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Aren't I supposed to focus on the credits and ignore information from IMDB?

Yes.

The system currently has a CLT count of 0 for Amir Soleimani and 1 for Amir Hossein Soleimani.

If that 1 profile is incorrect, and the credit is actually Amir Soleimani, then that's how you enter it and ignore the info from IMDB. This wouldn't be the first and it won't be the last time that IMDB uses what essentially amounts to a fictitious name for an actor, so enter what's in the credits and that's that. They're going to use what they're going to use and we use what we use.

Looking at the CLT results for the Amir Hossein Soleimani, it's an obvious IMDB clone as the credited as name of Amir Soleimani appears in brackets in the character name field rather than how it's supposed to be entered.

And really, you don't have to do a bunch of original research for cast and crew members of every independent film. Just use the credits and the CLT system.

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Quoting Merrik:

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And really, you don't have to do a bunch of original research for cast and crew members of every independent film. Just use the credits and the CLT system.

Thanks. I think I'd like to enter what's actually in the credits, unless I have reason to suspect otherwise.

Doing a CLT lookup for every single name would be absurdly time consuming.

If everyone would enter the actual screen credits, the CLT would straighten itself out.

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This is one of a couple of indicators that some info may have been borrowed from IMDB for our database.

The online database is riddled with so much IMDB data that it will never be removed.  That the rules allow us to copy data from previously approved profiles practically guarantees this.

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And really, you don't have to do a bunch of original research for cast and crew members of every independent film. Just use the credits and the CLT system.

Thanks. I think I'd like to enter what's actually in the credits, unless I have reason to suspect otherwise.

Doing a CLT lookup for every single name would be absurdly time consuming.

That's what I meant. 

For a situation like the one you've detailed, you'd use the CLT. For an actor like... Natalie Portman, no need. I use the CLT when double checking with outside sources (such as IMDB) and they have an alternate name listed or if I have two very similar names in my own database (Greg Nicotero/Gregory Nicotero) to find the common name.

If we were asked to use the CLT for every single actor/crew member we enter, I would've stopped contributing years ago.

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And yet some people complain that our database is useless because it doesn't contain enough IMDb data. 

The problem of our database is not about IMDb names. It is about names that exist nowhere, even in credits, and are generated by rules when changing all caps to lower case without any respect of the spelling. There are thousand of names with variants (that do not exist in real world, nor in credits), that make our database useless. On the contrary, I have no example of an actor being present in IMDb with four different variants (one correct, and three with spelling mistakes) without any linking between those variants.

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And yet some people complain that our database is useless because it doesn't contain enough IMDb data. 

The problem of our database is not about IMDb names. It is about names that exist nowhere, even in credits, and are generated by rules when changing all caps to lower case without any respect of the spelling. There are thousand of names with variants (that do not exist in real world, nor in credits), that make our database useless. On the contrary, I have no example of an actor being present in IMDb with four different variants (one correct, and three with spelling mistakes) without any linking between those variants.

While this may be true for you, apparently it is not true for everybody. 

I have gone through my credits, and most of the names that you have brought up in the past, do not exist in my db.  While I may not have a super extreme large DB, I do have about 2000 titles.  This should give me a fair cross reference of mainly US titles..

The big problem that I have, is that there are credits in our DB, that seem to mirror IMDB credits and have no actual to the credits themselves.  Things like IMDB credits as John J. Smith.  Profile Says John J. Smith, but in actuality the movie credit says John Smith.  I go through and make these corrections all the time.

I have learned not to trust IMDB for many things.  I recently submitted correction for 10 people in one movie. and have found instances of splitting credits between 2 different names, when they are in fact the same person.

IMDB is riddled with mistakes errors and omissions, for the same reason our DB has problems.  It is a "HUMAN" problem.  If the issue as you describe were the only issue there was with our DB, I would be extremely happy, but in my opinion, there are bigger fish to fry.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't IMDB a user-contributed database as well?  I'd say, then, that their problem is the same as ours: garbage in, garbage out.

As to surfeur51's point: I have many movies & TV shows where the names in the disc credits are in all caps AND are accented (the CSI franchise comes to mind).  I blame whoever (whomever?) puts the credits of the movie/TV show on the discs. Some use the accents, some don't. I don't know if the actors request accents if their name in their home country has one or not, but you can't blame the Profiler users for not putting in accents where none exist. If I see an accent in the name I enter if that way. If I don't see an accent, I don't enter it.

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If I don't see an accent, I don't enter it.

This is how I believe it should be, you type in exactly what you see.

I do wish invelos would fix the linking problem but after years of hoping I've given up on that ever happening.