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John Prescott
I assumed that John Prescott (I) would be the famous one - i.e. the one who has been on the database for at least the past 15 years, steadily having credits added consistently across all that time, but it turns out he's (III). Fair enough, the most famous person isn't always (I) - but then I notice that the person who IS (i) is another politician for a rival party, and their first credited appearance was three years ago, when the other Prescott was definitely already on here.
What's going on here? Has the other JP swapped the credits around to make themselves number one? I know sometimes pages get deleted and someone fills the vacuum, but it's such an uncommon name that I find it hard to believe there were two others before the one who has been appearing on television for over 40 years.
VonPunk
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2 months ago
Not the first page theft I've seen with the intent for someone to become (I), as if means anything more than (IV) or (XII).
You're partially right, it looks like page (I) used to belong to a lone credit for a movie called The Sore Losers, that credit has been shoved onto this page https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7341757/
And now the page created in 1998 is home to a few 2021 credits, staff should trace a timeline of events and fix it how should have been.
For what it's worth, Lord John Prescott looks to have been (III) since 2012 but the age of page (2004 creation) seems weird unless lots of older credits were added after that date.
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Bethanny
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2 months ago
Hi @tom_wake & @VonPunk -
Credits were added as far back as 2004, they were added to (III) and I see no indication of them ever being on (I). If you find anything you would like me to double check please let me know.
Cheers!
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