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From my experience of Asian DVDs, Anthony Wong Chau-Sang is the most problematic of them all! I have 6 entries in my DB alone (bold denotes middle name italic last name);

+Anthony Wong Chau-Sang
+Anthony Wong
+Anthony Chau-Sang Wong
+Anthony Chow-Sang Wong
+Anthony Wong Chau Sang
+Anthony Wong Chau-Sang

I wouldn't be surpised if there are another 6 variants in other people's local DB, his credits are so varied it's untrue. I was going to resolve the one's I had, but this was changed when I started reading this thread that I decided to stop and wait until some definitive solution for naming. Using the CLT would be like a minefield!

He is chinese, so his family-name comes first; then his forename.
So Wong Chau Sang is his full name. Lot's of chinese gives themself an western additional forename.
In this case it's Antony.
The Profiler - using an only western namefiled order - is not made for this mix-up.
I personally would say

- Anthony "Chau Sang" Wong
or
- Chau Sang "Anthony" Wong

are the best variants to catch chinese names best.
(and a personally prefer variation no.2 because he is born as "Wong Chau Sang"

(green is Forename, blue is middle-name, red is famaly-name)

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Quoting madacid:

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there should only be full asian names like

Anthony Wong Chau-Sang and
Anthony Brandon Wong
in the database

If there is only "Anthony Wong" in the credits it should be entered as "credited as"

Same method should be used with all asian actors e.g. with "Tony Leung" as well because there is "Tony Leunch Chiu Wai" (known from "Hero") and "Tony Leung Ka-Fai" and "Tony Leung Siu Hung"

Where, in the rules, does it allow you to do this?  If there is only a credit of 'Anthony Wong', then that is what must be entered...per the rules.

Except that per the rules and Ken's clarification... it does not matter what the real name is... we have to use the way the person is most commonly credited for the name field... so if he is most commonly credited in movies as Anthony Wong we have to use that... with nothing in the credited as field.

It all depends on how he is credited in the end credits the most.

Quoting madacid:

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maybe you misunderstand me guess. If there is "Antony Wong" in the credits it should be entered so.

actor: Chau Sang Anthony Wong [credited as Anthony Wong]

No, I understood you perfectly.  What you are suggesting is against the rules.  We don't deal with 'real' names.  We deal with 'credited' names.

Quoting madacid:

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but how do you solve the fact, that asian names are wrote "Surname Forename" so that First-Middle-Lastname doesn't make sense.
e.g. Chow Yun Fat should be entered as "Yun Fat" "" "Chow"

That's the eternal question!
Seriously, there's been endless debates on here about it and we're no closer to a solution. I PM'd Ken a while ago, but it was shortly before he announced the Beta, so I guess he was a bit too busy to answer. I'll maybe try again now 3.5's been released.