| Registered: February 23, 2009 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 1,580 |
| | Posted: | | | | Hello,
I see the online has some profiles with a BY for Paul Verhoeven. In the contribution notes, I found this:
Director/Writter Paul Verhoeven (Netherlands) born 1938
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000682/
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Verhoeven_(Niederlande)
Actor/Director/Writer Paul Verhoeven (Germany) born 1901
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0894204/
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Verhoeven_(Deutschland)
However, for that second Paul Verhoeven (Germany), I couldn't find any of his works in the online. As such, I think his BY is unneeded. Would it be OK for me to submit a removal of his BY? | | | Blu-ray collection
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 20,111 |
| | Posted: | | | | It looks like the 2nd Paul Verhoeven appears in at least 4 profiles in the database:
Es leuchten die Sterne: Deutsche Filmklassiker (1938)
Der Kaiser von Kalifornien: Deutsche Filmklassiker (1936)
Der Kaiser von Kalifornien: UFA Klassiker Edition (1936)
Straßenfeger 06: Ein Mann namens Harry Brent (1968) | | | | Corey |
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| Registered: February 23, 2009 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 1,580 |
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| Registered: June 12, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,665 |
| | Posted: | | | | A 5th profile for the 2nd Paul Verhoeven is Mystery Science Theater 3000: Hamlet: Vol 04: Disc 02 Region 1 Released: 11/18/2003 Full Frame 1.33:1 This Hamlet is a 1960 German TV version from. Verhoeven is in the BY thread, but never made it to the index list, so it is good to mention him again. | | | | Bad movie? You're soaking in it! |
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  | T!M | | Profiling since Dec. 2000 |
| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 8,733 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting tweeter: Quote:
Verhoeven is in the BY thread, but never made it to the index list Now it has! |
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| Registered: June 21, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 2,621 |
| | Posted: | | | | Personally, in a case like this where we have both BY's, I think we should only assign BY to the less known as he won't affect 95% of us. That still seperates them.
I wish I could find the BY for the other Sean Penn, but can't so the very famous one has to have BY until further notice. |
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| T!M | | Profiling since Dec. 2000 |
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| | Posted: | | | | Quoting bigdaddyhorse: Quote:
Personally, in a case like this where we have both BY's, I think we should only assign BY to the less known as he won't affect 95% of us. That still seperates them. That is, however, not what we do as far as the online database is concerned. And that's for a very good reason, too. Why? Because of the moment that you are, for whatever reason (if not a major crash, then maybe the move to a new computer) forced to restore from a backup. That process doesn't deal at all well with this: it automatically merges the entry with a birth year and the entry without a birth year into one single entry, with the birth year, automatically eliminating the hard work you've done to separate the two. I've been burned by this once very early on, and I'm making sure this never happens again. Therefore: always assign birth years to both people (if you have 'em both in your database, of course), never just to one. Even when we don't know the birth year for either of them - then just assign a fake, local-only one. Because when you keep "one with, and one without" the birth year, you run the risk of losing all the work you've done to separate these credits. |
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| Registered: June 21, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,621 |
| | Posted: | | | | Good reasoning, I'm down! |
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