All three things you mentioned are automatically ignored when accepting an update.  This was done so that for those people who set up their names the way they want them, can accept cast and crew changes without having to worry that their preferred formatting is overwritten.

I don't know about the rest of the world, but as far as I know in here in the US you have one legal name at a time. When I was a child some people called me Jimmy and I have address as Jim in later years among other things, but my legal first name is James, that is what is on my birth certificate and I haven't changed it legally.

In the online data base there should be one name and one name only for any given profile. So if I have a profile without any cast or crew, I think I should get what I is on the Invelos data base when I down line load it not a similar first name that is in some arbitrary list I don't control. If is not the case there is little hope of ever having correct data base. Thus to make this profiler any more accurate than the IMDB is only a pipe dream.

After all this profiler is advertised as a DVD profiler, not a film encyclopedia or a media whose who, that is why I have always thought a profile as far as cast and crew should be based that what is on the DVD nothing more or nothing less.

Bye.

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I don't know about the rest of the world, but as far as I know in here in the US you have one legal name at a time. When I was a child some people called me Jimmy and I have address as Jim in later years among other things, but my legal first name is James, that is what is on my birth certificate and I haven't changed it legally.

I am not sure what this has to do with anything as actors are not required to use their legal name in film credits.  In fact, quite a few actors use completely made up names...John Wayne for example.

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In the online data base there should be one name and one name only for any given profile.

There is only one name for any give profile.  While the formatting might change, the name is still the same.  What I mean is, James Van Der Beek and James van der Beek, though capitalized differently, are still the same name.

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So if I have a profile without any cast or crew, I think I should get what I is on the Invelos data base when I down line load it not a similar first name that is in some arbitrary list I don't control.

First, you don't get what is similar, you get what is an exact match excluding formatting.  Using my previous example, if you have James Van Der Beek in your local, and the new profile has James van der Beek, once downloaded, the name will be James Van Der Beek.  Because you do control your local list, the program lets you keep what is already there.

Second, regardless of how it is handled...downloading the change or matching what you have local...it is still arbitrary.  We are required, by the ruled, to convert all names to mixed case and place them into 3 name fields.  Each person that creates a profile, because they probably don't know each and every person listed in the credits, is entering that data arbitrarily.

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After all this profiler is advertised as a DVD profiler, not a film encyclopedia or a media whose who, that is why I have always thought a profile as far as cast and crew should be based that what is on the DVD nothing more or nothing less.

Except for formatting, cast and crew are based on what is on the DVD, meaning we enter the name that is listed in the credits using mixed case.