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7/ When there is a spelling mistake on a role

No problem again - credited as now that the Rules allow for it and things are really starting to come together with agreements on common names (I've even had to use this on a DVD which was a series of 4 interviews and they mis-spelled one of the 4 interviewees names!)

I wrote about role, not name...

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1/ When they are in order of appearance
2/ When they are in alphabetic order

Agree on those. I think it would be nice to have a "Top-billed (rank)" window beside the "Voice" and "Uncredited" check boxes.

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(I never use "credited as")

Why? 

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I have no problem with this - just follow the Ruels;

He does not contribute. Thus, he does not need to follow any rule.

btw: He said he didn't like the rules and you answer that is no problem, he has just to follow the rules....

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3/ When names or roles are capitalized

Follow the rules; use normal capitalisation

What is meant with normal capitalisation or as the rules state - use standard capitalization rules?

Should I use the capitalisation rules wich are defined for titles in the contribution rules (capitalise every word exept joining words) or should I use the capitalisation I learned in school for the english language (capitalise only first word, names and I)

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Woman in Red Dress or Woman in red dress.

Excuse me if this question sounds dumb for native speakers but I am not very familiar with english.

mfg Speedy

The way I've always done it and seen it done in the majority of cases is Woman in Red Dress. Whether that is technically correct with the rule I wouldn't care to try and guess these days. 

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(I never use "credited as")

Why? 

Two reasons:
1/ When an actor has a "credited as" enter, it is shown in different form in the list in dvdprofiler.

2/ I really have nothing to do to know how an actor (or an actress) is credited. The only important thing is to choose a common name, and I find very interesting the job which is done by users to elaborate such a list.

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That ius why i run parallel databases, it really doesn't take that much time once it's set up


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That is called personal preference and you CAN do that LOCALLY.

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I do not contribute any more

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Gotta agree with Skip on this one.  I contribute based on the rules...I figure it is the least I can do...

I also agree, and now keep everything which doesn't follow the rules locally.

But what I can say is that the nearly 400 profiles I contributed (only first contributions, but 5 or 6) before there were comments requested on first contribution were quite all accepted and not changed after, except to add CoO. So they are probably not so bad.

Now, I will not write on comments that I follow the rule as sometimes I don't follow them. I am sure that if I lied, nobody would see it as my contributions are in french and I suppose people who accept contributions don't have the DVD to verify. But I refuse to do this and stopped contributing, though I think it is a loss for the database when nobody else contributes those titles.

Whatever works for you.  Nobody is required to contribute so I hold no animosity towards those that don't.

That being said, I honestly don't understand the problem.  I, as you, prefer the top billed actors to come first in my cast lists.  I also want to contribute.  To solve that problem I audit the title, in accordance with the rules, and contribute.  Once that is done, I run the opening credits again and move the top billed actors to the top and lock the profile down.

Unfortunately, that method prevents me from contributing again should something go wrong.  Because of that, I am going to adopt James' method...using a divider and listing both opening and closing credits...that way, if something goes wrong I can just copy the cast list, remove the extra cast, contribute and paste them back in.

Thanks, again, for the suggestion James.