Not as much help as I had hoped to have been... but there is/was a plug-in that allows will automatically seek out similar names in your database. You can then select a common name and boom, they're linked. Unfortunately the name eludes me.

For a rough-and-ready local linking it's a very quick process. Tracking down common names (manually) in the CLT for contribution purposes will obviously increase the time it takes. It also found "reverse name order" (great if you've got Asian actors in your db).

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Not as much help as I had hoped to have been... but there is/was a plug-in that allows will automatically seek out similar names in your database. You can then select a common name and boom, they're linked. Unfortunately the name eludes me.

This would be perfect. Hopefully someone knows the name

Name Variants for Cast and Crew

Reading your comment reminded me. 
I don't know if it's still supported/updated

That plug-in is going to get good use from me when I'm offshore with no net access

Going to download it now!

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Not as much help as I had hoped to have been... but there is/was a plug-in that allows will automatically seek out similar names in your database. You can then select a common name and boom, they're linked. Unfortunately the name eludes me.

This would be perfect. Hopefully someone knows the name

Name Variants for Cast and Crew

Reading your comment reminded me. 
I don't know if it's still supported/updated

It's a great tool, and still works with whatever the heck version is still accepting submissions at this point (3.5 I believe, 3.6 is the current beta version, right?)

It takes a while to load each go round (about two minutes), but I basically use it everytime I update the cast or crew section in a profile. It lets me know which names are inconsistent, and then I can search out and find the common name and apply it to the profile.

Very, very helpful.

And why anyone would rip their hair out for this thread just absolutely baffles me. There’s no fighting, no arguing, no grand proclamations that something should be changed, just a simple discussion about the positives and the negatives. There is absolutely NO harm in that at all.

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Anyone able to send it to me somehow? It would be much appreciated.

Sorted thanks to hal

Well son of a bitch...

I just sent you an email with the zip file, but apparently I was too goddamn slow... 

Awww.

Everyone's so helpful.

Makes me feel warm and fuzzy!   

And already forwarded to 2 others

I can't seem to insert the plug-in into the Profiler program. Any idea? I can extract the files fine, but when I click install I get a warning screen.