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The entry of personal names is sometimes complicated and different importers handle this differently. In the hope of achieving uniform input as much as possible, this question.

When entering persons, I use the instructions as included in Catawiki's Import Vademecum For Records and CDs as much as possible. Such an indication would also be very useful for video data carriers by the way.

PERSONAL NAMES Person names are entered in the order last name (capital letter), first name (capital letter). Infixes (with lowercase letters) are placed after the first name. Names are not entered. These can be placed with the background pages. Nijs, Rob de Lennon, John (and not Lennon, John Winston)

Unfortunately, this description does not cover all situations.

- Small letters are used in the Netherlands for infixes. Abroad, however, it is often capitalized and associated with the surname.

Example: Philippe Le Guay. How do I enter it now?

Le Guay, Philippe or Guay, Philippe Le or even Guay, Philippe le??

In my opinion, only the first version is correct because the spelling from the country of origin should be leading and the capital letter makes it part of the surname and should not be seen as an infix.

And how do we deal with Chinese and other non-European names? Often it is not even clear to me what the first name and what the last name is.

I use IMDb as much as possible, but there too it is not clearly indicated what the first or last name is.

Finally, the problem of diacritics (accents above or below a letter) and strange foreign letters. How do we prefer to deal with that?

Gr,

Matthijs

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Is there more clarity about how to enter names?
Use of alias: Do we mention the name as stated on the cover or do we stick to the name as on IMDB? Can the administrators then link the aliases?
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An administrator can edit the name of Jesús Franco (birth name Jesús Franco Manera) and associate the following aliases: Tío Jess, James P. Johnson, Jesus Manera, Clifford Brown, Dave Tough, Jess Franco, and Lulú Laverne.
See IMDB https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001238/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm 
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Dear Administrators,
Perhaps my questions about personal names are difficult, but I hope that you will discuss the above questions/comments about entering personal names again and that you will (be able/want to) make clear choices and include them in the handbook. Is there a chance? Or is this topic too complicated?

Then it remains that names are entered differently and that makes searching difficult.

See, for example, Vito, Francesco de / De Vito, Franceso (according to IMDB De with a capital letter) or De Vito, Danny (comma is missing in the input) or Vito, Danny de (according to IMDB it is written Danny DeVito together) and there are many more examples.
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Wies Andersen = Alois de Bois (1936-2023)
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