Name Field Selection Query

@Peter_pbn​ Yeah the real Ron credit I added the other day, did actually have a attribute like you mention on his Ronald page, ended up he had two pages (Ron & Ronald) as well but both should have showed up especially with uncommon surnames, luckily I'd figured out that the suggestions were no longer operating as they did in past and found both pages and merged them.

As for other two I'm not sure they did and nearly also ended up with me creating a duplicate page but didn't cause I went the extra mile to search the site.

Thanks for your reply.

@VonPunk​ 

Perhaps the specific examples would help.

@ljdoncel posted some similar examples some years ago.

@Peter_pbn​ Cheers for that. It seems it's always been lacking or it improved and recently started lacking again and my getting 3 instances in a week just drove it home harder.

You want the pages I meant, have to go off top of my head.

I had a Matthew Lively but no such page existed and nothing was being suggested, but I edited to Matt Lively and there was about 3 pages, one was the person I wanted, it shows up now with an aka added.

One was Ronald Baraff/Ron Baraff, they were not suggested together, I ended up merging them together.

Cannot recall the Mike/Michael one.

I did do a Stephen this morning and his page was as Steve, and it showed up also probably because of existing aka's.

I guess that's sort it really, if there's an aka, you're in luck, if there isn't then the system might not give you any suggestions of use, but it really should do.

@Michelle​ I listed all the ones I could above but now due to merges or (as...) attributes being added they probably no longer register as a problem.

Basically the system was not recognising that Matt Lively should be a suggestion for Matthew Lively till attribute was added

If I find more I'll post them here but I have covid at minute and am moving a bit sluggish on contributing this last few days. Thanks :)

Hi @VonPunk -

Thanks for the latest example, I have passed that along to the tech team.  In the meantime, I'm sorry to hear you have covid and I hope you feel better soon!

@Michelle​ Thanks, I've kept going, my first time with it, I just feel weird (like a drunkness) rather than sick, I've been luckier than most around me who were all bedridden or hospitalised but are all recovering now, thankfully.

I remembered another, Gabriela Alicea I added to something but her main page is Gabi Alicea, the latter wasn't suggested, I later figured out there was two pages and merged them together, I realise I maybe be fixing all the examples here so no replication of the problem can be done but it's still a plus for the site.

Another example, onscreen credit said 'Gordan Christmas', I put it in, no suggestions anywhere near similar, I then decided maybe it was a typo and changed 1 letter to 'Gordon Christmas' and there was two suggestions of that name, that really seem they should've showed up on first instance.

Also, as there's no good place to ask, outside starting a new thread, can this page (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3345222/) be deleted or merged, it relates to nothing released, and although it appears to be a bad duplicate page of a series (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7229296/) from 2017 with incorrect 2014 date and truncated title, the pages age, show it's likely they intended to make this series years before they actually did and the page was Just forgotten about and replaced by a new one 3 and half years later.

Hi @VonPunk​ -

Thanks for these additional examples, I have passed them along as well.  Concerning the title page request I have now merged them and the change should be live on the site shortly.

In the meantime, I hope you are feeling better, and hopefully you have some downtime to relax a bit and watch some films/shows while you recover!

@Michelle​ Thank you Michelle, that is excellent.

And thank you for your kindness, I've being doing what you hoped, taking it easy and I am feeling better each day and considering myself fortunate to be doing so. Thank you. :)

@Michelle​ Still happens all the time, as a made up example, if I was doing say a name like Greg Liman and he was on here as Gregory Liman (but with no name attribute credits as Greg Liman), the latter probably wouldn't come up as an option. It happened the other day I had a 'Alex Thie' who's on the site as 'Alexandra Thie', a unique name on the site but never was a suggestion but will be now an attribute alternate name is added.

I've got used to now typing variations of names in the boxes to try locate name pages under alternate names with a wider scope than relying on the system to suggest choices that seems to only work if alternate names already exist on a name page.

I'm grateful it was looked into but if there isn't anything technical that can be done to improve it, it's okay.

Thanks Michelle for following up.

@VonPunk​ Hi! I have passed on your feedback.

Cheers!