Quoting CharlieM:

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I also can accept, that without guidance from Ken, on the ever changing world of movie credits, then the screeners are creeping along trying to interpret the rules for themselves. 

Not knowing what information the screeners have, then this situation becomes unacceptable a their level

If this is the case, we would have no hope for consistency at ours, especially for items that are not directly covered by the rules, or the rules are ambiguous.

This is indeed an perfectly accurate description of what's happening.

Quoting Corne:

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Location crew isn't always 2nd, 3rd unit.

Indeed. But they can be - and there's the rub.

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For the screeners this could be troubling as well, especially when they don't know the film up for contribution.

Indeed. One could say that ideally, we shouldn't include anything in the online database that requires such specific knowledge. Maybe the online database should be restricted to the "black & white" stuff that isn't controversial or multi-interpretable, and anything ambigious like this should be kept local-only.

Quoting T!M:

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(...) Maybe the online database should be restricted to the "black & white" stuff that isn't controversial or multi-interpretable, and anything ambigious like this should be kept local-only.

In that case I could as well ignore the online database completely and enter everything locally myself. And then I would not see any reason to use profiler at all. An access database would do better.

Quoting ninehours:

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Would "New Zealand Unit" be considered a "Location" credit?

I would, without any hesitation, enter them under a divider that read 'New Zealand Unit'.

What movie is this? I would enter it if New Zealand were a primary location.

Quoting TheMadMartian:

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Quoting ninehours:

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Would "New Zealand Unit" be considered a "Location" credit?

I would, without any hesitation, enter them under a divider that read 'New Zealand Unit'.

And I would of course without hesitation follow the rules and vote no to such a contribution.

Quoting Corne:

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Location crew isn't specifically fobidden by the rules, but unit crew is. Wouldn't the main crew be credited before the second and third unit? The only exceptions being the visual effects and the post production sound credits.

I just want to clarify - Location Crew is allowed.

But, second, third or any other number Unit Crew is not.

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Quoting Kathy:

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I just want to clarify - Location Crew is allowed.

I thought "Unit" crew was disallowed.  Isn't "NEW ZEALAND UNIT" a "unit" crew?  What if it said "Back Lot Unit"?

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It is my understanding that we do not credit Crew who are credited with numerological terms: Second Unit, Third Unit etc.

If Crew are listed under a particular location such as New Zealand Unit or New Zealand Crew or even in (what I believe is sarcasm) Back Lot Unit or Back Lot Crew, then yes these Crew get credited.

To further clarify, I would also use Dividers to differentiate these acceptable Crew Credits as applicable because in almost all the cases I've run into this data, they are listed this way; in the credits.