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Single or double quotes around nicknames...small rant and an FYI. |
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| Registered: June 12, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 2,665 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting 8ballMax: Quote:
It does seem that the problem really isn't about Nicknames and double vs single quotes in this case but what to use as common name. But just so you know that I wasn't dreaming about the consensus on the use of double quotes for nicknames in the middle name field:
Discussion on Credited As Field Part 2 An interesting thread but it's like a book with the first and last chapters missing! It starts with Gerri summarizing some potential rules updates, then six pages of occasionally ...oh let's call it "lively"  discussion...ending with Gerri saying they would ponder the results. And then nothing! Among the various points most people seemed to agree on the double quotes but a Rules change was never made and the rules still allow quotes, double quotes and parens. If it were to become the rule i'd certainly follow it but i'm curious how it jibes with wanting names to be As Credited. | | | | Bad movie? You're soaking in it! |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting kdh1949: Quote:
Wait a minute, guys. In another thread someone (Skip) says we have to show what's on the screen to be accurate. So if the credit is Robert Downey Jr. we can't show it as Robert Downey, Jr.. Why is it alright in this case to
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use double quotes for nicknames as IMDb uses single quotes.
if the onscreen credit uses single quotes? (I don't remember seeing a cast list with single quotes, but I don't think it's out of the question) -- but it sounds like you guys are saying that we should ALWAYS use double quotes so we don't resemble IMDB format. If it's a single quote on screen shouldn't we use a single quote to reflect accurate data? 
Or am I off on a wrong tangent? Ken: This is one of the problems with STANDARDIZATION of naming. You know that iwould say if 'Honi' is an actual credit and it is pssible, I have seen single quotes around nicknames On screen, then as far as I am concerned, that is what you list in the Credited As field. I think, I hope, the discussion relative to Standardizing of names would be more to the Common name than the Credited Name. In THAT particular vein, I would have no issue. Skip | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
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Billy Video |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting 8ballMax: Quote:
It does seem that the problem really isn't about Nicknames and double vs single quotes in this case but what to use as common name. But just so you know that I wasn't dreaming about the consensus on the use of double quotes for nicknames in the middle name field:
Discussion on Credited As Field Part 2 Nice to see that my old memory chips haven't failed entirely. Skip | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
CBE, MBE, MoA and proud of it.
Outta here
Billy Video |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 13,202 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting 8ballMax: Quote:
It does seem that the problem really isn't about Nicknames and double vs single quotes in this case but what to use as common name. But just so you know that I wasn't dreaming about the consensus on the use of double quotes for nicknames in the middle name field:
Discussion on Credited As Field Part 2 That is an interesting read, but it is an outdated thread and neither Ken nor Gerri have told us to impliment those 'standards'. Instead, we were given the CLT and were told to use the most commonly credited form of the name. Brw, I never though you were dreaming.  | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
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Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
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|   | T!M | | Profiling since Dec. 2000 |
| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 8,736 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Unicus69: Quote:
Clearly we should use the most commonly credited form of the name. Just for the record: there is no "most commonly credited form of the name". He's credited with three different name variants in three different titles. As we've seen several times lately, there's a strong consensus that "the most-credited form" refers to different titles, not the number of copies of the same profiles - and quite rightly so, obviously. So the number of copies is, and should be, completely irrelevant - it may only come into play here because we need some kind of "tiebreaker". If you feel "largest number of copies" is the best tiebreaker, then I guess it's going to have to be the variant used in 'Dirty Dancing'. | | | | Last edited: by T!M |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 13,202 |
| | Posted: | | | | I will admit that I didn't look at the number of titles. As I said, I was simply addressing the claim that we have a standard, when we don't. | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom.
Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
The Centauri learned this lesson once.
We will teach it to them again.
Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.
- Citizen G'Kar |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,394 |
| | Posted: | | | | Honi Coles is a name that sounds very familiar to me. You mean he has only appeared in three films? | | | Another Ken (not Ken Cole)
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| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 13,202 |
| | Posted: | | | | He is a Tony Award winning actor, so that might be how you know him. His film roles, from IMDb, are:
Dirty Dancing (1987) (as Charles Honi Coles) - Tito Suarez
The Cotton Club (1984) - Suger Coates
Rocky II (1979) (as Charles Coles) - Singer
Charleston (1979) (TV) - Old Shady | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom.
Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
The Centauri learned this lesson once.
We will teach it to them again.
Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.
- Citizen G'Kar |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 1,414 |
| | Posted: | | | | Yeah, I remember him most from The Cotton Club. Terrific little picture and very underrated. | | | | "This movie has warped my fragile little mind." |
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