Unfortunately, it seems if you have two actors/actresses with same name, it tends to include both people (or more if it is a common name).

Ken, I have zero technical skill so no idea how it easy it would be to implement but how about if you search for a name that has more than one entry, the CLT allows you to sort by birth year?

Thanks for listening, and I'm sure this has been said before but the search is rubbish

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Unfortunately, it seems if you have two actors/actresses with same name, it tends to include both people (or more if it is a common name).

It doesn't just "tend" to to that - it simply does that. I've seen many attempts at adding or removing common names based on large numbers of credits of an entirely different person. Frankly, the amount of time I spend on explaining these issues and dissecting the CLT numbers is worrying.

It would indeed be a big help if the CLT took birth years into consideration somehow - although I've found that even readily-available birth years that were extensively documented years ago, often still aren't propagated to about 85% of the person's profiles. So even if the CLT did take them into account, that would still be a problem.

While I absolutely agree that the contribution notes require the CLT results in cases like this, forgive me if I seem doubtful, but that won't solve the problem.

One, the contributor could simply include the CLT results without realizing they're even counting incorrect profiles into the totals.

Two, to actually expect a contributor to painstakingly search through the CLT results to accurately remove every single instance of an icorrect actor or crew member (in some cases with common names, anywhere from 3 to like 15 separate people) and then try and explain the actual results in their contribution notes is just not realistic.

Take the example of Brian Johnson, which is a name recently posted in the BY thread. According to the count, there's at least seven different Brian Johnson's that could possibly be in the CLT results. To have to manually filter out every incorrect entry for the wrong Brian Johnson's... Hey, I have no life besides school these days, but even I'm not willing to take on that task to get the right name in my local. 

This is really just one more example of why the CLT is borderline useless in a lot of situations and why the linking system that's in place just really does not work in too many instances.

Matthias (Good_Guy), who sadly left the DVD Profiler community, wrote an excellent, no, make that indispensable, tool that showed CLT results with birth years, parsing variations and 'credited as' names. It's incredibly easy to spot variations in production years, missing original titles and much more. There are some inaccuracies, but the pros far outweigh the cons.

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It looks something like this:

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the CLT is borderline useless in a lot of situations and why the linking system that's in place just really does not work in too many instances.

And it will continue to be as long as one user will continue is quest to do all the dvd cast and crew without owning the dvd themselves...

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Unfortunately his site isn't live anymore, but if anyone wants it, send me a pm with your mail address and I'll send it (a small .hta file) to you.

Matthias had asked to no do that, I think it's better to respect his wish.

I just got a pm from Matthias, asking me not to redistribute the CLT+ tool anymore. The terms of use allow it, but he just doesn't support the program anymore. Sorry folks.

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Quoting Merrik:

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the CLT is borderline useless in a lot of situations and why the linking system that's in place just really does not work in too many instances.

And it will continue to be as long as one user will continue is quest to do all the dvd cast and crew without owning the dvd themselves...

We have such different opinions on this! 

If said user (and I'll admit, I've been one a few times in my DVDProfiler career  ) is removing bad info from the CLT, such as IMDB mined data, it's only going to increase the validity of the CLT.