Hmm Prometheus, one movie, 4 disks, Blu-ray 3D, blu-ray 2D, Blu-ray extras, DVD and also a digital copy.... looking at whats already in the db, the Americans haven't entered any disc id info or boxset info, however a bunch of various European editions have added the disc id's for all 4 discs in the main profile - no boxset childs.

Well I hope you are right guys as I will be submitting my Aussie copy based on your profiles

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You are really supposed to create your profile from the discs themselves, not copy other localities, especially if you aren't sure, and in this case, you clearly state you're not sure.

I think you've misunderstood what he's saying. He is profiling using the Australian release. All he's picking up on is the fact the US profilers have treated the release as a boxset and the European profiles have treated it as a standard profile. He's following the way the Europeans have profiled it.

I see now... I thought you were duplicating entire profiles or something. lol.

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The cast and crew were copied from a US profile and it was a total mess!! I really wish people would stop copying from other locations and then blindly submitting the data as gospel.

In this case, the prior submission doesn't look a particular mess to me, more like the submitter didn't go down to the same level of detail as you have.  Without checking each one, the names and roles (give or take the odd common name or birth year) are idenitcal for the data they have entered.

On the UK release they're on the 2d disc (I think) and are just part of the deleted scenes section (not explicitly labelled as alternate start/end). The start scene makes more of a ceremony of the engineer doing what he does in the film, with multiple engineers involved, can't remember what the end was.

I believe the alternate ending is named 'Paradise' on the disc.

Ok, don't take this as having a go, you got me intrigued as the cast/crew are copied from a the version I own and were submitted by a contributor I trust.

Having gone through each credit the main issue is missing credits (couple of the visual FX houses are completely missing and your submission has 5 additional crew members at the end of other lists, Weta name is too long) but otherwise I'd say that's more to genuine mistakes than copying it from IMDB, or if they did copy initially, a mistake in correcting those areas. Unless we're looking at different credits somehow of course (I've actually compared what's in your submission against what's in the pending submission that states it's copied the cast and crew).

I don't see the copy/paste point as any different from not checking the detail of submitted updates to the nth degree when voting.  You might as well say people can't vote if they don't check all of the detail.

My personal stance is to check data if it's somebody I don't recognise/trust. If they have a proven track record I'll generally accept it unless I spot an obvious error.

PS sorry for hijacking your thread Parsec 

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If someone copies the cast and crew I don't see why they can't take the time to check what they're submitting. No pride and laziness is the problem in my opinion....and, if they don't have the time (as not everyone does) then I personally would prefer that they not submit the cast and crew.

Sorry, but this is my biggest problem with the online db and it really gets my goat!

I rather like that in a perverse way. 

When I go to audit something and notice ‘certain people’ have already had a go at the same profile, I die a bit inside, as I know I’m going to struggle to find anything wrong and consequently waste a bit of my life doing so.  The best I can hope for is to add something that’s not in the database, or is new due to change in the contribution rules.

But as soon as I notice a long list of uncredited cast or a really poor scan of the cover, I know I’m in for a treat!

Then again, I think it’s only once or twice I’ve not managed to find something to add or change.