Hello all

Could you all give me input....

Please define exactly what a Partial contribution is?

I have my opinion but I want to know what others think as it has come up in an ongoing disagreement.

I have always seen Partial Contribution as contributing only certain fields. (checking off certain boxes when contriuting)

Ok...

If SOME of the cast/crew is contributed is this considered a partial contribution?

Just my oppinion here : Why contribute incomplete cast/crew information? If you take the time to look at the credit to contribute it, why not write all the information...

But maybe I'm reading you wrong and you talk about pre-release profile.

You can do partial contributions on the various sections of the Crew because of the way it is structured in DVD Profiler.  Where some members feel comfortable contributing Sound Crew and others may not be comfortable contributing Sound Crew, as an example.

But, the general consensus if I remember correctly was not to do partial contributions on the cast.  Where someone would enter some of the cast names but, ignore other cast corrections.  Or were they would only validate the parts of the cast they wanted.  With the execption of Uncredited cast since the contributor may not be able to verify that piece of data for already accepted (uncredited) cast in the profile.

Ok....let's get specific.

This all stems back to my recent thread regarding Bewitched Season 3.

I contributed the cast as I felt they should be (from the END credits). The cast were complete from those end credits; and obviously taken from the DVD and no other source.

However, they were voted down because, according to some, I had missed Agnes Moorehead from some of the episodes.
While I disagreed with the 'NO' voters interpretation of the rules I withdrew the contributions.

Upon further reflection, and a re-read of the rules, I decided that my contribution was correct and re-submitted them.

The same 3 people have voted NO, stating "some cast missing" (or words to that effect).

So, my question is this:

If what I DID submit is correct and taken from the actual credits; and could also be considered a partial contribution of the cast.....then surely voting NO is a violation of the rules; because there is nothing in the rules that states I have to add all the cast.

I realise that I am potentially splitting hairs here, but...I am trying to get valid and correct information into the database - which other members can use as a baseline to add to.
I realise that some people have already posed the question "why don't you just add Agnes Moorehead yourself" and the answer is....IT IS WRONG to do so in my opinion and the rules don't support it.

This really comes down to a voting issue:
Is a few missing entries in a cast list reason to vote NO, if everything else is correct?

Quoting Pantheon:

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This really comes down to a voting issue:
Is a few missing entries in a cast list reason to vote NO, if everything else is correct?

Not for me. If you want to add the things that you think are missing you could always add them later.

I agree with the others.

While full and complete cast/crew (and everything else for that matter) would be ideal, some correct info is better than none and certainly no worthy of a "no" vote.
I once saw something like this on a disc I had, and I voted yes with a note along the lines of "why not do the full cast". The question wasn't answered but the submission was approved (I'm 98% sure on last statement).

If anything else is deleted that's another story, but with proper documentation not ness. a "no" vote either.