Quoting Rizor:

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Personally, I feel featurettes are short or long subject "making of" documentaries.

This isn't a matter of personal preferense. Per rules any video material that documents the film making process is a featurette. They don't have to be documentary films, short or long.

all that can be done is vote and contribute per your understanding of the rules.

Quoting Addicted2DVD:

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So of course... just like with many other issues... there won't be consistency in the database without clarification of Invelos.

IMHO, this is one of the rules that are very clear.

Quoting Addicted2DVD:

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Yes... you said that right... YOUR opinion.

Yes, and my opinion is based on something that I've explained several times. You on the other hand are starting to remind me of someone who hasn't visited these forums for a while, but he's speciality was dodging straight questions. I'm only trying to understand your point of view. Again, in your opinion, why screen tests aren't "video documentary material regarding the film, or those associated with it."? Which part of that description doesn't work for you? Please help me understand.

Quoting Kulju:

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This isn't a matter of personal preferense. Per rules any video material that documents the film making process is a featurette. They don't have to be documentary films, short or long.

Quoting Kulju:

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How is it not!!?? It's video material documenting the film making process. Rules doesn't require the clip for being a documentary film, they say documentary material. It's not fictional material.

Each person seems to have a different understanding of what "documentary material" entails. You seem to interpret it as any video material that documents the filmmaking process. I think it refers to any video material that is a documentary about the filmmaking process.

By your definition, trailers, interviews, bloopers, deleted scenes would all be considered featurettes were there not already other designations for these extras in the program.

Like trailers, interviews, bloopers, deleted scenes, introductions, etc., I consider standalone screen tests/auditions as their own type of feature. They're not produced to document some behind the scenes process. They were produced to audition prospective actors or test makeup, costumes, sets, effects, etc.

I think we all have a valid interpretation of the poorly worded rules. But if we step into the real world a bit, a featurette is something more specific.

Quoting Miriam-Webster Dictionary:

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fea·tur·ette noun  a short film; especially :  a short documentary film about the making of a full-length movie

Quoting Wikipedia:

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After the advent of DVD, the term - at least in America - also gained the meaning of "a brief documentary film covering one or more aspects of the film creation process". Featurettes are usually in DVD features descriptions to refer to video-format "Behind The Scenes" type bonus features such as documentaries on special effects or set design or cast and crew interviews. This usage possibly derived partly or completely independent from the term's original meaning, as should be apparent from the fact that most Blu-ray "featurettes" are actually less (sometimes far less) than 20 minutes in length.

Thank You Rizor... you were able to put my thoughts on the matter into words much better then I was ever able to. 

If it was so easy like you say Kulju, why do people make so many 'common' mistakes in their contributions.
DVDP contributions are not 100% clear or compleet.
Rather ask a question on this forum than contributing wrong info is my opnion.

Quoting Kulju:

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Interviews and bloopers, yes. Trailers and deleted scenes, no.

So if the film makers document the film making process for their own benefit for the process it's not document material?

Just to get a clearer understanding of your view, what about trailers and deleted scenes set them apart from the others?