Quoting surfeur51:

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Quoting Merrik:

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I would take the time to figure it out before submitting something, but how many other users would?

People have to made a small research in order to fill common name if exists.

Rule : To determine whether to enter the name directly as credited, or to use the "Credited As" field, use the Credit Lookup tool.

While doing that search, Google will give them correct accentuation in 95% of cases. And without Google, how will they know that they have to choose between CLT results for Melanie Laurent (3/3) and CLT results for Mélanie Laurent (32/131)? Without that search, common name will be missed. So present system presents  exactly the same difficulty for contributors that want to send the best data possible.

Sure they do, but how many people are actually doing that small research now? With one very very specific way of doing things? One rule that crosses all languages, all regions, all localities? How many are doing this? As it stands now, at it's most basic, it strives for all anyone having to do is use the CLT. Seems simple enough, but we can obviously see a whole lot of people are not doing this. Now people have to use the CLT AND research how to do a proper conversion? We're expecting that when we can't get everyone to use the CLT in the first place? People shouldn't have to go outside a system to figure out how it works. People have to do that now, and if the hundreds of profiles in my local with blank Country of Origin fields show anything, it's that people don't like having to do that and a bunch aren't willing to do it.

And the best data possible you speak of no longer follows one specific explicit rule that crosses all those languages. It's left up to the user's best guess. "Do the proper conversion for the specific language, if you don't know the proper conversion... you're on your own" is what it breaks down to instead of the "do it this way, and only this way" rule we have now. Best guess scenarios are what the rules strive to avoid now (they fail in that regards in many places, I know this), and adding a best guess scenario into the rules for those that lack the proper linguistic skills goes against everything they strive to achieve.

Again, I am absolutely 100% for this proposal, IF we get a different linking system. I'm not arguing the proposal itself, I would absolutely LOVE for the 100% correct information to be entered into the program. I'm arguing the flaws of the current linking system and how this proposal does not necessarily work with that.