Quoting Touti:

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I know it's been discussed a few times and there's still an ongoing thread about it in the contribution rules comitee forums.  To be honnest I didn't folllow them and I really don't feel like reading over 20 pages of yet another endless debate.

I bought 4 box sets of TV Series and I wonder if there is a consensus now on how they should be profiled.  Right now they're a little messy and I'd like to fix them.  I'll do it the way I want them but I don't mind making them "contribution friendly" if it's not too much extra work.

Man, you really want to start more arguments, eh?

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Do we profile episodes at the disc level or at the boxset level ?

Both, I like.

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Do we repeat the regular cast in each episode or do we put them once at the box set ?

Each episode.

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Do we enter cast at all at the box set level ?

Yes, I like.

Quoting Touti:

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Do we profile episodes at the disc level or at the boxset level ?

Depends on what you mean by 'profile'.  All I can say is disc level is optional, but all information should be in the boxset level.

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Do we repeat the regular cast in each episode or do we put them once at the box set ?

The concensus was to repeat the regular cast in each episode.

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Do we enter cast at all at the box set level ?

Yes, the box set must contain the full cast list for every episode.  There is an easy way to do this once you have completed the disc profiles using notepad and the 'copy all/paste all' options.

Quoting skipnet50:

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O...M....G....

Skip

You know, if you would just type...

ohhhh... mygod!

It would be like you were from "The Valley."

Fer sure. Totally.

         

Skip

Are you going to the galleria?

I could have edited the previous post but I'm trying for the Guiness record of the quickest thread ever

So basically, everything has to be done at the boxset level, regular cast are to be repeated for each episode and, if one wants to, he can copy that information for each disc in the set for the episodes on this disc.

Correct ?

Quoting Touti:

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I could have edited the previous post but I'm trying for the Guiness record of the quickest thread ever

So basically, everything has to be done at the boxset level, regular cast are to be repeated for each episode and, if one wants to, he can copy that information for each disc in the set for the episodes on this disc.

Correct ?

Providing none of the regular cast /crew change... no good listing donald duck for every episode out of twenty if he only appears in eighteen.

Steve

Here's a follow-up question I haven't previously seen an answer to, so I'll ask:

For a series with season-by-season box set releases the answers in this thread certainly apply.  Also, if an entire series is released under a single UPC (for example, BBC's The Young Ones with both seasons in one Digipack) this would be the way to do it.

But what about the uber-box-sets that come out, ones which contain a full rack of the exact same season-by-season sets, but merely in a giant slip cover that has it's own UPC and acts as a container for all of the previously released season set boxes (also still bearing their original individual box set UPCs).

Do we again profile the uber-box set with the episodes, cast, and crew for the entire series (season 1 + season 2 + season 3...and so on), a list possibly hundreds of episodes long?  If so, this seems extremely redundant.  Granted you can't do it now, but imagine if disc level "grandchildren" were added.  An episode would be profiled three times in one release.

Or do we simply leave each season box set as a stand alone entry (as they were already previously profiled when initially released) and just add their profiles as box set contents to the uber-box as we do with film collections and leave it at that?  Personally, this seems much more logical a choice.