Quoting surfeur51:

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Quoting goblinsdoitall:

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I have to copy the credits as they appear on screen. No need to interpret anything, just copy. Copied?

So I suppose you have no linking function in your database ? If you just copy, you never look elsewhere whether in the database the same actor could be credited differently ?

Don't mix up the steps of creating a profile:

1. Enter as credited
2. Check for name variants

So if I find a (to use one of your favourite examples) Francois Truffaut credited, I'll enter him this way and THEN check if there may be name variants (cedille, just one "f", "d" at the end, whatever slight variants els are possible). If and only if I find a variant that is more often used than the one I just found in the credits I use the "Credited As"-function. It's as easy as that: we don't parse real names, we parse credits.
And to use one of my favourite examples to support this: The day I find that a "Nicholas Kim Coppola" is more often credited than a "Nicolas Cage" I will gladly crosslink them. But as long as the first variant is more something like a theoretical possibility ...
And now to switch back to your favourite: The CLT says it's a 99 : 22 for the variant with the cedille. Guess what I would use as common name?

But of course you know this all.
You know (and this is really not meant as an affront, just as something to think about), your behaviour on this point has something troll-like. You are (as Forget correctly stated) re-hashing this topic in any remotely related thread and thereby are taking this threads off-topic.
This in fact is one definition of a troll (there are other parts, which you don't fulfill, so gladly you aren't one, I suppose)