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ninehours:

How is the name written on screen, exactly?

Cedric The Entertainer

Then I would enter it exactly as it is written, because the credit information is not entirely capitalized, so we are not supposed to use standard capitalization, as far as I understand from the Rule.

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To make things even more complicated: If his most credited name is Cedric “The Entertainer”, the quoted part should be in the middle as it would be a nickname because Cedric is his first name and his last name is Kyles.

where did you get Kyles from - we are supposed to use his most credited name - are you now trying to suggest that Cedric Kyles is his most credited name?

You should have clicked on the link. Anyway I said "If" and I didn't say we should enter his last name.

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Just to confuse things even more, his official web page list him as
Cedric The Entertainer
Cedric the Entertainer
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Cedric ‘The Entertainer’
all on the same page... 

thats probably because the author of the web site doesn't have DVD Profiler.

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I agree 100 %, a name has to be always capitalized.

The only trouble is that "the" isn't a name but a joining word.

In this context, the word 'the' is part of his stage name.  To be clear, as it is his stage name, it is a proper noun.  Standard capitalization rules require that all parts of a person's name are to be capitalized.

The only thing that proves is the people who entered those names did not follow standard capitalization rules.

Edit:  On second look, it doesn't even prove that as they did capitalize 'Jimmy The Robot', 'Larry The Cable Guy' & 'George 'The Animal' Steele'. 

Doesn't change anything.  A name is a name, even if it is a stage name.  As such, per standard capitalization rules, each word is capitalized.  Just because some people on an internet sited didn't follow the rule doesn't make it any less of a rule.

I often wonder if people actually read the links they post. 

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"The"

From the link above:  I think the only justification for uppercase "The" would be if it is part of a title. So The Joker might be the title of an issue or episode, but "the" is not part of the character's proper name, so should not be capitalized in ordinary use. --Blainster 07:19, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

The part I bolded is true.  Which means when 'the' IS part of the proper name, it should be capitalized...which is what I said.

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When to capitalize "the" in proper names and titles?

There were 8 'user' answers to this question.  Only 3 of those addressed it's use in a 'proper name' and they said to capitalize it.

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Capitalization

This one does have a single sentence that counters my assertion:

In nearly all European languages, single-word proper nouns (including personal names) are capitalized, e.g., France, Moses. Multiple-word proper nouns usually follow rules like the traditional English rules for publication titles (see below), e.g., Robert the Bruce.

At the bottom of this article, there is a link to this site.  On that site it says:

Remember to capitalize the following:

all proper nouns (the first letter of a person's first, last and middle name)

I have found many other sites that say, basically, the same thing.  I guess you will have to decide, for yourself, which way you want to go.  I already know where I stand on it.

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I often wonder if people actually read the links they post. 

I read them. I just placed them here to give us some food for thought.

Ah, I understand then.  Food for thought is never a bad thing.