For DVD Profiler purposes, J.D. and J./D. are the same - they're both stored in the database as J./D./Evermore. You are able to enter the variant without the space into the "credited as" field, but as far as the actual name fields are concerned, those names are always, automatically stored in the J./D./Evermore format, no matter how they're entered. What you're perceiving as a change, is no change for DVD Profiler itself: the name was always stored in the DVD Profiler database as J./D./Evermore, and it still is. "No differences detected" indeed.

This forum thread hashed it all out.

Quoting Magmadrag:

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Anyhow the online database should have the identical parsing to the local one on every computer.

That's how it was originally, but after endless ping-ponging, Invelos backed away from that. So that's how we arrived at how parsing is currently handled.

Quoting Magmadrag:

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it's always (imo unneccessary) manual work for the Screeners. Isn't it?

It's not, no. Where DVD Profiler is set up to ignore such differences, that actually means less work for the screeners. Your own experience actually illustrates that: you tried to contribute a change that Invelos doesn't actually see as a change, in which case you've found that the contribution simply cannot be made. How can fewer contributions be more work for the screeners?

Quoting Magmadrag:

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it's less work for the Screeners if they don't need to correct wrong parsing manually.

No such process exists. A contribution to a particular profile is only accepted or declined in it's entirety (images excluded). At no point does a contribution lead a screener to manually "correct" the parsing of anyone's name in the DVD Profiler database - there really isn't even such a thing as a "master" name list. The parsing of a cast/crew member's name is stored in each profile that he or she appears in, but there's no master list. The same person's name may be parsed differently in another profile. There's no way to fix that througout the entire database in one fell swoop. However the name's parsed in your profile when you contribute the cast/crew - if that contribution is approved, then that's how it stored in that profile. If the next contributor has it parsed another way, and he gets a cast/crew update approved, then *that's* the parsing that will be stored in the profile, and so on. None of those parsing changes will ever affect/overwrite anyone's parsing in their local database.

Inititals are tricker: again, an Invelos autofilter ensures that both J.D. and J./D. (but not JD) are stored in exactly the same way. Only the "credited as" value can be changed, but the form of J.D.//Evermore cannot ever be stored at DVD Profiler's end. "J. D. Evermore, credited as J.D. Evermore", that's possible, and if you submit J.D.//Evermore, that's what Invelos automatically turns it into. That can't be circumvented.