Correct,
but if he's credited with comma in your movie please use the "credited as"-function.

Once more, a plea for sanity...

The punctuation of suffixes should be standardized so the abusrd question doesn't keep coming up.  It shouldn't matter one iota how many times "John Doe, Jr." is credited with or without comma.  They're the same guy, credited with the same name.

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They're the same guy, credited with the same name.

Who told you so?
Give sources!    

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Once more, a plea for sanity...

The punctuation of suffixes should be standardized so the abusrd question doesn't keep coming up.  It shouldn't matter one iota how many times "John Doe, Jr." is credited with or without comma.  They're the same guy, credited with the same name.

Maybe it shouldn't matter but we, as users, can't standardize anything.  The rules are clear, we use what is in the credits and then pick the most commonly credited form.  There is no wiggle room here.

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I have tried to search, but things got screwed up here. What is the common name to this gentleman? After a search in CLT:
"cuba gooding jr." is credited in the following 209 titles (541 profiles)
and
"cuba gooding, jr." is credited in the following 131 titles (337 profiles)

So is his common name without the comma?

Frankly, I'm flat out stunned that Cuba Gooding, Jr. has appeared in a total of 340 unique titles!  That filmography must be about a mile long. 

No wonder the CLT is so bad.

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Quoting Snark:

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Once more, a plea for sanity...

The punctuation of suffixes should be standardized so the abusrd question doesn't keep coming up.  It shouldn't matter one iota how many times "John Doe, Jr." is credited with or without comma.  They're the same guy, credited with the same name.

Maybe it shouldn't matter but we, as users, can't standardize anything.  The rules are clear, we use what is in the credits and then pick the most commonly credited form.  There is no wiggle room here.

I disagree.  If there was one name field instead of a first and last name I might buy into that.  As it stands, we're already parsing.

If the feeling amoung users is that the rules prohibit doing the right thing then they're broken and need to be fixed.  We have enough problems with people legitimately credited under seperate names that we don't need the faux issue created by punctuation.

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I disagree.  If there was one name field instead of a first and last name I might buy into that.  As it stands, we're already parsing.

This isn't about parsing.  It is about adding or removing a comma.  The rules are clear, we are to copy the end credits "with names and roles listed exactly as they are in the credits."  If you remove or add a comma, they are no longer "exactly as they are in the credits."

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This isn't about parsing.  It is about adding or removing a comma.  The rules are clear, we are to copy the end credits "with names and roles listed exactly as they are in the credits."  If you remove or add a comma, they are no longer "exactly as they are in the credits."

It is absolutely about parsing IMO.  We're forced to parse into 2 fields.

I am sure if we had a film that credited "Wayne, John" and "Eastwood, Clint" that a few people would try to suggest that they be parsed as F:"Wayne," L"John" and F:"Eastwood," L"Clint" but we all know what the real credits are.  We're already having to deal with parsing issues on foreign names with prefixes like "de la".  (Try and credit THOSE exactly.  Mixed cased names collide.)

I agree that a literal interpretation of the rules leads to the madness we have here.  It's simply time to correct the madness and come up with a solution that minimizes the silliness of having to come up with a "common" name for the same name.