I personally do not like the look of it... but I don't see anything in the rules against it.

And I think that would be better then what I voted no to earlier today... someone leaving off the numbering all together. (And they still had to use 2 dividers on some titles)... Rules state that dividers is to use numbering... that I see no way out of.

That is the way I been doing it as well. We have the request in for longer field... so hopefully we will have it on the next version.

Quoting Addicted2DVD:

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I personally do not like the look of it... but I don't see anything in the rules against it.

Agreed.

Accepted as workaround as long as no longer field length is provided! 

This is clearly a subjective area -- maybe that's why it isn't discussed in the rules.  While you guys don't like the look of it, I prefer the look of it to a title with abbreviations or one that is truncated.  There are relatively few titles which don't fit the space provided, at least in those titles I have been doing profiles for.

I'm not changing someone else's title to a 2-line divider and won't vote NO to a contribution which uses abbreviations/truncations -- unless there is something else wrong with the cast/crew list (like the contribution Addicted mentioned which didn't include the episode numbers as required by the rules).  I just think it looks neater with the title on 2 lines -- since that way you can control where the title wraps -- which you won't be able to do when we do (and I hope we do) get longer divider fields.

When you look at the voting page, long titles are automatically scrolled anyway -- to fit the two column format.  But, at least on my two monitors (home and work) the second line that results isn't very legible.  If you have 2 actual lines, you can easily read both.

But if people really feel strongly about this, I'll reconsider my contributions in the future.  As I said, I've rarely seen the necessity when I'm doing a profile.

To you it does Enry and to many of us it does not.

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but I don't see anything in the rules against it.

This comment made me shiver a little... The rules are basically a set od "dos", with a few "don'ts". If we use such argument to allow something into the database, then either there'll be a lot unwanted stuff coming because "the rules don't forbid it" or the rules need to be made much longer to cover all those situation...



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I agree with Pete. Esthetically it looks awful, personally it looks so bad I am allwoing long titles to shortened and waiting for a longer field length.

Just like Pete and the others, I totaly agree with this. Basically: 1 episode divider per 1 episode.

Quoting ya_shin:

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Just like Pete and the others, I totaly agree with this. Basically: 1 episode divider per 1 episode.

I completely agree, also considering the semantics of the database.