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  | T!M | | Profiling since Dec. 2000 |
| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 8,668 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting tarantino: Quote:
Doesn't look like an offical website to me. This seems to confirm that it is: it says "Profiles of Movers and Shakers With Their Own Web Sites" on top, and the URL is named as part of the interview. It doesn't really matter though - in the end it's only about the actual credits. Quoting tarantino: Quote:
So for the common name, as a courtesy and respect for the actress, we should write it as /Melançon/ I fully understand what you mean, and in the past I've even actively supported that point of view, but Ken has chosen to go another way, so it's just not allowed. Except locally, of course. Ken specifically instructed us to use "the most-credited" form, which, as documented in this thread, is "Mei Melancon". For (online) DVD Profiler purposes, we don't care about what someone's "real" or "correct" name is - it's just about what the person is mostly credited as. | | | | Last edited: by T!M |
| | Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 3,830 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting tarantino: Quote:
There's 60 profiles for the X-Men 3 movie alone. That's more than any other movies Could you kindly elaborate how you get the 60 profiles for X-men? We have 142 profiles on her in 6 movies in the online database? | | | | Sources for one or more of the changes and/or additions were not submitted. Please include the sources for your changes in the contribution notes, especially for cast and crew additions. | | | | Last edited: by ? |
| | Registered: March 29, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 4,479 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting T!M: Quote:
....So, "Mei Melancon" it is - which, by the way, is also supported by her official website at www.mei-melancon.com: no "ling" or "ç" in sight... In the official website, the only thing I read is MEI MELANCON, which is Mei Melançon, as Mei took the name of her french mother. (Melancon sounds quite obscene in french...) | | | | Images from movies |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 13,201 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting tarantino: Quote:
I'll open the can of worms....
Looks like the same dilemma as François Truffaut 
Her last name is of French descendence and there is only one way to correctly write MELANCON in french... With a cedilla /ç/.
So for the common name, as a courtesy and respect for the actress, we should write it as /Melançon/
Use whatever variation fits your needs for the "Credited As" field, but with the information we have in this thread, I will go with /Mei//Melançon/ for the common name. You can do that in your local, but Ken has already ruled on this for the main db. For Profiler purposes, 'C' = 'c' and 'Ç' = 'ç'. 'C' does not equal 'ç'. | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom.
Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
The Centauri learned this lesson once.
We will teach it to them again.
Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.
- Citizen G'Kar | | | | Last edited: by TheMadMartian |
| | Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 2,366 |
| | | Registered: March 29, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 4,479 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Daddy DVD: Quote:
It's a shame he overruled Gerri, because I liked her ruling better.  Agree, and in this case, it's more important with the obscene phonetical meaning of Melancon (post in (slang term for vagina)). That's why on a "third party" site, it is precised how her name is to be pronounced: Trivia Of Japanese, Chinese, French and Native American descent. Practices Wushu Kung Fu Model for 5 years before she began acting with the Wilhelmina modeling agency. ... Favorite writers Haruki Murakami, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Walt Whitman. ... Her name Mei Melançon is pronounced "May" "Mel-lon-son".And not "Mel-lon-con" | | | | Images from movies |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 2,759 |
| | Posted: | | | | . | | | | Last edited: by RHo |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 13,201 |
| | Posted: | | | | ... | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom.
Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
The Centauri learned this lesson once.
We will teach it to them again.
Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.
- Citizen G'Kar | | | | Last edited: by TheMadMartian |
|  | Berak | | Bibamus morieundum est! |
| Registered: May 10, 2007 |  Posts: 1,059 |
| | Posted: | | | | | | | Berak
It's better to burn out than to fade away!
True love conquers all! | | | | Last edited: by Berak |
| | Registered: March 10, 2007 | | Posts: 4,282 |
| | Posted: | | | | There was no overrule. Gerri's statement was misinterpreted to turn capitalization rules into something more than what it was meant. | | | | Invelos Software, Inc. Representative |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 13,201 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Ken Cole: Quote:
There was no overrule. Gerri's statement was misinterpreted to turn capitalization rules into something more than what it was meant. Going back and rereading the threads I find that you are, of course, correct. As a fellow married man, I know full well that there is no overruling the wife...unless, of course, you enjoy the couch.  | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom.
Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
The Centauri learned this lesson once.
We will teach it to them again.
Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.
- Citizen G'Kar |
| | Registered: March 29, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 4,479 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Ken Cole here: Quote:
... Note that the credit lookup tool is only a tool. It is not intended to override properly documented actor names
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In this case, can't we consider Mei Melançon is properly documented ? | | | | Images from movies |
| | Berak | | Bibamus morieundum est! |
| Registered: May 10, 2007 | | Posts: 1,059 |
| | Posted: | | | | | | | Berak
It's better to burn out than to fade away!
True love conquers all! | | | | Last edited: by Berak |
| | Registered: May 27, 2007 | | Posts: 175 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting surfeur51: Quote:
Quoting tarantino:
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According to the CLT, Mei Melançon has 66 profiles.
Personnally, I will go with that.
Melançon makes no doubt. It's a french name, that Mei took from her french mother. Melancon would sound properly ridiculous in french. I suppose Melancon in CLT are, as usual, a bad "translation" of MELANCON. Idiotic Melons? |
| | Berak | | Bibamus morieundum est! |
| Registered: May 10, 2007 | | Posts: 1,059 |
| | Posted: | | | | | | | Berak
It's better to burn out than to fade away!
True love conquers all! |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 13,201 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting surfeur51: Quote:
Quoting Ken Cole here:
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... Note that the credit lookup tool is only a tool. It is not intended to override properly documented actor names
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In this case, can't we consider Mei Melançon is properly documented ? IMDb is not 'proper documentation'...especially since they contradict themselves. She is listed as 'Mei Melançon' but, in her Mini Biography it says, "Mei Melancon was born in the Philippines..." Like it or not, Ken ruled on this back in May, and just reinforced that ruling in this thread. The only way that 'Mei Melançon' can be entered is if she is credited 'Mei Melançon' or 'MEI MELANÇON'. | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom.
Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
The Centauri learned this lesson once.
We will teach it to them again.
Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.
- Citizen G'Kar |
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