Good, james. Keep it up. It was not I who vowed to ignore the Rules and the Poll which he started.

Skip

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The user has also made good on his attempt to unilaterall6y change the Rules and the Studios thread. So don't expect me to BACK OFF, it won't happen. He was and is waaaaay out of line. So have fun with your red arrows, matey.

Wait, what?  Am I missing something?  I haven't seen any request to change the rule nor have I seen a change in the studio thread. 

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Then address your insulting remarks to the OP, Unicus. NOT to me.   I repeat it was not I announced publicly his intent to completely ignore the Rules, the Studios thread and the results of a poll he started. Until such timne as you address that....I am not interested

Skip

T!M's not breaking any rules. Correct studio names are allowed per the rules.

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Quoting skipnet50:

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Then address your insulting remarks to the OP, Unicus. NOT to me.   I repeat it was not I announced publicly his intent to completely ignore the Rules, the Studios thread and the results of a poll he started. Until such timne as you address that....I am not interested

Skip

T!M's not breaking any rules. Correct studio names are allowed per the rules.

Your opinion, but I don't share it, James and it is an opinion which I hold very strongly. And in my book you are condoning his behavior.

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Quoting skipnet50:

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Your opinion, but I don't share it, James and it is an opinion which I hold very strongly. And in my book you are condoning his behavior.

He has no "behavior" other than trying to get the data right. You're trying to make this personal and label everyone else. Your argument failed you long ago when Unicus presented the BVHE example.  I don't see any way that you're going to get around the BHVE issue in order to preserve your preference for '20th'.

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Unicus:

The only thing that has changed is that the link to the Studios thread is not there but the Rules still state;

"There is further information about correct names for studios"

No let's see where would i go, Oh wait there is a Studios thread, let's check there and what do we find. My, my my

the second part
"and the opportunity to ask questions if unsure, in the Contributions forum."

is a separate issue. The Studios thread provides the answer. As of now.

Skip

You left out the part of the rule that says "if you are unsure". That makes the whole thread an optional exercise. T!M's not unsure. He's free to proceed with a correct studio name on his own. That is why I have petitioned Ken (via PM and the 'Contact Us' option    ) to clarify his intent with the optional nature of the rule.

Quoting skipnet50:

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Unicus:

The only thing that has changed is that the link to the Studios thread is not there but the Rules still state;

"There is further information about correct names for studios"

No let's see where would i go, Oh wait there is a Studios thread, let's check there and what do we find. My, my my

the second part
"and the opportunity to ask questions if unsure, in the Contributions forum."

is a separate issue. The Studios thread provides the answer. As of now.

Skip

Sorry, but you can't split the sentence up.  You have to take the sentence as a whole...if you don't, you change it's meaning completely.

"There is further information about correct names for studios and the opportunity to ask questions if unsure, in the Contributions forum."

Taken as a whole, you only have to check the forum...note the rule says 'Contribution forum' and NOT 'Studio thread'...if you are unsure or want to ask a question.  As a studio buff, I am rarely unsure.  When I am, I educate myself by doing the research myself.  Since I do, I never have to look at the thread.

In addition, if we aren't allowed to correct errors in that thread, it is useless.  And make no mistake, listing '20th' as the correct name is an error.  It was an error of convenience, but an error nonetheless.

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Unicus:

You are correct but at least quote the Rule correctly, your punctuation changes the meaning as well

The CORRECT quote is

There is further information about correct names for studios, and the opportunity to ask questions if unsure, in the Contributions forum.

The punctuation is all important.

Skip

You dissected the sentence and you're going to lecture me on a missing comma?    It was a typo, btw.

You are, however, correct.  The punctuation is important.  In this case, the commas are used to to set off the parenthetical element 'and the opportunity to ask questions if unsure'.

When we remove that element, we have a sentence that reads, "There is further information about correct names for studios in the Contributions forum."  This sentence, however, still isn't a requirement as all it does is tell us where to find furhter information.  Nowhere does it say we have to look at that information.

That's enough parsing for the night.  I am off to watch my nightly DVD. 

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However, I notice that Skip is now indeed voting against a pending update of mine in which I'm adding a new "Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment" entry - straight from the cover -  to a profile that doesn't even have a DVD distributor listed as of yet (024543-108375). His comment: "Distributor incorrect per Rules AND Studios thread"... 

I still can't get over the fact that when the cover says "Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment" and I enter "Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment", that that gets me accused of breaking the rules.     

I hope you'll amend your contribution notes to include a reference to this thread.

Earlier today I sent a "Contact Us" message to Invelos regarding the status of the Studios Thread to add to the two prior PMs. Hopefully this will be resolved soon.