Quoting Addicted2DVD:

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So I would say something like the above with a way to see what other profiles each name is listed in.

Agreed. There needs to be some sort of unique identifier, and then when you're entering a new "John Doe" credit, the prorgram should ask you: do you mean the John Doe that acted in film X, film Y and film Z, the John Doe that acted in film A, film B and film C, or the John Doe that was the production sound mixer on film D, film E and film F? Something like that.

The same sort of thing needs to be done for "credited as," to pop up if you add someone who has a different name that has been credited the way you entered.  Otherwise there's no way to keep track of who is actually credited in different ways and to get them properly linked together.

Perhaps when something like this goes into effect we can have a pinned topic with screencaps and/or stills of the different actors that share the same name.
That would really help to identify actors from each other, especially for those that maybe lesser known.


I really like the idea that T!m posted about the program asking you which actor you mean to credit.

Sounds nice, but difficult to implement I think.

At the moment, when you make a new entry for cast/crew, it gets compared to your local database, which is fast. If it needs to be compared to the online, that needs to be downloaded, and as we see from adding a new DVD, that takes a lot of time.
See for example how long it takes to update after unchecking "Blu-Ray" when adding a DVD. That is not such a big problem, since you don't use that so much even if you buy new DVDs daily. But when adding hundreds of cast for a TV-series, this becomes prohibitive.
A check could then only be made when uploading the profile, and I don't think that is what was intended in this thread.

See Ken's comment from earlier in this thread. I haven't sorted it out yet, but that would appear to be a factor, kulju. I would try copying over the details of the Documentation, not juts provide a link.

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I had three birth years approved with the only documentation a link to the relevant post in the birth year thread. So that shouldn't be the problem Kulju

No. For two of the "pairs", I had birth years for both, but for the third, I had birth year only for one of the actors

You and me both, pal.

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