voted "Neutral" cos I don't really care about Cast and Crew.

The 3 fields are broken by design in my opinion, because we have them 'to sort for last names' but we are not allowed to parse the names of, say, asian actor in a fashion that their last names really wind up in the last names field.

Second choice would have been "Single field" to avoid all the hassle, and a substring search for any part of the name would work just as well on it.

cya, Mithi

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voted "Neutral" cos I don't really care about Cast and Crew.

The 3 fields are broken by design in my opinion, because we have them 'to sort for last names' but we are not allowed to parse the names of, say, asian actor in a fashion that their last names really wind up in the last names field.

You are absolutely correct. But that's why I came to change my mind on Asian names and would just enter them in the same order as they are written regardless of the ideal parsing (in this special case).

I voted First, Middle and Last ... the way it is.

We just need to learn to use the tool the way it was meant to be used.

Um... none of the above. I'd like to see Given Name, Family Name.

If the point of the poll is to ask only how many fields we think we should have, then my answer is 2.

Skip, in direct violation of what?

The only difference TheFly is asking for is a compbined First/Middle Name field. If that needs a restructuring of the entire database, then any of the solutions other than "3 fields" needs that. But that is not the point of this poll, really.

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It would require bioth the complete restructuring of the database and thbe trashing of thousands of man-hors of work.

I am sorry Skip.  I usually do a better job of ignoring your 'skipos' but this one made me laugh.  Oh those poor 'man-hors'. 

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Um... none of the above. I'd like to see Given Name, Family Name.

If the point of the poll is to ask only how many fields we think we should have, then my answer is 2.

Yes, the intention of my poll is exactly that. My second option in fact suggests to merge the first and middle names, not to throw all the existing information in the middle away, and after that the remaining fields should be renamed to the names you mentioned and some database name entries need to be corrected.

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Smee:

For those of you know the answer let smee deal with it. I have addressed the HBC point. Try somebody you never heard of.

Three words Lavaun Vondale Elzay

Skip

That could be anything.