This has already been requested before, but recent discussions about asian names show that it would be a great improvement to please most of users. The tick box would be in edit name window (near birthday year), and when checked, last name would show first place in the credit list.

Quoting Dr Pavlov:

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Well while this might be useful. It would be even more useful if you would stop trying to create interpretations. Especially when they are wrong to begin with.

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A user makes a reasonable request. Just who do you think you are to answer in this manner? 

Quoting sugarjoe:

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Quoting Dr Pavlov:

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Well while this might be useful. It would be even more useful if you would stop trying to create interpretations. Especially when they are wrong to begin with.

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A user makes a reasonable request. Just who do you think you are to answer in this manner? 

Agreed 


In relation to Yves request, if I am understanding correctly that is solely for local use I think the idea sounds fine for some users.

Quoting richierich:

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In relation to Yves request, if I am understanding correctly that is solely for local use I think the idea sounds fine for some users.

As it is a tick box, each user can choose to check it or not (same as many options in Tools/Options).

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Quoting sugarjoe:

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Quoting Dr Pavlov:

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Well while this might be useful. It would be even more useful if you would stop trying to create interpretations. Especially when they are wrong to begin with.

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A user makes a reasonable request. Just who do you think you are to answer in this manner? 

Agreed 


In relation to Yves request, if I am understanding correctly that is solely for local use I think the idea sounds fine for some users.

It doesn't have to touch the database at all. A optical change would do the trick.
So instead of showing First Name Middle Name Last Name it would show Last Name, First Name Middle Name.

While I don't know that it would be a "great improvement to please most of users", I have no problem with a local only check box.

Quoting Patsa:

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Well, why not, as long as it's not contributable...

Of course it would have to be contributable. Otherwise it doesn't make sense.
We would enter Chow into the last name field and Yun-Fat into the first name field. But instead of adding Chow Yun-Fat into the credited as field, we would check the box and leave the credited as empty. And still we would get the correct credit.

Quoting Unicus69:

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While I don't know that it would be a "great improvement to please most of users" ...

At this time, we have two sort of users : those who don't really care about asian names, and those who are upset to see them wrongly handled. What I proposed would please both side as nothing changes for the first ones, and it's far better for the second ones. When I wrote "most", I meant that I do not see who can be bothered by this. For example, I have nothing to do with reasons of rating, or bold and italic in overviews, and I'm not bothered by those features that please other users.