Can I get an Amen Brother?!!

I think until there is a hard and fast rule from Ken, this "common name" stuff should be shelved. It's almost worse than figuring out maiden names!!!

Seriously, I believe it's doing more damage than anything right now. I refuse to vote on most stuff with common names, and I will not allow it in my local DB until it's actually a working feature. It's not even a "beta" feature of the program... more like a lambda or tau feature.

"Charles 'Skip' Pitts is not an actor, he's a musician.

Here are just a few links that shows that he goes by the full name, incuding "Skip" as his nickmame.

http://yellowdogrecords.com/bo-keys/the_bo-keys_musician_bios.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Pitts

http://www.omdb.si/index.php/ooseba/?i=596176

http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/1222862?view=credit

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=60993257

www.amazon.com/Black-Snake-Moan-Samuel-Jackson/dp/B000PY52EU

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/11/movies/11olse.html?ex=1328850000&en=1c5b2d88cf24f6ec&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

www.hollywood.com/movie/Black_Snake_Moan/2445462

From the first site:
Although guitarist  Charles “Skip” Pitts also played on many Stax records, he got his start in Washington, DC. Before he was even fifteen, Pitts was part of a doo-wop group that auditioned for Ahmet Ertegun at Atlantic Records; soon after, he backed northern soul great Gene Chandler on his “Rainbow ‘65” hit single and performed on Chandler’s Live at the Regal album. By age sixteen, Pitts was playing with the Isley Brothers, then, a few years later, he joined Wilson Pickett’s Midnight Movers. Of course, Pitts is best known for the mighty wah-wah chords that cut through the opening of Isaac Hayes’ seminal “Theme from Shaft,” as well as his onstage work backing the Black Moses.

From the myspace site, look under band members:
Band Members Charles "Skip" Pitts - Guitar Willie "Too Big" Hall - Drums Ben Cauley - Trumpet Scott Bomar - Bass Marc Franklin - Trumpet Derrick Williams - Tenor Sax Kirk Smothers - Barritone Sax/Flute Jim Spake - Tenor and Barritone Sax Hector Diaz - Percussion Marvell Thomas - Keyboards Ronnie Williams- Keyboards

From the nytimes:
So it seemed only natural for him to turn to the drummer Willie Hall and the guitarist Charles (Skip) Pitts from the Bo-Keys while creating the score for “Hustle & Flow.”

“They did ‘Shaft,’ they did ‘Truck Turner,’ ” said Mr. Bomar, referring to two Isaac Hayes blaxploitation movies. “And in ‘Kill Bill’ Tarantino used some of the score from ‘Tough Guys,’ and the parts he used were intros to songs that were pretty much Willie Hall and Skip on the high-hat and wah-wah.

So, skip is clearly his nickname. Since he's better known as Charles 'Skip' Pitts, then I think that it's clear that it's his common name and not Skip.

I disagree.

For example.

Robin Thicke stars in a film, but uses 'Rob Thick' as his name.

Now according to what you are saying, that even though his music name is Robin Thicke, we wouldn't use that as his common name, but just use Rob Thick as his credited name.

But then a few months later he releases a DVD of a concert, and it's clear that it's Robin Thicke and the same one that starred in the earler film.

Having two entries for the same person is needless and by doing so there is no way to connect him to his film since his film credit would have been credited as Rob Thick - instead of Robin Thicke.

And since Rob Thick is not his common name, you couldn't use that in his DVD concert as his common name to link the 2 DVD together.

Getting back to Charles 'Skip' Pitts.

Right now I guess there is 3 possibilites.
1. Common Name = Charles 'Skip' Pitts - credited as Skip Pitts
2. Common Name = Charles Pitts - credited as Skip Pitts
3. Use only the credited name

To me #1 is still the best.
There is enough documentation that shows that it's what he goes by and is best known as.
It also would link him to any future DVD that he may release as a musician.

#2, there is no documentation that shows that he goes by Charles Pitts

#3 - Sure it matches the dvd credits, but as pointed out there would be no way to link him to any future music DVD that may be released (which is highly likely that he would use his more famous variation of his name).

I'm getting a headache from all of this.

Quoting Rifter:

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However, I contend that since the common name field is NOT fully functional...

The name linking works just fine, contrary to the opinions of some here.

Quoting skipnet50:

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Not without standards and criteria, James. Who gets to be name arbiter? I don't wnat that job, thank you very much. And I may not agree with your conclusion.

Skip

I understand you personally do not want to use it.

Quoting skipnet50:

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No, now James, don't misconstrue what I am saying. I am all for it, AS SOON as we get standards and criteria, not one second earlier, except perhaps in some rare instances.

Skip

I understand you personally do not want to use it at this time.

Quoting m.cellophane:

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Quoting skipnet50:

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No, now James, don't misconstrue what I am saying. I am all for it, AS SOON as we get standards and criteria, not one second earlier, except perhaps in some rare instances.

Skip

I understand you personally do not want to use it at this time.

:cough: Monsters, Inc. :cough:

Unicus:

Is rare instances hard to comprehend, I think i might have used it about 6 times. Sheesh

Skip