Hi there,

- If the overview has one or more words in a different colour how do we handle that? Ignore them, maybe put the words between ' 's ?
- Is it now general practice to add the comments that go with certain words of the text or is that optional? I have quite a few profiles that do do this, and quite a few who don't.
(f.e. : ............................Oscar winner Al Pacino*.........................

* 1994 Scent of a woman                        )
- Is it relevant if the cover does NOT have blank lines between paragraphs? The rules say that we should add a blank line between paragraphs in the overview, but one of my current contributions is so far 2yes/3no because of the blank line.
- Just to make certain: if the whole overview isn't in capitals, but some actor's names are, we copy their names in capitals, right?

Cheers,
Steve

Agree with Skip on both

Quoting Mallrat:

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Hi there,

- If the overview has one or more words in a different colour how do we handle that? Ignore them, maybe put the words between ' 's ?

Ignore them.  The program does not handle colors, so we don't worry about them.

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- Is it now general practice to add the comments that go with certain words of the text or is that optional? I have quite a few profiles that do do this, and quite a few who don't.
(f.e. : ............................Oscar winner Al Pacino*.........................

* 1994 Scent of a woman                        )

Yes, this is now general practice.

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- Is it relevant if the cover does NOT have blank lines between paragraphs? The rules say that we should add a blank line between paragraphs in the overview, but one of my current contributions is so far 2yes/3no because of the blank line.

The rules tell us to, "Separate all paragraphs with a blank line."

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- Just to make certain: if the whole overview isn't in capitals, but some actor's names are, we copy their names in capitals, right?

Right.

Quoting tweeter:

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See the rules for Overviews which answer most of the questions.

The first paragraph should take care of a couple questions: Copy the overview from the back of the DVD case exactly as written, including capitalization of words exactly as shown on the back of the case.  Separate all paragraphs with a blank line.

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Thanks, all of you, for your answers. 

1-I asked the question about the colours because some of my profiles have '-signs around the word, like you used to have with italics. But I gather it's alright to remove them then. (I wanted to make certain one way or the other.)
2-I'll continue to add the extra info regarding oscar's etc then.
3-see below
4-I'll correct the cases i've seen so far where the profile has small letters where there should be caps

=>3 I'll be very interested to see if my contribution is accepted. You are all clear about it.

Before I contributed I díd check the rules. I've since even PM-ed them to 2 no-voters. I also updated the contribution notes with a quote from the rules. No changes in the votes yet though. 

So I thought I'd put the question (along with some others) to the veterans. Based on your answers I won't withdraw the contribution and see what happens. Bad day for me though  , my first NO-votes yesterday since I started contributing.
Actually, yesterday out of the 19 contributions I entered, 3 got 1 or more No-votes. One I withdrew and recontributed after contact with the No-voter, one I don't think is a correct No-vote and it's 3yes/1no which means that a least a few others agree with me. And the last one is the main reason for this thread.

Again thanks for your help. Not enough greens left for today, anyone I miss will get one tomorrow!

Cheers,
Steve

Quoting Mallrat:

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1-I asked the question about the colours because some of my profiles have '-signs around the word, like you used to have with italics. But I gather it's alright to remove them then. (I wanted to make certain one way or the other.)

If you still have profiles with '-signs around words that simply means they haven't been translated to the appropriate italics/bold and re-submitted.  I still have some profiles in my collection that neither i nor any other owner has updated yet (post v3.5.1 upgrade), all in good time.

If you have '-signs around words that are neither italic/bold (and are not part of the Overview it self obviously) you could remove them.

Quoting Corne:

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Some do consider this a new paragraph though.

I must confess that I sometimes do, but only when I consider the next line to really be a next paragraph. For instance when the next line handles a different subject.

Quoting Daddy DVD:

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Quoting Corne:

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Some do consider this a new paragraph though.

I must confess that I sometimes do, but only when I consider the next line to really be a next paragraph. For instance when the next line handles a different subject.

Yes. It's hard to decide sometimes. The problem is sometimes that Person A thinks it's another paragraph, person B thinks it belongs to the same subject. Difficult cases. I don't have a clear solution for this matter.

Quoting Mallrat:

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Hi there,

Good evening, Sir,

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If the overview has one or more words in a different colour how do we handle that?

We're not colorful.

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Ignore them, maybe put the words between ' 's ?

Yes. No.

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