Ummm....just thought I'd chime in and mention that early this morning I saw the Twister submission.  Figured the Wednesday was odd so I jumped onto Amazon for a quick check and it concurred.  I know early in the thread somebody mentioned a voter using Amazon as corroboration and it was me.  I was in a hurry.  In my defense, at least I bothered to check. 

Oops.

I will say though, what I thought was more disconcerting was not that the new release date was off by 1 day, but rather the submission moved the currently accepted date by a number of months...at least for Twister.  It bothers me that a profile as old as the '97 release of Twister could still be screwed up more than 10 years after it's release.

I haven't bothered to read all the way through this thread, so just ignore me if this has already been beaten to death. 

Yeah.  After finally reading all the way through the thread, I now see that the guy is simply out in left field.  Glad I got this stuff locked locally.

Well that's annoying.  Now I'm back to wondering just how our existing profile could be so far off. 

Looks like Unicus was the first to push this profile back up after the great migration.  I blame him for this mess! 

The contributor has replied to my PM, which is the community spirited way of addressing these issues as opposed to opening a thread in the forums.
I have copied it below as I feel it is not 'personal', but rather an indication of a new contributor believing he was helping the common database but getting it wrong, as we all have in the past.
He doesn't post on the forums.

"sorry i just assumed that movieweb.com and amazon.com both having the same identical release dates would have the correct date on file, i will not update anymore sorry... thought i was providing correct info. but some of the release dates i know for sure were wrong off by months instead of a few days, i know cause i actually owned the titles prior to what invelos had done for a release date. i will just update my own database than. sorry again"

If nothing else, he's alerted us to the fact that some of these older profiles are messed up.  It's going to be a pain to fix some of them.

And to address the ridiculous comment I should stay out of region 1 

Why? I own nearly 3000 dvds from the USA and Canada, regularly contribute and help develop and improve the profiles from this region in the common database, and only vote and comment on dvds I actually own. There should not be any regional discrimination on the forums, and to suggest such a thing is bo**ox, or rather I should say baloney? 

The question I posed about strengthening the rule for the future can be utilised for all regions, eg UK releases common for Mondays as has already been noted.

I've said enough now - back to my film

I just PMed him about using copyrighted rear cover art as well. Hopefully he will pull those as well. He did pull all the date changes that were also in my collection... though I know there were many he did I don't have.

I didn't mention this thread to him in my PM... but I did provide him a link to the rules... just in case.

I did however give him the link to this thread in most of my no votes so it isn't like he didn't know he could come here.