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Yes, I can also remember Ken's adjustment to the filter to help those titles. Also Invelos regularly accept profile changes, which only correct the colon to an hyphen for those titles.

It's here

Thanks for finding it!

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Yes, I can also remember Ken's adjustment to the filter to help those titles. Also Invelos regularly accept profile changes, which only correct the colon to an hyphen for those titles.

It's here

Sorry, but the thread you've linked to has nothing to do with the subject of this thread.  Using hyphens to separate original titles from "local language" titles is a completely different topic than what we are discussing here.

The title in question simply has a "subtitle" associated with it.  These kinds of titles are fairly common and typically are recognized when the title is in a larger font with the subtitle below in a smaller font.  This format is often used for episodic movies like 'Die Hard' but they don't have to be episodic.

I, for one, prefer a single standard for all localities.  The fact that this mainly affects the German locality is irrelevant, since we are a global market and anyone can buy DVDs from anywhere.

Our database needs consistency, especially where it is so easy to do.

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I, for one, prefer a single standard for all localities.  The fact that this mainly affects the German locality is irrelevant, since we are a global market and anyone can buy DVDs from anywhere.

Our database needs consistency, especially where it is so easy to do.

I, for two, agree 100% with this statement!     

What we need here is consistency!

I am one of the earliest German profiler users, over the years I have been part of several Intervocative/Invelos rule committees that helped shape the rules to their current form, and I have contributed countless profile updates since 2001. That only as a short reminder (since I'm not that active in this forum anymore as I used to be) - just in case anyone accuses me of disrespecting the rules for my following comments. 

First, a word to the thread starter: RAPMAN, you are usually a good contributor, and I respect that - I really do. But you are still a newbie who has to learn many things about the profiler community. One of them is not to bring local matters to the international community.

Secondly, as several other German users have pointed out, it is common in the German language to use the hyphen. It was decided in the German community to use this for the profiles, and this is what has been done for more than seven years - resulting in thousands of profiles with a hyphen. And this is what will be done in the future. Period.

I appreciate the opinions of the international users, but as has been explained to you: This is none of your concern.  Don't even dream about forcing us to a change here. And to those saying "Germany can't go off and do their own thing": Oh, yes, we can! We have done it in the past and we will continue to do so (especially in a case like this that is a) not clear in the rules and b) accepted by Ken and the screeners).

In contrast to this mad house here in the international forum, in the German Profiler community we have a majority of reasonable users who are able to discuss things in a civilized manner and make rational decisions. Using the hyphen for titles is one of those rational decisions that were made, and we will protect it by all means.

Any attempts to change the titles to use colons will be voted down - that is a fact. And if it is necessary that us old Profiler users like Tom, me and many others build a group and support each other in this, it is what will happen.

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What we need here is consistency!

So if all episodes were separated by a colon and all 'subtitles' with hyphens that would mean consistency, right? 

But... but... that would mean... no more arguments about petty trivialities!

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I am one of the earliest German profiler users, over the years I have been part of several Intervocative/Invelos rule committees that helped shape the rules to their current form, and I have contributed countless profile updates since 2001. That only as a short reminder (since I'm not that active in this forum anymore as I used to be) - just in case anyone accuses me of disrespecting the rules for my following comments. 

First, a word to the thread starter: RAPMAN, you are usually a good contributor, and I respect that - I really do. But you are still a newbie who has to learn many things about the profiler community. One of them is not to bring local matters to the international community.

Secondly, as several other German users have pointed out, it is common in the German language to use the hyphen. It was decided in the German community to use this for the profiles, and this is what has been done for more than seven years - resulting in thousands of profiles with a hyphen. And this is what will be done in the future. Period.

I appreciate the opinions of the international users, but as has been explained to you: This is none of your concern.  Don't even dream about forcing us to a change here. And to those saying "Germany can't go off and do their own thing": Oh, yes, we can! We have done it in the past and we will continue to do so (especially in a case like this that is a) not clear in the rules and b) accepted by Ken and the screeners).

In contrast to this mad house here in the international forum, in the German Profiler community we have a majority of reasonable users who are able to discuss things in a civilized manner and make rational decisions. Using the hyphen for titles is one of those rational decisions that were made, and we will protected it by all means.

Any attempts to change the titles to use colons will be voted down - that is a fact. And if it is necessary that us old Profiler users like Tom, me and many others build a group and support each other in this, it is what will happen.

I think I have a crush on you. 

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Secondly, as several other German users have pointed out, it is common in the German language to use the hyphen. It was decided in the German community to use this for the profiles, and this is what has been done for more than seven years - resulting in thousands of profiles with a hyphen. And this is what will be done in the future. Period.

Almost the same situation in Finland, only smaller amount of profiles.

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What we need here is consistency!

So if all episodes were separated by a colon and all 'subtitles' with hyphens that would mean consistency, right? 

Sounds logical and that is (as I've seen on the profiles I've voted) like it is handled. And it worked. If this would be totally against the rules, why are there so many profiles in the database which have " - " as seperator for the taglines. (Many more than that are using " : ")

The rules are just speaking of episode descritors and music/stage performances to use ":", so why is it wrong to use "-" to seperate the taglines?