Good evening, Sirs,

tonight I'm interested in the capitalization of the last name DILASCIO (ac, entirely capitalized).

What's the standard?

Love, bbBbb

Quoting bbbbb:

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Good evening, Sirs,

tonight I'm interested in the capitalization of the last name DILASCIO (ac, entirely capitalized).

What's the standard?

Love, bbBbb

If is an italian name it could be DiLascio or Di Lascio, or also di Lascio

For example there is the actress Diane DiLascio, but is not easy to see if her common name is Diane DiLascio or Diane Dilascio, both are possible.

You are forgetting the exception to that rule...

"Exception: If the credit information is entirely capitalized, use standard capitalization rules instead."

I may be wrong, but I don't think 'use standard capitalization rules' means to capitalize the first letter only. 

I say Hiroshi "DILASCIO" Ikeuchi. 









Sorry, couldn't pass that one up. 

IMHO, it's exactly the same thing. It all boils down to: don't invent data that you don't see on the screen - even if you feel you know it to be "correct". But you're right: I'd rather not go around the block again either.

Quoting TheMadMartian:

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Since the rules require us to interpret the data, I prefer to interpret it correctly.

Except that, in the grand scheme of things, we really don't know what "correct" is except for just a handful of examples. Our entire "exactly as credited" basis is based on never having to look elsewhere to document what the "real" or "correct" names are, but to simply deal with what you see on the screen and nothing else. "Interpreting" just about anything here has lead to disaster here time and time again - resorting to "interpreting" is essentially just a sure-fire guarantee that different users will keep doing it different ways, and we'll never reach any form of consistency. There has to be a basic principle to get us all on the same page. As far as I've understood it, that principle is: as little "interpretation" as possible. The "if there's no special accentuation of the letter "L" on-screen, then there's no special accentuation of the letter "L" in DVD Profiler" approach always seemed like a pretty consistent one - one that can easily be applied accross the board, for well-known people and complete unknowns alike. But as soon as we're all going to let our own "interpretations" run wild, we might as well give up hope on a consistent online database right now.

Isn't it the case that -- excluding the situation of Ç & ç -- that DVDP does not recognize changes in capitalization in names? I have experienced that if a name is, for example, 'DiLascio' in the main db and I have 'Dilascio' in my local db, that retrieving an update does not change my local db's capitalization. And I think it's the same with contributing that if I contribute 'Dilascio' and try to change a 'DiLascio' in the main db that, even if my contribution is accepted, the main db will not change. Is this true?

If so, this is one of those arguments that has no answer and virtually no consequences either way. (I'm thinking that if a user doesn't have a form of Dilascio in their db, they'll get whatever the main db provides...but aside from that...) 

Quoting m.cellophane:

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Isn't it the case that [...] that DVDP does not recognize changes in capitalization in names?:

That's a common misconception:

Quoting Ken Cole:

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The DBISAM database engine does distinguish cases.

So it really does matter what we enter - for the database, "Dilascio" and "DiLascio" are not the same. You're confusing this with the fact that the local portion of the software "protects" your local value to be overwritten by whatever capitalization is in the profile you're downloading. And rightly so, because such a (likely unnoticed) change would affect not only that particular profile, but all others in which the same person appears as well:

Quoting Ken Cole:

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For actor names, this operates that way intentionally so that if a profile update comes down it won't automatically change the actor name case.

So if the person isn't in your database yet, you'll get whatever's in the profile you're downloading, but if you have the person in your database already, your local form of capitalization is preserved. That doesn't change the fact that the database does distinguish cases.