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Just throwing these out there, James.

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3) WRONG again. proper handling by most people myself included is both commas and periods, except in my signature which none of you could read anyway. IMDb also utilizes this shortcut and I would think we want to get as far from that as possible.

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The Chicago Manual of Style recommends not using a comma to separate the Jr./Sr./III from the last name, but you should follow the preferences of the indivdual if you know those preferences.

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Don't know if I'm beating a dead horse here or not, but all these periods, commas, accents can be taken care of programmatically.

If Ken were so inclined, he could strip out all these characters when he compares it your local database (Stripping out your local database ones as well). This would be purely for comparison purposes to see if that "clean" name is in your local database or not. If not, then that actors name would be put in your local database (accents, periods incl). Because if it isn't in your database already, then there is no linking involve at that point anyway. If the "clean" name is already in your database, then he leaves it alone (or add the birthyear or whatever). This would still leave you only ONE "common name" in your database for linking, if you don't like the accents you can remove it or whatever at that point, won't make a difference. What gets uploaded is your "Common Name" complete with every thing, and the next person that downloads that profile, the same comparison would be done. I don't think the online database is concerned with linking as much as every local database. By getting rid of the questions of whether you want comma's we would then be free to discuss the more important issues of using Dan vs Daniel for example.

Thoughts??

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Quoting tlevel:

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Don't know if I'm beating a dead horse here or not, but all these periods, commas, accents can be taken care of programmatically.

If Ken were so inclined, he could strip out all these characters when he compares it your local database (Stripping out your local database ones as well). This would be purely for comparison purposes to see if that "clean" name is in your local database or not. If not, then that actors name would be put in your local database (accents, periods incl). Because if it isn't in your database already, then there is no linking involve at that point anyway. If the "clean" name is already in your database, then he leaves it alone (or add the birthyear or whatever). This would still leave you only ONE "common name" in your database for linking, if you don't like the accents you can remove it or whatever at that point, won't make a difference. What gets uploaded is your "Common Name" complete with every thing, and the next person that downloads that profile, the same comparison would be done. I don't think the online database is concerned with linking as much as every local database. By getting rid of the questions of whether you want comma's we would then be free to discuss the more important issues of using Dan vs Daniel for example.

Thoughts??

It may not be an important issue to you, but it is just one many important issues in this area.

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That is what I have been waiting to see, Unicus. Bless you my son!!!!

So for example

Dan Craig as James Bond---Credited as Daniel Craig

would appear as

Daniel Craig as James Bond

Yes?

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Let's use this topic to talk about specific examples where the "credited as" comes into play, so that we can generate some rules for contributing and usage.

So far, the examples have been:

Courtney Cox Arquette -> Courtney Cox
Sam Jackson                -> Samuel L Jackson

What we are trying to decide is which name is the Master name and which name is the alias...

-Gerri

Going back six pages    to try and start with Gerris request...

My proposals for a few master names to kick this off, with examples of other pseudonyms used in brackets...

Courtney Cox (as listed before)
Samuel L Jackson (sam jackson)
David Attenborough (Sir David Attenborough)
Laurence Fishburne (Larry Fishbourne)
Robert De Niro (robert denero)
Al Pacino
Helena Bonham Carter (too many to list)
Robin Wright (robin wright penn)
René Enríquez (rene enriquez)
Terence Hill (mario girotti)
Robin Williams (various like bob hope!)
Mark Linn-Baker (Mary Linn-Baker)
Crispin Glover (crispin hellion glover)
Farrah Fawcett (Farrah Fawcett Majors)
Zero Mostel (Zero)
Tara Strong (Tara Charendoff)
Michael J Fox (michael fox)
Steven Blum (david lucas)
Anthony Head (anthony stewart head)
Leo Gorcey (leo r. gorcey)
Edward Norton (ed norton)
Larry David (buck dancer)
Edward Burns (edward j burns)
Kelsey Grammer (kelsey grammar)