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How to remove incorrect entries in the online cast & crew database.
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar Contributorcvermeylen
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We should have a system where we can have incorrect cast and crew names removed from the online database.

I just profiled Cujo: The Special Edition (8714865552810). The profile contains Carlos Don Dunaway as screenwriter. The correct credit is Don Carlos Dunaway. I submitted the profile so it should get corrected.

However, the non-existant Carlos Don Dunaway will remain in the database forever. I assume a whole bunch of incorrect names exist in the online database. This allows for propagation of errors. If you make a new entry to the database, you can select the wrong entry. Everybody can make a mistake. So if we can get rid of the incorrect ones, we can avoid making it worse.
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorTomGaines
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However, the non-existant Carlos Don Dunaway will remain in the database forever. I assume a whole bunch of incorrect names exist in the online database. This allows for propagation of errors. If you make a new entry to the database, you can select the wrong entry. Everybody can make a mistake. So if we can get rid of the incorrect ones, we can avoid making it worse.


You can remove actors from your local database who are not linked to any of your profiles. Tools->Options->Utilities->Repair DVD Profiler Database and leave "Remove unused cast and crew members" checked.


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Local is not a problem. Those can be removed easily. I would like an option to clean out the Online database, so the incorrect entry can no longer be used. The risk now is people will keep using the incorrect entry further propagating the error to other titles.

The problem is it will be technically impossible to then propagate the removal to all the local databases.

Maybe we could make a pinned topic in the contribution forum with incorrect names. Kinda like we do for the Birth Years.
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They only exist in the online DB because at least one profile contains that name. Once all the profiles are updated to the correct name, the incorrect one should disappear.
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They only exist in the online DB because at least one profile contains that name. Once all the profiles are updated to the correct name, the incorrect one should disappear.


That would be nice. But are you sure this is the case. I think the actors table is, just like in the local, a different table. And removing an actor from a profile just removes the link between the 2 tables. The actor still remains in the table.

If it works like you say, we can just list the incorrect ones in a topic in the contribution section. 
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However, the non-existant Carlos Don Dunaway will remain in the database forever.

I don't think so - like jmbox, I also think that any name only exist in the online database because at least one profile contains that name. Once all the profiles are updated to the correct name, the incorrect one will have vanished.

The CLT is a fun tool to check up on the thoroughly horrendous state of a rather large part of our database, though. Just for a laugh, have a look at what movies someone like Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart apparently worked on (439 profiles, yet he died in 1791). If our database is to be believed, Mr. Mozart apparently was the composer of the original score for films like 'The Spy Who Loved Me', 'There's Something About Mary', 'Alien' and 'The Big Lebowski', not to mention the sound re-recording mixer on 'Raising Helen'...     
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not to mention the sound re-recording mixer on 'Raising Helen'...     

Ooh, career diversification. 
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"People fake a lot of human interactions, but I feel like I fake them all, and I fake them very well. That’s my burden, I guess." ~ Dexter Morgan
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