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are most of you guys just linking up your own collections as you see fit and not contributing?

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are most of you guys just linking up your own collections as you see fit and not contributing? Or am I missing something here?

any intelligent conversation without personal battle points is appreciated - thank you.

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Quoting ruineddaydreams:

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are most of you guys just linking up your own collections as you see fit and not contributing? Or am I missing something here?

Dvdprofiler is a very powerful program with many possibilities and it would be a pity not to use them. The possibility to find all the movies where the same actor plays is one of the most interesting, and I have been using it for years, since version 2.x.

In fact in 99% of cases, name on credit matches with what we call usually "common name". And when there are little differences (James=Jim or Jimmy, Robert=Bob, or things like Christopher Lambert=Christophe Lambert), I used to choose the most used form, and corrected all my profiles in that way. I know that now it is forbidden by the rules, and I have already written that I think it can be stupid to always follow rules when the common sense says that it is not the best to do. I would find of the highest stupidity to use credit names as "Nicole Mary Kidman", or "Walter Jack Palance", if I found them in credits, as those actors cannot be confused  .

For years, in fact until June of this year, I contributed hundreds of profiles in this way (I mean new profiles, not little changes that means quite nothing), and I don't think it was so bad as very few were recontributed afterwards, and generally not for that reason. As now we are requested to testify that cast list is exactly that of the credits, I decided to stop contributing, and so I also decided to use the excellent plugin "Name variants for cast & crew"  (very good job, very useful ) to have a neat database. Exit all the "credited as", I have now for each actor, director and composer, even unknown ones, one name only  .

I think it is a pity that this avoids people to contribute profiles that were accepted before  . Except some very few purists, most people were very happy when a "good" profile existed, and if they wanted to change something, they did it locally and did not recontribute just to show they were the "best" contributor. But the attitude of some very few people who absolutely wanted to have the last word (in fact have their name in good place in the list of contributors that appeared in the previous versions of the program) began the infernal circle where we are now  .

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Great contribution to the discussion...