And I was thinking that the most insane case of repeat profile update was the "Back to the future" boxset... 900 update for one profile 

It seems like a miss a lots of fun being late in the game 

Again, you are reaching conclusions that simply are not supportable except in your own mind. I made no conclusion at al, I merely recited the facts of what kind of things transpired and in this regard you are correct it is that behavior that eventually led to the development of the Rules.You really need to try to stop reading something that does not exist, in an attempt to either be argumentative or embarass me, I don't know which. One you can do and the other there is no way.

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Differing point of view, james. While I agree with some of what you have to say. My view of users attempting remove perfectly VALID data such as many possessives, note I did not say all or even most,  are maliciously tampering with the database for their OWN purposes and that is simply unacceptable. it is BTW a starting point, communality has NOTHING to do with it. IF communality is the objective, then accuracy in ANY form is irrelevant and it is bogus to pretend otherwise. But then that has already been very graphically demonstrated.

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Quoting VibroCount:

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... Will I need to lock the title so I can find it in my database?

You can also use the "Sort Title" field...

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FWIW the film was actually submitted to the BBFC by 20th Century Fox (who really should know) under the title 4 - Rise of the Silver Surfer AND that's how it appears in the credits so technically that is the official title of the movie.

However the DVD has Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer on the cover so (as per the Contribution Rules when the DVD title is different from the film title) it should be:

Title: Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer
Original Title: 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer (changing - to : as the DVDP mandated separator)

I have no explanation for why the English would be unable to determine the title, but the "4" seen in the film credits is actually the stylized circled 4 symbol, which represents Fantastic Four.  Exactly like the stylized "S" on Superman's chest is a symbol for his name.  Not surprisingly, this exact symbol is used extensively throughout the film.  It's even part of the architecture of the roof of their headquarters.  To display that symbol followed by a subtitle implies everything the symbol represents, not just the number 4.  If they just wanted the number 4, they would have simply displayed the number 4.

To extract the tiny piece of literal information from a symbol and suggest that it was the entire intent is disingenuous at best.  The fact that there might be people who are completely baffled by the use of symbols is not at all surprising.  Unfortunately, it's another flaw in our much vaunted rules that the number interpretation might actually be technically correct.

EDIT - I meant to qualify all this with the statement that this is simply my opinion.  To me it seems obvious, but it must not be or there wouldn't be any disagreement.  Regardless, people will vote however they see fit and I'll contain myself to my local db.

@ mdnitoil

I'm a bit confused by your reply to Voltaire53.
In this particular case, the title: "4 - Rise of the Silver Surfer" came from 20th Century Fox, so it's they who are interpreting the symbol into a number, not us, so I would hardly call it disingenuous.
I know it's a one-off and shouldn't be considered a precedent, but in this case it looks like the film-makes intended us to read the symbol as the number "4".

Quoting 8ballMax:

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In updating said profile I used the Contribution Rules and the existing previously approved profile of "Mister Roberts": Premiere Collection UPC# 085391-669227 as my guide. Another big mistake…apparently.

This title will be changed to remove the quotes per Gerri after the rules are updated (which will hopefully be soon)



Quoting Gerri Cole:

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I declined the contribution [referring to a contribution where the quotes were removed] because as of right now, it is against the rules. The consensus appears to be that the rules should be updated. The rules will be updated and then the title can be changed.

-Gerri

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I purchased Mister Roberts UPC# 012569-736351 on 10/03/07 and due to the woeful state of the existing profile I contributed an updated profile on 10/07/07 at 10:12 am PST. A big mistake…apparently.

The updated profile was exellent, with the sole exception of adding the quotes back in. The title was good, had been bad, and had been good before that.

I was pleased to vote yes on your resubmitted profile, because it took a less-than-average profile to a state of very high quality.

(This thread was not directed at you, but at everyone who battles to add stuff to titles which aids in rendering the database less useful. If we add every detail to every title, we wind up with titles like    • 42nd Street •      --  Which is difficult, because the database fails to recognize the bullet character...)