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Title guidelines for multiple movies in 1 profile
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DVD Profiler Desktop and Mobile RegistrantStar Contributorhevanw
Registered: March 18, 2007
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I couldn't find this in the Guidelines, nor by searching the forum, although it seems a common problem.
How exactly should I compose the title of a profile that has 2 movies on it ? Do I separate the two titles with an ampersand, a hyphen, a slash,... ?
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I couldn't find the Guidelines... 
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No specific guidelines, but all the cases of this I've seen have used / between the titles where there isn't already a link in the boxset title itself.

e.g. if the boxset was Superman 1 and Superman 2 I would use the 'and', if it was

Superman 1
Superman 2

I'd go with Superman 1/Superman 2
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I agree with Lithurge - if there is nothing on the cover to separate them, then just use a slash.
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Quoting Lithurge:
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I'd go with Superman 1/Superman 2


Or perhaps Superman 1 / Superman 2.

Seems to be more readable to me.
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More readable, but badder english   

Seriously though, general grammar convention is not to separate with spaces.
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Quoting northbloke:
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More readable, but badder english   

Seriously though, general grammar convention is not to separate with spaces.


English is not the only language in the world
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What does the spine say?
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Quoting hal9g:
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Or perhaps Superman 1 / Superman 2.

Seems to be more readable to me.


Checking MANY titles in the database it is also the 'accepted' way it is done (bad english or not) - in fact it is so widely accepted that more than once I've seen Title 1/Title 2 changed to Title 1 / Title 2 as the only update in a contribution and get all Yes votes.

I believe therefore the accepted Guidelines are to separate with ' / '
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Quoting northbloke:
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More readable, but badder english   

Seriously though, general grammar convention is not to separate with spaces.


I thought that was only with single words, such as and/or and he/she, where the / means 'or'. When phrases are used instead of single words there tend to be spaces around the slash ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slash_(punctuation)#English_language )

Here / is being used in the sense of 'and' instead of the ampersand ( & ) that normal English would use.
Ampersands would be a bad idea for film titles since there are titles with ampersands but hardly any with a slash.
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DVD Profiler Desktop and Mobile RegistrantStar Contributorhevanw
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Thanks for the feedback guys.
I had a submission for two movies Narc and Control. I'll change the submission to have them show up as "Narc / Control". BTW, the box just didn't have any separator, the titles were just in 2 colors. In fact, at first I thought it was a movie named Narc Control .
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IMO, this all falls into the realm of personal preference. Either way is correct and a contribution which solely adds a space before & after the forward slash adds nothing of significant value to the database.
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