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Quoting Prof. Kingsfield:

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To YOU, James. Please don't try and force your standards upon me. that's why I summarily reject most of your updates. Thios is supposed to a cooperative process, a team effort, not just to benefit James or Tim or Skip, but ALL of us and we all have different priorities. You aren't going to know what mine are and i don't know or care what yours are. Simple clear and useful communication through our notes is all we have and is the key that each of us can use to maintain our local data as we want it to be. All you do is insult me, james when you tell me in effect, no I am not going to be part of the team, I am not going to communicate clearly and usefully with you, you have to guess whether my data is useful to YOU. I want to do it MY way (even if it is within the rules. My single big key is AS CREDITED, everything else I can work with and around as long as I have the notes to know what I am dealing with. Yet another example where I recognize the individualism of all of us as it pertains to our local data.

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I'm not trying to force my standards on you. In fact, it seems that you want more than what is there. Notes are relevant only to the extent that they address the main database. The personal preferences of individual users are irrelevant and need not be addressed or accommodated in the notes. How can I possibly know what might be useful to others if it exceeds what's in the main database? There are way too many possibilities for what people might want to know. Therefore, I will stick with what's relevant to the main database.

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"I checked the CLT" is no different than saying "I checked the back of box."

If one needs more information than that, they are free to check the box or CLT on their own.

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Very simply. Be clear and complete in your notes, as I have explained repeatedly. CLT results, for example speaks tome, I checked the CLT says NOTHING of value. Just as Pete and i have mentioned vis a vis DISC IDs recently, entering of DiscID data is not required per the Rules in your notes but it is useful to the Community. It may not be to YOU and someothers buut there are users that it is useful information to have in notes....so I do it. Not because I have to, but it communicates information clearly and simply to all users that now and in the future that THISparticular piece of sdata has been entered and you can see exactly what the data IS, six moths from now, long after someone else perhaps has included another DIScID, you can SEE that your Disc ID is already in the sysetm.

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I want to know who the set decorator and casting director are for every film, but no one lists that for me. Why? Because it's not relevant to the main database!

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To me it was about as worthless as IMDb, no I take that back IMDb is more useful than Spot ever was.

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Can we TRY to keep this thread about the rules as they are updated? 

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Can we TRY to keep this thread about the rules as they are updated?