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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar Contributormdnitoil
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Good god, cut your losses.  This was a dead issue the moment Ken weighed in.
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This was on page 10 of this thread:

Quoting Ken Cole:
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Sandra Bullock [Ida Flammenbaum] as Herself is correct.


That's it. End of discussion. Matter resolved. And yet 6 pages later here we are. 

Skip, how do you expect anyone to have any respect for you or listen to what you say when you behave like this?
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Quoting mdnitoil:
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Good god, cut your losses.  This was a dead issue the moment Ken weighed in.

And that was on page 10 ! 
My biggest respect goes out to those who do not loose their temper and still try to convince ONE person out there that Ken Cole (!) was right.
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Quoting northbloke:
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This was on page 10 of this thread:

Quoting Ken Cole:
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Sandra Bullock [Ida Flammenbaum] as Herself is correct.


That's it. End of discussion. Matter resolved. And yet 6 pages later here we are. 

Skip, how do you expect anyone to have any respect for you or listen to what you say when you behave like this?

Oh, this happens about once every six months or so...maybe nine months.  A few more pages and he'll come around and by the end he'll be explaining how what Ken said was what he meant all along if we had just taken the time to listen properly.  No big deal.

Frankly, I'm surprised you've forgotten this! 
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Hal:

I am trying to resolve this. The Credited As feature for these doesn't help any, at least not to Tim's satisfaction. Herself is the Credited Name and if we use that you will get a whole bunch of Herselfs when you check the credit lists. Tim would like for that data to be a bit more specific, and I understand that. The best way to achieve what Tim wants to achieve is as I outlined. You don't do it by violating the Rules to achieve a personal interpretation of the data, this has been my position from DAY ONE. I have two choices given the Rules, I can say it's a straight up personal interpretation KEEP IT LOCAL, I chose instead to try and come up with a way to achieve Tim's desired objective. And for that I get villified, the Rules are what they have always been and I will always stan in defiance of ANY user-interpretation of the data, but i will when it it is feasible try to find a workable solution, sadly that is not enough for Tim, he wants to be able to ignore the Rules in order to apply his personal interpretation.

Skip


"Herself" is not the Credited Name it is the Role Name.  Using "Herself as the Credited Name makes no sense as it creates exactly the problem you describe...linking a whole bunch of unrelated credits together.

Ida Flammenbaum is the Credited Name.  Since the "real" person playing the part is Sandra Bullock, we use the "As credited" feature; i.e., Sandra Bullock [Ida Flemmenbaum] as Herself.  There's no user interpretation in this solution and it matches exactly  to what is on screen!

When you look at the cast list in the profile you see:

Ida Flemmenbaum as Herself

just like what the actual credits say! 
Hal
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I am now tyring to correct such an erronious listing in 'Miss Congeniality' (have a look at UPC 012569-593312 if you want to see for yourself), and I'm getting a "no"-vote from Skip, saying: "I believe you have misinterpreted Ken's remark, the CA listing presErves the filmmaker's intent whatever that is."

Once again, I'm doing EXACTLY as Ken clarified. Here's the screenshot:



Like Ken said: if the only indication of Name/Role is left/right, I would lean towards allowing the credit to be entered as name: "Bob Smith", role: "Himself". As you can see, that's exactly what's happening here. The current profile, indeed submitted by Skip, abuses the "credited as" feature in the manner described in this thread, using "Herself" as the actress' name and "Ida Flammenbaum" as the role name. I am now trying to correct this "Herself" as "Ida Flammenbaum" entry to "Ida Flammenbaum" as "Herself", exactly like Ken told us to do, even supplying a link to Ken's clarification in my notes. If I'm wrong, I'd love to hear it, but I'm 100% convinced that I'm doing EXACTLY what Ken told us to do.



ROFLMAO, Hal.

So according to you Man in the crowd is the Credited Name and the Tim Clark is the role. Incredible. Now that certainly puts a whole new look to credits. How do we parse Venetian Singer #3?

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And we find that "Lon Chaney, Jr." is the "common name per the CLT, by your argument we would have to enter this credit in DVDP as:

Lon Chaney, Jr. [Lon Chaney Jr] as The Wolfman (uncredited)

because "Lon Chaney, Jr." is NOT the name in the credits, therefore "Lon Chaney, Jr." is uncredited.


Without wanting to enter this particular fray, I'd like to point out that if the (uncredited) checkbox is ticked, then it isn't possible to put anything into the "Credited As" field; it is disabled (likely on the reasonable assumption that if they are "uncredited" then they logically cannot be "credited as" anything).

I realise that this wasn't your suggestion, Hal, I just grabbed the most recent bit of text which talked about it, which was yours.

I was unable to discern if this particular fact had been noted, so I thought I'd mention it ...
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No, that's a very good point Fred. Another reason why Skip's "solution" would never work.

Skip, what's incredible is that you try and quote a post that proves your point and yet you include the exact quote that proves you wrong:
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if the only indication of Name/Role is left/right, I would lean towards allowing the credit to be entered as name: "Bob Smith", role: "Himself".
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Quoting skipnet50:
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So according to you Man in the crowd is the Credited Name and the Tim Clark is the role. Incredible. Now that certainly puts a whole new look to credits. How do we parse Venetian Singer #3?

There's nothing in the rules that says all names entered for a film must come from the same column and all roles entered for a film must come from the same column. It's not an all-or-nothing situation. When film credits flip the order in which they show names and roles, as they do with people who play themselves, we are given the flexibility, as confirmed by Ken Cole, to follow the information in the credits as it switches columns so that the data entered into Ken's program is accurate and useful.

This breakthrough has been mentioned a few times and was given an official stamp on page 10 of this thread. If you can get on board now, you'll only be 6 pages late. 
...James

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This breakthrough has been mentioned a few times and was given an official stamp on page 10 of this thread. If you can get on board now, you'll only be 6 pages late. 

Actually, you need to swap those numbers. Ken first confirmed it generally on page 6, so Skip is 10 pages behind! 
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This breakthrough has been mentioned a few times and was given an official stamp on page 10 of this thread. If you can get on board now, you'll only be 6 pages late. 

Actually, you need to swap those numbers. Ken first confirmed it generally on page 6, so Skip is 10 pages behind! 

Ah. Sorry. I had the page 10 comments stuck in my head. 
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Quoting m.cellophane:
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So according to you Man in the crowd is the Credited Name and the Tim Clark is the role. Incredible. Now that certainly puts a whole new look to credits. How do we parse Venetian Singer #3?

There's nothing in the rules that says all names entered for a film must come from the same column and all roles entered for a film must come from the same column. It's not an all-or-nothing situation. When film credits flip the order in which they show names and roles, as they do with people who play themselves, we are given the flexibility, as confirmed by Ken Cole, to follow the information in the credits as it switches columns so that the data entered into Ken's program is accurate and useful.

This breakthrough has been mentioned a few times and was given an official stamp on page 10 of this thread. If you can get on board now, you'll only be 6 pages late. 

One word...SPIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! inm an attempt to rationalize this whole Rule violation. Something I have watched you do innumerable times.

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Quoting FredLooks:
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And we find that "Lon Chaney, Jr." is the "common name per the CLT, by your argument we would have to enter this credit in DVDP as:

Lon Chaney, Jr. [Lon Chaney Jr] as The Wolfman (uncredited)

because "Lon Chaney, Jr." is NOT the name in the credits, therefore "Lon Chaney, Jr." is uncredited.


Without wanting to enter this particular fray, I'd like to point out that if the (uncredited) checkbox is ticked, then it isn't possible to put anything into the "Credited As" field; it is disabled (likely on the reasonable assumption that if they are "uncredited" then they logically cannot be "credited as" anything).

I realise that this wasn't your suggestion, Hal, I just grabbed the most recent bit of text which talked about it, which was yours.

I was unable to discern if this particular fact had been noted, so I thought I'd mention it ...

Fred:

That is a good point, however I don't think it's relevant. If we do this

Herself as Ida
Sandra as Ida (uncredited) or even if we went
Sandra as Herself

The Alias system is not needed. We have cross referenced all the relevant information relative to this Hollywood PITA.

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I am done here, have fun.

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Quoting skipnet50:
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So according to you Man in the crowd is the Credited Name and the Tim Clark is the role. Incredible. Now that certainly puts a whole new look to credits. How do we parse Venetian Singer #3?

There's nothing in the rules that says all names entered for a film must come from the same column and all roles entered for a film must come from the same column. It's not an all-or-nothing situation. When film credits flip the order in which they show names and roles, as they do with people who play themselves, we are given the flexibility, as confirmed by Ken Cole, to follow the information in the credits as it switches columns so that the data entered into Ken's program is accurate and useful.

This breakthrough has been mentioned a few times and was given an official stamp on page 10 of this thread. If you can get on board now, you'll only be 6 pages late. 

One word...SPIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! inm an attempt to rationalize this whole Rule violation. Something I have watched you do innumerable times.

Skip

How is it a rule violation if Ken has clarified the rule and Tim has submitted exactly, character by character, what Ken posted as correct? You still haven't addressed that.

Quoting skipnet50:
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I am done here, have fun.

Skip

If you won't address Ken's post, I guess this is the only way out. 
...James

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Quoting skipnet50:
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I am now tyring to correct such an erronious listing in 'Miss Congeniality' (have a look at UPC 012569-593312 if you want to see for yourself), and I'm getting a "no"-vote from Skip, saying: "I believe you have misinterpreted Ken's remark, the CA listing presErves the filmmaker's intent whatever that is."

Once again, I'm doing EXACTLY as Ken clarified. Here's the screenshot:



Like Ken said: if the only indication of Name/Role is left/right, I would lean towards allowing the credit to be entered as name: "Bob Smith", role: "Himself". As you can see, that's exactly what's happening here. The current profile, indeed submitted by Skip, abuses the "credited as" feature in the manner described in this thread, using "Herself" as the actress' name and "Ida Flammenbaum" as the role name. I am now trying to correct this "Herself" as "Ida Flammenbaum" entry to "Ida Flammenbaum" as "Herself", exactly like Ken told us to do, even supplying a link to Ken's clarification in my notes. If I'm wrong, I'd love to hear it, but I'm 100% convinced that I'm doing EXACTLY what Ken told us to do.



ROFLMAO, Hal.

So according to you Man in the crowd is the Credited Name and the Tim Clark is the role. Incredible. Now that certainly puts a whole new look to credits. How do we parse Venetian Singer #3?

Skip          


Any idiot can figure out which is the role name and which Credited Name.

Guesss that tells us a lot about you! 
Hal
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