Quoting Daddy DVD:

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So be it, I just take it and swallow it. Just like the other multi-culti standards I don't agree with.

I understand how you feel, but let's look at it as a sacrifice for a greater good. 

I think the Credited As name should be as accurate as possible, but the Common Name is just a conventional label for a pointer: the important thing is that it links all the credits of the same actor or crew member.

I agree with Yves. The common name should be the real name of a person and not the way he/she has been credited the most which is hard to find out since we don't use everything in the credits and the CLT does not differentiate between multiple titles for the same movie.

Quoting Daddy DVD:

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I agree with Yves. The common name should be the real name of a person and not the way he/she has been credited the most which is hard to find out since we don't use everything in the credits and the CLT does not differentiate between multiple titles for the same movie.

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How can YOU or Yves know what someone's "real" name is, unless you are THAT person. I could list all the possible ways trhat my name could be credited in a film, you would have absolutely NO idea which one would be considered my "real"(legal) name or which I might consider my "real" (preferred) name, unless you asked. The premise of the "real" name is merely chasing one's tail.

And remember there is more here than simply the "A" lis performers which can easily be documented, usually, but there are also the unknowns and little knowns which really takes the 'real' name argument into the Twilight Zone because most of those are going to be nigh impossible to document.

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Quoting Forget_the_Rest:

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The problem with using a person's real name is that for a number of actors, the name they're known by isn't their actual name, or at least not their birth name.

To name a few -

Walter Bruce Willis - Bruce Willis

Michael John Douglas - Michael Keaton

Maurice Joseph Micklewhite - Michael Caine

Frances Ethel Gumm - Judy Garland

I didn't speak of real name or birth name, but the name the person uses for him(her)self, at least in movie world. Bruce Willis, Michael Keaton, Michael Caine, Judy Garland or even John Wayne are perfect for me. Jean Paul Belmondo or Francois Truffaut are not, since themselves use Jean-Paul and François.

Quoting Forget_the_Rest:

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Ok, then you've got the same problem that we've got now, that people tend to change what they call themselves.

Ricky Schroeder/Rick Schroeder
Dee Wallace/Dee Wallace-Stone
And so on.

And now it seems Rick Schroeder is back to Ricky Schroeder... as that is how he was credited in the last season's 24. 

Quoting surfeur51:

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Quoting Forget_the_Rest:
I didn't speak of real name or birth name, but the name the person uses for him(her)self, at least in movie world. Bruce Willis, Michael Keaton, Michael Caine, Judy Garland or even John Wayne are perfect for me. Jean Paul Belmondo or Francois Truffaut are not, since themselves use Jean-Paul and François.

"the name the person uses for him(her)self, at least in movie world." is the name in the film's credits, which we (try to) record as exactly as we can.
The most commonly credited name we call the Common Name, which we determine by the CLT and use for linking purposes.

Only problem, there are slight stylistic variants which make the CLT system a total mess when it comes to juniors and seniors (the way they are abbreviated), double initials with spaces and without spaces, double and single quotes, and more. 
Not only the linking system is heavily affected, but contributions become more difficult than most users can handle, with endless arguing about the "correct" name. But the "correct" name already is (should be) in the Credited As field, if different from the linking Name!

That's why we need a few standardizations for Common Names, in order to make the system work, even if I understand that someone will not be pleased in seeing a name a bit different from the one they deem to be "correct", but like I said that's small price for the "greater good" of the whole system working as it is intended to be. 

Quoting EnryWiki:

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Quoting surfeur51:

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Quoting Forget_the_Rest:
I didn't speak of real name or birth name, but the name the person uses for him(her)self, at least in movie world. Bruce Willis, Michael Keaton, Michael Caine, Judy Garland or even John Wayne are perfect for me. Jean Paul Belmondo or Francois Truffaut are not, since themselves use Jean-Paul and François.

"the name the person uses for him(her)self, at least in movie world." is the name in the film's credits, which we (try to) record as exactly as we can.
The most commonly credited name we call the Common Name, which we determine by the CLT and use for linking purposes.

Only problem, there are slight stylistic variants which make the CLT system a total mess when it comes to juniors and seniors (the way they are abbreviated), double initials with spaces and without spaces, double and single quotes, and more. 
Not only the linking system is heavily affected, but contributions become more difficult than most users can handle, with endless arguing about the "correct" name. But the "correct" name already is (should be) in the Credited As field!

That's why we need a few standardizations for Common Names, in order to make the system work, even if I understand that someone will not be pleased in seeing a name a bit different from the one they deem to be "correct", but like I said that's small price for the "greater good" of the whole system working as it is intended to be. 

^5 Enry and applause

I loved your one comment. "the one they deem to be "correct"", that is personal preference, what they deem to be "correct" may not be the one that YOU deem correct or mine, or hal's.

Take a bow.

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...Only problem, there are slight stylistic variants which make the CLT system a total mess when it comes to juniors and seniors...

This is far to be the only problem. What about capitalized letters that american users refuse to transform with correct accented lower case letters? And what about typos on credits that sometimes show Jean Paul or Jean François instead of Jean-Paul or Jean-François (with further consequences in first /middle name), not speaking about the mess in asian names...