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| Registered: March 23, 2011 | | Posts: 462 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting TheMadMartian: Quote:
For me, using the example above..."What's Up, Doc?", "WHAT'S UP, DOC?" & "what's up, doc?"...are all correct because they all say the exact same thing. Do they look different? Yes. Does that change the title? No. So you don't want capitalization at all? | | | | Last edited: by No-way |
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| Registered: March 20, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 2,850 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting TheMadMartian: Quote:
this is all about aesthetics and nothing more. It's a control issue. Many people who contribute to Ken's online database feel the need to control its look and content. --------------- |
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| Registered: June 1, 2013 |  Posts: 217 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting scotthm: Quote:
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this is all about aesthetics and nothing more.
It's a control issue. Many people who contribute to Ken's online database feel the need to control its look and content.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 13,201 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Flåklypa: Quote:
So you don't want capitalization at all? I didn't say that, what I said was, it doesn't matter how it is capitalized. | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom.
Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
The Centauri learned this lesson once.
We will teach it to them again.
Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.
- Citizen G'Kar |
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| Registered: March 23, 2011 | | Posts: 462 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting TheMadMartian: Quote:
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So you don't want capitalization at all?
I didn't say that, what I said was, it doesn't matter how it is capitalized. Well, I think you are rather alone on this. I don't think "gone with The wind" will get many votes. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 13,201 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Flåklypa: Quote:
Quoting TheMadMartian:
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So you don't want capitalization at all?
I didn't say that, what I said was, it doesn't matter how it is capitalized.
Well, I think you are rather alone on this. I don't think "gone with The wind" will get many votes. I am sure it won't, and I doubt anybody would suggest capitalizing it that way, but it doesn't change the title now, does it? It still reads as "Gone With The Wind." | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom.
Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
The Centauri learned this lesson once.
We will teach it to them again.
Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.
- Citizen G'Kar |
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| Registered: March 23, 2011 | | Posts: 462 |
| | Posted: | | | | Nobody would suggest to capitalize it that way, because it matters how it is capitalized. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 17,330 |
| | Posted: | | | | This is a huge change to come home from work to... and I am really not sure how I feel about it yet... but do to some problems already mentioned... I'm not a big fan of this change as of yet. | | | | Pete |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 13,201 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Flåklypa: Quote:
Nobody would suggest to capitalize it that way, because it matters how it is capitalized. Does it really? I mean, I know people care how it is capitalized, but why does it matter so much? What real difference does it make? 'Gone With The Wind' is just as easy to read as 'gone with the wind', or 'Gone with the wind', or 'gone With the wind' or 'GoNe WiTh ThE WiNd'. Sure it doesn't look right, but they all read the same so I am not really sure what the big deal is.  | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom.
Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
The Centauri learned this lesson once.
We will teach it to them again.
Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.
- Citizen G'Kar |
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| Registered: March 23, 2011 | | Posts: 462 |
| | Posted: | | | | It matters, because the title is displayed on top of the program when watching a profile. Maybe even more prominent on the mobile versions. So the "look " of the title matters. Like the difference between a good and a mediocre cover scan. If both are readable, they read the same way. But I will never say that a better scan does not matter. Or if a studio is spelled 20th or twentieth. It reads the same way, but it is important for some.
BTW. 'GoNe WiTh ThE WiNd' is not easy to read. At least not for me. | | | | Last edited: by No-way |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 8,722 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Flåklypa: Quote:
'GoNe WiTh ThE WiNd' is not easy to read. At least not for me. Which is exactly why we have these rules. There are plenty of film credits - and DVD covers - that actually use capitalization like that. DVD Profiler thankfully does not. |
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| Registered: March 23, 2011 | | Posts: 462 |
| | Posted: | | | | And I thought we had this rules "in order to ensure accuracy and consistency within the database".
If this was the way "Gone with the Wind" was capitalized in the credits and on the studios site, I would have no problem accepting it. Actually I would have wanted it that way. |
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| Registered: December 27, 2009 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,131 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Flåklypa: Quote:
And I thought we had this rules "in order to ensure accuracy and consistency within the database".
If this was the way "Gone with the Wind" was capitalized in the credits and on the studios site, I would have no problem accepting it. Actually I would have wanted it that way. There have been rules from the start. I haven't seen consistency or accuracy in the database from my first day. |
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| Registered: March 18, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 1,633 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting scotthm: Quote:
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Is there any work around for certain titles, such as eXistenZ.
Yes. You modify it in your local database and lock it.
--------------- Right, but you want 99.99% of the users to modify the title in their local database for an incorrect title in the main database? I realize there will be the 0.01% that wont care but why make everyone else change something that should have been correct in the first place. |
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| Registered: March 20, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,850 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting rdodolak: Quote:
Right, but you want 99.99% of the users to modify the title in their local database for an incorrect title in the main database? First of all, "incorrect" is in the eye of the beholder, and I'll never believe that 99.99% of DVD Profiler users agree on anything. Second, I'd like to think Ken has the ability to and plans to make the occasional exception. --------------- |
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| Registered: March 20, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,850 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Flåklypa: Quote:
BTW. 'GoNe WiTh ThE WiNd' is not easy to read. At least not for me. Quoting Flåklypa: Quote:
If this was the way "Gone with the Wind" was capitalized in the credits and on the studios site, I would have no problem accepting it. Actually I would have wanted it that way. So you'll gladly accept it if the anonymous DVD cover art designer gives you strange capitalization, but when Ken decides that his database will adhere to a standard of his choosing, while at the same time providing you with a program flexible enough to allow you to do pretty much what you want to locally, you have a problem? I have no sympathy. --------------- |
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