There's no rule in the rule and so everyone is making one up as it suits them.

For example, I've seen original titles ranging from:

This Famous TV Show: The Complete Season 1: Disc 4
This Famous TV Show: The Complete Season 1
This Famous TV Show

for disc profiles.

If two things have the same original title, they should have the same content, or at least different versions of the same content. Since TV Show: Season 1: disc 1 is completely different than TV show season 1: disc 2, they should not have the same original title. Think of the people who are trying to find stuff by original title.

Quoting Ace_of_Sevens:

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If two things have the same original title, they should have the same content, or at least different versions of the same content. Since TV Show: Season 1: disc 1 is completely different than TV show season 1: disc 2, they should not have the same original title. Think of the people who are trying to find stuff by original title.

In this case under what circumstance would people be searching by original title since original title is not populated unless it differes from the profiles title.  I really do not see a benefit to what you are getting at.

I have seen contributions doing what I was contributing a lot and in my mind it does not violite the original title rule.  You can always lock yours locally.  The only place where there may be gray area are in the cases if TV seasons, but mini series and documentaries clearly are in a different category as far as grey area go

You'll see "Band of Brothers," followed by an episode title. If you wanted to make the OT "Band of Brothers: Currahee & Day of Days", that would make sense, but might be hard to standardize.

That rule is for seasons, though. Your assertion that it also applies to the individual-disc children is nowhere in the rules and therefore gray at best. When something is gray, we should go with what makes sense, not just to force through rules which may not apply and lead to bad results.

To wit, the rules say the the OT field is for works which had their title changed for home video or foreign release. Serialized works which have some portion on the disc are quite different and so do not fit into the described function of the field. Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Complete First Season is not to Buffy la cazavampiros: la temporada primera completa as Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Complete First Season: Disc One is to Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Complete First Season: Disc Two

The program is also designed around the idea that the OT reflects the name of the actual contents of the disc, not some larger work of which the contents are a part because it gives us the option to display the original title instead of the title in the list. Should TV Show: The Complete Collection contain six TV Show Season One, five TV Show: Season Two and so on with no way to tell the different without opening the profile? That would be the result of doing things this way.

Well I already admitted the TV seasons is grey because they could be in multiple releases.

But at the same point adding the disc to the title is not in the rules either (or a clarification by Ken that I can find), but at the same point needed.  But this adds to issues in the CLT when it is doing title counts since the original title is not populated

From titles I have downloaded the setting of the original title in TV Mini Series and single season documentaries is not uncommon

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The rule for the individual profile says, and I quote, "Create each of these individual profiles in line with the standard Contribution Rules."

The standard rules say, again I quote, "The Original Title field serves two general purposes, but in both cases allows for the tracking of the original feature title."

Based on that, the child profiles can have an original title.

Yes, that's beside the issue at hand. I'd agree that they should have an original title in some circumstances, but not in the way Scooter is saying. I'd be fine with "Ellen: Season One: Disc One" being listed as "These Friends of Mine: Season One: Disc One" or "Buffy - Im Bann der Dämonen: Die komplette Season 1 - disc 1" as  "Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Complete Season 1: Disc 1," though we should work out a way to standardize how to do this so that releases will actually get matched with their foreign counterparts in the DB counting, but not "Ellen: Season One" or "Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Complete Season One," which is an especially ridiculous OT to put on somethign which is not the complete season one.

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Yes, that's beside the issue at hand.

No, it is not beside the issue at hand as Kathy said, "Original title is for the parent profile - children do not get this data."  I made my post to point out that the rules do not support that statement.  No more, no less. Whether or not it is a good idea, well, that is a different story.