Good evening, Sirs.

What is the indisputable distinction between second first names, middle names,
and two-part surnames?

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Quoting bbbbb:

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Good evening, Sirs.

What is the indisputable distinction between second first names, middle names,
and two-part surnames?

Love, bb b bb

That easy!
The first bits are the first names, the last bits are the last names, and everything in between are the middle names! 

Quoting northbloke:

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Quoting bbbbb:

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Good evening, Sirs.

What is the indisputable distinction between second first names, middle names,
and two-part surnames?

Love, bb b bb

That easy!
The first bits are the first names, the last bits are the last names, and everything in between are the middle names! 

Correct, with one samll proviso. IF you can document that the parsing should be some other way, then do so and provide your supporting documentation.

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Quoting EnryWiki:

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Of course! 

Provided that each part can contain more than one word, and the part in middle can be null. 

The last part can be null as well. Maybe there is even a case where the first and middle parts are null but the last part consists of more than one word.

Quoting T!M:

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As of yet, there's no such thing.

Of course we have:

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#  If an actor name is only a first name or stage name enter it entirely in the first name field. Examples are Cher, Madonna, Cedric the Entertainer & Queen Latifah.
# If an actor's credited name includes a nickname, highlighted by ", ’ or ( ), list it in the middle name field. For example John "JS" Smith, John ‘JS’ Smith or John (JS) Smith
# Articles (such as de, de la, di, von) are entered in the appropriate name field along with the name that they precede. Use the film credits to determine whether the actor capitalizes this article or not.

And then there are the field labels.

But I do agree: to stare at the credits only does not help parsing the name into the fields.

Quoting Unicus69:

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There is none that I am aware of.  They have to be dealt with on a case by case basis.

I see.

I did not ask for no reason, within the next three days I have to pronounce judgement
on this concrete case:

Is "Alden" a second first, middle, or the first word of a two-part last name?

Provided that Alden is no Chinese.

Quoting bbbbb:

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Quoting Unicus69:

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There is none that I am aware of.  They have to be dealt with on a case by case basis.

I see.

I did not ask for no reason, within the next three days I have to pronounce judgement
on this concrete case:

Is "Alden" a second first, middle, or the first word of a two-part last name?

Provided that Alden is no Chinese.

Still depends on the concrete credit and the person behind the credit.

I didn't say he had. he apparently ie reviewing "Alden" which could be a First, Middle or Last and since he started this thread I presume in this case we can Rule out that he is referring to a first name, though maybe not, there are after all hyphenated first names as well as last.

You really do need to follow the discussions, Rho, if you are going to keep stepping into them. You aren't leaving me many options here, except to paraphrase a film, and speak to you like you were 4 years old, sometimes that could benefit all of us.

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