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| Registered: May 9, 2007 |  Posts: 254 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Voltaire53: Quote:
FWIW I tend to point out spelling errors copied from an overview in my submission notes; they're always available to be checked in future if someone sees a 'mistake' and wonders whether to correct it. I certainly don't think we should be adding any [ ] type markup which again takes it away from 'as credited' I agree with this as well. Making contribution notes as clear as possible is a good practice as it helps future contributors know exactly what was changed (or not changed, in this case) and why. | | | | "I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world because they'd never expect it." - Jack Handey |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 1,029 |
| | Posted: | | | | Special repost for skipnet50. Maybe he gets it this time. Quoting goodguy: Quote:
If you are able to spot and mark up the error, you might as well correct it.
Otherwise, all that's being said in favor of keeping the error applies to any mark up as well. It just occured to me that I could repeat this 3000 times and I still wouldn't have reached his post count.  | | | | Matthias | | | | Last edited: by goodguy |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | Goodguy:
You seem to be suggesting to correct errors and i am telling the Rules do not provide for that. The data standard is what is ACTUALLY on the cover or ACTUALLY on the disc, no concoctions of any other kind unless provided for in the Rules.
I am so pleased to see that you worry about my post count, not sure why, I don't, it's irellevant to me. I can't even tell you what it is because i don't look at it.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 1,279 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Kevin Coed: Quote:
This is a genuine overview :-
"Tree beautiful sister...
One of them is lying...
One of them is telling the truth...
And one of them is mad...
Now he is caught...
Between them all...
In a symphony of suspicion...
Obsession...
Murder...
And madness...
Trust nothing you see...
Trust nothing you feel...
Trust nothing you touch...
Trust nothing you thing...
Tree diabolic sisters a missing body
It all come out in the wash..."
I would hate to see it 'corrected'; I prefer it like it is.  What on earth is that from? I would say it's a Hong Kong release, but apart from the one typo repeated it's too good for the ones I've got. | | | | IVS Registered: January 2, 2002 |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 3,436 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting goodguy: Quote:
Special repost for skipnet50. Maybe he gets it this time. I hope you didn't expect any different. (admittedly, I had to read it more than once to understand ) | | | Achim [諾亞信； Ya-Shin//Nuo], a German in Taiwan.
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 |  Posts: 278 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Lithurge: Quote:
Quoting Kevin Coed:
Quote:
This is a genuine overview :-
"Tree beautiful sister...
One of them is lying...
One of them is telling the truth...
And one of them is mad...
Now he is caught...
Between them all...
In a symphony of suspicion...
Obsession...
Murder...
And madness...
Trust nothing you see...
Trust nothing you feel...
Trust nothing you touch...
Trust nothing you thing...
Tree diabolic sisters a missing body
It all come out in the wash..."
I would hate to see it 'corrected'; I prefer it like it is.
What on earth is that from? I would say it's a Hong Kong release, but apart from the one typo repeated it's too good for the ones I've got. It's a Taiwan release of Ruggero Deodato's 'The Washing Machine'. The overview is better than the film. | | | | Guns don't kill people. Hammers do. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 1,279 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Kevin Coed: Quote:
It's a Taiwan release of Ruggero Deodato's 'The Washing Machine'. The overview is better than the film. Guess I won't add this to my Wishlist then... | | | | IVS Registered: January 2, 2002 |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 13,203 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting skipnet50: Quote:
Goodguy:
You seem to be suggesting to correct errors and i am telling the Rules do not provide for that. The data standard is what is ACTUALLY on the cover or ACTUALLY on the disc, no concoctions of any other kind unless provided for in the Rules. No, he is not suggesting that we be allowed to correct errors. What he is saying, in reference to the OP that wants to add a 'mark up' to indicate that the error was actually in the overview, is that if you are allowed to add the 'mark up' you might as well just correct the mistake. In other words, why ask for an exception to the 'copy exactly' rule, in order to add a 'mark up', when it would make more sense to ask for that exception to make the correction. In either case, the argument to keep the errors is the same argument to not allow the 'mark up'. At least that is how I understood it. | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom.
Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
The Centauri learned this lesson once.
We will teach it to them again.
Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | OK, if that is what he meant. the mark up would add some additional information to the Contribution for future reference when a user corrects a typo, it would tell us...hopefully whether it was a user generated typo or a Distribution Company generated typo, on ewhich can be corrected and one which can't.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 13,203 |
| | Posted: | | | | Yes, a mark up would do that...but I am not in favor of adding anything extra to the Overview. It is bad enough that we add single quotes where none existed, let's not start adding 'words' that don't exist. All that does is take us farther away from 'as credited'. | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom.
Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
The Centauri learned this lesson once.
We will teach it to them again.
Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.
- Citizen G'Kar |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 1,029 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting skipnet50: Quote:
I can't even tell you what it is because i don't look at it. You know, I actually do believe that. | | | | Matthias |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 5,494 |
| | Posted: | | | | I can remember when Typo mistakes on an old Beatles LP would bring the big Bucks later in life...  | | | In the 60's, People took Acid to make the world Weird. Now the World is weird and People take Prozac to make it Normal.
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 5,715 |
| | Posted: | | | | Either copy it as it is on the cover (following the rules) or - which I'd personally prefer - change the rules and correct typos and other obvious errors without further notice (I know it: what is obvious? ...)
Regards, AA | | | | Complete list of Common Names • A good point for starting with Headshots (and v11.1) |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Unicus69: Quote:
Yes, a mark up would do that...but I am not in favor of adding anything extra to the Overview. It is bad enough that we add single quotes where none existed, let's not start adding 'words' that don't exist. All that does is take us farther away from 'as credited'. I was thinking more in terms of notes, Unicus, not actually adding non-existent data to the Contribution. Skip | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
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| Registered: March 29, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 4,479 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting AiAustria: Quote:
... or - which I'd personally prefer - change the rules and correct typos and other obvious errors without further notice (I know it: what is obvious? ...) Excellent suggestion. After all, why not improve rules ? Even laws are changed when they need to... And we are not here in a sect that adores something that never must evolve... | | | | Images from movies |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | Surfeur:
Mistakes have meaning, that is why we use the Case and the disc as the standard. there is famous US Post Office Stamp error that is worth many thousands of dollars or IF you can find it. by your standard mistakes are not to be acknowledged because after all...you know better. Who knows at some point the Distributor might correct that error themselves in a subsequent printing of the cover, and then because you know better we have not captured the mistake, which may or may not turn out to have value. Stop trying to impose what you ONLY believe to be correct and use the standard that Profiler has already established, anything younwant to do locall is your business and those who chopose toview your coillection will get ton see that you, in your wisdom, corrected any and all Distributor generated typos you could find.
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