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Use the "As Credited" field where the person's name differs from the credited name.

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If this profile gets rejected for that reason( you know it won't) you should make a public plea for said no voters to have their voting rights revoked. You clearly followed the rules. The NO voters have abused their voting rights. Take pride in your work and thanks for the effort.

I disagree (but only because it's Rifter and I always disagree with Rifter and Skip  )

The voter are 100% in their right to vote no on this. Jack Palance went by Walter Jack Palance for a couple of movies at the VERY early stage of his career. His common name is Jack Palance.

I'm not saying Rifter has to submit it using the as credited feature (although it would be nice) but the NO voters are well within their rights to vote that way.

Let the vote stand. If the screeners agree with your submission, no problem. If they don't it will be rejected.

Not sure why you're bringing it here. We know you don't want to use the feature. NO votes should be expected from those who do use the feature, especially on a name that is so easily proven.  Evenr TCMDB shows his common name as Jack Palance.

Again, not attacking your submission even though I don't agree with it but to say the no voters do not have the right to vote NO because you don't want to use the function is wrong. (IMO)

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When I considered options for resolving name linking issues due to variations in how cast and crew are credited, there were two main candidates - the credited as system in use today, and a linking system.  Linking works well with name variations but doesn't work well with one-off credits, and complicates the birth year solution to credit uniqueness.  On the other hand, the credited as solution requires consistency in the common name to work well.

There seems to be much duress over determining the "correct" common name for each cast/crew member, when in fact what is needed is merely consistency.  I've prepared an online lookup that will allow searching the global cast and crew databases to determine the more common credited as name.  Note that whether or not credited as field is currently used as intended, the lookup will remain valid as long as the cast/crew entries follow the credited as standard.  Importantly, changing the common name for particular DVDs to align with the most common credited as field will have no effect on the lookup.

Before I roll out the lookup functionality, I want to make sure that this solution is workable to the community.  Pick it apart, tear into it, I'm thick skinned.

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The key for me is whether John would vote no if another user subsequently did an audit on the title and used the 'credited as' feature, assuming his original audit is accepted? My understanding of John's position would be that he would vote neutral.
IMO John has not done anything incorrect, the credit was wrong in the database in the first place. He is not removing a 'credited as' listing.
Another user can simply add this 'credited as' listing at a later stage.

Whether there are other reasons in the audit to vote no, that is an entirely different subject.

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I agree the votes are completely legal.

But, either way the contribution should be voted down due to the removal of all the uncredited people. Rifter claims that they are a exact copy of IMDb, which is not the case. IMDb does include the roles that are in DVDP (with one slight change that I pressume is due to DVDP field length), but also some other roles - so not an exact copy.