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It is correct in that it is real data that actually appears in relation to any given film, surfeur. I don't care for anyone's imagined or hallucinated data...

Credits are correct as long as somebody doesn't make a typo. Typos exist (I'have even seen some in those forums...), and if you find Jean Paul Belmondo in end credits, it's just a typo. I'm not hallucinated when I affirm that the correct name is Jean-Paul Belmondo, and can cite thousands pages that confirm that.

Please - not this old song again... 
We enter credits as they appear on screen Surfeur, and you know this. For you to claim that there is a typo in the Film's credits is sheer madness (and also a tad arrogant in my opinion), as you have no first hand knowledge towards the production of the film.
Why is it so hard to accept that we use the on-screen credit (and properly utilise the Credited As feature when approriate proof has been established)?

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Wrong again, Rho. But just for yucks, what is your definition of "correct". (...)

Since you ask: a correct name would be one which is used in at least one credit. The matching parts of this credit should be parsed into the three fields (first-, middle-, and last name). Some standardisation may be allowed (e.g. punctuation in suffixes). Leaving out all accents and incorrectly converting umlauts  (ä to a instead of ae in German names) and other foreign characters to ASCII would not be correct. Which of the available credits should be taken as the basis for common name? There would be several possibilities. One of them is the most credited one, which works perfectly fine for me.

Are you referring to user generated typos, surfeur. Those should be corrected. If you are talking about film typos, go back to my comment relative to you believing that you have all the answers and know more than the filmmakers.

Just like your opinion on Overviews the data ius the data, and not subject to your imagination of hallucination.

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Wrong again, Rho. But just for yucks, what is your definition of "correct". (...)

Since you ask: a correct name would be one which is used in at least one credit. The matching parts of this credit should be parsed into the three fields (first-, middle-, and last name). Some standardisation may be allowed (e.g. punctuation in suffixes). Leaving out all accents and incorrectly converting umlauts  (ä to a instead of ae in German names) and other foreign characters to ASCII would not be correct. Which of the available credits should be taken as the basis for common name? There would be several possibilities. One of them is the most credited one, which works perfectly fine for me.

That seems a fairly decent definition of "correct" in this regard.

Agree. That's a fairly decent definition of "correct" in this regard.
Only problem, it doesn't work very well for linking and searching when it comes to names that can be spelled with and without accents in the credits.
For instance, take a glance at the CLT result for actress Penelope Cruz:
there are 113 DVDP profiles with "Penelope Cruz", but most of them do NOT link with the 469 profiles having "Penélope Cruz", neither they can be found in a same search in the program.
Do you think they will all link soon? Sorry, but I seriously doubt that. I say: let's get practical and make them link by a filter. The credited names will stay just as they are, but at least they will link and you will find them in the same search in the program.

I think such a filter would work fairly well for situations like Penelope / Penélope, while, yes, I'll admit to it, it would be far more complex for umlauts, because they translate to two letters.

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Ken has said several times that we are after MOST COMMONLY CREDITED names, which may not coincide with what you or someone else would consider "correct". For our purposes Penelope Cruz WOULD be correct. Penelope Cruz clearly meets with the actresses approval, who are we to say otherwise. Are you a distant relation to her or a very personal friend and therefore have some reason to take umbrage or are you like me just a somebody with no connections and no ability to judge beyond what the data says.


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I didn't say a thing on which "Cruz" I consider correct or not, that's not the issue at hand.

The only issue I am trying to bring to your attention is that now all those profiles for Mrs. Cruz do not link.
Simple as that.

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For our purposes Penelope Cruz WOULD be correct.

I'd say it COULD be correct. But EnryWiki just said that there are 469 profiles with "Penélope Cruz" and only 113 with "Penelope Cruz". I haven't looked into it any further just yet, but as it is, I'd say that, four our purposes, at the moment, "Penélope Cruz" seems to be the "correct" form (= common name)... Let's try not to confuse things even more by by turning things around.

I would be happy if the searches automated the accent characters so that I don't have to remember every variant of a name.  When I search for Penelope Cruz, I want both Penelope Cruz and Penélope Cruz to come up.  I'm sure Ken can make some search algorithm that can automate accent characters as an interim solution.

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I would be happy if the searches automated the accent characters so that I don't have to remember every variant of a name.  When I search for Penelope Cruz, I want both Penelope Cruz and Penélope Cruz to come up.  I'm sure Ken can make some search algorithm that can automate accent characters as an interim solution.

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This is on of the many reasons why the simple association system works best. You do not have to know every variant, onec your associations are made just type in one variant, any variant and you will get the exact same results for all possibilities.

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