They could actually be credited differently in various territory versions of the film, so we shouldn't automatically decide all entries in the database are incorrect.

I found a film recently which had a Producer credited one way in the film's end credits on the Canadian Blu-ray release, and they were credited with a totally different spelling variant on the German Blu-ray. And those two Blu-ray releases came out within weeks of each other.

They were also the default "English" language credits on both releases:





Courtney has the typo "Courteny" in the German release.

Hm, it hadn't occurred to me that they could chance the credits in different territory versions.

I haven't actually checked any other profile, only used the credit lookup tool with both versions of the name.

There is nothing to actually fix. The screen credit is Kreips, adding the common name will not change how it shows up in the CLT.

Quoting Anca1agon:

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as far as I understand it, profiles referring to "Vicky Kreips" should be changed to "Vicky Krieps [Vicky Kreips]". Even if that makes no difference for the CLT, it does make a difference for everyone who owns different movies (that are not "Hanna") featuring that actress.

In fact it wouldn't, since (if done correctly) in this case all appearances of Vicky Krieps (including the one from "Hanna") would show under one entry (Vicky Krieps).
Even better, the "Common Name" (if applied correctly!) will even solve all other possible variants of the most credited (-> usually most correct) form.

Regarding the "Obvious Typo"-thesis:
We cannot know if this really is a typo or if Mrs. Krieps (for what reason ever) wanted to be credited this way. We may assume a typo, be we do not know.
So what's "obvious" is that we have a variant of the most credited form, but that's about all.

Please accept that for DVDProfiler purposes we (the creators of/contributors to profiles) are nothing else but data-typists. We do NOT interpret (except where the rules explicitly allow us to). In order to consolidate the data we may then add necessary crosslinks or differentiators (i.e.: birthyears).
But we do not alter what we find in the credits. Period.

Yepp,
and therefore the profiles of "Hanna" need to be corrected (which obviously hasn't happened yet).

But since the CLT (in order to fulfill its main-purpose) has to mirror all the variants out there simply "correcting" to the most credited form wouldn't do.
A crosslink has to be implemented to achieve two goals at once:
1) Link Mrs. Kreips to Mrs. Krieps
2) Make the CLT show that there are actually variants of Mrs. Krieps

Quoting surfeur51:

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This is the main problem with the database. To have correct linking/sorting/filtering functions, we need to enter correct data, not copied errors.

surfeur51, I totally agree with your "enter correct data" approach.

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The result is a huge mess which is totally useless.

Say what??

Quoting surfeur51:
This is the main problem with the database. To have correct linking/sorting/filtering functions, we need to enter correct data, not copied errors. The result is a huge mess which is totally useless.





You're right, of course.

Typos in film credits are as old as the medium itself.

Here are a few examples.


The Remarkable Mr. Kipps (1941) - Michael Redgraves in openning credits, Michael Redgrave in end credits
Horror Express (1972) - Christopher Lee misspelled on some prints Cristopher
The Silver Star (1955) - Edgar Buchanan misspelled as Buchanon
Casablanca (1941) - S.Z. Sakall misspelled as S.K. Sakall
The Mummy's Hand (1940) - Cecil Kellaway misspelled as Kelloway
Cat-Women of the Moon (1953) - Elmer Bernstein misspelled Bernstien
Annie Hall (1977) - Christopher Walken misspelt as Wlaken
State of the Union (1948) - Katharine Hepburn misspelled as Katherine
In the Name of the King: Two Worlds - Bob Van Ronkel misspelled as Runkel (led to a lawsuit, I believe)
Dr. No (1962) - John Kitzmiller misspelled as Kitzmuller
The Bishop's Wife (1947) - Anne O'Neal misspelled Ann
Bang (1995) - Lucy Liu misspelled Lui
The Bishop's Wife (1947) - Kitty O'Neil misspelled O'Neill
A Matter of Life and Death (1946) - Bonar Colleano, misspelled as Bonor in the end credits
Airplane (1980) - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar misspelled as Jabaar)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) - Fredric March misspelled Frederic
Star Wars (1977) - Drewe Henley misspelled as Hemley
The Haunted Palace (1963) - Edgar Allan Poe misspelled Allen
Total Recall (1990) - Philip K. Dick misspelled Phillip
Star Wars (1977) - Denis Lawson misspelled as Dennis
Heavenly Creatures (1994) - Richard Rodgers misspelled Rogers

Angel Heart (1987) - Extras Casting misspelled as Exras Casting
Earth vs. the Spider (1958) - Starring misspelled as Starrring
The Breakfast Club (1985) - Illinois Film Commission misspelled as Comission
Catch Me If You Can (2002) - Saxophone solos misspelled as Saxaphone


I have no horse in this race as the saying goes...makes no difference to me, but I think you're wasting your time / beating a dead horse (see above posts).
You want a linking/error free db, I suggest you do what I do: completely disregard the Invelos db. Enter your own data into your local. Simple. Easy.