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The title from the Film's credits" is not always equivalent to "original title".

Quoting EnryWiki:

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The title from the Film's credits" is not always equivalent to "original title".

Yes, it is one of the ways to get the original title (according to the rules).

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Quoting Floorwalker:

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Take the title from the film's credits.    

Quoting Bfd245:

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take title from the movie credits

just a comment - the spline does not include the word episode on Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace

The reason I am opposed to this is that you have to add an exception for non-english localities at once.

I try to find a general way without having (too much) exceptions from the start.

Quoting Darxon:

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Take it from the front cover (with all the pro and con arguments shoveled back and forth numerous times already) and in the rare cases (and they are rare compared to the total number of available DVDs) use common sense.

If unsure, come to the forums, start a 20 page thread, then throw in a couple of polls and then do what you want locally and lock it down.

Makes sense to me. You still have contribution notes votes and screeners for exceptions. eg Title taken from front cover OR Title taken from elsewhere as the cover is clearly non standard because .....

Quoting Graveworm:

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Quoting Darxon:

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Take it from the front cover (with all the pro and con arguments shoveled back and forth numerous times already) and in the rare cases (and they are rare compared to the total number of available DVDs) use common sense.

If unsure, come to the forums, start a 20 page thread, then throw in a couple of polls and then do what you want locally and lock it down.

Makes sense to me. You still have contribution notes votes and screeners for exceptions. eg Title taken from front cover OR Title taken from elsewhere as the cover is clearly non standard because .....

I also agree with that...

Quoting Graveworm:

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Quoting Darxon:

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Take it from the front cover (with all the pro and con arguments shoveled back and forth numerous times already) and in the rare cases (and they are rare compared to the total number of available DVDs) use common sense.

If unsure, come to the forums, start a 20 page thread, then throw in a couple of polls and then do what you want locally and lock it down.

Makes sense to me. You still have contribution notes votes and screeners for exceptions. eg Title taken from front cover OR Title taken from elsewhere as the cover is clearly non standard because .....

You both make abolute sense to me and while I agree in principle with the both of you I'd still favour the spine.

Why? Because I think it's more likely to find a well-formatted title on the spine, it's more likely that there's no tagline that could be interpreted as subtitle and I think most of us have our DVDs ordered in a way where the spine is the only readable part of the entire cover.

you could amend the title rule:
1. If no sensible title on the front cover take it from the dvd spine cover
2. If no sensible title on the dvd spine cover take it from the back cover
3. If you can't figure the title out start a discusion in the Contribution forum