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The Rules say to "use the title from the front cover", which would be:

Mission:Impossible
Mission:Impossible 2
Mission:Impossible 3

What's outside of the rules is not important.  If the voters don't like your change then that's their problem.

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Fortunately, I agree with

Mission Impossible
Mission Impossible 2
Mission Impossible 3

Not everything on the cover is a title.  We, as adults, need to decide for ourselves what is and isn't the title.  The answer will not always be consistent, for the industry is not consistent

I am sorry ateo357, but the first one is R.I.P.D.  While you may or may not disagree, it is my opinion and therefore in my DB that way.  The second, I am not familiar with, so will not comment.

The discussion concerning Men in Black 3 years ago, devolved into name calling and Ken closed it (which probably should have been closed 5 pages earlier).


Quoting Ken

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One-off rulings on individual titles are a waste of time - there is always a new twist available to cast a slightly different shade of gray, and users cannot be expected to scour the forums on a title-by-title basis.  Similarly, refining and complicating the rules to satisfactorily contain each of these new variants is an exercise in futility.

Local databases can support an infinite variety of variants for title and other fields, and the local locks are available to make those changes permanent.  With this in mind, hopefully the supporters on both sides of this and other similar debates can agree that the direction of a decision here is less important that the fact of a decision.  Consistency for submission to the online is possible and what we should shoot for.  Agreement on how it "should be" is neither possible nor (thankfully) necessary.

We'll be implementing a global edit for contribution evaluator use.  This will allow us to make a decision on a particular range of titles and standardize them directly.  In this particular case, the titles will be Men in Black, Men in Black II and Men in Black III.  Details on the forthcoming implementation will be posted before we begin making any profile changes.

If we want ken to decide, I would suggest sending him a personal note with his quote, and and get him to make a judgement.

Of course, no matter the decision, somebody will not be happy...

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Whether in violations of the rules, I don't know, but for movies that are acronyms or abbreviations, I tend to sort my own physical collection based on pop culture...what it's commonly known as.

MI1, MI2, etc would be sorted under "Mission Impossible"

MIB, MIIB, etc, sorted under "Men in Black"

T2: Judgment Day I have sorted as "Terminator 2".

E.T. - The Extra Terrestrial is sorted starting "ET", not "Extra"

R.I.P.D. would be sorted "RIPD", not "Rest in Peace Dept", because that's how pop culture knows it, going back even to the comic.

Same goes for C.H.U.D. because most know the movie simply as "Chud", even many fans of the genre don't know that C.H.U.D. stands for "Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dweller".

I don't think Invelos rules cover how you sort your physical collection, yet... 

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I do it the other way around. "Three Muskeeters" comes after "2 Guns" but before "Seven Samurai"