Understanding the fields in the Add or Modify Data page

I really want to bring some order to the Mexico banknotes so I'm trying to understand better what all the fields mean.

Title - How much information goes here? Should it be just the denomination and the currency? I see some that put in extra information about the series or who issued it. If I took it upon myself to “clean up” some of this, what would be appropriate to keep, and what to remove?

Issuing Authority - Is this whoever authorized the notes to be printed? For Mexico this is either “Mexico” or a few of the states that issued currency (but not all of them) under “Mexico - Revolutionary.” 

Ruling Authority - In the case of Mexico, I don't understand this one. Is it a hold over from the coins? One option under the issuing authority of “Mexico” is “United Mexican States (1905-date).” The issue is the “United Mexican States” have been a thing since the Constitution of 1824 so it doesn't make sense to use it only there. The other issue I have is that the government of Mexico collapsed in 1913 with the assassination of Francisco Madero and a new government/constitution wasn't established until 1917. Given all that, is “Ruling authority” supposed to be the government or constitution that prevailed at the time?

Issuing Bank - Is this the bank (public or private) that put their name on the note?

Issuing Entity - I'm not sure how this is different from “Issuing Bank”? Is this a hold over from coin pages as well?

Type - What's the difference between a Standard banknote and a Local one? Is it just the scope of where it can be spent?

Thanks in advance for any clarification you can offer!

We don't have a style-guide for banknotes yet but I would reckon it won't differ that much from the coin one (LINK).

Title is generally :  Value / Alternative Value “Nickname” - Ruler Name (subject; trial; design features; physical properties)

The part in brackets is most often for commemoratives or to distinguish similar entries

For the authorities they should be similar if not the same as the ones for coins so you should have a look there.

Issuing bank is the bank that “issues” the banknotes most often those are smaller local banks for old issues in modern times those are most often the central banks.

Issuing entity is, I think more for the notgeld sections were we have a myriad of individual mini issuers (this could also be useful for the revolutionary period).

As far as I know is that the type local banknote will be terminated but I don't know if it or what will replace it (but for the moment I would use it for private issuers that only issue notes for a city or small region).

Idolenz, this is really useful, thank you!

Idolenz

 

Issuing bank is the bank that “issues” the banknotes most often those are smaller local banks for old issues in modern times those are most often the central banks.

Issuing entity is, I think more for the notgeld sections were we have a myriad of individual mini issuers (this could also be useful for the revolutionary period).

A bit OOT - I don’t know how it started but many central banks are appearing in issuing entity field, which seems incorrect based on this explanation. And many contributors (me included) unsuspectingly added central bank name in the “issuing entity” and got approved

‘Issuing Entity’ is being used by people adding banks probably because it is possible for people to add to it, while it is not possible to edit the ‘Issuing Bank’ field.