I have noticed from auditing a couple seasons of Walking Dead that the opening credits always have the full cast, and often times some/many of these people are not in episodes they are credited for. I'm about to go through and do custom CO tags, but think it might be something others would like too. Could we add a checkbox (like the uncredited or voice only) for these instances? I'm sure it happens with other TV shows too.

I can also think of one film, Quick & the Dead, where Bruce Campbell is in the cast credits but his scene was cut and he is not in the film at all.

I recently bought Criss Angel: Mindfreak: The Complete Season One.

I have looked at several episodes and in the end credits the following people are listed.

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Surreal Family
T.G. Tomsoni......Theo
Steve Daly........Ginger
Antonio Hoyos.....Luigi
Josh Thomas.......Erich
Stacey Shea.......Kayala
Ken Romo..........Anteater
Melanie Kramer....Shadow

Special Guests
Amazing Johnathan
Lance Burton
Jonathan Davis
Bill Kurtis
Mandy Moore
Penn & Teller
Rob Zombie

Mindfreak Voice
Tony Jay

There are 15 episodes in this season and after after watching several of them I know that the Special Guests don't appear in all of them.
In fact I doubt that all of them appear in ALL episodes of the season.

Yet if I was to do a cast profile with episode dividers and by the rules include the Special Guests as credited it would be impossible to know exactly what episodes they actually do appear in. Each would be listed in ALL of the episodes. So if I wanted to know exactly what episode Penn & Teller were in I would have to get the discs out and scan through each episode just to find out which one they actually appeared in.

Now if there were a Credit Only checkbox for the cast I could easily tell which one they are actually in.

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Yet if I was to do a cast profile with episode dividers and by the rules include the Special Guests as credited it would be impossible to know exactly what episodes they actually do appear in. Each would be listed in ALL of the episodes. So if I wanted to know exactly what episode Penn & Teller were in I would have to get the discs out and scan through each episode just to find out which one they actually appeared in.

I'm not exactly sure that all credited actors need be included in our cast listings.  Take a look at this excerpt from The Rules:

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Do not list actors and crew who appear only in special features, or whose scenes were deleted from the main feature, even if they appear in special features.

One might use this to deduce that actors, credited or not, who do not appear in the film/episode, should not be listed in our submissions.

However, my preference would be to have a "Credit Only" checkbox and leave them in.

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You're missing the very important part of the rules.

http://www.invelos.com/dvdpro/contributions/Rules.aspx?display=credits

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Crew and Cast
Take Crew Credits from the film credits only; list names exactly as they are in the credits. Exception: If the credit information is entirely capitalized, use standard capitalization rules instead. 

One can deduce that it also applies to the cast.

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Cast

For the purposes of this section we define "standard" film credits as those where all credited actors involved are listed at the end of the film - defined here as the "end credits". The section details both the actor’s Name and the Role that they played in the film. The credits may be listed "in order of appearance", "alphabetical order" or in an order of importance decided by the filmmakers. Some actors may be credited a second time in either credits at either the opening or close of the film.

Even though it's for film, once can deduce that the cast is to be taken from the credits when they are all listed.

And from the TV Series section of the rules.

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Enter Cast and Crew for each episode using standard rules, and insert dividers to separate each episode's credit list from the others. Do not list Cast and Crew outside of the dividers even if they are credited in all episodes.

As I understand the rules, we go by the credits themselves and if the credits list actors we credit them regardless if they appear in the episode/film or not.

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Do not list actors and crew who appear only in special features, or whose scenes were deleted from the main feature, even if they appear in special features.

It appears that this is confusing, as some think it means that if an actor's scenes were deleted from the film/tv series then we can also not include them in the profile itself.

Some may think it means that because that's exactly what it says.

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Going by that wording that means that we can go into tv series profiles and delete cast members from the cast even if they are credited in the opening credits.

There is a difference between credits for recurring actors that never were intended to appear in a specific episode but were credited anyway, and credits for actors that were intended to appear, but whos scenes were deleted.

There are good reasons for this feature request, but this *could* get dangerously close to spoiling.

I.e.: A character is credited in season one for all episodes but you see the "credit only" after his name for the last three episodes... Guess who died!

Sure, most times you know the movies or tv series before looking at the cast, but sometimes not, and I think such possible spoilers should be avoided.

At least this feature, if implented, should go hand in hand with an option inside DVD Profiler AND the website (where you can evaluate contributions) to NOT show these things. At the best, the "show "credit only" info" should be an opt-in.

A problem with this is that it's often hard to document. Someone will write in his contribution notes: "checked 'credit only' where applicable", and that's that, we'll have to accept that. That's different from contributing a change that actually comes from the credits, or an (uncredited) cast entry with a time stamp: if I want to check that for myself, then all I have to do is pull the disc out and immediately see whether the change is accurate or not. Having to re-watch the entire episode/season/series to be sure is something else. So it'll just be "it's like this because I say so" - it's not immediately checkable.

It feels a bit like emulating a typical IMDb-suffix, and if we're honest, that's where a lot of this data would be taken from if we actually were to get this feature. Of course, there will be the occasional user that actually watches a bunch of episodes and dutifully notes which character doesn't appear in which particular episode, but the reality is that most of this data would be copied straight from IMDb, as that's a generically available source where much of that information is already being tracked. I'm not sure if Ken wants to emulate IMDb's data format even further - weren't there signals that that could be problematic for Invelos somehow?