Correct you are, james. Thanks.

And Thank you for confirming several long-held suspicions.

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OK again i think i need to clear up a few points

1] Nobody has removed the edition from the Stripes DVD (just using it as an example) as a matter of fact the Profile did not exist when i got the DVD and i created the Profile, personally i didn't use the Edition

2] The profile that did have an edition removed was Apollo 13 5035822001848 where the edition "Collector's Edition" is printed on the Disc but not the cover, twice the edition removal was voted down but this time everyone voted Yes to it's removal.

3] If you read my original post i was not asking can the edition be used (it can by the rules) but in cases like these should the edition be used, i was just trying to get peoples opinion on this but as usual the thread just got degraded into an augment about interpretation of rules

i personally believe the edition should be printed on the cover and that is should be the only place the edition should come from and was trying to find out if others agreed with this or felt that the edition could come from other places on the DVD, i have at lease one that the edition entered came from a sticker that was on the case.

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Now - if anyone else cares to voice an opinion on what the phrase "It is usually safe..." means if the edition must always come from the front cover, then I'm all ears (or eyes, perhaps).

I didn't write the rule so I can't tell you why they used it.  What it says to me, however, is that if one of those built in choices is listed anywhere...front of the case, back of the case, on the DVD, on a menu from the dvd, etc....it is safe to use it.

I will agree with you that it doesn't really make any sense and, if it were me, I would not have used that wording.  Like the title, the edition should probably come from the front of the case and the rule should say exactly that.

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Now - if anyone else cares to voice an opinion on what the phrase "It is usually safe..." means if the edition must always come from the front cover, then I'm all ears (or eyes, perhaps).

I didn't write the rule so I can't tell you why they used it.  What it says to me, however, is that if one of those built in choices is listed anywhere...front of the case, back of the case, on the DVD, on a menu from the dvd, etc....it is safe to use it.

I will agree with you that it doesn't really make any sense and, if it were me, I would not have used that wording.  Like the title, the edition should probably come from the front of the case and the rule should say exactly that.

Thank you for that voice of reason. And for what it's worth I agree with you. It would be much simpler if the rules stated that edition should always come from  the cover.

In a situation like this it would be useful information as someone looking at the Stripes cover would not know it contained the Special Edition, but by looking at the profile they would know that's what they would get if they bought it.
I'm thinking that's why this particular rule was kept so vague, so we would be able to differentiate between versions even if there are no clues on the covers themselves.

Forget, you have been around long enough to understand that the looser things are the more nightmarish users will make things, grabbing data from where they please and creating whatever interpretation they please to twist the database to their particular ends. The whole idea behind the Rules is to establish a single page from which everybody works for the online, instead of every body running around doing their own thing, making the database Online useless. The place for a given user to use HIS/HER page is LOCALLY. As it is we have a number of user who specialize in twisting of the Rules and parsing one single sentence or even a single word completely out of context.

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Out of interest, what is it that people don't like about taking it from the DVD itself? I mean this is DVD profiler, not DVD cover profiler

It isn't that I like it, it's just that it is simpler.  We take the title from the front of the case...even if it differs from the DVD or film title.  The reason we do that, at least the argument for it, was that it is what we see on the shelf.

The simplest thing, at least for me, is to have the edition come from the same place as the title.