Sometimes I wish this community would spend more time doing profiles for the thousands of empty profiles in the system instead of thinking up ways to mess with long-established profiles.  Thanks to this thread I just wasted 20 minutes locking all my X-Files title fields since I'm sure someone will think that deleting the hyphen after all these years is some kind of high priority.

Quoting gardibolt:

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Sometimes I wish this community would spend more time doing profiles for the thousands of empty profiles in the system instead of thinking up ways to mess with long-established profiles.  Thanks to this thread I just wasted 20 minutes locking all my X-Files title fields since I'm sure someone will think that deleting the hyphen after all these years is some kind of high priority.

Nobody's thinking of ways to mess with long-established profiles here. If you read why this thread was started you'd have seen that for yourself. Your thumbsdown is uncalled for.

Quoting gardibolt:

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Sometimes I wish this community would spend more time doing profiles for the thousands of empty profiles in the system instead of thinking up ways to mess with long-established profiles.

I agree with that. Contributing rather complete new profiles (even if they contain  one or two small errors) is far more important for thousands normal users (those who watch movies and stop at the beginning of credits), than nit picking of users who begin the watching of the movie at the beginning of end credits, then scrutinize DVD back covers with a magnifying glass.

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While I wouldn't have put it quite that way, I have to agree.  I find it very hard to believe that anyone would see an 'X' in a circle and think it was meant to represent 'X-'. 

No one is arguing that the circle is a stylized dash, anymore than the horizontal rule in the logo for Spirit: Stallion of the Cimmaron is a stylized colon. The circle (and the change in font size) are meant to separate the "X" from the "Files." We have "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves" but the not "The: Shawshank: Redemption" even though the logos in both cases have size changes and line breaks and generally nothing to distinguish how the titles should be written in the logos themselves. We decide where to place colons based on the plain text version of the title presented on the cover and what makes grammatical sense, not so much the logo which we understand to be a graphical representation. We do the same thing for capitalization. The rules endorse this. I don't see how dashes are any different.

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Quoting gardibolt:

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Sometimes I wish this community would spend more time doing profiles for the thousands of empty profiles in the system instead of thinking up ways to mess with long-established profiles.

I agree with that. Contributing rather complete new profiles (even if they contain  one or two small errors) is far more important for thousands normal users (those who watch movies and stop at the beginning of credits), than nit picking of users who begin the watching of the movie at the beginning of end credits, then scrutinize DVD back covers with a magnifying glass.

That was helpful, thank you. Can we now get back to the topic?

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Quoting Ace_of_Sevens:

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No one is arguing that the circle is a stylized dash
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Um, Richie is, or at least did.  He said, and I quote (bolding by me)...

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I thought the same, the graphic circle on front cover was an artistic way to simulate the hyphen, supported by the overview and copyrights on rear cover which show X-Files.
But as with others I'll lock mine down with the hyphen locally, it is easier than arguing here 

To clarify;

I thought the circle must be a graphical replacement of the dash, as everywhere else on the cover, in the credits, in the copyright, on the official site etc etc, it clearly says X-Files. Why just for a front cover would they dispense with the hyphen but not anywhere else?
I am not arguing the point, it is just my opinion and how I interprete it, and locally I will stick with X-Files.

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FYI: I have never ever done a search on anything (both in the DVD Profiler universe and anywhere else) by typing in the word 'The' first - I always leave it off, without even thinking about it.

I agree - never ever used The in a search..

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Quoting gardibolt:

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Thanks to this thread I just wasted 20 minutes locking all my X-Files title fields since I'm sure someone will think that deleting the hyphen after all these years is some kind of high priority.

Really?

I flagged all my X-Files profiles, then went to Collection -> Flagged -> Edit Locks.  Took no time at all.

Oh, great.  Now you tell me.  *smacks head*
Didn't know there was an Edit Locks feature, though, TBH.