I have a quandry.  I have done child profiles for Six Feet Under: The Complete Second (and Third) Season including cast and crew which I want to contribute.  My problem is that there are already parent profiles online which use the Disc 1 Disc ID for the entire season. 

Apparently when Six Feet Under: The Complete Series was contributed, the contributor used the Disc ID from Disc 1 to be the parent profile for that season.

I recently submitted Season One parent and child profiles, but I didn't have a problem with Disc 1 since there was apparently a different Disc ID for the  single season box and the complete series box:

    Six Feet Under: The Complete First Season:
    SIX_FEET_UNDER_S1D1
    Disc ID: 9F48-E3A1-E7D6-DB65

    Six Feet Under: The Complete Series:
    SIX_FEET_UNDER_SEASON1_DISC1
    Disc ID 2FF7-964B-BD5E-A60B[/li]

It looks like the producers used different Disc IDs for season 1 than for seasons 2 thru 5 when they did the Complete Series set.  Note that the description for the single season disc is SIX_FEET_UNDER_S1D1 while the description for the complete set is SIX_FEET_UNDER_SEASON1_DISC1

Should I contribute the child profiles for seasons 2 through 4 the way I have them -- which would overwrite the Season profiles for the Complete Series set?  It wouldn't make sense to contribute only discs 2 thru 5 and forget about disc 1, would it?

I remember this has happened with other TV series where there was an initial release of individual seasons, each with its own UPC, and then later a complete series with only the box itself having its own UPC.  I don't remember how this was handled, however.

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I have a quandry.  I have done child profiles for Six Feet Under: The Complete Second (and Third) Season including cast and crew which I want to contribute.  My problem is that there are already parent profiles online which use the Disc 1 Disc ID for the entire season. 

Apparently when Six Feet Under: The Complete Series was contributed, the contributor used the Disc ID from Disc 1 to be the parent profile for that season.

I did the inital contribution for the seasons of the complete serie.
Unfortunately, the individual seasons don't have a UPC in this nice big boxset.
So I had to use the disc ID.

Unless Ken could somehow allow a duplicate discID, I have no idea how the two profiles could co-exist in the database.

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Quoting kdh1949:

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I have a quandry.  I have done child profiles for Six Feet Under: The Complete Second (and Third) Season including cast and crew which I want to contribute.  My problem is that there are already parent profiles online which use the Disc 1 Disc ID for the entire season. 

Apparently when Six Feet Under: The Complete Series was contributed, the contributor used the Disc ID from Disc 1 to be the parent profile for that season.

I did the inital contribution for the seasons of the complete serie.
Unfortunately, the individual seasons don't have a UPC in this nice big boxset.
So I had to use the disc ID.

Unless Ken could somehow allow a duplicate discID, I have no idea how the two profiles could co-exist in the database.

I think what I will do is take Northbloke's suggestion and add all the cast & crew for discs 2 thru 5 to my disc 1 profile and contribute it.  I will only contibute cast and crew and leave the other fields in the existing profile alone.  As far as the CAST credits go, you didn't show them at the episode level so my contribution will be an improvement. 

With respect to the CAST credits, your contribution doesn't comply with the rule that says "Do not list Cast and Crew outside of the dividers even if they are credited in all episodes."

Other corrections: Rachel Griffiths is credited as "Brenda" only -- she's the only principal cast member with a credit, so using "Brenda Chenowith" is incorrect.  Freddy Rodriguez is NOT credited as Freddy Rodríguez in any season -- and the CLT shows Rodriguez (121/211) vs Rodríguez (112/230).  And Nicki Micheaux is credited as "Karla" not "Karia."

For my local profile, I'll delete everything but the Disc 1 info.

@Srehtims
I don't doubt what you have, but all the evidence I've seen to date, including the DVD Talk Review from June 21, 2004, says about Season 2

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Each of the 5 discs has a beautiful image of a character from the show on the cover, and they snap into a standard 5-panel cardboard foldout.

So I don't know where there would be any UPCs for each volume (The DVDs themselves just say "Disc 1" through "Disc 5" as there's no back cover on mine that shows your UPCs.

I'm afraid the way your set is put together doesn't help me very much.  None of the existing profiles in the online database line up with your version of Season 2.

I will contribute them, so you can take a gander at them.
Considering the date I bought it maybe they, the distributors thought they were going sell them separately, who knows.
Checking out Amazon's web,they did.
Here is an example of what they look like

You can clearly see the UPC number.

IMHOP series 2 & 3 came out before the complete series, so they take prescience.

As someone who usually pre-orders most of their DVDs, this is a continuing problem  see. people changing covers and price with later release data. And that is against the rules.

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I will contribute them, so you can take a gander at them.
Considering the date I bought it maybe they m the distributors thought they were going sell them separately, who knows.
Checking out Amazon's web,they sid.
Here is an example of what they look like

You can clearly see the UPC number.

You probably should contribute them since you're probably not the only one who has that variant.

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IMHOP series 2 & 3 came out before the complete series, so they take prescience.

As someone who usually pre-orders most of their DVDs, this is a continuing problem  see. people changing covers and price with later release data. And that is against the rules.

If you mean changing correct covers and price with RE-release data, I agree with you.  But if you mean changing pre-release covers and pre-release prices I disagree.  Pre-release data is just that -- pre-RELEASE.  If it's been changed before the actual release, it should be corrected in Profiler.

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I would say unfortunately the current profile has to remain a season-level profile.

I have to agree; Season level takes precedence over the optional 'child disc level' profiles IMO

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What would your answer have been if I had gotten there first with the child level profiles -- i.e., before the "Complete Series" set was released.  I would have uploaded Disc 1 of Season 2 by its Disc ID.  This would be done according to the rules.  Are you saying that when someone else comes along later to contribute the "Complete Series" disc (Season2) his data should overwrite what I had submitted as the child profile S2D1 with the whole profile of S2?  This doesn't seem right, either.

It may not be "fair", but for me the Season level profile has to take precedence over the child level profile in this situation.  Not everyone cares about disc level profiles, but probably most (notice I didn't say all) people who use disc level profiles also have the parent profile in their collectionl.  Since the parent is virtually universally used, it seems to me that it would be imperative to use the Disc ID for the parent profile over the child in these cases.

This situation has been identified as a huge "hole" in DVDP for quite some (since the advent of child profiles), and Ken really needs to put his thinking cap on to come up with a viable way of dealing with these.