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"credited as" - in theory a lot to change

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	Magmadrag
	Master of childprofiles

Registered: May 25, 2007

Posts: 453

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I recognized it these days that - at least in theory - so many cast & crew in the profiles would need their name with "credited as".
Why? Have you ever recognized that so many openening sequence or end titles use only capital letters or sometimes only small letters?
For "common" names it might be easy to handle the correct format, but what about all these with "van", "Mc", "de" before the name? Especialy for "van" and "de" you're never able to find out if they should be written with a capital letter at the beginning or a small one. But changing all those countless profiles to the mentioned "credited as"-versions could become the job of a lifetime.......

	AiAustria
	Profiling since 2004

Registered: May 19, 2007

Reputation: Highest Rating

Posts: 5,704

Posted:

For all normal names the credited as field is not meant to reflect the case of the credit.

For the spelling of the Mc, Mac, van, de, von, etc. out there we use the spelling which the person itself uses (Twitter, LinkedIn, Agency, ...). But user contributions don't automatically change the spelling of an already existing data base entry. The screeners have to apply them manually.

Complete list of Common Names • A good point for starting with Headshots (and v11.1)

	T!M
	Profiling since Dec. 2000

Registered: March 13, 2007

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Posts: 8,667

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Quoting AiAustria:

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The screeners have to apply them manually.

They don't. For any given profile, the online database stores the format that was last submitted/accepted into the database, so capitalization in names can ping-pong with every accepted contribution. However, when accepting such an update to your local database, these capitalization changes are not forced upon the user - if they want them, they'll have to apply them manually. So it's not the screeners applying these changes manually, it's the users that have to do that.

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