A problem with Cuba... rings a bell.

Sorry, I don't have anything substantial to add here. 

Quoting Nadja:

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Sorry, I don't have anything substantial to add here. 

You already did by letting me know about a bell ringing 

Isn't there some "English/American dictionairy rule" kinda way in which a Jr. name should be written? Comming from Holland I have now clue if that even exists, but if so, it would be a way of making some sort of standard for cases like this?.

Quoting Rifter:

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since without the comma, the Jr. effectively becomes the last name.

Makes sense to me, i think i have a verdict 

Decision's have sort of been "Made" already, otherwise there wouldn't be an indifference between profiles in the database. I am only looking for a way to get all the films with Cuba listed when i press on credits for example.

What Rifter said makes perfect sense to me and is also what i found looking trough the Random House Unabridged Dictionary -> Junior:

Younger (usually designating the younger of two men bearing the same full name, as a son named after his father; often written as Jr. or jr. following the name):
May I speak with the junior Mr. Hansen?
Mr. Edward Andrew Hansen, Jr.
Compare senior (def. 1).

Following a rule like that for cases like this will take out the need to "a web-based search facility of the whole database so that the most common name variant can be estabished".

A well just my 2 cents on the matter 

As everyone else has said, we are waiting on a decision from Ken.

However for all profiles the current rules are to take the name from the credits, spelling and punctuation exactly as credited. So if he is credited for a specific film as Gooding, Jr. or Gooding Jr or Gooding Jr. or whatever, that is what should be listed in the profile for that film. 

Once a "master name" has been decided on, the as credited data will be linked to the master name. Until then, if you want to change all of your profiles to match, that is up to you, but remember not to contribute any "illegal" changes to the main online db.

I would think this will all be sorted out in a matter of a few months or less and then you will have the linking you desire AND the proper credit for each film.

Quoting Gendji:

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At IMDB he is called Cuba Gooding Jr. without any "Credited As Cuba Gooding, Jr." mentioned, on Wikipedia they call him Cuba Gooding, Jr. etc. etc.

IMDB never uses ", Jr." or ", Sr." in their database, no matter how it is displayed in the credits.  However I have found most US credits will use the comma when crediting a Jr. or Sr.

Quoting skipnet50:

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Gendji:

No decsion has been reached, do whatever you wish locally but do not yet try to impose it on the online.

Skip

Not going to impose anything online, otherwise i wouldn't have asked the question here 

QuotingI Tracer:

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MDB never uses ", Jr." or ", Sr." in their database, no matter how it is displayed in the credits.  However I have found most US credits will use the comma when crediting a Jr. or Sr.

Yes that is what i found also.

I will, but going trought my Database in a "Laughing, crying, tumbling, mumbling, Gotta do more, gotta be more. Chaos screaming, chaos dreaming, Gotta be more, gotta do more" kinda way, i can tell ya it won't be easy 

Good thing about it is, that i have a reason to plan a Cuba weekend, gotta check em all out now