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| Registered: July 31, 2008 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 2,506 |
| | Posted: | | | | This is another area where the rules are contradictory. The overview rules state - Quote:
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. But they also state (bolding by me)- Quote:
Never include the following items in overviews:
* Taglines
* Reviews (unless they are incorporated into the text of the overview on the case)
* Extra features
* Hyperlinks or other HTML
* Line-break hyphens
What do you do when the overview itself includes the special features? Specific case -  It just runs on in the same formatting directly from the main description. If it were a different paragraph/font size, etc... I would say "No" but here as it directly follows on I believe that it should be included. So far, across the entire box set the parent has 7 Yes & 1 No while the children have 1 Yes & 1 No vote. What does the community feel about this? |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 13,202 |
| | Posted: | | | | I agree with you, it doesn't make any sense to edit them out. I think the rule is talking about the list of features that is usually printed on the back of the case. | | | 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.
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| Registered: July 31, 2008 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,506 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Unicus69: Quote:
I agree with you, it doesn't make any sense to edit them out. I think the rule is talking about the list of features that is usually printed on the back of the case. That was how I interpret it & practically what I included when I edited them. Thanks! |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | I agree with Unicus' assessment and with you Forget.
Skip | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
CBE, MBE, MoA and proud of it.
Outta here
Billy Video |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 17,334 |
| | Posted: | | | | I agree as well | | | | Pete |
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| Registered: March 29, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 4,479 |
| | Posted: | | | | I voted no. After"revolt", this is no more an overview, even if "Includes" follows in the same paragraph. | | | | Images from movies |
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| Registered: May 14, 2007 | | Posts: 455 |
| | Posted: | | | | I agree that with Dr. Pavlov, Forget and Addict2 dvd. |
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| Registered: December 13, 2008 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 334 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Forget_the_Rest: Quote:
It just runs on in the same formatting directly from the main description. If it were a different paragraph/font size, etc... I would say "No" but here as it directly follows on I believe that it should be included.
I agree with your interpretation and would have voted yes if I had the profile in question. |
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| Registered: July 31, 2008 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,506 |
| | Posted: | | | | Thanks for the responses guys. I've sent a PM to the "No" voter giving him the link to this thread. |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,917 |
| | Posted: | | | | I agree to leaving them in as part of the overview. It could cause the overview to be disjointed when you remove parts of it. |
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| Registered: March 15, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,459 |
| | Posted: | | | | Faced with an overview like that I would also include them, but I have to admit a literal reading of the rules forbids listing them. There is no exception as there is for reviews.
You may have to live with the "no" vote and just wait and see what the screeners think about it. |
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  | Berak | | Bibamus morieundum est! |
| Registered: May 10, 2007 |  Posts: 1,059 |
| | Posted: | | | | I agree with Unicus, Forget, Skip, Addicted, Mallrat, Leo and the Good Doctor.  Nedless to say who I disagree with?!?..   | | | Berak
It's better to burn out than to fade away!
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| Registered: March 29, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 4,479 |
| | Posted: | | | | Funny to see our temple guardians violate the rules when they do not agree with them :
Rules : Never include the following items in overviews:
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* Extra features | | | | Images from movies |
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| Registered: March 29, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 4,479 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Berak: Quote:
..., so I'll interpret the rules another way than the majority"... I was already said that rules were not made to be interpreted. But I know my english is bad, so I tried to verify what means never : never : 1. Not ever; on no occasion; at no time 2. Not at all; in no way; absolutely not So... BTW, thank you for your very kind and sympathetic message  | | | | Images from movies |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,917 |
| | Posted: | | | | OffTopic so hidden Spoiler: (Select to view)Am I the only one that had a brief moment of picturing Walt Disney (and thereby Skip) in ancient Roman attire and standing guard out front of a temple holding a formidable weapon to bear?
Sometimes a vivid imagination is not a good thing. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 1,796 |
| | Posted: | | | | Anybody want start a poll as to how many pages this will take before it runs its string?
I agree with the initiator. | | | We don't need stinkin' IMDB's errors, we make our own.
Ineptocracy, You got to love it.
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