Since we're having so much fun tonight, I thought I'd start a discussion on the "no" votes that have been submitted on the Star Wars title changes.

The recently revised Rule for Titles says, and I quote:

"Use the title from the front cover"

None of the DVD cover titles for the Star Wars movies, includes the word "Episode", so they have been removed.

Not surprisingly, numerous "no" votes have been cast.

One said "Episode is inferred. These are episodic films. Check the rear credit block. The Episode # is there."  I don't see in the Rules where you can use inferences to determine the title.  Can you please point that out to me 8Ball?  I also do not see any instructions to check the rear credit block in the Rules, except if there is a possessive in the title.  No possessives here.

Another said: "Pointless Change".  Well the point, since you apparently missed it, was to make the Title conform to the new Rules, Patsa.

A third said, "View the movie: "Episoe IV A new Hope" is how the scroll starts".  Well, that is what the old Rule told us to do, but no longer, Fingerlakes Dave.

Voting 'no" is a violation of the Rules based on the following quote directly from the Rules:

"If a user is following the Contribution Rules and his/her data is accurate, and the contribution replaces data which is inaccurate or violates these Contribution Rules, a "No" vote is considered an abuse of the voting privilege and should be avoided when possible."

Truth is I changed mine back to the old form of the titles when I got done contributing the corrected titles, but my personal preference for the titles has no place in the online database.

Just because it's a rule doesn't make it right...

Quoting pplchamp:

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I voted yes, then loocked my titles to avoid accidently accepting this change

Ditto, but rules are rules

What happen to Episode I, you didn't contribute it 

Quoting hal9g:

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Truth is I changed mine back to the old form of the titles when I got done contributing the corrected titles, but my personal preference for the titles has no place in the online database.

So why did you change the titles in the first place? Do you just like to annoy people? While you are theoretically correct, I do not see the point in doing so.

This thread illustrates exactly what I think about rules. The more complicated and precise they are, the more inaccurate they will be, as we'll always find examples where their strict application doesn't match the reason for which they were made. And the more  precise they are, the more we have chances that the result doesn't match what most users want. When we'll have an online database which pleases strictly nobody, we'll have won...

Remember that about one hundred purists "play" with those rules and many thousands users would like just to find a "correct" profile online.

             

I voted yes since it technically follows the current rules, but there's nothing that says you can't post a vote comment voicing your disagreement.

I'll still be locking them down locally, like everything else.