Hi,
how would you parse Franky G.?
clt gives
Franky G. 5/27
Franky G 20/203

So Franky G appears to be the common name, only..
is it
Franky G// (stage name?)
or
Franky//G

thanks!

Here's the debate on the very similar Maggie Q

Quoting northbloke:

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I did a search and found an interview in which both the interviewer and he refers to himself as "Franky", so that for me means it would be parsed Franky//G that plus the fact he's simply abbreviated his last name.

This sounds pretty reasonable to me. There's indeed a difference between someone like "Meat Loaf" and "Maggie Q" or "Franky G". Meat Loaf is clearly a stage name, and so it's always used in full. He wouldn't be referred to as just "Meat". "Maggie Q" or "Franky G" can be referred to as "Maggie" or "Franky", because those are indeed their first names. In order for that first part of their names to qualify for a first name, then that second part is pretty much by default their last name. The way I see it, Maggie Q and Franky G both have first names and last names - their last names may seem unusual to us because of their abbreviated form, granted, but they still are just that.

Quoting bigdaddyhorse:

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anything but your real name is an alias or stage name

So you would treat John Wayne and Marilyn Monroe as stage names?? I wouldn't, and judging by what's in the database neither would most fellow users.

Bad example on my part, also bad wording and I have to disagree with myself to some extent. Alias and stage names are not the same, that was so wrong to say.

But, anything abbreiviated is probably a stage name. I doubt dude's paychecks read Franky G. It seems that stage names that soiund like real names are tolerated (probably for the best, who uses their real name anymore anyway?), so maybe a rule could read "if the name looks like normal name, it uses normal name rules. If an obvious stage name or abreviated normal name, then it should be entered as a satge name".

FWIW, I have Franky G in 7 profiles, all as stage name, all approved, only one where there was a period after the G in the credits for a C.A.

When it comes to forum agreements... polls seldomly (if ever) do.

It would be good if this was settled one way or another, yeah. Not just for Franky G, but also for Magie Q, Phinneas D. and so on. We need a general, consistent approach to such names. I don't even mind so much which way it goes, as long as we stop the situation where half of the userbase parses it one way and the other half parses it the other way... 

Quoting VirusPil:

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the parsing will be ignored

If that were true, we wouldn't have a problem. But instead, parsing issues still are very much alive...  If you parse Franky G// and I parse Franky//G, and I we both contribute entirely different cast changes to the same profile, then we'll clash over this change that's still automatically included in our contributions. Quite possibly you'll vote against my change saying "no explanation for changed parsing of Franky G", and I might do the exact same thing with regards to your contribution - and I'm saying this based on frequent experience (in general, not with you personally). The system doesn't ignore parsing, and users are very quick to vote "no" for undocumented parsing changes - either way.