"If the title appears in multiple languages, use the title that matches the language of the locality and do not include an alternate title ( for instance in another language)."

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for german profiles the right title is "Todesurteil"?

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for german profiles the right title is "Die Säuberung"?

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for german profiles the right title is "Das Ritual"?

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for german profiles the right title is "Kriegsspiele"?

thx emmeli

ok. thanks for you reply. but i think german users like to include both titels because it is set by the publisher.

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so i do not think that it is wrong if the title is called within the meaning of the publisher.

The reason German users do that is because emmeli is right in his (her?) last post.

German publishers often tend to keep the original title and then attach some sort of clarifier, either a pun of some sort or a direct translation of the title.

This has been done so way before the invention of the DVD.

And the rule in question was not invented for this case, even though it is inadvertently applicable.

The rule was created for DVD releases in the Scandinavian countries where the same DVD is sold in Norway, Sweden and Finland and has three titles on it for each language respectively.


And while I personally go with "WarGames" in my personal collection, I'd go with "WarGames - Kriegsspiele" for contribution because even the VHS already called the movie this way:

Quoting emmeli:

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in actual fact you respect the name is taken as use in advertisement, cinema publication and stores.

None of those matter for our purposes. Again, as I already indicated in my first post, I am fully aware that many German users don't agree with this rule. I know, and I fully understand that. Luckily I don't own that many German discs, so I this debate doesn't affect me much. However, if you're asking what is right per the rules, the answer is clear. It's not like any data is lost, by the way - in all these examples, the rules do allow us to track both title variants. Per the rules, however, they're just spread over two fields.

Quoting Lewis_Prothero:

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Problem with this "rule" is that it (if I recall correctly) was implemented for scandinavian releases where it is not uncommon that you get one release for (at least) three countries with the translated title written three times in three languages.

But you are right, strictly by the rules the DVDProfiler title of "Wargames - Kriegsspiele" would be "Kriegsspiele".

Another example of a rule that was to fix one problem that creates another problem. I wouldn't want to be the one to try and change the DVD titles.

Yes, they are accepted, but I am a tad confused.  Why ask the question in the first place if you already knew what you wanted to do? 

Incorrect, unchecked IMDb-mined data is still being accepted into the database on a daily basis. Must be okay too, then?

Or let me put it another way: if ignoring this particular rule is considered okay, I assume that I can just ignore any rule that I don't particularly like as well?

Great. One has to wonder: why was it again why we bother to even have a set of rules...?