| Registered: March 14, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 4,678 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting RHo: Quote:
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Like I said, the common name is just supposed to be a link. It is not supposed to indicate anything special.
That's a common misconception. The common name is much more than a link. The common name is the name which is used for a person in the profiler database and consists of up to four text fields where each of those fields has a special meaning (whereas the as credited name is only a single text field). IMO this is reason enough to select the common name wisely and not randomly. The CLT is hardly random. And I hesitate to call it wisely if we do it in a way that the overwhelming majority will not know or understand. | | | My freeware tools for DVD Profiler users.
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| Registered: March 16, 2007 |  Posts: 278 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting surfeur51: Quote:
Nobody with common sense would accept in real life to act blindly as we do with Invelos rules. Man dude, why are you so down on the rules. Seriously? First of all, the rules are not immutable. They've changed before, and they'll likely changed again as new features are added, and new versions are removed. Secondly, developing content rules that both satisfy the community and apply good database design concepts are difficult to do. Is the real issue that Invelos, and the DVD Profiler community as a whole, is attempting to apply logic and good governance principles against an otherwise chaotic system? The motion picture industry as a whole does not have a consistent and well-defined process for managing credits. Take Tommy 'Tiny' Lister, Jr. as an example. There are no less than 7 variants of his name the last time I checked. With and without commas, with and without "Jr.," with and without "Tiny," "Tommy," or "Zeus." The whole purpose of the contribution system, and the rules which govern them, are to apply consistency and accuracy based on what is recorded on the media itself. For goodness sakes, you've been a registered user long enough that you ought to remember what it was like before we even had the Credited As field option.Here's the thing. Participation in the online database is 100% voluntary. You are under no obligation to either submit or accept changes to the online system. There are changes that I don't agree with, and I keep my preferences local. In my case, Anthony Head will always be credited in my local DB as Anthony Stewart Head, but I will not submit any changes to any of the Buffy series' that involve propagating cast info. |
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| Registered: March 29, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 4,479 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Leiterfluid: Quote:
Man dude, why are you so down on the rules. Seriously?
First of all, the rules are not immutable. They've changed before, and they'll likely changed again as new features are added, and new versions are removed. I have nothing against rules. I just consider that rules are made to say what to do in 99% of cases. And when rare cases are a problem, we should do what we find intelligent to do, not just say "I enter wrong data because rules, that are not adapted to this special case, ask me to do so", and act without thinking. After all, firemen may drive faster than normally autorised, or you can swim in a forbidden place to save a drowning baby. I proposed that in specific cases, contribution should be made with documentation explaining why, in this case, they are not adapted. After that, screeners accept or not, but nothing wrong is contributed. In fact, I frequently saw screeners doing that, accepting, for example, crew roles not in the list, several movies on same disc with dividers, or correctly spelled accented names. But this way to use intelligently the rules is not accepted by a majority of users and some users will even say it is pure horror to spell names correctly when rules ask for mistakes. That is my problem here. The worse is when some users tell to the others that they must follow rules strictly to the letter, then allow themselves to violate what they want, as demonstrated in the first pages of this thread. | | | | Images from movies |
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