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As I said in the other thread, there is no answer to this question.  As the OP pointed out, we have people doing it both ways.  Without some sort of direction from Ken, we will continue to have people do it both ways regardless of any poll results.

Correct, but it seems to me it's turning out into a feature request: let the CLT count Original Titles.

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Quoting RaymondG:

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It should not be too hard to build the CLT on original titles instead of titles I assume.

I would agree with you. One problem, though, is that there are profiles with localized titles but with an empty Original Title field.

In those cases the "logic" could assume that title=original title. This would not be 100% watertight but it will gain a higher validity then leaving out profiles with no original title.

The actual number of different titles. Whether we call them "original" titles, "distinct" titles or whatever doesn't matter to me - as long as it's clear that's what we're after.

   

I voted other as well. It's not just the results, it's the breakdown of the results that you're handed that should really be the deciding factor.

An actor could be listed in 25 titles and 100 profiles, but those 25 titles and those 100 profiles could all simply be the same film.

You could search for someone and get results of 38 titles and 138 profiles, but maybe 10 of those titles are the same, and you have that specific title in front of you, and the actor you're searching for isn't credited the way the results from the CLT are showing you they are. That kind of null and voids those 10 titles and however many profiles.

In my research for Brandy/Brandy Norwood, Brandy Norwood is listed in at least 9 different title variations for I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, when her credit for the film is Brandy. Those 9 different title variations, produce at least 14 different profiles. Just by looking at the CLT results, one wouldn't realize those credits are inaccurate. It also appears that a great deal of entries for her, have been mined from IMDB data, which no one around here wants to see.

All in all, in my opinion, and I've already ranted about this elsewhere...  , the CLT results at the moment borderline on useless for an insanely large amount of people entered into the system. The resulting expectations of how much work one has to put into finding the correct results, also make the task of contributing very daunting in some cases.

Different credit sequences are relevant only if the name of the actor in question is spelled differently, and I still think that in the vast majority of cases this will NOT be the case.

Moreover, I'm curious how YOU would then propose to get more accurate CLT results.

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Quoting mdnitoil:

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I've lost count of the number of titles where this thinking was incorrect.

I remember about three or four specific examples mentioned here in the forums over the last few years. There will always be an exception to the rule - that goes for just about anything. In the grand scheme of things, though, those few cases are fairly insignificant.

Indeed, this can not be more then a miniscule fraction of the total and is therefore neglectable and dismissable as an exception.