Lon Chaney is 'in the lead' with 114 titles (221 profiles)
Lon Chaney Jr. is 102 titles (184 profiles)
but then
Lon Chaney, Jr. is 29 profiles (41 profiles)

So, since we now have a filter so all Jr.s are to be of the format: XXX Jr. will convert to XXX, Jr. so I would assume we add the last two together and that then is the agreed common name?

If not I assume we need BYs to separate Jr. and Sr. in this case?

(Note, some of the Lon Chaney's could be Lon Chaney, Sr. too in this case so I'm not sure it even deserves the 114/221 it has.)

Vote and or comment - (I deliberately didn't include Lon Chaney Jr. as an option as these would be changed by filter anyway!)

Thanks to all; that seems a pretty unanimous (wow!) vote for Lon Chaney, Jr. so I'll start the changes!

Quoting tweeter:

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What changes?

What proof is there that Jr. is credited more often with as Lon Chaney, Jr. versus Lon Chaney?

Polls are not proof.

Doesn't matter. With the "new" auto-filtering from Invelos Jr. automatically turns to , Jr., so the common name by CLT is Lon Chaney, Jr.

Quoting tweeter:

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What proof is there that Jr. is credited more often with as Lon Chaney, Jr. versus Lon Chaney?

Because, as per my first post, if you add Lon Chaney Jr. and Lon Chaney, Jr. (which will both become Lon Chaney, Jr. by filter) the CLT gives:

Lon Chaney has 114 titles (221 profiles)
Lon Chaney Jr. and, Jr has 131 titles (225 profiles)

PLUS some of the Lon Chaney will be Lon Chaney, Sr. so that makes an even bigger gap.

What I meant by changes are changing where Lon Chaney, Jr. is in a profile as Lon Chaney to "Lon Chaney, Jr. credited as Lon Chaney".

HTH

"Lon Chaney" is credited in the following 120 titles (237 profiles):
Having only a quick count about 10 Titles are for Lon Chaney Sr. (Pre 1930 profiles)

"Lon Chaney, Jr." is credited in the following 31 titles (45 profiles):
"Lon Chaney Jr." is credited in the following 96 titles (183 profiles): = 127/228
some of the credits under "Jr" are wrong

Are we still using "Jr." as the common name or is a birth year needed

Personally, I don't care how you guys decide to do this as I've settled on using the Jr. locally.  That being said, if folks would actually do a proper investigation of his credits, they are likely to discover that his most common credit is simply Lon Chaney.  Frankly, most of the profiles in the online are just flat wrong due to some pretty obvious IMDb raking years ago.  Some of us have endeavored to clean up the mess, but the rapant copying and pasting across regions is too big a job for a handful of people to fix.

Now, while I happen to have a very strong feeling that his common name is Lon Chaney based on over 20 unique movies in my collection alone, my personal opinion is that when I can obviously seperate two names with a jr./sr., I should do so and avoid the BY at all costs.  That's just my own thing and the reason I went the way I did locally.