We list people on the site by their professional name (stage name, best-known public name, what have you) and this, obviously, isn’t necessarily their real name. If you happen to find out someone’s real name, please don’t try to change their name on the site with a “name correction”. Instead add it as their “birth name” under Biographical Information.
And while we’re on the subject of names, one of the many fun things that the Interwebz have taught us is that very few of us have unique names. Please be careful when you spot that Ethel Doofenshmirtz was the costume designer on a French film made in 1930 that she really is the same Ethel Doofenshmirtz that we have listed. Take a quick look at her page – if her credits are as a stunt performer in American films in the 1990s, the chances are very high that it’s a completely different woman, no matter how rare the name. We have tools that can help us spot these anomalies, but you can help us greatly by having a quick delve and seeing if you can resolve the complication yourself.
