Like I said before, I believe the actual title is R.I.P.D. and that is how I'd have it in my local.  But the rules are clear: Use the title from the front cover.  Which means the user has to interpret the front cover and determine what is the actual title.  I'd prefer to pull the title from the movie itself, at least in single movie profiles.  And in fact that is what I try to do with my local. 

The rules are rules IMO, not guidelines nor recommendations.  If the rules state to use the title from the front cover then use the title from the front cover.  While there are exceptions to every rule, I don't think it is our job as contributors to make that call.  Either Ken/Invelos needs to step in, or update the rules to accommodate the exception.  Ken has already stated this kind of thing isn't worth his time nor attention, which I found unbelievable and arrogant.  It would literately take him 2-3 minutes to post his decision, instead we as a community spends hours going back and forth trying to determine the best course of action.

I don't bother submitting or voting on these type of grey areas, I adjust my local to my liking and lock it down.

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Nobody is saying not to follow the rule. There is just a difference in opinion on what the actual title on the front cover is.

I don't agree.  I'm not implying malice but they are certainly ignoring part of the DVD title.  If you knew nothing of the movie, what would you say the title is?

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Nobody is saying not to follow the rule. There is just a difference in opinion on what the actual title on the front cover is.

I don't agree.  I'm not implying malice but they are certainly ignoring part of the DVD title.  If you knew nothing of the movie, what would you say the title is?

I actually know nothing about this title at all... never even seen the trailer for it. And going by the front cover only I would say the title is just....

R.I.P.D

I see nothing on the front cover to make me think "Rest in Peace Department" is part of the title. Even the rules say for possessives that " In the absence of quotes to verify, check the font size used for the title on the front cover. Generally, possessives which use a significantly smaller font are not part of the title."

So reading that rule... why wouldn't I apply the same logic to determine whether this is part of the title or not?

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I actually know nothing about this title at all... never even seen the trailer for it. And going by the front cover only I would say the title is just....

R.I.P.D

I see nothing on the front cover to make me think "Rest in Peace Department" is part of the title. Even the rules say for possessives that " In the absence of quotes to verify, check the font size used for the title on the front cover. Generally, possessives which use a significantly smaller font are not part of the title."

So reading that rule... why wouldn't I apply the same logic to determine whether this is part of the title or not?

Where is the possessive in this case?

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If I am ever unsure about what part of the text on the front of the case is the actual title, I verify with the credit block and the spine.  While I am sure there are exceptions out there, I have yet to see a release that doesn't have the actual title in one or both of those areas.

Except that we do not "verify" the title by checking either of those places EXCEPT in one specific case, which does not apply here!

AND, we're not looking for the "actual" title. We are looking for the title of this specific DVD/Blu ray release!

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"I verify with the credit block and the spine"  Where does it say to do that in the rules?

It doesn't, but it also doesn't say "enter all the text from the front cover."  All it says is, "Use the title from the front cover."  As I said earlier, it is up to each of us to determine what that title is.  I am not asking you to agree, but that is how I read the rule.

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I see nothing on the front cover to make me think "Rest in Peace Department" is part of the title. Even the rules say for possessives that " In the absence of quotes to verify, check the font size used for the title on the front cover. Generally, possessives which use a significantly smaller font are not part of the title."

So reading that rule... why wouldn't I apply the same logic to determine whether this is part of the title or not?

Using that logic, almost the entire list of titles I posted previously would have their sub-titles and episodic descriptors removed from the title.  Is that what you're suggesting we do?

No Hal... the question that was given to me was if I knew nothing at all about the title what would I think it was.

I told him that...

1. I know nothing at all about this title... never even seen the trailer
2. Looking only at the front cover I believe the title of this DVD release to be R.I.P.D.
3. In cases such as this (Where I know nothing at all about the title)... why wouldn't I use the same logic as the possession rule? It is the closest thing we have in the rules to help us determine what the title is.