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Then he will be breaking the link to other William Wisher, Jr. entries which ARE credited.

No. There is only ONE "William Wisher, Jr." credit, in 'Terminator', and like this one, that credit should also use his common name. So that 'Terminator' credit reads "William Wisher [William Wisher, Jr.], and this 'Terminator 2: Judgment Day' credit reads "William Wisher", along with his other credits in 'The Abyss', 'The 13th Warrior' and so on. And so everything properly links together.

The problem for you, Skip, is, that you probably haven't applied the correct common name in your 'Terminator' profile yet. I'm guessing that yours still lists "William Wisher, Jr." as credited, without the much-needed common name. Rather than trying to get this correct update declined, you need to fix your own 'Terminator' profile to incorporate the "William Wisher" common name. With both changes, not only will his entries in 'Terminator' and 'Terminator 2: Judgment Day' then link together for you, but they'll also link together with his other credits in 'The Abyss', 'The 13th Warrior' and so on.

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You might be correct if William Wisher (William Wisher, Jr) had been done in The Terminator, I see nop such record.

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Quoting Prof. Kingsfield:

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changing William Wisher, Jr. (uncredited) to William Wisher (uncredited)  in T2 breaks the link to the credited William Wisher, Jr.

It does. But leaving it as "William Wisher, Jr." breaks the link with his credits in 'The Abyss', 'The 13th Warrior' and so on.

This is why it's called a common name - we're after the most-credited form. Well, the most-credited form of Mr. Wisher's name is not "William Wisher, Jr.", but simply "William Wisher". So that's the variant we use. We use it for the times when he's credited as such, we use it for the times he appears (uncredited), and we also add it, as a common name, to the one time he's credited as "William Wisher, Jr.".

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So YOU make the change and to Kluge make your Contribution CCORRECTLY and I will be happy to vote yes.

No need. Your misguided concerns will be ignored by the screeners and Kluge's contribution will be accepted. Simply because it's absolutely correct.

You're very welcome.

For the record, though: Kluge is actually establishing a link. Maybe not with your 'Terminator' profile, but that would only be because your 'Terminator' profile is incorrect (i.e. missing the "William Wisher" common name).

Of course in my copy The Terminator: Special Edition (8-712626-007241), i've corrected and submitted the credit William Wisher [William Wisher, Jr.] as per film credits.
Note that these changes will not affect the CLT results, uncredited people are not calculated by CLT.
And the "links" are only in personal data base.

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It is exactly this kind of hodge podge method without any sort of documentation which prevents the CLT system from working properly.

As luck would have it, this contribution is about an (uncredited) entry, and those don't show up in the CLT at all. So it has no effect whatsoever.

You really do need to try to get a grip on the whole "credited as" system. The fact that you suggested to use "William Wisher, Jr. [William Wisher] (uncredited)" is worrying, to say the least, because it's both impossible (can't use "credited as" for uncredited) and incorrect (declaring the least-used name variant as the common name).

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Quoting Prof. Kingsfield:

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It is exactly this kind of hodge podge method without any sort of documentation which prevents the CLT system from working properly.

As luck would have it, this contribution is about an (uncredited) entry, and those don't show up in the CLT at all. So it has no effect whatsoever.

You really do need to try to get a grip on the whole "credited as" system. The fact that you suggested to use "William Wisher, Jr. [William Wisher] (uncredited)" is worrying, to say the least, because it's both impossible (can't use "credited as" for uncredited) and incorrect (declaring the least-used name variant as the common name).

Then we don't worry about linking since it's just an (ujncredited) entry. ROFL. Then I guess we can just do whatever we want with (uncredited) since they aren't part of the CLT to begin with....don't make me laugh.

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