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Derailed (796019-786492) Why are there NO votes?
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorWinston Smith
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Its notyour job to documentas a voter and that means nothing...unles the user wants to accept that and use it. You CAN use that documentation to return data you can document in the future. Your documentation is not part of the permanent record Richie, the point remains that the data was NEVER documented which make sit ILLEGAL to have been Contributed and accepted in error. As a voter I don't care about YOUR documentation.; THAT is between you and the Contributor. I wil say, speaking personally that when users have provided this to me, I will verify it and then resubmit with the verified data ONLY.

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There are lots of not "propper" ducumented entries from after 7/2005. Are we gonna have the same discussions with them? Good Night, and Good Luck
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I have proven at least 5 of the persons being removed should not be.

Documented fully with links - where did I get told that documentation was everything? 

Therefore the contribution is wrong.

End of.

Leave it to the screeners.



No, the contribution is NOT wrong.  The contributor is following the rules.  It is NOT his responsibility to come along behind the guy that entered it illegally in the first place and justify its existence.  If YOU think its legit, then submit an update WITH the proper documentation and put those names back.  That is the correct procedure.
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There are lots of not "propper" ducumented entries from after 7/2005. Are we gonna have the same discussions with them? Good Night, and Good Luck



And every single one of them should be corrected, and then if somebody wants to put that stuff in with proper documentation, go for it.
John

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Uncredited should only be removed where they are a match with a third party database.  Note that they do not have to be an exact match.  If they are a close match with any third party database, and there is no listed justification, it's safe to remove them.


Does Ken's word mean anything in this community?

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EDIT: How would you like, as a new feature, the possibility to "Add documentation" to undocumented entries in the online datatase, without having to delete them and then re-contribute them?
-- Enry
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There is nothing in the rules that allow a user to make a judgment that "it should not have been accepted in the first place" and remove it. Invelos choose what is accepted into the database, and so only they can decide what "should" and "should not" have been accepted.

Some people seem to think they have the authority to make that decision, but they are just delusional and arrogant imo.

According to the rules, any change you wish to make has to be documented. It is that simple.
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I also believe it was stated during the IVS database merge that profiles already in existance should be treated as 'Grandfathered' so any new changes would have to be documented...additions or removals.

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There is nothing in the rules that allow a user to make a judgment that "it should not have been accepted in the first place" and remove it. Invelos choose what is accepted into the database, and so only they can decide what "should" and "should not" have been accepted.

Some people seem to think they have the authority to make that decision, but they are just delusional and arrogant imo.

According to the rules, any change you wish to make has to be documented. It is that simple.


Gee maybe somebody else needs to re-evaluate soem of their arrogantand delusional votes in support of other such changes, such as accepted possessives.

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OK, I'm seeing the reason why Ken put in the ability to block people in the forums.  This has become an absolutely insane conversation here.  At least a third of these posts are personal attacks.  And interestingly, some of these personal attacks are coming from those who continually state that they never do so.

Now, on to the real matter.  Following a bit of common sense... If it's worth cleaning up, it's worth cleaning up right.

At this point, I, and many other users of the program, don't really care whether the data was originally entered illegally or not.  The fact is that it is in there.  To illegally remove it is just as wrong, so why would we want to start down that path?  If someone feels that a profile is incorrect enough to do some work on it, do it right.

Just deleting entries because there was no documentation does nothing but start more arguments here.  The entries made it past screening and voting, so it isn't like they snuck in the back door.  In this case, it has been shown that with just a little effort some these uncredited entries have already been proven accurate.  So, it would appear to me that a blanket removal of them because they have no original documentation would be the wrong thing to do.


If we disagree, then let the screening and voting process resolve it.  Within the first few posts on this thread, all of the viewpoints were given and the voters would have enough information to make their decisions.  Letting this degrade into the name-calling and hateful thread that it has become does nothing to help anybody.
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I understand your logic, jgilligan but I must respectfully disagree. If it was entered out of compliance with the Rules and eranntly accepted that does not now make it correct and legal data. It makes it illegal and errant data which needs to be removed, should you or someone else wish to document it and resubmit, that is good. Or as one user did, provide some documentation for some of the people involved it then becomes an issue between him and the contributor.

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From the URL that is RHo's phpDVDP hosted by Doug.

No, it's not! It may be Doug's collection converted from DVDProfiler to a web site with his Profiler Companion using my skin.
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I understand your logic, jgilligan but I must respectfully disagree. If it was entered out of compliance with the Rules and eranntly accepted that does not now make it correct and legal data. It makes it illegal and errant data which needs to be removed, should you or someone else wish to document it and resubmit, that is good. Or as one user did, provide some documentation for some of the people involved it then becomes an issue between him and the contributor.

Skip



There is some logic there, but...  It is in the database and got past all of the measures that are in place to protect us from bad data.  So, since it made it past all of those defenses, we have to assume that there was some merit to the data to begin with.

Contribution notes are great, and I do understand that they are required.  But, where will we draw the line on this?  Is it only illegal and errant data if NO comments are left?  What about if someone doesn't feel the contribution notes were complete enough?  Would that constitute illegal and errant data too?  In this case, when it was questioned and a mass removal of all uncredited cast was proposed, it didn't take long to find that many of these actors really were in the movie.  Why do we need to remove them all and resubmit it?  What does that solve?  All that does is give us a minimum of two more updates to the title.  One to remove the data, and at least one more to put it back with comments.  And all that really happens is that we end up right where we are already.

I think we were CLOSE to the right solution here already.  If there is questionable data on a title, and we can't find what we feel are appropriate contribution notes, discuss it online and see IF the data needs to be removed.  If we can do that, without all the name calling that happened, we can get to accurate information in the database with the least impact on everybody involved as well as the database.


My goal and hope is for complete and accurate information in our shared database.  The rules are there to help us manage the trek along that path.  Removing perfectly valid information because of a rule infraction helps nobody.  It only creates more work for all involved.  If we work toward that common goal of complete and accurate information, using the rules as our map, we'll get there.  But, if some are working toward a goal of complete compliance to the rules while sacrificing complete and accurate information, we will continue to have these arguments here.
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I understand your logic, jgilligan but I must respectfully disagree. If it was entered out of compliance with the Rules and eranntly accepted that does not now make it correct and legal data. It makes it illegal and errant data which needs to be removed, should you or someone else wish to document it and resubmit, that is good. Or as one user did, provide some documentation for some of the people involved it then becomes an issue between him and the contributor.

Skip



There is some logic there, but...  It is in the database and got past all of the measures that are in place to protect us from bad data.  So, since it made it past all of those defenses, we have to assume that there was some merit to the data to begin with.

Contribution notes are great, and I do understand that they are required.  But, where will we draw the line on this?  Is it only illegal and errant data if NO comments are left?  What about if someone doesn't feel the contribution notes were complete enough?  Would that constitute illegal and errant data too?  In this case, when it was questioned and a mass removal of all uncredited cast was proposed, it didn't take long to find that many of these actors really were in the movie.  Why do we need to remove them all and resubmit it?  What does that solve?  All that does is give us a minimum of two more updates to the title.  One to remove the data, and at least one more to put it back with comments.  And all that really happens is that we end up right where we are already.

I think we were CLOSE to the right solution here already.  If there is questionable data on a title, and we can't find what we feel are appropriate contribution notes, discuss it online and see IF the data needs to be removed.  If we can do that, without all the name calling that happened, we can get to accurate information in the database with the least impact on everybody involved as well as the database.


My goal and hope is for complete and accurate information in our shared database.  The rules are there to help us manage the trek along that path.  Removing perfectly valid information because of a rule infraction helps nobody.  It only creates more work for all involved.  If we work toward that common goal of complete and accurate information, using the rules as our map, we'll get there.  But, if some are working toward a goal of complete compliance to the rules while sacrificing complete and accurate information, we will continue to have these arguments here.



Let me ask you a question.

In the world of crime, only something like 25% of murders are ever solved.  Or take any other crime if murder seems to hard.  If somebody commits a crime and gets away with it, does that mean it is no longer a crime?  To be sure, there is a statute of limitations on most crimes, but that has more to do with the fact that police can only solve so many crimes in a given period of time, which is why I used murder since it has no statute of limitations.

Just because data that was illegal slipped through the cracks and got into the database doesn't make it legal, and never will.  IF you follow the idea that only correct data should go into the database, then we should do everything we can to get rid of illegal data whenever we encounter it.
John

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Let me ask you a question.

In the world of crime, only something like 25% of murders are ever solved.  Or take any other crime if murder seems to hard.  If somebody commits a crime and gets away with it, does that mean it is no longer a crime?  To be sure, there is a statute of limitations on most crimes, but that has more to do with the fact that police can only solve so many crimes in a given period of time, which is why I used murder since it has no statute of limitations.

Just because data that was illegal slipped through the cracks and got into the database doesn't make it legal, and never will.  IF you follow the idea that only correct data should go into the database, then we should do everything we can to get rid of illegal data whenever we encounter it.


Honestly, how can you even conceive to compare this to capital murder?  We're talking about trying to catalog our DVD's.  We really need to keep this in the proper perspective.

I agree that the rules are important as well as the processes we have.  But, to throw the baby out with the bathwater because of an infraction of our rules seems like an absolute waste of our collective time.  The way many people here talk about the rules, you would think that the world would absolutely stop spinning if we don't follow them to the letter.  Our rules are in place to try and provide order and a method to get to our goal of complete and accurate data.  The rules are not the goal, data is the goal.

The ONLY infraction that has been proven so far is that there were originally little or no contribution notes.  Based on some research by several members, it appears that the original data may very well be completely accurate.  Why penalize the entire community by removing this data only to have someone resubmit it later?  How will that help us?  Often, when we argue about the rules, it is stated that they are there to keep the data from getting ping-ponged.  In this case, how can removing the data do anything other than to ensure a ping-pong?


And, to draw a more appropriate comparison, it's like disallowing sweepstakes entry because the envelope was sealed with tape as opposed to licking.  The form is complete and accurate, but it was delivered in an incorrect way.
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Let me ask you a question.

In the world of crime, only something like 25% of murders are ever solved.  Or take any other crime if murder seems to hard.  If somebody commits a crime and gets away with it, does that mean it is no longer a crime?  To be sure, there is a statute of limitations on most crimes, but that has more to do with the fact that police can only solve so many crimes in a given period of time, which is why I used murder since it has no statute of limitations.

Just because data that was illegal slipped through the cracks and got into the database doesn't make it legal, and never will.  IF you follow the idea that only correct data should go into the database, then we should do everything we can to get rid of illegal data whenever we encounter it.


Honestly, how can you even conceive to compare this to capital murder?  We're talking about trying to catalog our DVD's.  We really need to keep this in the proper perspective.

I agree that the rules are important as well as the processes we have.  But, to throw the baby out with the bathwater because of an infraction of our rules seems like an absolute waste of our collective time.  The way many people here talk about the rules, you would think that the world would absolutely stop spinning if we don't follow them to the letter.  Our rules are in place to try and provide order and a method to get to our goal of complete and accurate data.  The rules are not the goal, data is the goal.

The ONLY infraction that has been proven so far is that there were originally little or no contribution notes.  Based on some research by several members, it appears that the original data may very well be completely accurate.  Why penalize the entire community by removing this data only to have someone resubmit it later?  How will that help us?  Often, when we argue about the rules, it is stated that they are there to keep the data from getting ping-ponged.  In this case, how can removing the data do anything other than to ensure a ping-pong?


And, to draw a more appropriate comparison, it's like disallowing sweepstakes entry because the envelope was sealed with tape as opposed to licking.  The form is complete and accurate, but it was delivered in an incorrect way.


There was nothing wrong with my analogy.  That it made you uncomfortable is of no consequence, the point was still valid.  Nor does the fact that the data might be correct have a thing to do with it.  All you people who yell about following the rules can't have it both ways when it suites your convenience.  Illegal data is illegal data and by the rules should not be allowed in.  Ken has said that it is alright to remove such illegal data.  If you wish to restore it, and do so by the rules, then by all means do so.  But it sure as hell isn't fair to all of us who go out of our way to make sure the data we submit is correct to be forced to play this silly ass game of gotcha over information that should not have been allowed through in the first instance.
John

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