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Quoting Unicus69:

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Instead you keep repeating, the false statement, that you are copying the credits exactly as seen on-screen. 

I'll say to you what I said to Hal: Imagine for a second that you're, say, Chinese, you don't know these Hollywood stars, and all those silly Western letters don't mean anything to you. Now how on earth would you arrive at entering "DEVITO" as "DeVito"?! You wouldn't: there's nothing on the screen that suggests that in any way, and I really feel that no outside knowledge, documentation or whatever should be needed to simply copy a set of credits from the screen into DVD Profiler.

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Quoting Unicus69:

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Instead you keep repeating, the false statement, that you are copying the credits exactly as seen on-screen. 

I'll say to you what I said to Hal: Imagine for a second that you're, say, Chinese, you don't know these Hollywood stars, and all those silly Western letters don't mean anything to you. Now how on earth would you arrive at entering "DEVITO" as "DeVito"?! You wouldn't, not in a million years: there's absolutely nothing on the screen that suggests that in any way, and I really feel that no outside knowledge, documentation or whatever should be needed to simply copy a set of credits from the screen into DVD Profiler.

Well, it's that outlook on "standard capitalization rules" I apply to cast and crew credits (and role names, too) that are shown in ALL-CAPS on-screen. I start every part of the name with a capital, and unless some form of highlighting indicates otherwise, I convert all subsequent letters of each part to lowercase. I don't assume anything, I don't apply what I think I know, nor do I apply any other form of outside documentation. And what do you know? It works! It's the only approach that works accross the board: whether I'm profiling a major Hollywood blockbuster or some hardly-known Italian cult-film...

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And yet you enter "DANNY DeVITO" as "Danny DeVito".  You still haven't explained how you arrive at that conclusion.  Since it is not in ALL CAPS, why aren't you copying it exactly?

Oh, that's right...it's a personal preference!

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And yet you enter "DANNY DeVITO" as "Danny DeVito".  You still haven't explained how you arrive at that conclusion.  Since it is not in ALL CAPS, why aren't you copying it exactly?

Oh, that's right...it's a personal preference!

Dodging the question as well, I see... Why am I not surprised? Anyway: I'm not going to explain it again: I addressed this in the very post you quoted!

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Although Unicus has cited some language that describes how they are commonly capitalized, I would argue that there are no "standard capitalization rules" for people's names period.

Who exactly would enforce such rules?  The very idea is somewhat ludicrous.

If there aren't "standard capitalization rules" for people's names, as you would argue about, then why does the rules mentions them? Surely standard just refers to a starting point, without knowing a particular person's preference, from which you can enter the name in a certain fashion.

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This variant is not in all caps, so changing some of the letters to lower case is DEFINITELY a personal preference and contrary to the Rules.

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Please provide a reference which defines this method as "Standard Capitalization Rules" for people's names.

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That would be the logical conclusion, however, that is not what the Rules instruct us to do, and fortunately, in the end it doesn't matter since DVDP will still link them either way.