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| Registered: May 18, 2007 |  Posts: 389 |
| | Posted: | | | | If a TV episode title is mispelled on the DVD back cover and the correct spelling is in the episode beginning credits can the correct spelling be used? |
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| Registered: July 31, 2008 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 2,506 |
| | Posted: | | | | It depends on which field you are entering. If it's contained in the Overview, then no, you have to use the spelling used there. Quote:
Copy the overview from the back of the DVD case exactly as written... If it's for dividers for the credits then you can use either the spelling from the episode or from the cover. Quote:
Enter the episode number and title in the divider that marks the beginning of that episode's credit list. The divider should be formatted as "1. Episode Title", or "Episode 1" if no title is available.
Take the episode title from the episode itself, or from elsewhere on the DVD or DVD packaging, exactly as shown. If all episode titles are entirely capitalized, use standard capitalization rules instead. If the episodes are listed with quotes around each title, exclude the quotes. Yes, that does mean that potentially you could have both spellings in the profile in different places. | | | | Last edited: by Ardos |
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  | T!M | | Profiling since Dec. 2000 |
| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 8,723 |
| | Posted: | | | | Personally, I use the spelling from the back cover for the overview, and use the spelling from the on-screen title for the dividers. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 951 |
| | Posted: | | | | Same here use the on screen title if shown for the dividers and box cover for the overview if an episode listing is on the cover. | | | Are you local?
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 17,330 |
| | Posted: | | | | Agree with the others for this one... for the Overview it must match the case exactly per Rules | | | | Pete |
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| Registered: May 26, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 599 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Addicted2DVD: Quote:
for the Overview it must match the case exactly per Rules Even if it is clearly a typographical error?  Who the Hell sat in on this rules committee when it was in session? Did they understand the definition of a database? A database is an integrated collection of logically related records or files consolidated into a common pool that provides data for one or more multiple uses. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 951 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Antares: Quote:
Even if it is clearly a typographical error?
Even if it is clearly a typographical error, as you see it on the cover. The same goes with crew and actor credits as you see it on the screen, the only difference is you can use the credited as feature for known spelling errors in cast and crew credits. I think there has even been issues where the wrong overview was used on the cover and we still have to enter it as shown on the cover. | | | Are you local?
This is a local shop the strangers you would bring would not understand us, our customs, our local ways. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 17,330 |
| | Posted: | | | | As Tracer said... yes... even when it is clearly a typographical error. This has been this way since Invelos first went to using Rules (several years ago)... it is definitely nothing new. | | | | Pete |
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| Registered: May 26, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 599 |
| | Posted: | | | | If that's the case, then it's obvious that...  and...  were the members comprising the rules committee when it was convened. Oops! forgot the presiding judge...   | | | | Last edited: by Antares |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 13,201 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Addicted2DVD: Quote:
Agree with the others for this one... for the Overview it must match the case exactly per Rules Agreed as well. | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,293 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Tracer: Quote:
I think there has even been issues where the wrong overview was used on the cover and we still have to enter it as shown on the cover. More than one I'm sure; I know I have a Fu Manchu 'double feature' disc where the overview for the two films are 'swapped' so under the title of the first it describes the second and vice versa. I've also got a disc which is a documentary about a specific person who's name is mis-spelt in the overview but that's what I put in the database! FWIW I have no problem with what the rules committee decided; I'd rather have a definite "can't be mis-interpretted" rule than one for which 'clearly' (as in 'clearly a typographical error') can be clear to one person and "maybe they meant to mis-spell that to make it look odd" to another and "How do I know if they mis-spelt a word in a foreign language?" to a third. | | | | It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong |
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| Registered: March 29, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 4,479 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Antares: Quote:
Even if it is clearly a typographical error?
Who the Hell sat in on this rules committee when it was in session? Did they understand the definition of a database? I propose a poll to modify the rules. We'll see whether people just want to follow rules even if they are imperfect, or really prefer to have incorrect data. | | | | Images from movies | | | | Last edited: by surfeur51 |
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| Registered: May 9, 2007 | | Posts: 1,536 |
| | Posted: | | | | I know it's the rule, and stick to it.
But just to play devil's advocate: If you want to know what the overview exactly looks like, you always have the scan of the back cover. | | | | Hans |
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| Registered: May 29, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 3,475 |
| | Posted: | | | | I can not stand spelling errors but, I'm afraid, the overview should stand as written. What is written correctly in one nation might not be correct in another - color vs. colour for example.
The only way to ensure the DVD overview data is the same across the board is to exactly copy what is written on the cover.
When I have contributed such a DVD I copy it the way I see it but I also make a note of the spelling error and explain that, per invelos rules, I have left the overview the way it is written.
I'm afraid that there are too many differences of opinions (has there ever been a unanimous poll result on invelos?!?) to change this to satisfy everyone. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 17,330 |
| | Posted: | | | | I definitely agree with what Kathy said. | | | | Pete |
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| Registered: May 10, 2007 |  Posts: 1,059 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting T!M: Quote:
Personally, I use the spelling from the back cover for the overview, and use the spelling from the on-screen title for the dividers. Agreed. This is how I do it as well. | | | Berak
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