A phantom-person profile has to be deleted

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https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0752923 - this name seems to be simply copied from the 'kinopoisk', but corresponds to no real person, as further explained.

According to the profile, 'O. Ryazanov' is an actor who played in
Privet, duralei! (1996) - Russian movie, and
Tini zabutykh predkiv (1964) - Soviet-Ukrainian movie.
In fact, we have no such name listed as an actor anywhere, except 'О. Рязанов' at the https://www.kinopoisk.ru/name/196094/ . If we search for the same name in another Russian database, there are no similar results https://www.kino-teatr.ru/search/22317568/576201/ . And the name is not mentioned on the movie-pages: https://www.kino-teatr.ru/kino/movie/5615/titr/ ; https://www.kino-teatr.ru/kino/movie/sov/7117/titr/ .

Moreover, kinopoisk has no more links to any names that could be not exactly the same but similar https://www.kinopoisk.ru/s/type/people/list/1/find/%F0%FF%E7%E0%ED%EE%E2/ - there are no 'Олег Рязанов', or 'Остап Рязанов', or else starting with 'О'. So, only one short name for only two movies. I've re-watched both movies trying to find the phatom person who'd be young enough in 1964 and old enough in 1996 to participate in both as an actor. Noone matched.

It is closer to truth that O. Ryazanov in 'Privet, duralei!' must be 'Э. Рязанов' (E. Ryazanov) - the short name of Eldar Ryazanov himself, as printed in titles backdropped (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117392/mediaviewer/rm832467968).

For the old famous 'Tini zabutykh predkiv' we have incorrect duplicate of existing actor Aleksandr Raydanov. His Ukrainian name 'Oleksandr Raydanov' printed as short 'О. Райданов' (O. Raydanov) in titles. This movie includes no actor named Ryazanov - not credited, nor uncredited one.
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Posted 2 years ago

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Hi MAthePA -

If you are certain that the credits listed on the page for "O. Ryazanov" are incorrect, please submit deletion requests through our online Update form.

You can also find additional information on how to remove incorrect data on the following Help page: https://help.imdb.com/article/contribution/contribution-information/correcting-existing-data/GPFQGX9...#

Once you submit the data updates our editors will review the information and take the applicable actions.
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Thank you for any reply, but it does not cover the problem. I know the main principles for correcting credits, but not asking this here. The way for deleting profiles of non-existing persons is explained in the main form for merging/splitting names. The only way is to address here on 'getsatisfaction', that's why I've registered here also. From my side, it is explained how the phantom person could arrive in the base.

If the future advice is to spend efforts and time on editing one-two-plenty of wrong credits when they link to virtual/unreal entities. If you mean it, thank you as well.
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If all credits are proved wrong and removed, then IMDb will remove the profile.
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Thanks MAthePA, we've now removed the incorrect name page from the site based on your findings.

Regards,
Will