Lon Chaney Sr was definitely never credited as such.  There was no Lon Jr during his lifetime, with the actor who took that name acting under the name Creighton Chaney until into the 1930s, long after pops was dead.  I don't think Creighton much liked going the Jr route, but it was pretty much forced on him by the studios.

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Wasn't the use of Sr. discussed in this thread?

That link it to page 8 of this thread. 

Again, as Ed Begley and Lon Chaney were both never ever credited with a Sr. suffix, I'm rather hesitant to "invent" an extra bit of data like that. I feel that having entries for Ed Begley & Ed Begley, Jr. and Lon Chaney & Lon Chaney, Jr. is more than enough to distinguish between father and son. I'm certainly not against using the Sr. suffix on some occasions, but it would help if the person is actually credited as such a number of times, even if it's only during a part of his career. As for these two specific examples, we know that was not the case, and therefore I don't think we should add the suffix.

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Established Kinga//Philipps as common name in the approved contribution for Tomcats:
http://www.invelos.com/Forums.aspx?task=viewtopic&topicID=19192&PageNum=LAST

Her official site, http://www.kingaphilipps.com/
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1036787/
http://www.current.tv/network/hosts/philipps;jsessionid=497084ECC9384B538F5D598140B1B5EB

What aliases/alternate names does she use?

If there aren't any this doesn't need to go into the database.

Oops Sorry. She has also used Kinga Phillips (Two l's instead of two p's)

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Common Name: Tom Wilson
Alias: Thomas F. Wilson

He is credited as Thomas F. Wilson early in his career (e.g. Back to the Future). But beginning with the early 90s he is mostly credited as Tom Wilson (e.g. Freaks and Geeks, Lois & Clark, Ghost Whisperer, Titus, Wing Commander 3-5, Sabrina: The Teenage Witch)

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Quoting TomGaines:

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Common Name: Tom Wilson
Alias: Thomas F. Wilson

He is credited as Thomas F. Wilson early in his career (e.g. Back to the Future). But beginning with the early 90s he is mostly credited as Tom Wilson (e.g. Freaks and Geeks, Lois & Clark, Ghost Whisperer, Titus, Wing Commander 3-5, Sabrina: The Teenage Witch)

As has been pointed out in this thread, lots of people would prefer to use Thomas F. Wilson, to distinguish him from other actors named Tom Wilson - using his full name that he's credited as quite a number of times seems more appropriate than using a birth year for this. The matter was put to the vote through a contribution by RHFactor, and he reports that the voters have stated their preference for using Thomas F. Wilson.

You have to remember that it doesn't matter what people prefer, what matters is what is correct. The birth year option is there to distinguish between actors with the same name, which would work here. The birth year and common name of Tom Wilson can be used together, but some people don't prefer to do that. So in conclusion, if we all did what we prefer on Profiler it would just turn out like IMDB. I don't want to see that happen and I'm sure you don't either.

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I just don't understand why people would prefer a name as common name, with which the actor almost never is credited. Making "Thomas F. Wilson" will make it necessary to change most of his credits (provided the profiles in questions are "as credited" and not still full of the IMDb crap).

But I, and others, have pointed out the reason to you several times: because we need to distinguish between him and other actors named Tom Wilson. I would agree with you on lots of other similar cases, but in this particular one, "Tom Wilson" is not an option. It's either "Tom Wilson (1959)", or Thomas F. Wilson. I, and lots of other users, would prefer to use Thomas F. Wilson in this particular case. I really do understand your argument, and I consider it absolutely valid. We just need a way to distinguish between actors. Since vast amounts of 'Back to the Future' DVD's have been sold, the huge majority of the DVD Profiler users will have a few "Thomas F. Wilson" credits in their database. Combined with the need to distinguish him from, for instance, the Tom Wilson playing alongside Charlie Chaplin in 'The Kid' (1921), it seems pretty obvious to use "Thomas F. Wilson" as his common name to achieve this.