Yes.

Quoting Danae Cassandra:

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Judging by how I read the bio on his official website it is a second first name.

http://www.johncartercash.com/page8/page8.html

So I would parse him John Carter / / Cash

Now this came quite unexpected.
I think it's better for me to stop contributing for movies that have American names involved. One can never be sure about the correct parsing. Heck, in this case I would have risked my right arm to say this is parsed John / / Carter Cash, or possibly even John / Carter / Cash.

I agree with tweeter.

Quoting Danae Cassandra:

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Really?  Even given that in the bio on his own website he refers to himself as John Carter?  Consistently?

If my cousins had websites they'd be referred to by their first & middle names: Eddie Joe, Billy Ray, etc.  Ditto my uncles and aunts.

The fact that multiple names are used regularly doesn't change their default parsing.

Quoting tweeter:

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...the default parsing...

Fortunately, we do not have default parsing. Any general rule about names cannot avoid to introduce errors, and wrong data is the worst thing when we speak of database functions (sorting, filtering, linking...). People who ask for such default rules generally prefer lazyness to correct documented data.

Quoting RHo:

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Luckily there is no default parsing. Otherwise we would be counting words which doesn't make any sense when parsing a name into fields which have their own meaning.

That would make sense, if we actually did that. But no, we don't do that either. Asian names, anyone?

Quoting T!M:

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That would make sense, if we actually did that. But no, we don't do that either.

Nothing automatic will never make sense. When we see the result of the calamitous automatic rule about accents, creating variants and unlinking for thousands of actors' names (for whom no variant exist in credits), no sane user can hope another thing like that.

Quoting tweeter:

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Quoting Danae Cassandra:

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Really?  Even given that in the bio on his own website he refers to himself as John Carter?  Consistently?

If my cousins had websites they'd be referred to by their first & middle names: Eddie Joe, Billy Ray, etc.  Ditto my uncles and aunts.

The fact that multiple names are used regularly doesn't change their default parsing.

As others have said before, there is no default parsing.  Given that he continually uses both his names, that to me speaks a double first name, rather than anything else.

There's a contact form on the website, someone could contact him and see if he answers as to how he would like his name parsed.  Or if he cares.

If we are to have a default parsing, that needs to be added to the rules.  But, like surfeur, I think that would be terrible.