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Collaboration Search Link Doesn't Pre-Fill Artist's Name from Profile Page
Apologies if this has already been brought up, but... say I'm on Will Smith's artist page (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000226/) and I choose the "Collaborations" item from the "Related" section of "All Topics". The URL for that is https://www.imdb.com/search/common/?name=nm0000226&ref_=nm_ov_at_rel_1 which (as you'll note) includes the IMDb name ID for Will Smith, `nm0000226`. So why, when the Collaborations search page loads, is Will Smith's name not pre-filled into the "Name 1" field? What's the point of linking to Collaborations from each artist's name page, if you're going to discard — not even discard, IGNORE, since it's right there in the URL — the information about what name was being viewed and make users type it in again? (Assuming they even remember what name they were viewing, and know how to spell it correctly enough for the system to match it. I mean, isn't the whole POINT of accessing the search page through an artist's name page, that you don't _have_ to remember the exact format of their name?)
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