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Using 'Credited As' to Regulate Spaces in Names with Initials?
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorWinston Smith
Don't be discommodious
Registered: March 13, 2007
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Anything to avoid having Rules. Let's create an IMDb clone.(sarcasm)

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 Last edited: by Winston Smith
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Lost in Translation
Registered: March 14, 2007
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Quoting kdh1949:
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I thought this topic was how to handle the situation under the current rules.  That's why I voted for the second option.

Quoting hal9g:
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Quoting Unicus69:
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There are no rules for the parsing of initials.  Because of that, we can decide to do it in a way that is simple and easy.  In my opinion, that way is the same default standard some of us are already using for every other name.  '1/2/3' unless it can be documented that it is different.

This is exactly right.

When we parse the initials into two separate fields, we are not adding a space between them, Ken's software is doing that.  We have not change the data one iota from what appeared on the screen; we enter "J." into the first name field, and "K." into the middle name field.  We have changed nothing during data entry.  How Ken decides to display the data that we have entered is up to him.

I have nothing to add because the second and third quote answers the first one.
Martin Zuidervliet

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