Quoting TheMadMartian:

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I have already given up on that because people are letting their own "interpretations" run wild...

I would not say that people let their own interpretation run wild. Most of people just do in dvdprofiler exactly what they do in normal life... So, except for people who invested much time to understand the rules and their oddnesses, normal contributors just do what seems normal for them. The problem is that rules always chose the less intuitive solution.

Quoting T!M:

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That doesn't change the fact that the database does distinguish cases.

Though CLT does not.

I would have to agree with T!M though, not knowing the actor I would assume nothing and enter it as Dilascio.

Well, possibly bbbbb knew what he meant when he started this thread. There are DiLascios, DiMaggios,
DiPalmas, DeVitos so it can't be that difficult. So what's the problem?

Quoting railroaded:

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Well, possibly bbbbb knew what he meant when he started this thread. There are DiLascios, DiMaggios,
DiPalmas, DeVitos so it can't be that difficult. So what's the problem?

Actually, it CAN be that difficult...

My true last name is diFalco, but in cases where I've been forced to enter my last name in caps only, you cannot tell how my name really should be displayed in mixed case.  And to complicate matters further, in my early childhood, we used DiFalco as the norm, until a relative had some family history tracing done.

Without insider knowledge, you would not know how to correctly convert my last name from all caps to mixed case, so the only enterpretation that could be made for DVDP purposes is simply with a capital D and the remainder in lower case

Agreed...if you can find out that information, it should be entered with the correct case mix.  Then just citing the source of that info is good enough for me.

Quoting TheMadMartian:

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Except, for some people, you can find that information.  Granted, you can't find it for everyone but, for those you can, they should be entered correctly. 

Funny. For Jean-Claude Forest, you had exactly the opposite position. Though it was easy to document the correct information, you considered it should not be entered correctly.

Quoting Forget_the_Rest:

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Can we please not turn every single thread into a discussion about JCF. The reasons for why that's different have been given already.

I just want to show inconsistencies.
Are we allowed, or not, to interpret data when we have proper documentation???
We cannot answer yes or no just as we want.

Quoting TheMadMartian:

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I can't add a '-' when one doesn't exist in the credit.

It exists in end credits. And more, in this case, CLT results is for J-C, since most contributors choose to correct the typo in front credits.

About consistency : you cannot add a "-", but you can decide to convert l to L . Where is the difference ?? : in both cases you interpret data on screen using external documentation.

Quoting TheMadMartian:

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I have already given up on that because people are letting their own "interpretations" run wild...

Aren't whining about others doing exactly what you promote for Dilascio ?