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Again: it's just about careful editing, nothing more. Goodguy's example just shows that in that particular scenario, you'd have to go back and manually edit both Profile_1 and Profile_2. That is rather cumbersome at times. There's quite a difference between how these things work in your local database and the online.

Yes, if you're going to modify a common name entry in your local database, you need to check which other profiles you have containing this person so you can verify the credited as name for each DVD.

(In the cast/crew editor, right-click on the name and select Show Credits..)

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when dealing with various name variants there's just no one-click solution to fix all profiles in which a certain person appears.

But a "one-click solution to fix all profiles" would be possible if the Credited Name were always stored in the internal CREDITED_AS field (even when it matches the Common Name), if I understood correctly what goodguy said.

That may very well be true, but to jump from that to "Thus, the choice of the Common Name does affect the results of the Credit Look-up tool!" is quite something else...

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So why are we still faced with an official policy that has us propagating IMDb's standard through our database - maybe for years to come?

I think someone (me) should point out that the display of a name without a comma isn't merely "IMDB's standard" but what is becoming common usage.  While some things are clearly unique to IMDb and easy to spot, I don't believe that the lack of a comma in a suffixed name isn't necessarily one of them.

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So why are we still faced with an official policy that has us propagating IMDb's standard through our database - maybe for years to come?

I think someone (me) should point out that the display of a name without a comma isn't merely "IMDB's standard" but what is becoming common usage.  While some things are clearly unique to IMDb and easy to spot, I don't believe that the lack of a comma in a suffixed name isn't necessarily one of them.

Of course there are actual credits for suffixed names out there that actually do not use the comma. But the fact that the "credit lookup" tool will declare the commaless name variant the "winner" for each and every suffixed name out there certainly is an indication of the large influence of IMDb's standard on our database. Just pick a few suffixed names that occur more than just a few times in your own database (and of which you have verified with which variant they're actually credited), and then check the lookup tool to see if it shows a similar ratio... I garantuee the results will shock you. It's similar to one of the other threads I posted in today, in which everyone agreed that "Weird Al" Yankovic actually is the most-credited name variant for this performer/actor. However, the "credit lookup" tool once again declares 'Weird Al' Yankovic as the most-credited form, which is blatantly untrue, but the single quotation marks - again a staple of IMDb - clearly indicate where that data came from...