Being called Ms. Wagner just means she doesn't always use her maiden name. Being Natasha G. Wagner would mean Gregson was her middle name.

I definitely agree Skip... that is the way I have always seen it work as well.

Here the change to Natasha//Gregson Wagner was accepted.

Look: I really don't mind at all which we go - I gave up on striving for "correct" parsing long ago - but it sure would be good if we all went the same way...

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Here the change to Natasha//Gregson Wagner was accepted.

Look: I really don't mind at all which we go - I gave up on striving for "correct" parsing long ago - but it sure would be good if we all went the same way...

Unfortunately I have no faith in everyone going the same way in such things. As this is a world wide program and people will do as they see right from where and how they are raised as issues such as this is regional. And just for the plain fact that it is people's names we are dealing with makes it all the harder as there is no wrong way for a name to be (at least here in the US) You can have your name be anything you want... spelling it however you want.

Now if we went to a single name field there would be no parsing problems like this. But Ken already vetoed that idea. Next step? Maybe Ken getting something in the rules for parsing... but that would mean some names will be parsed wrong anyway... and I don't have faith everyone would follow it anyway. Say for example Ken decided to go with US standard... and center name(s) in the middle field I have no faith that the regions that don't use the middle name concept will accept such a thing as parts of last names would need to go into middle name field.

In this situation I really don't know what the answer could be.

But I do agree with Skip that in this particular case we have evidence that the parsing is wrong and it should be fixed.

So I'm confused.  I have a submission to vote on for the German release of Lost Highway.  Are we going with Gregson  being the middle name?

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So I'm confused.  I have a submission to vote on for the German release of Lost Highway.  Are we going with Gregson  being the middle name?

I have the same probleme with a contribution of "Urban Legend".
Is it right to have "Gregson" as middle name? I'm also confused.

Skip doesn't speak for the entire Community & isn't in charge.

As Invelos have previously accepted as 1//2 3 I probably wouldn't change it without further evidence to the contrary.

Here is the PM from Skip:

I hope you will correct your error(s) on this name. A thread has been started relative to this actress and you missed some critical information in your Wiki reference, plus there are other references to on the net to her as Ms. Wagner or Wagner, NOT as Gregson Wagner or Ms. Gregson Wagner. The data does have to be correctd and someone will do it, it would look better if you did it yourself.

So, what shall i do? Ignore ? I am caught between two stools.