If it varies if someone is credited with or without a middle name/initial should we include it in the common name entry or not?

I am for including because, as I said in another thread:

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You can't search on the middle name alone but you can search on first or last on their own or together with or without the middle name.

So if a name is in the database with a middle name, it doesn't matter if you search for it with or without the middle name, the entry will still show up.

Also, it may help to distinguish same name cast, especially where there is no YoB data.

Quoting TomGaines:

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Either "Look at each case individually" or "Use most common".
I do not want to exclude it always (that would e.g. mean that Michael J. Fox will become Michael Fox).
But I also do not want to always include the middle name only because maybe the relevant actor was once credited as such but normally isn't.

I agree. These are tricky.