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Quoting Kathy:

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Profiler may have a lot of mistakes but so does IMDb or any other database for that matter. I have yet to come across any database that is perfect.

Nobody is perfect, and of course mistakes can happen everywhere. Most mistakes are made unvoluntarily : People try to do their best, and make mistakes, OK.

The problem with dvdprofiler is that mistakes are made voluntarily, and requested by rules. When the correct name is MELANIE LAURENT = Mélanie Laurent, and rules ask to enter Melanie Laurent, rules ask to enter voluntarily wrong information. Invelos, as I can know, is the only database that asks to create errors. I do not call that mistakes, I call that sabotage. And the result cannot be used by anybody wanting correct linking.

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...but to me it is important to know the correct role (anything other then in the credits is literally wrong and I am a very literal person). And to know exactly how the cast and crew is credited...

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I follow the rules but I am of the same mind set as Yves and Karsten as far as the linking system is concerned.

This is one area that I believe should have been dealt with long ago and I can not understand why invelos does not take care of it once and for all.

I do a lot of work contributing to the database but, except in very rare cases, I refuse to waste my time on birth years, common names and the like.

I think most of the community feels the same way since I only see a handful of people actually spending their time trying to make linking work.

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But in crew section you're not that literal, are you? Screenwriter, Screenplay, Teleplay will all be Screenwriter. That's OK for you or do you type the real crew info into your local database?

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But in crew section you're not that literal, are you? Screenwriter, Screenplay, Teleplay will all be Screenwriter. That's OK for you or do you type the real crew info into your local database?

Actually, we were given the custom role field because it wasn't OK with some of us.  When I have the time to do a full audit, I do type the real crew info into my local database...and I am not the only one.  Quite a few people do the same.

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Seems to me imdb does a lot on purpose too. I am thinking Role names that the cast plays. They will purposely increase the role played explaining what they feel the role should be instead of using what is in the credits.

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Peoples names:

General Rule: The primary name for a person in the IMDb is the one by which they are most often credited.

* John Wayne was once credited as Duke Morrison, and even though that's closer to his birth name of Marion Michael Morrison, his primary name in the database is John Wayne.
* We make an exception to the rule if we have reason to believe someone will be using a different name for all future credits. For example, if they changed their name because of marriage or have registered a new professional name with the relevant guild.
* Such changes are made only for people with active careers. In the past, we required at least one onscreen credit with the new name; while that is still preferable, it is no longer a strict requirement.

Character names:

Wherever possible, we list character names as they appear in the on-screen credits. We make occasional exceptions when character names are not listed on-screen or when the character descriptions in the end titles include spoilers, but as a rule we try to stick to credits as closely as possible. If you don't know what is the on-screen character name or one isn't listed, here are some guidelines to help with character name submissions and corrections:

* Please omit redundant information/irrelevant details: Ralph Fiennes' character in Red Dragon is called Francis Dolarhyde, and that's how he's listed in the credits. It's simply overkill to have him listed as "Francis Dolarhyde/The Tooth Fairy/The Red Dragon" even though those are factually correct descriptions.
* Names are usually enough and character name shouldn't be descriptive, unless absolutely necessary to identify the actor (i.e., if a role doesn't have a name, someone may be identified as "Man in Van" or "Woman with Umbrella").
* Avoid extra embellishments/repetitions/nicknames unless they are part of the credited character name: it's enough to list Robert Patrick as John Doggett in the "X-Files" TV series, instead of "Special Agent Jonathan Jay 'John' Doggett"; Jeri Ryan played Seven of Nine on "Star Trek: Voyager", not "Seven of Nine, Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix 01, aka Annika Hansen"; Edward Norton played Will Graham in Red Dragon, not "William Graham" or "Special Agent Graham" or "FBI Special Agent William 'Will' Graham"; Matt LeBlanc plays Joey Tribbiani in "Friends", not "Joseph 'Joey' Francis Tribbiani".
* If an actor is listed more than once in the credits for playing multiple roles, list them once in the position of their first appearance (see cast orders), and separate the other roles in the character field with slashes, e.g., Role1/Role2/Role3 (This refers to the actor's first appearance in the cast list rather than the appearance order of the multiple characters). Please do not put spaces either side of the slashes.
* Whether the extra info is accurate or not doesn't matter - Robert Englund's character in the Nightmare on Elm Street films is known as Freddy Kruger, not Frederick Kruger or Frederick 'Freddy' Kruger, even though Freddy is probably the diminutive form for Frederick.