Hey! I've been using DVD Profiler for some months now and I love it! So far I've been adding my movies very quickly with little attention to detail such as locality, however I recently began making some changes to my collection. While doing this I've been prompted to contribute my changes to the online database. I've always seen this as a complicated process due to the ruleset, so I've been avoiding it for the most part. However, if everyone thought as I did, I'd have a harder time maintaining my collection, so I thought I could try contributing some. That made me think of some questions.

* I have a couple of titles at hand right now, Dexter season 6 on DVD and 21 Jump Street (2012) on DVD, with UPC's that aren't available in the online db. What method does people usually use when adding a new locality, i.e. how could I effectively contribute these titles?

* Somewhat related to the previous question, some movies share the same UPC across Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark. While adding Devil's Advocate (Blu-ray) to my collection I found that there were no Norwegian profile, although a Finnish profile existed on that UPC. I used that as reference and changed the Rating, Overview and added cover scans. Is this acceptable?

* I have some DVDs that have been distributed regionally without UPC. They aren't pirated or similar, but serious productions on a very small scale. Are such releases significant enough for contribution?

* Lastly, I'm very picky about titles. I particularly do not like localized titles and using ` instead of '. Example on localization: "The Whole Nine Yards" is "Full Pakke" in Norwegian, and have been contributed with the Norwegian title instead of the English title. Example on `/': The contributed title for my Blu-ray UPC of "Jennifer's Body: Unrated" is typed as "Jennifer´s Body: Unrated". I'm going to make changes to these titles locally, should I submit the changes?

Thanks!

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* Somewhat related to the previous question, some movies share the same UPC across Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark. While adding Devil's Advocate (Blu-ray) to my collection I found that there were no Norwegian profile, although a Finnish profile existed on that UPC. I used that as reference and changed the Rating, Overview and added cover scans. Is this acceptable?

Yes as long as you check if the profile is conform to the one you have. Wich is what you did.

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* I have some DVDs that have been distributed regionally without UPC. They aren't pirated or similar, but serious productions on a very small scale. Are such releases significant enough for contribution?

Yes. As long as it is a legit release there is no problem to contribute them by disc id.

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* Lastly, (...). I'm going to make changes to these titles locally, should I submit the changes?

If the norvegian title is the title use on the cover yes, but if the english title is on the cover no.

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Since my UPC's of Dexter season 6 and 21 Jump Street doesn't have a Nordic counterpart, should I clone another release (in case yes; which country?) or create a whole new profile and add everything manually?

I would create a whole new profile and only copy cast and crew (if these have been taken from credits. See contribution notes of the other profile).

Many Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish and Danish releases share the same UPC. Movie summaries in each language and country specific ratings are written on the backside. Also some covers have localized titles, but for the most part, to my knowledge, the releases are identical in each country.

Where can I read contribution notes of a profile? From within DVD Profiler I could only find profile links. Also how is it possible to copy cast & crew? I added the UK profile for Dexter Season 6 DVD and it looks to be very thorough with episode-by-episode credits and individual profiles for each DVDs.

Thanks!  I didn't know about that button.

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Thanks!  I didn't know about that button.

You're welcome
I'm always happy to be usefull

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Thanks!  I didn't know about that button.

And you've been using this program for how long?

Not long enough obviously! 

Thank you all for all the help. I've begun contributing now, hopefully I'm doing it correctly. I'm trying to be as thorough as I possibly can, but hopefully people will improve them over time.