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Should the one with the greatest number of titles or greatest number of profiles be considered the Common Name?

It's about the largest number of different titles, not the number of profiles. Ken answered that question here. You'll have to manually "weed out" any other people mixing into those numbers, though - like the make-up artist you already noticed - to arrive at what the actual common name for this particular guy is. If you're unsure, you can always start a common name-finding thread for him.

For the record: what Wikipedia, any other site, or even the guy himself considers to be his "real" name is irrelevant for our purposes. Here, it's just about the name variant he's mostly credited as.

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So is the number of movies different to the number of titles or not?

Ideally, they're not. In reality, you'll often find the number of titles as reported by the CLT extremely bloated (thus: the CLT reporting a higher number of titles than the actual number of films the guy acted in). This tends to be caused by profiles missing the proper "original title" (that's the field the CLT looks to for determining the number of different titles), profiles for the same film with different production years entered, or worse: when there are TV credits in there (the CLT incorrectly counts every translated season/disc indicator as a different "title"). All these things often cause the CLT toreport higher numbers than we should get. Especially when the numbers for different name variants are close together, it may be worth checking up on these problems to find out what the common name really is. This is where the aforemenioned common name-finding threads come in.

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So are Star Wars: Geeks Editon and Star Wars: Ordinary Editon, two movies and two titles, or one movie and two titles?

Better yet: one movie and one title. The CLT's title count ignores the "Edition" field. As such, 'Star Wars: Geeks Editon' and 'Star Wars: Ordinary Editon' would count as one title: both 'Star Wars'. Of course, this relies on the users having entered the edition in the proper field - if it's incorrectly stored as part of the "Title" field rather than in the "Edition" field, then it goes awry - yet another reason why the numbers can get off the track...

Using a tool does not mean using it blindly.

I agree with T!M that the CLT tool should be used intelligently, as he described. Fortunately, in many cases the results for titles are far enough apart to make an easy decision, especially in case of spelling errors where one variant name only occurs once.

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In fact rules ask to use CLT results.

No, they don't.

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"To determine whether to enter the name directly as credited, or to use the "Credited As" field, use the Credit Lookup tool.
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The inclusion of CLT results in contribution notes is strongly desired but not required."

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...not trust the numbers blindly.

This is also my philophy, unfortunately it is not that of the rules. You want to follow them blindly on other cases, why not here? You cannot choose where you can interpret data.

And now, what means being intelligent with credits for TV series ? count episodes or seasons? and what if a TV serie has a first season of 39 episode and a fouth season of two (Danger Man is the example) ? Is it intelligent to give the same weight to both seasons?
And about credits. Has the credit of Heston in Planet of Apes the same importance than his cameo apparition in Burton's remake? And has the credit of an extra the same weight as the main actor? Just to show you that ideas to be intelligent may open many doors and pages of useless discussions.

So, please follow rules saying we use CLT results (after correction of errors when bad representation of credits), and do not try to interpret any more.

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... and time again, it's Ken's official stance on the matter as well.

Please, can you quote where Ken wrote something on how to count TV series in CLT?

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Please, can you quote where Ken wrote something on how to count TV series in CLT?

But really: what does that have to do with Mr. Bridges' common name? 

It has do with what you just wrote in this thread :

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So is the number of movies different to the number of titles or not?

Ideally, they're not. In reality, you'll often find the number of titles as reported by the CLT extremely bloated (thus: the CLT reporting a higher number of titles than the actual number of films the guy acted in). This tends to be caused by profiles missing the proper "original title" (that's the field the CLT looks to for determining the number of different titles), profiles for the same film with different production years entered, or worse: when there are TV credits in there....

As you mentioned in this thread something which is wrong, I had to precise that nowhere rules speak of TV series, so there are no way to correct CLT results for that reason.

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I’m a bit confused. 

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