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For someone (from an alien planet, for instance)...

Uh-oh...the alien planet argument.       

What can I say...I'm in the middle of Season 7 of X-Files, having started from the beginning and watched nothing else in between!

The Truth Is Out There!

Yup, I'm watching on 42" widescreen plasma.

Sweet!

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For right now, we dont have a hard and fast rule. I think what we have to do in these cases, is do what makes the most sense. From my perspective, since most people are going to recognize Samuel L Jackson vs Sam Jackson, so maybe we should use Samuel L Jackson.

We are open to suggestions about making some hard and fast rules about this if you have some ideas.

Oldest name, lowest number of letters, most commonly used in DVDP today, looks better on the screen, able to mix up the letters and make the most words with it, rhymes with cat...

-Gerri

Gerri:

This sounds easy to determine when you are talking about well known actors such Samuel L. Jackson, but it becomes problematic very quickly when you move into the lower levels of recognizable actors and actresses. One I have used in the past is Katleen Freeman, who has also been billed Kathy Freeman, few of ouyr users seem to recognize who she is.

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HEY SKIP, A COMEDIAN!     

Things have changed a lot in databases since Skip's retirement.... we use computers now 

Now that is funny.   

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HEY SKIP, A COMEDIAN!     

Things have changed a lot in databases since Skip's retirement.... we use computers now 

Very funny, Skywatcher. No crawl back in your hole. The largest Db I have currently in use in DOD tracks 15 PB of data thank you very much.

Skip

What, one big comma delimited flat file?

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Yup, I'm watching on 42" widescreen plasma.

Sweet!

Nice, but are you watching at night with the lights off? 

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For right now, we dont have a hard and fast rule. I think what we have to do in these cases, is do what makes the most sense. From my perspective, since most people are going to recognize Samuel L Jackson vs Sam Jackson, so maybe we should use Samuel L Jackson.

We are open to suggestions about making some hard and fast rules about this if you have some ideas.

Oldest name, lowest number of letters, most commonly used in DVDP today, looks better on the screen, able to mix up the letters and make the most words with it, rhymes with cat...

-Gerri

Gerri:

For the reasons spelled out by several users already and based on my own experience in database design and that of "She Who Must Be Obeyed"; I think the BEST answer is to stay with AS CREDITED in the film credits and develop the alias liist from that point.  To go the way we are heading takes us down the same road as at least one other well-known third-party database whose data is such a wreck that they cannot be relied upon at all to provide accurate information. Is that really what we want to do?

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Wow...you'll even tell the staffers themselves what to do.

It does NOT take us "down the same road" as IMDB. Ken has stated he wants it done this way. Gerri has stated that it is to be done this way.

To me, that's the end of it. Instead of fighting to completely change the system that Ken has designed with the intent for it to be used by us, maybe you should help us out with getting master names pinned down for those such as the example you gave - the less common people.

Let me quote one of my favorite shows on television. Dr. Gregory House said this, way back in the first episode of the show....

"To quote the philosopher Jagger, 'You can't always get what you want.'"

I am still trying to figure that out, Unicus.

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