Quoting Scooter1836:

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What benefit is there in having the same overview repeated across 6 or 7 profiles.

Please don't argue "What's the point" when it comes to the database rules. Remember that we have to type down spelling mistakes verbatim per the same overview rule.

But if there actually is an overview on the season boxset and the children are not individually packaged you cannot fall back to the "standard rule" "If there's no overview, write a small one of your own" because there actually IS an overview, you (general you) just don't like it.

As to the case where the individual case does not contain an overview (what else is there on the cover then) I honestly don't know how the "use the standard rules" is to be interpreted in this case. The standard rules for TV show seasons or the global standard rules? I just don't know.


But for clarification puposes I'd like to see the back cover of the season set and the individual packaging of the disputed profile. Does someone have a link to a scan?

Quoting DJ Doena:

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As to the case where the individual case does not contain an overview (what else is there on the cover then) I honestly don't know how the "use the standard rules" is to be interpreted in this case. The standard rules for TV show seasons or the global standard rules? I just don't know.

Karsten - thank you - this is what the point I was trying to get across.

Per the rules, we should add them.

The problem with rules there almost always seem to be exceptions, thus the old ax that rules are made to be broken.

I would like to see rules totally separate the TV from the the so-called standard movie profile at least when referencing an item or cell n the default profile. I think it would make it much easier to find answers to the various problems in building profiles. So much of the data in a TV child profile is redundant and available in the parent profile and doesn't change during a series.
And resolve and place answers to future problems and changes in the media.

Also the rules should be formatted as outline, not in narrative form, I sometimes think I'm reading a novel or a maybe a fairytale. This I think would make it easier to find and reference a rule.

Right and most of us that uses the child profiles deletes the info from the parent profile... making the parent profile for the TV series look basically like the parent profile of a box set.

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