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Edit: just to make it clear, as from your post I'm not sure you're aware: if you download a profile from the online and then change either the UPC or the locality, this breaks the connection to the online and in a sense you've created a new profile. This new profile may or may not link to a different existing online profile, but any subsequent changes will not affect the original downloaded profile.

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Yeah, I realize that.  Diff locality + same UPC makes diff profile, consequently re-uploading to the DB will make a new record.

For my own DVD collection, V for Vendetta is now fine.  Cover art matches exactly, UPC matches, cast + crew are all filled in, and locality is set to "Canada".  Do you want me to do anything to the "Canada (Quebec)" entry?  At the very least I can paste in the cast + crew, because I know that will be the same.  I assume that the features will also be the same given that the UPC is identical, but I don't know that for certain.  Or should I just leave that to someone who actually owns the "Canada (Quebec)" DVD to ensure accuracy ?

Thanks,
DD.

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Hmmm...how will including a note on the Contribution Page or in the Rules stating that Contribution Notes must be in English help Non-English speaking users? If they can't read or understand English, how is this note, in English, going to help?  

Easy, they simply read the translated version of the contribution rules.

cya, Mithi

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If I was you I would just do the UPC that you actually own, since you have the DVD in your hand to verify the data. If somebody else with the other version wants to input the data that is up to them, but at least then you will know if they do they will have had to verify the data.

Sounds a bit unfair I know, but we have found in the past some variations in cast / crew listings between countries.

Steve

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Pay no attention to surfeur, Ken reminded as recently as ONE week ago that there is NO automated screening process. Gerri's primary job is to screen the Contributions, she may have some assistance (we don't know). Yes it is mind-booggling, back at IVS they were handling as high 45,000 Contributions per month. Keep in mind that it is impossible for Ken and Gerri to possess a copy of all 300,000 in the database, so they are dependent on US to follow the Rules and provide accurate data and detailed notes with documentation to support our work, remember you are also communicating with 500,000+ other users and your Contribution notes serve as sort of a bibliography (which is where the documentation comes into play). Six months from now if someone wants to Contribute data over what you did, are your notes going to be helpful or meaningless.

Skip

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OK, your view is 100% right, mine 100% wrong. Happy ?

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In fact, I think (and I hope for Gerri, though I've no more information than other users here), that there is an automated system that analyses contribution notes, and refuses them each time it find some keywords as IMDb, DVDshrink... That would be why we can see this kind of problem . And perhaps Gerri have a second viewing on some of them.

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Or Gerri really screens everything and she has forbidden Ken to release next version as she is far too happy that we cannot contribute with 3.5 beta.