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| Registered: September 18, 2008 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 2,650 |
| | Posted: | | | | I would like to be able to add any country to the CoO. It shouldn't be difficult to find a list.
Also, I would love the ability to list multiple CoO's. |
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| Registered: August 23, 2008 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 1,656 |
| | Posted: | | | | IMO, America should be the only CoO since that's where all the good movies come from, anyway. That's my feature request. OMG KIDDING.  Wasn't there a discussion about LotR and CoO a while back? Would this have squashed it? Or was that something different. | | | Reviewer, HorrorTalk.com
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 6,730 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting samuelrichardscott: Quote:
It shouldn't be difficult to find a list. It is (and probably always will be) difficult to find a list of all countries. Lets take Taiwan for example. While most of the world conisders this to be a country, China thinks of it as a renegade province. The question is, what is a country, and who decides this?? Probably the better way, instead of a pull-down-menu would be, to type in the CoO manually. All else might easily jam the capabilities of a single programmer, especially if you take into consideration that every day there seem to arise new countries from the region that was formerly known as "Soviet Union". | | | It all seems so stupid, it makes me want to give up!
But why should I give up, when it all seems so stupid?
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 3,321 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting goblinsdoitall: Quote:
Probably the better way, instead of a pull-down-menu would be, to type in the CoO manually. Yeah, but then you get Englad, England, Ingland, Englannd, etc. Hardly a desirable feature! | | | Get the CSVExport and Database Query plug-ins here.
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| Registered: May 29, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 3,475 |
| | Posted: | | | | I also like the idea of typing in the CoO. Spelling errors are usually caught and easily corrected. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 3,195 |
| | Posted: | | | | I'm strongly against free text fields when they are not necessary, people will only start using non-English names for the countries and then it WILL be a mess. | | | | First registered: February 15, 2002 |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Kinoniki: Quote:
I'm strongly against free text fields when they are not necessary, people will only start using non-English names for the countries and then it WILL be a mess.  | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
CBE, MBE, MoA and proud of it.
Outta here
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 1,380 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Kinoniki: Quote:
I'm strongly against free text fields when they are not necessary, people will only start using non-English names for the countries and then it WILL be a mess. This. It wouldnt be nice to have Yhdysvallat as a CoO and on another profile the same country listed with some silly acronym like USA  | | | | Last edited: by whispering |
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| Registered: December 10, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 3,004 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Kathy: Quote:
I also like the idea of typing in the CoO. Spelling errors are usually caught and easily corrected. We still have the problem of England vs. United Kingdom. |
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| Registered: April 9, 2009 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 858 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting samuelrichardscott: Quote:
I would like to be able to add any country to the CoO. It shouldn't be difficult to find a list.
Also, I would love the ability to list multiple CoO's. +1 Quoting goblinsdoitall: Quote:
Quoting samuelrichardscott:
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It shouldn't be difficult to find a list.
It is (and probably always will be) difficult to find a list of all countries.
Lets take Taiwan for example. While most of the world conisders this to be a country, China thinks of it as a renegade province. The question is, what is a country, and who decides this?? "Country" is not only a term for sovereign states and/or governments but is also a geographical term. So, I don't see what prevents us to include Taiwan (and other states with limited recognition). Collecting DVDs neither depends on nor shapes global politics, right?  What about using the IMDb list (at least as a basis) – unless, of course, it's copyrighted  Quoting goblinsdoitall: Quote:
Probably the better way, instead of a pull-down-menu would be, to type in the CoO manually. All else might easily jam the capabilities of a single programmer, especially if you take into consideration that every day there seem to arise new countries from the region that was formerly known as "Soviet Union". As Mark and Patrik already pointed out, I also believe that it would lead to a mess... I'd even prefer a CoO field with no data than one filled with nonsense. | | |
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