Quoting Kinoniki:

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But if SF is acceptable in Norway, it should be acceptable in Sweden too.

I don't think we can look at it that simply. We are still talking about two separate companies. From the evidence presented in this thread it looks like Svensk Filmindustri have always considered their "proper" name to be Svensk Filmindustri, even if sometimes it's abbreviated into SF, however SF Norge have never called themselves Svensk Filmindustri Norge, so in that case it can't be classed as an abbreviation.
Does that make sense?

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Quoting Kinoniki:

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But if SF is acceptable in Norway, it should be acceptable in Sweden too.

I don't think we can look at it that simply. We are still talking about two separate companies. From the evidence presented in this thread it looks like Svensk Filmindustri have always considered their "proper" name to be Svensk Filmindustri, even if sometimes it's abbreviated into SF, however SF Norge have never called themselves Svensk Filmindustri Norge, so in that case it can't be classed as an abbreviation.
Does that make sense?

Makes sense to me. In Norway, SF is a name, in Sweden it's an abbreviation. But it may create a problem with the rules. Some people diligently want to strip away all things that look like a locality suffix. And maybe they are right to do so. Otherwise, what prevents Universal Pictures (UK) from also being entered in the database? I was just told that it was created as a legal entity under that name.

Quoting Kinoniki:

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Makes sense to me. In Norway, SF is a name, in Sweden it's an abbreviation. But it may create a problem with the rules. Some people diligently want to strip away all things that look like a locality suffix. And maybe they are right to do so. Otherwise, what prevents Universal Pictures (UK) from also being entered in the database? I was just told that it was created as a legal entity under that name.

That's why I never agreed with that rule change, but what can you do? 

And Reybr, thanks for that info - told you you knew a lot more than me! 

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This is beginning to illustrate a weakness, I think. BTW reybr WHV is a distributor no matter where based UK, US, or wherever, they do not produce anything..

Of course it is, silly me. It's kinda in the name, isn't it? 

Mika:

That is all dependent on users to do that research and provide the documentation to support. This happens to be an area that we are well documented that we as a Community are in very short supply. Some users will claim to have done documentation but will not provide the documentation, The only thing that is sure is the data, but I understand your point. <scratching head> I think I like the data.

Mika:

You lack the information to deterrmine the validity of the data. You are not correct about davis Entertainment relative to the data, you are free to reach whatever conclusions you wish relative to your local, you are not free to do so relative to the online. The Online must reflect simply what the data IS, it is provided by the filmmakers and you have no expertise of background to differ with them. It is well known in all cases that filmmakers from time entertain themselves and their audience through the credits, in a variety of ways. The credits are the source for data for Profiler, not Skip, not Mika, not IMDb, just the fil credits period. Part of the strength of Profiler is that we have an Online database which serves ALL users and is only a starting point for all users to construct their own database, and we have a local database where each one of us has the ability to set our own rules and build  a database that best serves our needs. The Online is only a reference source relative to the credited data

I love this comment, Mika. "Heck, some people don't even write the full studio names. It's like they got a heart attack when they were typing; "Artisan Home Enter", or whatever." It shows how little you understand here rather graphically and i don't mean that to offend you. You presume that. some people don't even write the full studio names, while failing to understand or even recognize that this program is now over 10 years old and we have not always had the field length that we have today and you are probably simply viewing an artifact from back when we had to abbreviate.

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I did some research for D.E.

But so far you've only shared the logo. What else have you found?
I've been doing some searching as well and found documentation that supports both names, but nothing definitive - like an official site or something like that.

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Heck, some people don't even write the full studio names. It's like they got a heart attack when they were typing; "Artisan Home Enter", or whatever.

Not likely an input error, but caused by a limitation in the program itself.

It's good that you clean them up when you spot them, but maybe you should tone down the critisisms against the users somewhat before you know the full picture.

Also, before there was written rules and specific rules about removiing company suffixes, AB Svensk Filmindustri would have been perfectly acceptable. It's only under the current rules they are wrong.