Hasn't this already been hashed out? Union/Guild affiliations apply to crew credits. You are referring to titles appended to Cast credits. Apples and Oranges IMO.

I definitely agree that it is under both the cast and crew rules... so it definitely applies to both cast and crew.

Now... is M.D. to be considered a union or a guild? That I have no idea. I personally am not familiar with either enough to say.

Time to link to this thread again.

It refers to military titles but guild/unions are mentioned in the thread.

Quoting tweeter:

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Time to link to this thread again.

It refers to military titles but guild/unions are mentioned in the thread.

I was well aware of that thread - my question was whether "M.D." is a union/guild affiliation. Apparently it's not, so I'll start including them from now on. I just wasn't sure, especially since most users seem to be leaving "M.D." off. I'll give an example: there isn't a single profile out there that credits Neil B. Shulman, M.D. (as shown on-screen) as the writer of 'Doc Hollywood'. Instead, they all just use "Neil B. Shulman". I'll correct my copy now.

Quoting skipnet50:

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M.D is NOT a union or guild affiliation and this has been covered before.

Then why did you leave it out from the 'Doc Hollywood' profile you submitted?

Another good example: the CLT shows 66 profiles for, say, "David Berkson" in E.T., and only 4 (!) profiles using the "M.D." suffix as shown on-screen. Two of those four correct ones are mine, I might add. Again: I'm happy to comply, but it sure seems good that we addressed this, because the outcome is the exact opposite as what most users have been doing. You may feel that this has been covered before, but the database shows that it needs highlighting a little bit...

That wasn't meant as any kind of assault, Skip: I was merely trying to show that this issue is not so clear to everyone as you made it seem. A quick look through the database shows that up until now, about 90 to 95% of the users consistently choose to leave the "M.D." suffix out - including both you and me. I was only using a few examples to show that the topic is worthy of a bit more attention than a matter-of-factly "this has been covered before". It may very well have been covered before, but it's obvious that it needed to be highlighted again.

Once again: I was just using the fact that so many users (including me and you) have been doing this wrong, to show that the topic is worthy of a bit of renewed attention. Dismissing problems with a simple "this has been covered before" doesn't fix bad data.

If you want to start a war over that, be my guest. You'll just have to do it on your own - I'm not playing this time.

Personally I would like to see some fields added to a persons profile to add job titles or military rank and have there names separate.

For instance when adding a new actor you would have the following.

1st field: Job Title (IE Dr. General, Lieutenant etc.)
Rest of name fields the same.
Last field: Second part of Job title, military branch - if appears on screen (IE M.D. or U.S.M.C.)

Their actor name would be without the job titles or military branch, so if they appear in another profile you can simply enter just their name. But when shown in the dvd profile it would appear just as it does onscreen with job titles or military branch intact.

This would eliminate the problem whether or not job titles or military rank is part of their name or not, they would be completely separate from their real name.

I hope that made sense.