From Oct. 24 to Nov 24 I built or borrowed from the online db 250 profiles for TV series and have 100 more to build.

If the season (sets) have their own UPC (EAN) I enter them as children under the complete set's profile.

If the seasons UPC exits on the online db, down load it, keep the data (release date, et...) that goes with it, assuming it is correct.
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If the individual season (sets) doesn't exist build profile parent/child profile as you normally would and add them to the complete set's profile.

Currently working on Law & Order; 20 sasons, 104 discs.
I have six season complete, and the the rest in peofiles built but all the data is not complete yet.
example:
  Law & Order: The Complete Series: UPC 025192104008
  Law & Order: Season 1:1990-1991: UPC 025192120688
  Law & Order: Year  1 (Sort title)
      by disc ID
      Law & Order: The First Year: 1990-1991 Season: Disc One
      Law & Order: Year  1: Disc 1 (Sort title)
      Law & Order: The First Year: 1990-1991 Season: Disc Two
      Law & Order: The First Year: 1990-1991 Season: Disc Three
      Law & Order: The First Year: 1990-1991 Season: Disc Four
      Law & Order: The First Year: 1990-1991 Season: Disc Five
      Law & Order: The First Year: 1990-1991 Season: Disc Six
  Law & Order: The Second Year: 1991-1992 Season : UPC 025192120800
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  Law & Order: The Nineteenth Year: 2008-2009 Season: UPC 025192103896
  Law & Order: Year 19 (Sort title)

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  Law & Order: The Twentieth Year: 2009-2010 Season: UPC 025192103902
  Law & Order: Year 20  (Sort title)
by disc ID
      Law & Order: The Twentieth Year: 2009-2010 Season: Disc One
      Law & Order: Year 20: Disc 1 (Sort title)
      Law & Order: The Twentieth Year: 2009-2010 Season: Disc Two
      Law & Order: The Twentieth Year: 2009-2010 Season: Disc Three
      Law & Order: The Twentieth Year: 2009-2010 Season: Disc Four
      Law & Order: The Twentieth Year: 2009-2010 Season: Disc Five
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If the season (sets) do not have an UPC (EAN) but are package separately enter them as any child but I use the cover scans for the their discs and label thus title: season x: disc 1,2...y.

Currently building this complete seasons...
It Takes a Thief: The Complete Series: UPC 741952680192
following by disc ID... each season has a unique cover, but no UPC
It Takes a Thief: Season One: Disc 1
It Takes a Thief: Season One: Disc 2
It Takes a Thief: Season One: Disc 3
It Takes a Thief: Season One: Disc 4
It Takes a Thief: Season Two: Disc 1
It Takes a Thief: Season Two: Disc 2
It Takes a Thief: Season Two: Disc 3
It Takes a Thief: Season Two: Disc 4
It Takes a Thief: Season Two: Disc 5
It Takes a Thief: Season Two: Disc 6
It Takes a Thief: Season Two: Disc 7
It Takes a Thief: Season Three: Disc 1
It Takes a Thief: Season Three: Disc 2
It Takes a Thief: Season Three: Disc 3
It Takes a Thief: Season Three: Disc 4
It Takes a Thief: Season Three: Disc 5
It Takes a Thief: Season Three: Disc 6

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The problem with that region of the rules is that it was written by a Brit. And in the UK a "series" is the equivalent to a US "season"

My gut tells me to not include individual info into a Complete Series Box Set but to attach the proper child profiles and enter the data there.

If that is the case then UPC 025192010378 needs to be corrected.  Because I made the conrtibution by not only how I interpreted the rules, but by that example also.

Also if that is the case what is the chance of getting the rules updated and more clear?

I believe your profile for Battlestar Galactica is correct because the individual seasons are not packaged separately. Is that the case?

No it is not.  BSG: TCS Limited edotion the season are in their own cases within the box set

Do the individual season cases have their own UPC?

No, but neither do the Stargate Atlantis ones

Both BSG and  SGA have the seasons packaged in different cases, but are not UPC based.

BSG Limited edition comes with 4 boxes in the set, echa contains a season an no UPC on any of the cases. BSG has had individual season releases, but what the seasons in the complete series set do not have individual UPC's

SGA comes with 3 Amaray cases in a slip case, one congaining seasons 1 and 2, a second containing seasons 3 and 4 and the third containging season 5.  No UPC's on the cases, they have not even released the seasons individually on blu-ray to my knowledge

Then I stand by my statement that your profile for BSG: TCS Limited Edition is correctly set up.

Then by that reasoning shouldn't the SGA have the disc information in the parent profile since the individual cases are not UPC based like BSG?

EDIT: Because it seems to me by that criteria eitehr BSG: TCS Limited edition is wrong or my submission is correct.  Keep in mind I want to do what is correct. I am just trying to understand the differences so we can all ne consistant.

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With TV, it's very common for the same discs to end up in several sets. Why go to the expense of re-authoring if you don't need to? Anything other than profiling the contents of that disc only will cause conflicts between releases. I think this is a hold-over from before disc-level profiles.

Disc ID's in the parent?

I would agree and deciding whcih to use by whether or not the individual disc containers are UPC based is consistant with the other box set rules as far as whether the child profiles are by Disc ID or UPC.

And it also makes sense that Series collections based on UPC the parent eould not have the disc information since the individual UPC's within the set would have them already