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When is a name right, if it's wrong?
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorWinston Smith
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Quoting surfeur51:
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Quoting lmoelleb:
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So you are arguing DVD Profiler should handle multiple sources just like Wikipedia - fine with me, that's just not how I read your original comment.


This is not exactly what I said. For me, I'm OK with credit as a unique source, except when this source contains blatant errors, which should be corrected and documented using other sources.

Sounds like a politician I know. Keep counting til I het the right answer...I win. Don't forget to count hanging vhads and throw out the military vote,lol
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Hi,

Eommen - Thank You for your detailed and well-written argument.

Ultimately, for me it comes down to this. I want DVD Profiler to be as accurate and reliable as humanly possible. I want it to be the best, god-damned piece of DVD catalogueing software we can make it. As such, we either use Ken's rule - everything must be exactly what it says on the tin, or we follow the more sensible, realistic, and preferred (by everyone here on Planet Earth) rule that we correct errors that creep-in, when those errors are blatant, stupid or genuinely erroneous.

If we follow Ken's rule, then - by his own flawed logic - DVD Profiler has to include all errors. That means we have to include running times that say 600 minutes, when they really mean 60; that we include (and I'm making this one up, but it'll do for the sake of my argument) William Shantner, instead of William Shatner, and that we include stuff such as "Here on Blue-Ray, own James Cameron's pioneering mafia epic THE FODGATHER" when we all know that Blu-Ray doesn't have an "e" in it; that James Cameron didn't direct such a film, and that the film is in fact called "THE GODFATHER".

Common-Sense has to be the ONLY rule that we should all follow. Anything else, means that we may as well just make DVD Profiler as useless as Wikipedia or the Daily Mail - a place where anyone can include anything, claim it as absolute fact, even when every single bit of info is utter and total garbage.

If all submissions are checked for accuracy, then surely all submissions should be accurate - not just a carbon copy of information that is factually-inaccurate?! Otherwise, we may as well give-up, let anyone sumit anything about any film, no matter how full of crap it is, and allow it to be included as a Profile.

In fact, "The Godfather Trilogy" was not a "mafia epic", it was a wholesome, family-oriented film about a young boy and his animal friends, growing up in the jungle, filmed in 1629, in Venezuala by Captain Samuel Gibbons of the RCMP. There! This isn't accurate in any way, shape or form, but if that is what gets printed on the back of a legitimate DVD/Blu-Ray release, Ken's logic dictates that's what DVD Profiler has to include!

Does that not settle this argument?!


Pooch

P.S. I'll bring in some air-freshner, for this year-old can-'o'-worms! 
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You can do all the correcting you want for your local database. But for the online it needs to be as Ken has it in the rules.

And I guess I am not on planet Earth then... because I for one couldn't think of anything worse then not going by exactly as is in the credits/on the disc.
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorWinston Smith
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Pooch

The logic is not flawed. We have hundreds if not thousands of people doing data entry to build the database. Surely you understand that there must be a road map to follow. You can't have that many people entering data any way they wish. We had that once upon a time and over the course of 5 years we had one title get edited over 900 times, do the math that is 3  times a week. Why. Because users, like you, were battling over how the data was presented. That can't be. And Pete has it right relative ti local.
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