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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 97 |
| | Posted: | | | | I know what the rules state but I'm also looking at what's being contributed. I've done a search but can't find any definitive answer on how to submit TV Series.
Should each disc of the series be created as it's own profile (containing the relevant cast, crew, features) or should only the 1 profile be created for the whole set?
The rules state not to create child profiles, but there does seem to be quite a few entering the database. |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 |  Posts: 7 |
| | Posted: | | | | That's easy. TV-Series are not Box-Sets, so no Child-Profiles. |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 97 |
| | Posted: | | | | That's what I thought. So why have child profiles for each disc of Alias seasons 4 & 5 (R1) been submitted and accepted? | | | | Last edited: by eggerty |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 2,372 |
| | Posted: | | | | as your thread title says a definitive answer is required from Invelos to once and for all get this resolved.
All we can do is wait till it comes, and listen to both sides debate why they're right. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 793 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting BeverlyHillsFan: Quote:
That's easy. TV-Series are not Box-Sets, so no Child-Profiles. ... unless they are multi-season sets. |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 278 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Squirrel.God: Quote:
Quoting BeverlyHillsFan:
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That's easy. TV-Series are not Box-Sets, so no Child-Profiles.
... unless they are multi-season sets. Or the individual discs are available to purchase seperately in the same cases that the boxset contains (UK Friends boxsets, for example). | | | | Guns don't kill people. Hammers do. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 462 |
| | Posted: | | | | There's a thread pinned at the top regarding specific topics we need Ken to address. As of now, he has not. | | | "I am Andrew Ryan and I am here to ask you a question:
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 188 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Squirrel.God: Quote:
Quoting BeverlyHillsFan:
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That's easy. TV-Series are not Box-Sets, so no Child-Profiles.
... unless they are multi-season sets. Actually, the rules say MULTIPLE COMPLETE TV SERIES, not season. So it would have to be all seasons of more than one show to be a "box set". If it were multiple seasons only, then it wouldn't be the "rare case" that the rules mention. | | | | Build a man a fire and you keep him warm for a day. Set a man on fire and you keep him warm the rest of his life. | | | | Last edited: by RHFactor |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 6,635 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting RHFactor: Quote:
Quoting Squirrel.God:
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Quoting BeverlyHillsFan:
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That's easy. TV-Series are not Box-Sets, so no Child-Profiles.
... unless they are multi-season sets.
Actually, the rules say MULTIPLE COMPLETE TV SERIES, not season. So it would have to be all seasons of more than one show to be a "box set". If it were multiple seasons only, then it wouldn't be the "rare case" that the rules mention. The term "SERIES" is interchangeable with "SEASONS". In at least the UK they use SERIES in place of SEASON. | | | | Hal |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 793 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting RHFactor: Quote:
Quoting Squirrel.God:
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That's easy. TV-Series are not Box-Sets, so no Child-Profiles.
... unless they are multi-season sets.
Actually, the rules say MULTIPLE COMPLETE TV SERIES, not season. So it would have to be all seasons of more than one show to be a "box set". If it were multiple seasons only, then it wouldn't be the "rare case" that the rules mention. Yes it does say that but if you look at the top of that page it defines what is meant by a TV Series as: Quote:
* Complete Series/Season sets
* Anthologies of Episodes that do not form a complete series or season. So any multi-season TV set would be a boxset. EDIT - Beaten to it by Hal! | | | | Last edited: by Squirrelecto |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 188 |
| | Posted: | | | | That's not a definition, it's just a statement of how TV sets come bundled. If it were a definition it would say "A TV series is defined as...".
Hal, They are not interchangeable. A season is one season of a series. A series is the entire collection of every episode of a show. I know they use different terms in the UK, but I don't own any region 2 anyway, so no biggie. But for region 1, a season is not a series unless the series only ran for one season. | | | | Build a man a fire and you keep him warm for a day. Set a man on fire and you keep him warm the rest of his life. | | | | Last edited: by RHFactor |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 6,635 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting RHFactor: Quote:
Hal, They are not interchangeable. A season is one season of a series. A series is the entire collection of every episode of a show. I know they use different terms in the UK, but I don't own any region 2 anyway, so no biggie. But for region 1, a season is not a series unless the series only ran for one season. The term SERIES was used inadvertently, but it clearly means SEASONS. The Rules do not make any sense otherwise. Who bundles multiple "SERIES" (Friends, Cheers, Buffy, X-Files) together into one unit and sells them? Nobody that I know of! | | | | Hal | | | | Last edited: by hal9g |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 188 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting hal9g: Quote:
The term SERIES was used inadvertently, but it clearly means SEASONS. The Rules do not make any sense otherwise. Who bundles multiple "SERIES" (Friends, Cheers, Buffy, X-Files) together into one unit and sells them? Nobody that I know of! That's why the rules claim it's rare. | | | | Build a man a fire and you keep him warm for a day. Set a man on fire and you keep him warm the rest of his life. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 37 |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 2,694 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting eggerty: Quote:
That's what I thought. So why have child profiles for each disc of Alias seasons 4 & 5 (R1) been submitted and accepted? Because despite what the rules say, that's the way most people want those sets done. There was a tacit agreement to do them that way some time ago, although some people will tell you I'm lying on that. Believe the evidence you see in the database (the profiles that exist there). | | | John
"Extremism in the defense of Liberty is no vice!" Senator Barry Goldwater, 1964
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 2,694 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting RHFactor: Quote:
Quoting hal9g:
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The term SERIES was used inadvertently, but it clearly means SEASONS. The Rules do not make any sense otherwise. Who bundles multiple "SERIES" (Friends, Cheers, Buffy, X-Files) together into one unit and sells them? Nobody that I know of!
That's why the rules claim it's rare. SERIES = SEASON. Almost every major TV show that has multiple seasons/series and is now off the air, can be gotten in a megaset like this. They are decidedly NOT rare at all. BTW, the Buffy series (all 7 seasons) was one of the first to be available that way, more than two years ago. | | | John
"Extremism in the defense of Liberty is no vice!" Senator Barry Goldwater, 1964
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