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[Doug Wright]

Hal Schneider wrote:

>Doug,
>
>I just imported the crew for "All the King's Men" and noticed a couple of
>problems.
>
>Robert Rossen was assigned as Writer when in fact he wrote the screenplay.
>In IMDB, if they are under the "Writing Credits" section it appears that the
>convention is that IF nothing follows the name, they were a screenwriter.
>The vast majority of names have some entry after them and I did not find ANY
>"real" writers" who did not have an entry after their name.  I think it
>would improve accuracy to incorporate a rule that if there is no entry after
>a name in the writers section, they should be assigned as a screenwriter.
>  
>
To be honest, I just guessed the default credit for the writers. I'll do 
some investigating and see if I reach the same conclusion as you. I know 
for most modern movies, the IMDb gets the information from the WGA and 
roles are explicitly labeled

>Also, you may want to start thinking about 2.32 of DVDP.  They plan to add
>the "Written by" credit for original screenplays.  This is already clearly
>identified in IMDB, so should be straightforward.
>  
>
I'm waiting until I see the new list in an actual version, and not a 
mocked-up screenshot - Ken may well have a slightly different list.

>The second problem on All the King's Men" was that it imported three
>individuals under the "Music" section that are (uncredited).  I believe the
>current convention for crew is not to add any uncredited crew.
>  
>
Since we add uncredited cast, we should also add uncredited crew IMHO in 
the interests of simplicity/consistency. If you disagree, you can just 
add 'uncredited' to the list of 'ignore' words on line 727 (I'll 
document this kind of stuff better before 0.8 final).


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