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| Registered: May 24, 2007 |  Posts: 3 |
| | Posted: | | | | There is a LOT of inconsistency in TV show titles for example Family Ties Season One or Family Ties Season 1. What is the correct standard. I'm tired of fixing my collection to have one standard and sure others mat be doing the same.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 17,334 |
| | Posted: | | | | It should represent exactly as it is on the front cover. | | | | Pete |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | Cazzie:
Pete is right. A lot of users want consistency by THEIR definition of it, we do not impose fictional concepts such as consistency, our consistency is what is on whatever source is being applied...in this case the front cover, and Hollywood does not understand the concept or if they do it is by their own version.
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| Registered: May 24, 2007 | | Posts: 3 |
| | Posted: | | | | Even if hollywood doesn't have a standard shouldn't we impose one. After all there are other guidelines that are not hollywood standards here.
I don't mind either one, but I'm sure we the majority could at least pick one and make it a standard. | | | | visit me at www.disneybythenumbers.com |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 347 |
| | Posted: | | | | I am not understanding the confusion on this.
If the cover says Season One ... then that is how it should be entered.
If it says Season 1 ... then that is how it should be entered.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 13,202 |
| | Posted: | | | | What he said. | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
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Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 6,744 |
| | Posted: | | | | For Contribution Purposes: exactly what the cover says, with a colon (":") between the show's title and the season descriptor. Both belong in the title field, not the edition field.
Locally(!) I standardized my database to
Show Title: Season X | | | Karsten
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| Registered: March 15, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 5,459 |
| | Posted: | | | | Yeah, I've had a few series where they've changed the format between seasons.
Simply put what's on the cover in the online database then change it to what you prefer in your local - that's what I do. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting CAZZIE98: Quote:
Even if hollywood doesn't have a standard shouldn't we impose one. After all there are other guidelines that are not hollywood standards here.
I don't mind either one, but I'm sure we the majority could at least pick one and make it a standard. No, Cazzie other databases apply artificial standarads. OUR standards, depending on what you are talking are taken from the packaging or the disc itself. That is OUR standard. If Hollywood decides to be inconsistent, we still reflect the data as presented in the packaging or the disc. On TV Series sometimes a role will appear differentl from one show to the next and so does OUR data. You are free to apply whatever standard you wish to apply to YOUR data locally. That is why we have a two-tier system. Skip | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
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Outta here
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