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The rules themselves use Bullets in listing the data that is allowed under Other Features

The Rules also use bold, italics and color to make certain points.  The formatting of the Rules implies nothing about how any field should be filled out, they simply make the Rules more readable.

Other Features exists to provide concise, and hopefully useful, information not otherwise covered by the Feature check boxes.  If the formatting of the Features was at all important people would have been clamoring for years for a large text field with all the formatting features of the Overview field.

This isn't a yes-or-no question. The names should be the same and trademark symbols can be part of the name, but bullets should be left out. Bullets are for organizing a vertical list with one point below the previous. This is not possible in the other features field.

To reply to Kathy's point, the other feature's field is different than the overview, both in implementation and function. It doesn't allow bold, italics or carriage returns, so we can't copy formatting in most cases. Also, unlike the overview, it is not a transcription of some section of the package. It's a list of whatever didn't fit in the checkboxes. Take the following feature list, for example:

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• Interviews with cast and crew
• Director's commentary
• Deleted scenes
• D-Box motion code
• Production photo galley

I don't see how it would make sense to enter "• D-Box motion code" instead of "D-Box motion code" in other features. The bullet isn't part of the name of a feature. It's part of the list format and we aren't doing an exact copy of the list to the features section.

Quoting Ace_of_Sevens:

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I don't see how it would make sense to enter "• D-Box motion code" instead of "D-Box motion code" in other features. The bullet isn't part of the name of a feature. It's part of the list format and we aren't doing an exact copy of the list to the features section.

This.

The other features field is for entering leftovers that don't fit the other categories, nothing more. I don't see anything in the rules that says it should match the cover. The information doesn't even have to come from the cover, it can come from the disc itself. Indeed, that is preferable since covers don't always tell the truth.

I agree with Ace (he saved me the typing ) and deejay.

Quoting ya_shin:

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I agree with Ace (he saved me the typing ) and deejay.

I agree with ya_shin's agreement with Ace and deejay.

Since the new update I've not run into a lack of space for this data. But, based on this poll I have withdrawn those contributions and will keep Overview data updates locked and local only.

Thank you for the input everyone.