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I'm always amazed at the stuff I read in these forums in regards to movies.....

Interestingly, there are some who would argue that neither of the people credited with writing dialogue for this film may be added to the online database.

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I'm always amazed at the stuff I read in these forums in regards to movies.....

Interestingly, there are some who would argue that neither of the people credited with writing dialogue for this film may be added to the online database.

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what's amazing is the author of the book isn't even credited in the film. Nor in the database for this version.

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DoubleDownAgain: As far as why, I'm just not comfortable with doing so...

I wouldn't either to be honest..  I think we are the same... we have no dog in this fight, just want to know the rules so we can follow them correctly.

But the rules suck.  They suck a Big *** **** *****.  I can understand the attempt to keep them as simple as possible, but much like life, things are not so black and white.  I find "THE RULES" very infuriating.  There are the "Official Rules" that you can find easily on the webpage.  They are great and offer answered for many, if not most, questions.  But there are a ton of questions that "The Rules" do not cover, or have legitimate questions surrounding how they should be applied.  There are some threads that (Ken/Invelos) comments on, but they don't make it into the rules.  I don't understand why if the powers that be comment on a rule, that you then can't find when looking at the current rules.

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Interestingly, there are some who would argue that neither of the people credited with writing dialogue for this film may be added to the online database.


Anything can be argued.....but why would anyone leave out vital data like dialogue (but include sound, makeup) from a film database. Imagine the Maltese Falcon without the dialogue.

Probably because it isn't one of the options in the crew chart.

There are plenty of instances where a direct correlation between the rule about crew credits and what is seen film have not matched, but have been accepted into the OL database.

Do you suggest all of those submissions be deleted?

I didn't suggest anything.  JMGuer asked a question...why would anyone leave out vital data like dialogue...and I gave him the answer.

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So how do you interpret this part of the Rules, referring to the Crew Table:

"For each category, include only those people credited with the roles listed in the "Role" and "Credited As" columns."

If I were to take the above quote literally I'd say that we're not allowed to contribute people credited with being the originator of a character, the creator of a series, or the writer of songs, since the "Credited As" column is blank in those cases, and the quote above says that both conditions (Role and Credited As) must be met.  Therefore I determine that the wording of the rule is not meant to be taken literally.

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The rule clearly means to check the "Role" column AND the "Credited As" column to see if the role is listed there.

The Roles in the "Roles" column come from DVD Profiler itself, and spell out in which section of the crew credits the person is to be entered in, and the Credits in the "Credited As" column come from the film and tell us what the credit must be to be contributed.  Since the "Credited As" column is empty for the roles "Original Characters by", "Created by", "Song Writer", "Theme By", and "Creature Designer", and there is no equivalent film credit of "", then people credited for those roles cannot be contributed to the database because there is no exact match.  That is, if I embrace your logic.

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To add more to the DB without proper context, moves the DB away from comprehension.

Now if custom entries were contributable, then we could have a different discussion.

I've put in my request.

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"Normal" people are who created this mess we call The Rules.

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