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[Poll] Actors credited as playing themselves
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DVD Profiler Desktop and Mobile RegistrantStar Contributorhal9g
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I guess we're gonna need birth years... 

Seriously: it's good to see the poll results indicating that there's some common sense left among the users.


3 to 1.  Sounds like consensus to me! 
Hal
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I gotta say, thanks to this thread I fixed that retarded Star Wars credit in my local profile.  It probably would have been a while before I stumbled across that one on my own. 
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I gotta say, thanks to this thread I fixed that retarded Star Wars credit in my local profile.  It probably would have been a while before I stumbled across that one on my own. 

And how did you fixed that Jabba the Hutt credit?
Martin Zuidervliet

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I gotta say, thanks to this thread I fixed that retarded Star Wars credit in my local profile.  It probably would have been a while before I stumbled across that one on my own. 

So how did you fix it? Remove it? Reverse it? I think it's odd that a fictional character was given an acting credit to begin with.
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Locally I reversed it.  I had Himself acting in both Star Wars and The Replacements.  Reversed the entries in both cases.  Now Jabba has only one film credit and Himself has none.  Thank goodness for cast filtering.

Don't worry type A's, I won't submit it. 
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Don't worry type A's, I won't submit it. 

Well, I submitted this on March 8:

Jabba the Hutt// [Himself] as Jabba the Hutt

And got a score of 27-0 and it has been approved today.
Martin Zuidervliet

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I chose to do Jabba the Hutt// as Himself locally.

Primarily because it makes sense to me.  If I cared about trying to fix the credit lookup tool, I would have gone ahead and submitted this.  My understanding was that the credit lookup tool weighed the "credited as" form, not the base form.  If that's the case, doing a Jabba the Hutt// [Himself] just adds another bogus "credited as" entry for this non-existent person, Himself.  Not particularly useful considering that "actor" has 3 pages of credits.

Since I don't bother with the credit lookup tool, it doesn't matter to me how credits appear in the online.
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Hal:

The some of us have given up on polls, we get tired of covering the same ground over and over and over repetitively. So i would hardly grant a consensus or even what tim called common sense, in fact I would call it exactly the opposite of common sense.

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Hal:

The some of us have given up on polls, we get tired of covering the same ground over and over and over repetitively. So i would hardly grant a consensus or even what tim called common sense, in fact I would call it exactly the opposite of common sense.

Skip


So you prefer it to be "Craig Kilborn [credited as: Himself] - Craig Kilborn"? 
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So...just who is this person named Himself playing the roles of these characters?
Does anyone have a Headshot?


I hear he got married to an actress.  Her name is Herself.
According to the Credit Look-up Tool, she is credited in the following productions:
2001 Maniacs 2005
An American Werewolf in London: Twentieth Anniversary Special Editi 1981
Damages: The Complete First Season 2007
Film Geek 2005
Leslie Nielsen ist sehr verdächtig 1998
Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous: Widescreen Edition 2005
Miss FBI - Divinement Armée 2005
Die nackte Kanone 33 1/3 1994
Nightmare on Elm Street 7: Freddy's New Nightmare 1994
The Scoundrel's Wife 2001
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The some of us have given up on polls

To get the best results you have to be as clear as possible and neutral. It will also help if you make the order of the answers random, because if you put the answer you would like first one could choose the other answers if they do not like you. Giving your opinion in the thread if you made the poll could also have that same effect.
Martin Zuidervliet

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To get the best results you have to be as clear as possible and neutral. It will also help if you make the order of the answers random, because if you put the answer you would like first one could choose the other answers if they do not like you. Giving your opinion in the thread if you made the poll could also have that same effect.


True, the phrasing of poll questions can easily lead results one way or the other.
But I think that the order of answers, and the opinion of the person who starts the poll, don't have that much influence, or just a slight influence, especially if there are other users who express a different point of view in the first posts of the thread.

That said, I think that this poll was clear and simple, and both point of views were explained with valid arguments (in this thread and in the thread that originated the question) so that everyone could make up their mind.
-- Enry
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Hal:

The some of us have given up on polls, we get tired of covering the same ground over and over and over repetitively. So i would hardly grant a consensus or even what tim called common sense, in fact I would call it exactly the opposite of common sense.

Skip


So you prefer it to be "Craig Kilborn [credited as: Himself] - Craig Kilborn"? 

Call ME stupid, but I think it should be "Craig Kilborn - Craig Kilborn."
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Call ME stupid, but I think it should be "Craig Kilborn - Craig Kilborn."

Very tempting...  ... but even though the door was left wide open, I shall restrain myself! 

I have always seen these kind of credits as - Actor name 'Craig Kilborn' - Role Name 'Himself', no matter which way they appear in the credits, although I must admit that I have never quite plucked up the courage to submit anything similar.

I think it is common sense to do it this way though.
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Who is John Galt?
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So you prefer it to be "Craig Kilborn [credited as: Himself] - Craig Kilborn"? 

Call ME stupid, but I think it should be "Craig Kilborn - Craig Kilborn."


Not about to call you stupid, but this option is most definitely against the Rules, as it is not "exactly as credited".
Hal
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I agree with Hal.  'Himself' has to be in there somewhere.
No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom.
Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
The Centauri learned this lesson once.
We will teach it to them again.
Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.
- Citizen G'Kar
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