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Thanks, but I know how the current system works. My question was for the system with unique id for actors. Same procedure or more complicated?

My apologies, I completely misunderstood your question.
To answer your actual question.. 

This is how I would imagine it would work:
You currently have 3 entries in your database: Tohko (ID 1), Toko (ID 2) and Touko (ID 3).
Either by editing a profile, right-clicking on a credit or a direct menu option you open a Name Linking window. In it you select the names you want to link together, I imagine it may look similar to the boxset contents window with unlinked names on one side, and linked names on the other. You have to remember because this system wouldn't rely on common names it wouldn't matter which name you chose first or which order you put them in the list.
When you click on OK, all 3 names will be given a new, local ID - say L-ID 1.
Now you could leave it like that - in your database they link under the same ID (L-ID 1), but everyone else still has 3 separate names (ID 1, 2, 3).
But you decide to contribute and share the link.
Because this change would affect many rather than a single profile, I agree with Hal, they should be treated separately when it comes to voting. So maybe under the A-Z of profile titles we would have a 2nd A-Z of name contributions - or something like that.
On the voting page I imagine it would show all three names that you propose to link and under each one a list of all the affected profiles. Maybe like the CLT but with a column for each name.
Once it's accepted then all the linked names will be given a proper ID, for the sake of efficiency I imagine the system would re-use ID 1 for all 3 names and recycle IDs 2 and 3 for new name entries. A new Actors.dat (or whatever it's called) would then be downloaded on the next profile list update giving everyone else the new linked names: Tohko (ID 1), Toko (ID 1) and Touko (ID 1).

I hope this makes sense, it's very hard to describe how I think I see it working. I'm worried I've put too much detail in. Here's a condensed version:

Instead of editing the cast member to use "credited as", you would simply select a bunch of different names from a list and link them with a button press.
They would be voted on separately from other profile updates.
The updates would be part of the refresh of the Online Profile List.

But you have to remember, this is all hypothetical and I imagine very hard to visualize. To be honest it's not really worth going into such detail if Ken has shown no interest in changing the name database.