectional links.

Scope

Inclusion criteria

Two tiers of people, selected by gap analysis against the 201-entry fuller-people.md registry:

• Tier 1 (~20 people): Fuller scholars, editors, filmmakers, and practitioners who wrote about Fuller or worked with Fuller-related material. Relationship types from the existing 9-value vocabulary (chronicler, influenced-by-fuller, contemporary).
• Tier 2 (~15 people): Notable intellectuals who co-contributed to anthologies alongside Fuller, primarily the contributors to Gyorgy Kepes's Structure in Art and in Science (1965). Relationship type: co-contributor (new).

Exclusions

• Generic anthology co-essayists with no direct Fuller connection (the ~20 What I Have Learned fellows: Eisenhower, Niebuhr, Hoffer, Paton, etc.)
• NC State School of Design faculty named only in acknowledgments
• Article "authors" that are institutional (Wikipedia, museum pages)
• People already in the registry (201 entries as of 2026-07-30)

Target List

Tier 1 — Fuller scholars, editors, filmmakers

Tier 2 — Anthology co-contributors (Structure in Art and in Science, Kepes ed.)

Note on existing work-topic pages

Robert Pickus (buckminster-fuller-and-robert-pickus.md) and Noel B. Murphy (bucky-a-fuller-future.md) have existing topic pages about their works (the essay-review and the film), not entity-person pages about the people themselves. They are listed in Tier 1 (#13, #14) and will get new entity-person pages created. Their existing work-topic pages become sources for the new person pages and receive bidirectional See Also links.

Entity-Person Page Template

Reuse the established model from IMP-8/9/12/16-19.

Frontmatter

title: "<Full Name>"
category: topic
sources: [<relative paths to source files where person was identified>]
relationship: <value from 10-value vocabulary>
tags: [entity-person, relationship-<type>, about-buckminster-fuller]
aliases: ["<Full Name>"]
confidence: medium
volatility: cold
compiled-from: sources
summary: "<one-line identity + Fuller connection>"

Body structure

# <Full Name>

> <Brief identity line: role, affiliation, dates if known>

<Synthesized bio — scaled to connection depth. Tier 1 gets fuller treatment;
Tier 2 focuses on the person's field and the anthology connection.>

## Role in Fuller's orbit

<How this person connects to Fuller's world — their contribution, their work's
relationship to Fuller's ideas, or the anthology context.>

## See Also

- [<Related work/anthology page>](../topics/<slug>.md)
- [<Related person page>](../topics/<slug>.md)

## Sources

- [<Source file>](../../raw/<path>)

Content scaling

• Tier 1 (chronicler, influenced-by-fuller, contemporary): Full bio synthesized from source context + web research. "Role in Fuller's orbit" section describes the specific contribution or connection.
• Tier 2 (co-contributor): Brief bio focused on the person's primary field and significance. "Role in Fuller's orbit" describes the anthology context and any thematic resonance with Fuller's work in the same volume.

Relationship Vocabulary Extension

Add co-contributor as the 10th value in the controlled vocabulary:

The tag format follows the existing pattern: relationship-co-contributor.

Registry Updates (fuller-people.md)

• Add all ~35 new entries in alphabetical order within the existing bullet list
• Format: - [Name](../topics/<slug>.md) -- <relationship>
• Backfill Robert Pickus and Noel B. Murphy (existing topic pages)
• Fix the count discrepancy in the header summary (currently says "202 people" with 201 entries) — update to the accurate final count
• Update the ## Sources section if new source categories are represented

Bidirectional Links

Outbound (new page → existing pages)

• Each new person page links to the anthology/work topic page they contributed to in ## See Also
• Links to co-editors/co-authors when both have person pages (e.g., Brian Danitz → Chris Zelov; Alison Smithson ↔ Peter Smithson; Fumihiko Maki ↔ Masato Ohtaka)

Inbound (existing pages → new person pages)

• Update relevant anthology/work topic pages to link back to the new person pages in their ## See Also or contributor sections
• No links to/from r-buckminster-fuller.md (established convention to avoid bloating the hub page)

Source attribution

• Each new person page's sources: frontmatter points to the specific file(s) where they were identified
• For anthology contributors, this is typically the anthology's compiled topic page and/or the in-repo source tree index

Topics index (_index.md)

Update .wiki/wiki/topics/_index.md Recent Changes section with a Batch 3 entry recording the new pages added, following the format of prior batch entries.

Verification

• Every new person page has valid frontmatter with all required fields
• Every new entry appears in fuller-people.md in alphabetical order
• Every relationship: value is from the 10-value vocabulary
• Every relationship-<type> tag matches the relationship: frontmatter value
• Bidirectional links resolve (no broken links)
• No duplicate entries in the registry
• Registry header count matches actual entry count