Quoting northbloke:

Quote:
Edit: referring to Skip's post. It may have confused you because he's used a forum shorthand which you may not be familiar with. When we talk about name parsing we normally write:
first name / middle name / last name so people know what goes in which field.
So when he says Leonardo//DiCaprio, he means Leonardo (first name) / (no middle name) / DiCaprio (last name).
Hope this helps!

Kamfer's question was about improper name parsing [Leonardo/DiCaprio/(no last name)] but Skip's comment was meant to point out that there may be times when he's credited as Leonardo // DiCaprio or Leonardo // Di Caprio.  Good answer, just not for the question Kamfer asked.

Quoting kdh1949:

Quote:
Kamfer's question was about improper name parsing [Leonardo/DiCaprio/(no last name)] but Skip's comment was meant to point out that there may be times when he's credited as Leonardo // DiCaprio or Leonardo // Di Caprio.  Good answer, just not for the question Kamfer asked.

Yes, Kamfer's question was about improper parsing and Skip's response was to simply say Leonardo//DiCaprio then go on about DiCaprio v Di Caprio. It was fair to assume that Kamfer was confused by the Leonardo//DiCaprio comment so I simply clarified. Seeing how Kamfer's problem was that the name was incorrectly parsed, I don't understand how this didn't answer his question? 

Now let's move on to the specifics. Kamfers seems to CLAIM that DiCaprio is a middle name. based on the data ON SCREEN I want to know how he can determine that to be true, dartboards, ouija boards, crystal balls. As always based soley on the data as presented it would Leonardo//DiCaprio. Unless you are perhaps able to prove otherwise. And i have not see an evidence of that prove aside from a claim. OR is he saying that DiCaprio has been inadvertently entered into a middle name slot, in which case it is simply an error that needs to be addressed.

Skip

Quoting skipnet50:

Quote:
Now let's move on to the specifics. Kamfers seems to CLAIM that DiCaprio is a middle name. based on the data ON SCREEN I want to know how he can determine that to be true, dartboards, ouija boards, crystal balls. As always based soley on the data as presented it would Leonardo//DiCaprio. Unless you are perhaps able to prove otherwise. And i have not see an evidence of that prove aside from a claim. OR is he saying that DiCaprio has been inadvertently entered into a middle name slot, in which case it is simply an error that needs to be addressed.

Skip

He was stating that it was an error and that DiCaprio had been entered into the middle field. He then asked if it was ok just to correct this single error.

Bugger - North - you beat me to it. 

This thread gets the Emily Litella award of the day.

Quoting skipnet50:

Quote:
Now let's move on to the specifics. Kamfers seems to CLAIM that DiCaprio is a middle name. based on the data ON SCREEN I want to know how he can determine that to be true, dartboards, ouija boards, crystal balls. As always based soley on the data as presented it would Leonardo//DiCaprio. Unless you are perhaps able to prove otherwise. And i have not see an evidence of that prove aside from a claim. OR is he saying that DiCaprio has been inadvertently entered into a middle name slot, in which case it is simply an error that needs to be addressed.

Skip

Now I know why you answered as you did. And as I said, it was a good answer just not to the question Kamfer asked -- as North and Paul rightly point out.  Sometimes I get confused when I read what someone has posted, but if it's explained to me I usually don't act as if I was right in the first place.  You seem to be the only one posting in this thread who doesn't understand Kamfer's question.  Oh well, when that happens to me it's usually due to me having a Senior Moment.

Quoting skipnet50:

Quote:
LOL, Ken you and the others also had some advantage that i didn't since i answered him first. people really do need to try and understand context. Based on his initial post that was reasonable, and as I noted yes it's possible that he had another thought in mind but his initial comment wasn't clear on that. As for anything else i won't say what I am thniking.

Skip

You may have answered him first, but you still have to read what he asked not read something INTO what he asked.

What Kamper meant seemed pretty clear to me and the contect he was referring to was an error in the profile, not that he thought DiCaprio was a middle name.  In fact, what he said was:

Quote:
In this particular case Leonardo DiCaprio doesn't have a last name, DiCaprio is listed as his middle name.

That seemed pretty clear to me that he was looking at a profile where DiCaprio was i"listed as his middle name" not that he thought it SHOULD BE shown as his middle name.  Kamfer wanted to know if he could contribute a correction to this error if it were the only change he wanted to make.

I never thought he hinted or otherwise said that it should be his middle name, my understanding was fully on that he wanted to correct it to reflect "DiCaprio" as his last name.