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| Registered: March 29, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 4,479 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting RHo: Quote:
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I would sacrifice last name sorting over parsing problems I have many statistics on actors after extracting from dvdprofiler and using Excel. All those data, which are most important for me, would be lost without sorting. Parsing problem concerns very few cases, and is easy to solve locally. It is just a theorical problem for the online, which is anyway a mess, and will stay until Ken changes all the system (see how asian names, or stage names are handled...). | | | | Images from movies |
| | Registered: March 15, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 5,459 |
| | Posted: | | | | This is veering very much off-topic, but as explained in other threads the single-name field with a sort field would not keep the parsing problem. As the sort field would be local, the parsing would be done any way you like it without anyone else's profiles being affected. |
| | Registered: August 23, 2008 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 1,656 |
| | Posted: | | | | I see that a big argument is whether or not people who don't own a DVD should be allowed to submit data.
By the same token, why is it okay for people to vote on a DVD they don't own?
How can they possibly verify the data? | | | Reviewer, HorrorTalk.com
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| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 13,201 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting northbloke: Quote:
This is veering very much off-topic, but as explained in other threads the single-name field with a sort field would not keep the parsing problem. As the sort field would be local, the parsing would be done any way you like it without anyone else's profiles being affected. Forcing every single user to enter a sort name, just to please a few people who can't agree on a format, just seems like overkill to me. Having Ken add a standard, with deviation with documentation, seem a lot easier to me. | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
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| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 13,201 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Alien Redrum: Quote:
I see that a big argument is whether or not people who don't own a DVD should be allowed to submit data.
By the same token, why is it okay for people to vote on a DVD they don't own?
How can they possibly verify the data? You are correct. Neither should be allowed. | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom.
Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
The Centauri learned this lesson once.
We will teach it to them again.
Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.
- Citizen G'Kar |
| | Registered: March 15, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,459 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Unicus69: Quote:
Forcing every single user to enter a sort name, just to please a few people who can't agree on a format, just seems like overkill to me. Having Ken add a standard, with deviation with documentation, seem a lot easier to me. The sort name could easily be automated (last word + comma + rest of the words) but overridden if necessary, just like the title sort field. For those not interested in parsing or sorting, there would be no extra work. |
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