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But it really is a pain for me to write down something that is so awful sometimes.

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Often when I type from the backcover the Overview to a contribution I come over awful spelling mistakes that really hearts in the ears. Rules tell it must be exactly as it is on the backcover. But it really is a pain for me to write down something that is so awful sometimes. Perhaps this happens more in our German language as they translate things, happens perhaps less in English Overviews? How do you handle these spelling failures?

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I own a film; A Shot in the Dark (1933) UPC 0825646070527; in which the overview on the back cover relates to the 1935 film of the same name starring Edward Van Sloan. I entered it exactly as prescribed by the rules, so anyone looking at it may well get confused.

Yep; there are a few like that (the Fu Manchu double bill I have has the overviews for the two films the wrong way around on the cover for example) but I agree with the Rule to match the cover exactly otherwise there would be too many times people would disagree on the 'correct' version and any rule that avoids flip-flopping and cannot be misinterpreted is a good starting place IMO!

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A few odd points like that in rules made me stop contributing, since contributing errors is just giving other users bad information.

Again with the term "errors".  We are not contributing errors.  If you mistyped a word in the overview that was not there, then contributed to the online, that would then be an error, for the actual result did not match the expected result.  If I type in letter for letter, what is in the overview, and I contribute that, then the actual result matches the expected result, therefore no error.  So please quit trying to make everybody feel guilty for wanting to contribute what they see, per the rules...

If the graphic artist "cover designer" put in a misspelling, then the error was his, not ours.  It is not our job to alter what is represented, for our own sense of correctness. As a collector, we represent what we collect as best as we can.


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Again with the term "errors".  We are not contributing errors.  If you mistyped a word in the overview that was not there, then contributed to the online, that would then be an error [...] It is not our job to alter what is represented, for our own sense of correctness. As a collector, we represent what we collect as best as we can.

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As a collector, we represent what we collect as best as we can.

Agree with that. When I collect a "Shot in the Dark (1933)" movie, I do not want to have the "Shot in the Dark (1935)" overview on the profile, which is what I call an error, even if it matches the DVD cover.