Even though the "For the record"-quote above is mine, it's very simple:

Quoting Ken Cole:

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The common name is not intended to always reflect the "real name", but the most commonly credited name.

So there you have it: we use the most commonly credited name. If that's David Campbell, that's what we use. So the poll is moot. This is not a new problem; it happens every day. I have about two dozen "fake" birth years in my local database to differentiate between people with the same common names, for which no birth year can be found. I agree that it's unfortunate, but it's simply the result of Ken's approach to common names.

IMDb - just using a well-known example - tends to use people's "full" names: if someone's credited with a middle initial a few times in their career, they usually incorporate that middle initial into the common name. We don't do that. I certainly won't deny that their system makes for easier differentiating between similarly named people, but it's just not what Ken chose to do for the Invelos database...

Edit: I wonder what the "other" voters suggest to use as this guy's common name? If you don't agree with using commonly credited name "David", and you haven't voted for the other option (which would boil down to "David E.") either, then what? "Dave"? Why?

Quoting Giga Wizard:

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Nice to know you decide again all the rest is moot and only your way is the way to go. Blaming Ken is a new one It is you who is forcing the change.

I'm not "forcing" anything. I expect you've encountered a contribution of mine in which I'm using "David Campbell" as the common name for this guy, while you had preferred to stick with the full IMDb-style name variant of "David E. Campbell". Unfortunately, that's hardly ever used in his actual credits. Again: that common name I'm using is correct per Ken's specific instructions, so I'm just following the rules. If you want to "blame Ken" for that, feel free to do so - just leave me out of it!

Well, it's a little bit childish to delete all his posts and thread-titles...
It makes the forums unreadable... 

Well, after all he is a wizard which could explain his sudden disappearance.

Quoting surfeur51:

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His last message is that of 3:44 of this thread, which is quoted by TIM. I do not see in TIM's answer anything to explain such a out of proportion reaction...

I don't see anything to explain it either...which is why I asked if, maybe, I was missing something somewhere...perhaps in one of his other edited posts or a PM?  I have never seen anybody leave in this manner, so it makes me wonder what could have happened.

At this time, he is still deleting his messages.  6 pages on 153. In 25 hours, he'll have totally disappeared, if that is what he wants to do...

You are right, looks like he or something/somebody is deleting all his messages, one at a time.

Dirk

Quoting Unicus69:

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I don't get it...something had to have happened.

Something did happen. He updated a profile per new features and rules, and did it by the books, as has been done countless times in the past, then he was downvoted and jumped on by a majority of the users here for doing it. I can see his point. If contributions can no longer be made according to the rules, of what purpose is there in contributing to the site, database, and community?

In my opinion the big problem on this site is severe lack of moderation. There are so many issues and questions posted to the forums that could be easily solved by a single and simple reply from Ken or other people he appoints as moderators, as well as timely updates to the contribution rules themselves. Instead, threads go on for pages and pages of pointless bickering and insults, with SOME users having free reign to troll, insult, and belittle others to their heart's content, without any fear of reprisal from a moderation team or from the site owner himself.

If this changed, DVD Profiler would easily be two or three times the program that it currently is.