For example, from Warner Bros. they have released many box sets that come with a bunch of trinkets and stuff and the movie is in it's own case withing a big box containing everything.

For example.
Blade Runner: 30th Anniversary Collector's Edition
Citizen Kane: 70th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition
Forbidden Planet: Ultimate Collector's Edition: 50th Anniversary Edition
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory: 40th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition

or
Star Trek Beyond: Limited Edition Gift Set
Jurassic World: Limited Edition Collectible Giftset
Jurassic World: Limited Edition Gift Set

Each of those include the cast and crew for the box itself, even when the movie itself is inside in it's own case.

Shouldn't the main box profile be basically blank of all film data and the only data should be what pertains to the box itself such as release date and the trinkets contents entered in the Other Features section?

Well whatever you want to call them.

The question still is valid.
Why should the cast/crew be credited in the outer case for a set that includes the movie in it's own case within that larger case?

The outer packaging still represents the particular movie.  How many layers you have to peel back to get to the disc(s) is beside the point.  How each of those layers is represented is beside the point.  If the given SKU represents a single movie title for instance I don't see the point in not including all the data for that movie under the parent profile, irrespective of whether it's decided to include child profiles as well.  If you want to have to drill down to a child profile before you can see the cast/crew details knock yourself out.  I don't see what's accomplished using that approach, but to each his own.

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Well whatever you want to call them.

The question still is valid.
Why should the cast/crew be credited in the outer case for a set that includes the movie in it's own case within that larger case?

You, choose to have 2 profiles, for one movie.

Other, people may just want one profile, what "you" are calling the outside case, because they want to track the UPC they purchased. Why should they be denied having the cast and crew in their profile.

If you choose, to have both the "outside case UPC Profile" and the "inside case UPC Profile", I believe you should "locally edit" your "pair" into a "local box set" modified the way you want, that you keep locked.

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I still fail to see how cast and crew can be credited to a box when the movie itself is in another case.

The box is just packaging. It's not a case.

You are discussing "box" and "packaging" - this is covered under Case Type.

By entering the data on the outside box you know that this film is packaged in a "box", typically a Custom Case. Therefore you know what these special editions contain.

Since the contents of these editions only contain one movie, we treat them as we would any other single film.

These editions are not box sets and should not be treated as such as far as the online database is concerned.

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The box is just packaging. It's not a case.

A case is a kind of packaging, too. There can be another kind of box around that case, but that's not unusual: there are huge amounts of keepcases with a Slip Cover around it. Yet nobody would even think about making an empty profile for the Slip Cover, with a child profile for the actual keepcase, right? The only difference here is that, unlike the keep case + slip cover scenario, the inner box has it's own UPC/EAN. That's not unique, either: I actually own a movie in a keep case with a slip cover where each has it's own (different!) UPC/EAN-code, so that can happen as well. But no, I didn't make an empty profile for the slip cover there, with the keepcase as the child. I don't see how this should be any different.

The good thing is that in most cases, both profiles will be in the database, because the smaller case inside the big box will most likely also be available without all the "trinkets and stuff". That allows everyone to set this up how they like it with the least amount of effort. If you want the child profile, you can. The only thing that you need to do locally is to link the child and to remove all data you don't want from the parent. That's a whole lot less work that forcing everyone else that only wants one profile for one movie to have to manually add all cast/crew and other data to that profile. So to me, that seems to be the best way to handle this: everything under the UPC/EAN of the "big box". Those that want to use the child profile can, those that don't, don't. If we do it the other way around, if we strip the "big box" profile of most data, then that generates a lot more work for everyone who doesn't need a child profile.

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At least one person sees what I'm trying to get at.

I really believe I get it, too.

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After all one could throw away the large "swag" box and still have the discs in the case that it came in.

Of course. In which case, I would personally list it under the UPC/EAN of that particular case. After all, if I threw the large "swag" box out, I'd have no need for the the the UPC/EAN of that box.

Again, I absolutely understand why some users would want to use the parent-child set-up, sure. Then again, I also understand that some users don't want two profiles when they've bought one movie. I can see both, really I do. The thing is: you want to force that last group to use two profiles, while it's a lot easier for everyone involved to do it the other way around. If both the profile for the "big box" and the profile of the "smaller" box within are fully filled with all data, then both camps can set this up in their local database with the least amount of effort. Those that want to profile the empty box just have some deleting to do, which is a lot less work than asking those who don't want the child profile to have to fill an empty parent profile from scratch. This is not about who's right - it's about using the form that works the best for everyone.