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| Registered: March 14, 2007 |  Posts: 555 |
| | Posted: | | | | Should Genres be included in the parent profile of a box set? The rules don't say to remove Genres from the profile, but they don't give any clarification on what to include in Genres either.
Personally I think that the main profile of a box set should be stripped of Genres, same as Audio Formats and Features, since the movies in the box set may be of different genres, and since the child profiles already have Genres listed, making it superfluous in the main profile. |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 |  Posts: 742 |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 2,694 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Behemot: Quote:
Should Genres be included in the parent profile of a box set? The rules don't say to remove Genres from the profile, but they don't give any clarification on what to include in Genres either.
Personally I think that the main profile of a box set should be stripped of Genres, same as Audio Formats and Features, since the movies in the box set may be of different genres, and since the child profiles already have Genres listed, making it superfluous in the main profile. That's the way I do it. | | | John
"Extremism in the defense of Liberty is no vice!" Senator Barry Goldwater, 1964
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 291 |
| | Posted: | | | | ditto, i'm sure. krik  | | | | "Vampirism is still not a disease, Julia. Vampires are the living dead...dead...dead..." |
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| Registered: March 15, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 5,459 |
| | Posted: | | | | Although I agree in principle, what worries me is that we're going to end up taking so much out, there ain't going to be much left in a box set profile! It wouldn't be a problem if maybe they displayed differently in the program, but at the moment you end up with big windows of nothing being displayed. It seems a shame to start removing what little is left.  |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 3,436 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting northbloke: Quote:
Although I agree in principle, what worries me is that we're going to end up taking so much out, there ain't going to be much left in a box set profile!
It wouldn't be a problem if maybe they displayed differently in the program, but at the moment you end up with big windows of nothing being displayed. It seems a shame to start removing what little is left.
Well, I thought about that too. But in a way, these profiles are just like their cardboard counterparts. Once you remove the DVDs, there is not much to them anymore  I think I will shortly remove more and more from them (locally, of course), so that only the information remains which describes the "shell". | | | Achim [諾亞信； Ya-Shin//Nuo], a German in Taiwan.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 467 |
| | Posted: | | | | If the DVDs have the same genre, I don't see any problem to have it in the parent profile. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 3,321 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting pompel9: Quote:
If the DVDs have the same genre, I don't see any problem to have it in the parent profile. The problem is we don't want to go down the road where sometimes you do add data and sometimes you don't. Especially with genres. That would be a constant battle with people having their own ideas of what belongs in the profile. If you say NO boxsets should have genres assigned, then it's nice and simple and will avoid people constantly contributing profiles over and over trying to force their opinion into the database. I have no problem with nearly blank profiles for boxsets. As Achim pointed out, it's no different from the empty physical box. There's really not much to them. | | | Get the CSVExport and Database Query plug-ins here.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 2,694 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting northbloke: Quote:
Although I agree in principle, what worries me is that we're going to end up taking so much out, there ain't going to be much left in a box set profile!
It wouldn't be a problem if maybe they displayed differently in the program, but at the moment you end up with big windows of nothing being displayed. It seems a shame to start removing what little is left.
Not true. Every single piece of information relevant to the contents will be on the child profiles for each disc. Any information that is appropriate to the entire set will still be in the master. Think of the master profile as the tabbed card in a file that shows "the information begins behind me". | | | John
"Extremism in the defense of Liberty is no vice!" Senator Barry Goldwater, 1964
Make America Great Again! |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | p, Behemot. A Box can have multiple movies from multiple Genre, so they should not be part of the Box but belong to the children. Northbloke when you take the movies out of a Boxset what do you have left, pretty much NOTHING.  Skip | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
CBE, MBE, MoA and proud of it.
Outta here
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 13,202 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting skipnet50: Quote:
Northbloke when you take the movies out of a Boxset what do you have left, pretty much NOTHING. Well, when I take the movies out of my Planet of the Apes Boxset I have a monkey head. That's SOMETHING.  | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom.
Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
The Centauri learned this lesson once.
We will teach it to them again.
Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | I refuse to touch that... Nah! Can't....resist. Yeah, an EMPTY monkey head. Skkip | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
CBE, MBE, MoA and proud of it.
Outta here
Billy Video |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 3,321 |
| | Posted: | | | | You can always enter "Monkey Head" under Other Features. I don't believe there's a rule against that. | | | Get the CSVExport and Database Query plug-ins here.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 2,694 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Mark Harrison: Quote:
You can always enter "Monkey Head" under Other Features. I don't believe there's a rule against that. Nope. That comes under Custom Case.  | | | John
"Extremism in the defense of Liberty is no vice!" Senator Barry Goldwater, 1964
Make America Great Again! |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,293 |
| | Posted: | | | | Personally, of they are all the same genre (say a trilogy) I am happy that the parent profile has a genre of them all; if they are a total mix (please someone tell me why they are being sold together!) then I would leave it blank. | | | | It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 291 |
| | Posted: | | | | nope never...for all the reasons mark and others have said. (of course now i feel the need to go through all the profiles in my database to see if i'm following my own dictates...what a pain...  ) krik | | | | "Vampirism is still not a disease, Julia. Vampires are the living dead...dead...dead..." |
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