I just bought a movie (Stub: The Best Cowdog in the West UPC: 786936748536, Disney exclusive) that was submitted by the disc id.  Not a problem, except that it has a UPC.  I'm planning on submitting it by UPC, but should I have the disc ID one removed?

The scans for the original profile does include the UPC, but for some reason was not submitted by it.  Contribution notes don't mention anything about why it was submitted that way.  I know nothing would be hurt by leaving it in the system, but it seems to be redunant to do so as the disc ID will be in the UPC Profile as well which would still allow people to use that to use disc ID for identification.

So, leave it or ask for it to be removed once I put the UPC version into the system?  Thanks!

You should download the existing profile which uses the Disc ID, edit the profile locally to change the Disc ID to the UPC and submit that change.  It will correct the one in the main database.  You will be updating the existing profile rather than "removing" it.

Hal, I may be doing something wrong, but when I did that (downloaded the original file, changed UPC, then contributed it) it came up as a new profile...

Quoting tweeter:

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Locally you have swapped a Disc ID-based profile for a UPC-based one.

When you submit it, it is now an on-line, unique UPC-based profile no longer related to the on-line Disc ID-based profile.

I think it would take a request to the Powers that Be to remove the Disc ID-based profile.

You're absolutely correct.

I was having a brain-fart earlier, thinking it would update the existing Disc ID profile in the online database. 

Submitted the profile by UPC and it's approved (very fast, too! ).  How does one submit a profile to be deleted?  The non-upc one, I mean.  I made sure that the disc id was included in the UPC profile, so people can still find it that way.

Thanks!

Quoting MtnMike:

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One aspect of requesting screeners to delete a disc ID - based profile that would concern me though is that if someone had downloaded that particular profile (perhaps via a title search as opposed to UPC search), and that profile does get removed from the online db, doesn't that delection effectively break any existing linkage between the online and the local for that user?

I think it would in fact break that link. So what, you might say.... well, that would certainly prevent the cover scans from appearing in someone's online listing since there'd no longer be anything to tie the user's listed entry to an existing online db scan.

Yes it would, Mie, but the data should have been entered correctly to begin with don't you think. The mysterious user can easily update his collection .

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