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Include Bonus Features when part of the Overview or not?
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorWinston Smith
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Am I the only one that had a brief moment of picturing Walt Disney (and thereby Skip) in ancient Roman attire and standing guard out front of a temple holding a formidable weapon to bear?

Sometimes a vivid imagination is not a good thing.

Scary thought.      

Ya-ha-hoooooooooey!!!!

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BTW, thank you for your very kind and sympathetic message 


My pleasure...   
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Am I the only one that had a brief moment of picturing Walt Disney (and thereby Skip) in ancient Roman attire and standing guard out front of a temple holding a formidable weapon to bear?

Sometimes a vivid imagination is not a good thing.


The good doctor have yet again made my day! Thanks!!!   
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Believe me surfeur I understand where you're coming from. That's why I started the thread. As I said, the rules also say to copy the overview exactly as written. Since that part is included in the Overview does it get included under that part of the rule or excluded under the other part?

I've only seen a few cases like this & it's quite possible that they weren't taken into consideration when the wording was written up.
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Funny to see our temple guardians violate the rules when they do not agree with them :

Rules : Never include the following items in overviews:
    ...
    * Extra features


Indeed items, so when it's only a part of a paragraph in the overview it is allowed (like in this case).
The first part of the rules concerning the Overview: Copy the overview from the back of the DVD case exactly as written is superior to the forbidding of Extra features concerning the summary on the back cover.
Extra features in a separate frame (item) on the back cover are not allowed by this rule.
This is how I interpret the Rules of the Overview
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I have been part of making the rules for quite a while now (not the original group... but shortly after) and I know this situation never came up from that point til now... and I am sure if it did we would have worded it differently...

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Never include the following items in overviews:

    * Taglines
    * Reviews (unless they are incorporated into the text of the overview on the case)
    * Extra features
    * Hyperlinks or other HTML
    * Line-break hyphens

... if it would have came up we would have made it the same way as with Reviews... adding  (unless they are incorporated into the text of the overview on the case) behind it.
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Quite correct, Pete.

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So how about amending the rules to clarify this for the future?
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We can't amend the rules... only Ken & Gerri can... as part of the rules committee all we can do is discuss and suggest... from there it is up to them. So hopefully this will get added sooner rather then later.
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So how about amending the rules to clarify this for the future?


If that's how Ken/Invelos see it & the contributions get accepted then I'd definitely agree to it being updated.
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We can't amend the rules... only Ken & Gerri can... as part of the rules committee all we can do is discuss and suggest...


... and apply rules as they are until they are changed.
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Since that part is included in the Overview does it get included under that part of the rule or excluded under the other part?


This part is not included in the overview. It just follows the text of the overview in the same paragraph. For what is expected of an overview by the rules, just read exclusions...

We have nothing to interpret. If somebody disagrees with rules, we may have a discussion in the rule committee, then Ken will decide to change or not.
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorWinston Smith
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We can't amend the rules... only Ken & Gerri can... as part of the rules committee all we can do is discuss and suggest...


... and apply rules as they are until they are changed.

Well first we have to assume that your interpretation is completely correct, surfeur and it is not as has been explained by Unicus, Pete and myself. I hate to put it this way, pal, but you simply have nothing with which to offer guidance, you can create an interpretation but that does not mean that is a correct interpretation.

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This part is not included in the overview. It just follows the text of the overview in the same paragraph. For what is expected of an overview by the rules, just read exclusions...

There is no break in there so you can't assume it's separated.
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This part is not included in the overview. It just follows the text of the overview in the same paragraph. For what is expected of an overview by the rules, just read exclusions...

There is no break in there so you can't assume it's separated.


I agree... there is no indication there that they meant it to be anything but part of the overview. When you have a continuous paragraph like that you can not pick and choose what part of it you use and what part you do not.
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We have nothing to interpret. If somebody disagrees with rules, we may have a discussion in the rule committee, then Ken will decide to change or not.


Apparently you don't. A lot of the other reactions suggest we do.
I do understand your point though, I just don't agree with you.

That's exactly why the rules should be clarified as soon as possible. I understand that the rules are not updated on an hourly basis, but if amending the rules isn't even suggested to those who decide these things, it possibly will néver be cleared up.
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