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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorSquirrelecto
Registered: March 13, 2007
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Why not put something in your notes to show that you have actually done some research and can justify why the CoO should be set to what you have chosen?

Every time I get a CoO vote come up, I go off and actually check what the production company is and where it's located. It takes a minute or so in each case and doesn't always match with what is in the contributed profile.

So I'm starting to ask myself whether I should just save myself some time and vote No for undocumented changes. After all, we usually place the onus on the contributor to document their changes adequately.

What do others think?
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantRifter
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This is another one I really have no use for.  I'm only interested in whether or not the movie is any good, and if plays on my machine.  Beyond that, I don't care.

So, I've just been hitting Neutral, and for the most part have locked down my db.

I also think it would be a real good idea to drop a brick on this adding of the COO and nothing else.  Make it like Genre and only allow that if it is in conjunction with an update that covers several changes.  It is rapidly getting to be a real pain in the arse.
John

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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar Contributorhydr0x
Registered: April 4, 2007
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Quoting Rifter:
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I also think it would be a real good idea to drop a brick on this adding of the COO and nothing else.  Make it like Genre and only allow that if it is in conjunction with an update that covers several changes.  It is rapidly getting to be a real pain in the arse.


That's the most stupid thing I've read all week. How are we going to have the COO info in all the old already perfect profiles if we're not allowed to add it without submitting something else... Just because you don't care for it shouldn't stop others from using it
- Jan
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorDoombear
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With any added field, there's going to be a lot of contributions. With the backlog of data, it's a lot more work to list our sources. Some CoO's are common sense; some joint/productions are debatable.

I am adding CoO to all of my discs and might as well contribute to the database while I'm at it. Users are under no obligations to give data sources when making contributions, but I realize some of you folks want it before voting. Send us a PM if you want to question a contribution.

Squirrel, I was wondering, where do you look up the production company's location? I was looking for that.

Unless it's a load on the contribution system, I'll finish up my CoO contributions. Alphabetically, I'm up to the P's. Almost done.
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorSquirrelecto
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With any added field, there's going to be a lot of contributions. With the backlog of data, it's a lot more work to list our sources. Some CoO's are common sense; some joint/productions are debatable.

I am adding CoO to all of my discs and might as well contribute to the database while I'm at it. Users are under no obligations to give data sources when making contributions, but I realize some of you folks want it before voting. Send us a PM if you want to question a contribution.

But with the amount of CoOs being submitted, PMing everyone and asking for a justification would take longer than me looking up the CoO myself, which I shouldn't have to be doing as a voter.

Quoting Doombear:
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Squirrel, I was wondering, where do you look up the production company's location? I was looking for that.

I look at the credits, then check out the company on IMDb to get an initial country, then I use Google to double check since, as we know, IMDb is not always right.

Some companies are very hard to find any information on at all though. I don't believe we should be adding CoOs in these circumstances.

Quoting Doombear:
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Unless it's a load on the contribution system, I'll finish up my CoO contributions. Alphabetically, I'm up to the P's. Almost done.


How are you deciding what the CoO is when you've just said you don't know how to find a production company's location? Are you just having a guess?

This is what I fear with the lack of notes regarding this field. People are just saying, "Yeah, that's US" or "Yeah, that's UK" and submitting the CoO without having done any background checking.
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar Contributorhydr0x
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he's likely just using IMDB which is pretty much ok for most of the major releases
- Jan
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Quoting Squirrel.God:
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How are you deciding what the CoO is when you've just said you don't know how to find a production company's location? Are you just having a guess?

This is what I fear with the lack of notes regarding this field. People are just saying, "Yeah, that's US" or "Yeah, that's UK" and submitting the CoO without having done any background checking.


I look at:

The Director's Country of Operation (may vary for some directors)
Production Companies (and what other movies/shows they've produced)
Filming Locations (especially which sound stages are used)
Release Date (which country was the film premiered in first?)
Primary Nationality of Cast & Crew members who likely wouldn't travel for a production

Most were easy to determine, but there were iffy ones like Evita, Casino Royale (2006), The Name of the Rose, Kafka, The Neverending Story, and movies entirely shot in Canada with US crews, etc.

I think we need multiple fields for these joint productions..
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorKathy
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I wanted to bump this thread because I am receiving a lot of CoO contributions. There is no documentation on any of them; the notes just say something along the lines of "CoO" or "CoO added".

I have been voting neutral because I want to be clear before voting yes or no.

Doesn't every contribution to the database require documentation of any addition or change? CoO included? If not, why not?
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorWinston Smith
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Kathy: I am still where I was 6 months ago. COO is the only field I have NO idea what we would use for documentation.

Skip
ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
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Outta here

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Quoting Kathy:
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Doesn't every contribution to the database require documentation of any addition or change? CoO included? If not, why not?

Of course also CoO changes require documentation. As documentation I propose to mention the production company on which your CoO is based on. Additionally you could add some external resource where the country the company is based is documented. The production company's own web page should be preferred but other sources could be valid as well. The important thing is that we use the (main/first) production company to determine CoO whereas other databases use different criteria.
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorWinston Smith
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Rho:

Just to clarify. Let's take an example of any James Bond Film, funded and distributed by either UA or MGM both US companies, but the actual Production Company Eon Productions is UK based, so I would say COO=UK.

Skip
ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
CBE, MBE, MoA and proud of it.
Outta here

Billy Video
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorKathy
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Kathy: I am still where I was 6 months ago. COO is the only field I have NO idea what we would use for documentation.

Skip


So where are the contributers finding this information?

All data is to come from the DVD itself, if CoO is coming from a secondary or third party then documentation is required. Correct?
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Quoting Kathy:
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All data is to come from the DVD itself, if CoO is coming from a secondary or third party then documentation is required. Correct?


I don't know, but if it is as you say, the same could be said of "Production Year", since we can't use the copyright year anymore. 
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Quoting Kathy:
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So where are the contributers finding this information?

All data is to come from the DVD itself, if CoO is coming from a secondary or third party then documentation is required. Correct?


Yes, they should be quoting sources for where they've got the info from. And you'd be well within your rights to vote no if you wanted to.
But I'm of the opinion that just because it's not documented, doesn't mean it's wrong. I personally tend to only vote no when I know they've got the CoO wrong. But as I said, the rules will support you if you want to insist on documentation.
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorDragon 6
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As a voter we should be verifing the contributors source. I have found several contributor that stated the cast and crew came from the end credits and when I verified it with the source they gave I found it to be untrue. There statement was a lie and the souce matched IMDB word for word.
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantDvdjon
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To find out where a production company is located one could google the prodtuction company name and see what their web page is saying. most of them has one. uwe boll has a nice one for instance hehehehehehehehe i love it



here u have a link http://www.boll-kg.de/ if your german isent too bad i recomend the link PRESSE it has so many warm thing to say about his "exellent" movies .

As for boll I believe most of his films are listed as american and not german as they should be, not that I vorry as i keep myself a long way away from them. Altough I belive ill give his latest move a check because of jason statham and som e other actors, but i'm pretty shure it stinks anyway.
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