Quoting skipnet50:

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As teammantes I want all you to please tell me if you discover some form of Regional variation in the Credits. I have installed a program here to trrack such information for me

Please share the program with the community.

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I also have a ton of safeguards which I employ, that I will not detail, that will help minimize errors such as replacing a legitimately documented Alias or (uncredited) data.

Why not reveal your safeguards? Surely they would help all users in avoiding possible pitfalls.

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I just hope that doesn't mean I now have to look forward to another 10 pages of this thread arguing about the phrase "In general we don't recommend".

Well, it speaks for itself. I think that was a wise statement and a word of caution, but didn't say a No No. Anyway, Skip will find out soon whether his "Source R1" contributions get approved or declined.

Unicus:

That is simple we ahve a way to handle that it's called the Common Name or Alias. The diacritical does not appear ON Screen so from an As Credited viewpoint...<shrugs> If the Alias has been used I see no problem.

Skip

Hmmmm, I follow the logic, Unicus, food for thought, for when I run into it. Thanks. Not sure I like it though, and feel free to help me here. We don't have a French, German, English, etc database which are ALL separated, we have ONE database, I think it reduces overall usability and affects issues such as the Credit Lookup Tool if everybody is running around doing their own thing if you will. Yes? No? Maybe?
Skip

I understand your concerns, Gunnar and I don't have an answer for everything, I wish I did. My interest is only in constructive. IF I could beat you figuratively (assuming you were submitting some of what I see) into submission and KNOW that now that areas data has someone to watch over them, but I can't do that I could only dream about it. And if you tell me you like beatings, I am running.       This is the only workable plan I have been able to come up with and I have tried for months, while I have watched with an increasing level of frustration at what I am seeing. Does it have some risks, yes, everything does and I will do everything I can to mitigate them, for whatever it's worth to you the response I have received over the very little bit I have done has been overwhelmingly positive.

The overarching thing for me is that we have a problem, I have an idea for a fix that I pray works out for ALL of us. I am open to any ideas but, and please don't take this wrong, not hand-wringing. Perhaps after I have tested this to raise my confidence level relative to my hypothesis, I will feel like I can bring in some more users to be a more direct help, after all this is a major undertaking. But with me doing it for now, I can work to verify the hypothesis AND maintain tight control of the Project, along with hopefully shaking out kinks that might be run into.

I will say this, I will not remove any (uncredted), at least not deliberately but cordinating as many as 50 different is a little daunting, same is true of documented Aliases that have been established. I will also not establish any new Aliases for any such title, that is your job. There is one otable exception to Aliases, there is one area that the Program has a weakness which also affects the lookup Tool and for this function makes it virtually worthless and that is the inability of the Program to distinguish between upper and lower case elements and see them as separate datapoints. To try and make my life JUST a little bit easier, I will set that based on my data, if you want to correct it later be my guest. The program will see Comte de Guerre and Comte De Guerre  as the same thing. <shrugs> My data maybe Comte De Guerre and credit as de so I would catch that as Comte De Guerre (Comte de Guerre), that is simply to capture the On Screen data, I hope that Ken fixes that for the next beta but it has been an issue for a long time.Hopefully by at least capturing that specific type of On Screen data, when Ken fixes it it will not easy but relatively so to bring it intoline so that we can properly utilize the Lookup Tool. Bear with me, I have given this a lot of thought and I want it to work but if my hypothesis is wrong I would hope to discover it quickly

And I think Rho's comment relative to Legacy Profiles has some real merit, so I won't be touching those. I would like to figure something out about those because I think a large percentage of those Profiles probably should be removed, but I have a more than full plate already and I am not qualified or at least not comfortable to make that call. Well see, Gunnar I am keeping my fingers and toes crossed.

Skip

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Quoting Gerri Cole:

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In general we don't recommend submitting cast and crew for DVDs that you don't own because there can be discrepancies between localities, editions, and cuts (for example) and it can be difficult to validate without actually owning the DVD.

I just hope that doesn't mean I now have to look forward to another 10 pages of this thread arguing about the phrase "In general we don't recommend".

I think she meant we should only use cast and crew from other profiles if you want to create or adjust profiles for upcoming or just released versions, not as a source to correct old profiles.

This to start up the discussion for the next 9 pages...

Quoting Unicus69:

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For a US profile, you would use a 'c', because that is the standard lower case form of 'C'.  For a French profile, however, the standard is a little different.  Whether or not you use 'c' or 'ç' depends on the name in question.

No, this is also true for every locality as long as the persons's name is French. Or are you saying that in the USA foreign names are not written correctly?

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Quoting Unicus69:

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For an US profile, you would use a 'c', because that is the standard lower case form of 'C'.  For a French profile, however, the standard is a little different.  Whether or not you use 'c' or 'ç' depends on the name in question.

No, this is also true for every locality as long as the persons's name is French. Or are you saying that in the USA foreign names are not written correctly?

No, he meant that the capitalization rules are different in each country and therefore we should not correct foreign profiles.

Maybe, but he also said that in a US profile "C" would always be converted to "c".  And that would be wrong. "FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT" should be converted to "François Truffaut" in every locality because he is a French guy and his name is written with "ç". If the actual screen credit would be "Francois Truffaut" that would be a completely different matter. This would be simply an error in the credits and we do not correct errors.