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And therefore you want to be able to write whatever you wish for an overview, then Pete might replace yours with his,, then Tim will replace that one, then you will replace that one and we have to watch you chase your tail. No thank you, surfeur. Not interested in your imaginary data which you want to pretend is real.

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He wants to be able to create his own Overview, which exists only in his imagination, whether it is the Overview with his corrected typos or whatever it is still imaginary data.

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Quoting Mallrat:

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I DO like the formatting feature (in fact I like it a lot), whether it's to be considered important or not.

I DO like headshots and photo galleries, and we have nothing in rules about that. If you read what I wrote, my main concern is to avoid to put in rules things that are not important for the structure of data : rules would be shorter and simplier.

If you like bold and italic in overviews, that's fine, the program allows to do what we want (except colors...). As for me, about overview exactly as on cover, I have that in the window just next the overview : the scan of back cover.

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Or, to simplify things but still keep the formatting - one could have the phrase read:

Overviews:
Copy exactly the text of the overview from the back of the DVD case, using bold and italics to match the format of the case.
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However, simplifying to this level would not address the parts of the overview that some do not wish to include, such as reviews.  Even as it stands now, there is some disagreement over when reviews are incorporated into the text of the overview and when they are not.  Case in point, the back of the edition of Rain Man I have.  The first paragraph is very review-esque, and is separated from the rest of the overview by a line of pictures.  However it is the same font and same size and in every way to my eye appears to be part of the overview.  A contribution of the overview to - in my mind, correctly - add this paragraph was voted equally yes and no (something like 13/13 or so) and rejected by the screeners.  This is fine by me, but it points up that even as we have things now there is disagreement over what belongs in the overview.  If we cut the rules to a minimal level, no matter the question of formatting, I believe it will end up in ping-pong contributions, as someone like me adds that paragraph and then someone else eliminates it, both of us believing we are doing what is correct for the overview.

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Quoting surfeur51:

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Rules as they could be :

Overviews
Copy exactly the text of the overview from the back of the DVD case.  Use just text, keep formatting local.

"exactly", "the text of the overview" and "DVD" are redundant, formatting a matter of taste.

Rules as they could be:

Overviews
Copy from back of case.

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Some of the suggestions, while made with good intent, are bringing us way too close to the original Guidelines, which is really not where we want to be again (despite voting process).


I still have the old guidelines on my website somewhere, in case there are curious minds of what things looked like almost 10 years ago...