related to:
https://mydramalist.com/discussions/support/31625-birth-name-not-visible

it's sad that you closed that topic Ji-N
and I cannot believe you actually did what I feared of

example 1 (copied today from the site):

    First Name: Ivy
    Family Name: Chen
    Native name: 陳意涵
    Nationality: Taiwanese
    Gender: Female
    Born: November 12, 1982
    Age: 35

we lost information of the given/birth FIRST name: Chen Yihan
"Yihan" - where is it now? nowhere...

example 2 (copied today from the site):

    First Name: Andrew
    Family Name: Yin
    Native name: 尹正
    Also Known as: Yin Zhang
    Nationality: Chinese
    Gender: Male
    Born: December 30, 1986
    Age: 31

"Zheng" is his "FIRST" name and it's now not visible, we have only "Andrew" there...

there are some actors in the database that I don't want to edit because we will lose info on them in the same way too, so I don't touch it
but if other mdl users start to edit all names into English, part of Chinese birth name ("first name") will disappear for all Chinese actors
I see it as damage not improvement...

is this an interim/transitional situation now?

because for this one:

https://mydramalist.com/people/16704-cai-xu-kun

the info is displayed in correct way:

August Cai

Details

  • First Name: Xu Kun  
  • Family Name: Cai
  • Native name: 蔡徐坤
  • Also Known as: August;Angy;Kun Kun;Ikun;坤坤;Xu Kun;Xiao Kun
  • Nationality: Chinese
  • Gender: Male
  • Born: August  2, 1998
  • Age: 20

I fixed it, you are correct. The English name is not their birth name

Ji-N closed this Sep 25, 2018 05:41 pm