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Real ping-pong wars haven't happened since the introduction of the voting system. IMHO, it's a complete non-issue.

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A few thoughts to start some discussion:

What if the following were true:

A Movie is Unique
A MOVIE can have one or many titles
A Person is Unique
A Person can have one or many Credited or Uncredited (supported by documentation) Roles (Cast or Crew) in a Movie Title

To make the Person Entity Unique we are going to need some extra data about a Person for example:

1  FAMILY NAME                            (CHAR)       
      The surname or family name of the person
  2  GIVEN NAME                              (CHAR)       
      The  initials, first name or full given/Christian names
      of the person.
  3  DATE OF BIRTH                          (DATE)       
      Date of birth of the person.
  4  DATE OF DEATH                          (DATE)       
      Date of death of the person.
  5  GENDER                                  (CHAR)       
      Standard  Gender  or  sex of the person  classification
      codes. :

•    F    Female
•    M    Male
•    O    Other
•    U    Unknown

  6  COUNTRY OF BIRTH                        (CHAR)       
      Uses  standard  Country  code. Examples include:

•    A    Australia
•    AF  Afganistan
•    AFRI Other African
•    AG  Argentina
•    ALB  Albania
•    AMER Other America
•    AR  United Arab Emirates    etc.

  7  MARITAL STATUS                          (CHAR)       
      Uses  standard Marital Status code. Examples include:

•    D    Divorced
•    F    In a Defacto relationship
•    M    Married
•    M/D  Married or in a Defacto relationship
•    NEV  Never Married
•    SEP  Separated
•    U    Unknown
•    UNM  Unmapped value

We can then use a Person matching algorithm to link. It would need to use a probability rating and if the threshold was not met, require documentation to create a match.

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Are you crazy? I know i am, so I have an excuse. But since when did we become an arm of "government" . Are we going to start sending out cards and request that they fill in all the data. Are you sure you don't want their address, phone numbers  and particulars on spouse, children. and Parents as well. Then Ken can create Family Tree Profiler and we can all trip off to the funny farm together. That is quite likely the most bizarre thing I have ever seen here abouts. Well meaning...but bizarre.

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OK, I will take exception to one of your comments. You claim that a Movie is Unique, the BEST that can be said is that a DVD is Unique. We have already proven that Movies themselves are not necessarily unique. Release A may not in many cases contain precisely the same data as release B. How you define release is actually irelevant to this, it could be Release A in Region 1 US versus Release B in Region 2 France or Releases A  versus Release B SE.

This why cloning of data ortrying to set up a single profile for a title is so dangerous because they are not unique.

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But Skip, that's a rare exception.  How often does that happen where cast/crew data differs for the same movie in a different DVD release?  I would venture way, way less than 1 in a hundred, perhaps 1 in a thousand.  What would you rather have? 100 wrong DVD profile that needs changing or 1 extraordinary profile that needs tweaking?

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Quoting xradman:

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But Skip, that's a rare exception.  How often does that happen where cast/crew data differs for the same movie in a different DVD release?  I would venture way, way less than 1 in a hundred, perhaps 1 in a thousand.  What would you rather have? 100 wrong DVD profile that needs changing or 1 extraordinary profile that needs tweaking?

Unless Berak is lying in his goodbye post, it happens more often than you think.