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. And your method based on where you happen to live  succeeds i solving very little it seems to me Strange idea.

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Uhm, I don't have a method based on where you live. I don't want a method based on where you live. I want a method where person 1, person 2, person 3, etc.... each has to do EXACTLY the same amount of work REGARDLESS of where he/she lives.

But they don't under your plan, you would simply eliminate some people from Contributin and others would probably stop of their own accord, so what have you accomplished in your push to create fairness, you have created unfairness.

But the same would apply your way too! Right now, there is no dedicated requirement to provide documentation either way. If you push for documentation in anything other than 1/2/3 then you'll get people stop contributing.

Edit: And if people aren't interested in linking they shouldn't be contributing credits data as it's quite possibly not entered correctly anyway.

I want linking actors but I don't want to have to do all the work myself. I rarely contribute cast\crew because of the time involved (especially crew as I don't know all the proper jobs to use)

It was said early that some of these are so easy to document and only take a few seconds with some basic searches but now people are complaining about having to do it. I don't understand how having a standard, any standard makes it unfair for any one group. The people that really care about "proper" parsing will do that work anyway, we are just asking it be documented so those that don't know can benifit and enter it correctly from then on.

I'm sure most users don't know where 95% of the actors are from. Also American actors may hold onto their heritage and do the naming along those lines, or they may "Americanize" their names and have middle names (parents came over to the states and have kids and give them middle names). The point it no one way is 100% accurate but having the default be 1//2 3 will force me to lookup any new actor determine his nationality and parse it that way (that is of course he doesn't fit in to an example on why it still doesn't fit like given above).

Sure it works fine for well known actors (so any examples using them are moot) but what about the little known ones (or up and coming actors) we have a 10 page thread on Kate Bowes Renna and despite being told she is British I have not seen any documentation to the fact.

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I want linking actors but I don't want to have to do all the work myself. I rarely contribute cast\crew because of the time involved (especially crew as I don't know all the proper jobs to use)

It was said early that some of these are so easy to document and only take a few seconds with some basic searches but now people are complaining about having to do it. I don't understand how having a standard, any standard makes it unfair for any one group. The people that really care about "proper" parsing will do that work anyway, we are just asking it be documented so those that don't know can benifit and enter it correctly from then on.

I'm sure most users don't know where 95% of the actors are from. Also American actors may hold onto their heritage and do the naming along those lines, or they may "Americanize" their names and have middle names (parents came over to the states and have kids and give them middle names). The point it no one way is 100% accurate but having the default be 1//2 3 will force me to lookup any new actor determine his nationality and parse it that way (that is of course he doesn't fit in to an example on why it still doesn't fit like given above).

Sure it works fine for well known actors (so any examples using them are moot) but what about the little known ones (or up and coming actors) we have a 10 page thread on Kate Bowes Renna and despite being told she is British I have not seen any documentation to the fact.

-Agrare

She acted in a UK film, eviodently that means she is British. Billy Bob Thornton was in the same movie does that make him British....Billy//Bob Thornton. Laura Linney was also in ther same film...British? Really.      

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My own feeling is that Kate//Bowes Renna is far more likely just based on what I know about British names.

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Another ten pages on parsing????? 

You've got to be kidding me! 

Did you guys solve it this time?????? 

Your kidding right.


But not for lack of trying.

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Yes, middle name do exist, but Bowes sounds liek it is more likely a family name than a given name.

I'm not saying we know, just that there are two possibilities and they are not equally likely.

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Yes, middle name do exist, but Bowes sounds liek it is more likely a family name than a given name.

As does Ogden, but that doesn't make it his last name.