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Who decides the data is bad?
I don't know where the existing profile came from either, but apparently,it got enough votes to approve it.  If the existing profile is good enough for the online database, then it should be good enough to act as a baseline for changes.

You and Skip are creating these arbitrary rules that would require any submissions to go above and beyond reasonable validation.  I think anyone reading these forums (and my contribution notes) can conclude:

There was misinformation in the existing profile

An attempt was made to correct the profile

The changes in the submission had the least impact to the database without sacrificing accuracy

For example, if I followed Skip's suggestion to change the First/Middle/Last name fields, someone else who has Gary Clarke linked to another DVD would have been up in arms because Gary Clarke was no longer linked to his role in Tombstone.

You guys are artifically creating a damned if you do, damned if you don't scenario.

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Perhaps, but at least it makes them accurate to that film.  Leaving them as is makes them accurate to what?  I don't know where the original credits came from so I have no way of knowing whether or not they are correct.

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The standard for credits is the profile must match the end credits UNLESS the actual name is different.  Well, I see not documentation that the actual name is different than what is in the credits so I have to vote 'no'.

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Based on a comment  in this thread, Unicus, I don't think you really have a leg to stand on.

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I also voted 'no'.  You audited a profile where the credits in the profile did not match the end credits.  I don't know where those credits came from but they did not follow the rules.  Rather than correct the credits to ensure that they matched the end credits, you left the bad data and changed the data in the 'credited as' field.  Sorry, but that doesn't fly in my book.

He did cite the fact that he was entering Gary Clark from the film's credits into the "as credited" field.

That was the only field he changed for that credit.  He did not change the "Name" field at all, so why would it be necessary for him to document that it is the correct "Name"?

These are two separate and distinct fields that can be entered totally independently.  If you only change one of them, you should only be required to document that one.  He did that!

That is your opinion and you are welcome to it.  My opinion, however, is a tad different.  The rules say to copy the end credits exactly.  The rules also say, "Use the "As Credited" field where the actor's name differs from the credited name."  We do not know that that is the case here.  You guys are assuming, because someone entered it that way, that it is correct.  Well, that is not good enough for me.  The standard is the credits UNLESS you can document that it should be different.  That wasn't done here so it gets a 'no' vote.  You don't have to agree, but that is how I read the rules.

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No, I am not assuming anything.

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Whether the original "Name" entry is right or wrong is not the issue.

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The current contributor did not contribute that data.

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I am stating that he did not change the field in question, therefore, there is no requirement to document an unchanged field.

He documented the field he changed.

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Let's take a hypothetical.

User X makes a contribution for 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly' to add the Original Title ('Il Buono, il brutto, il cattivo) which is currently blank.

This is the only change submitted by user X to the profile.

When you go to review the contribution, you notice that the "Title" field says"The Good, The Bad and The Ugly".  Clearly a capitalization error.

Would you vote "No" on the contribution?

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Doesn't matter...at least not to me.  He made a change to that actor entry, so his change must follow the rules.  The rules say to copy it exactly as it is in the credits unless the actor's name is different.  He didn't document that the actor's name was different so it must match the end credits.  Again, that is how I read the rules.