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*Further, all such VIAF database entries should be purged at VIAF, with the sole exception of "Verified" IMdB entries, which are signed by legal entities assuming responsibility for the data. --[[User:Lexein|Lexein]] ([[User talk:Lexein|talk]]) 11:28, 21 November 2012 (UTC)
:Wikipedia is not "surrendering any authority"; the VIAF template is simply a link between our page for an entity and an external service's identity for that entity. No editorial control or input is given to data from VIAF! In the general case, the way cataloguing rules work mean that a lot of linked identities will have unusual spellings or orthographies compared to Wikipedia's "common English" name, particularly with Cyrillic transliterations; there's absolutely no intention for us to switch to these forms, and indeed it's more likely that they'll pick up ours.
:This seems to stem from your comments about [[Norm MacDonald]]; I suspect in this case that a cataloguer has seem two variants and picked one. I don't think it's being used to advance a particular POV; it just hasn't caught up with an error which (as the article talkpage notes) was fairly widespread. The identity of the subject is fairly clear in both cases, so from an identity perspective it seems a good match.
:The use of IMDB in the [http://lccn.loc.gov/no98126050 LoC entry] is a good example of how records come into existence. The general system is that an authority entry is created the first time a cataloguer needs to cover that person. They draw information from the item in hand - in this case, ''Billy Madison'' - and often it simply gets left there. However, it's encouraged to include some disambiguation information, which is usually a birth year... hence why IMDB was consulted. (I suspect Macdonald was not in many print reference works in 1998, when the record was formed).
:What is particularly interesting is that they've weighted the two sources here and chosen to go with the spelling from the "real" one - the IMDB cite lists "found: Internet movie database, Nov. 24, 1998 (Norm '''Macdonald''', b. Oct. 17, 1963; actor)". Unfortunately, in this case IMDB was ''right'', and the misspelling was present in the original, but still - it's illustrative that IMDB is being used as supplementary information and not as sole authority. [[User:Andrew Gray|Andrew Gray]] ([[User talk:Andrew Gray|talk]]) 12:35, 21 November 2012 (UTC)
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