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Demisemicenturian 
"Four ever European"
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 Posted - 05/04/2013 : 16:19:32
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Originally posted by lemmycaution
Once again an American film imported with a foreign-language title:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043352/
http://www.fwfr.com/film/?FID=49454
This is happening with some regularity.
By the way, this is in Salopian's Tarzan Aaa-aa-aa...acccolade. It doesn't belong. It is part of the Bomba the Jungle Boy series which has nothing to do with Tarzan ( except for having ex-'Boy' actor Johnny Sheffield playing Bomba). Darn good thing, too 'cuz Burroughs would have sued their loincloths off.
This was probably because of a foreign title containing Tarzan. However, I think I may also at one stage have decided to include Tarzan rip-offs too, which surely this is. I'l leave it there for now and make a final decision later. |
Edited by - Demisemicenturian on 05/06/2013 14:26:39 |
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Demisemicenturian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 05/04/2013 : 16:26:27
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| By the way, all the time now, I see Blah Blah, The titles becoming The Blah Blah, including many that I have changed back and then have been changed back again. Have we had a change of naming policy that I cannot see anywhere? I'd prefer the latter, but only if titles could still alphabetize disregarding it and only if it were retroactively applied for consistency to the thousands of others. Benj, as demonic seems to have identified above, is there someone else other than him, you and I amending titles? |
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demonic
"Cinemaniac"
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Posted - 05/06/2013 : 04:08:59
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| I spot titles every so often that have been swapped back to "The xyz" after I've edited them the other way around (I prefer "xyz, the", but mostly for consistency because that's how the overwhelming majority of the site is organised, and as you say the site doesn't ignore the initial "The" when alphabetising. It's a little frustrating doing the same ones over again every couple of months. Of course, re-importing a title changes the title to what the current IMDB title is, which might explain some of it rather than it being a specific title change. |
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benj clews 
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Posted - 05/09/2013 : 13:39:09
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Originally posted by Salopian
By the way, all the time now, I see Blah Blah, The titles becoming The Blah Blah, including many that I have changed back and then have been changed back again. Have we had a change of naming policy that I cannot see anywhere? I'd prefer the latter, but only if titles could still alphabetize disregarding it and only if it were retroactively applied for consistency to the thousands of others. Benj, as demonic seems to have identified above, is there someone else other than him, you and I amending titles?
The new import code doesn't presently move The, A, etc... to after the title so anything that causes an automatic reimport, such as getting the latest top 10 or a few other things may reset this. I guess the simple fix will be for me to sort the new import code. |
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lemmycaution 
"Long mired in film"
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Posted - 06/03/2013 : 23:03:07
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The French film Gribouille imported with what appears to be a Dutch title.
http://www.fwfr.com/film/?FID=64790
EDIT: thanks! |
Edited by - lemmycaution on 06/05/2013 20:56:11 |
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Marshall G 
"Die hard Gilligan fan"
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Posted - 11/14/2013 : 17:52:11
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'The Dallas Buyer's Club' should in fact be 'Dallas Buyers Club', according to IMDb and every poster I've seen. No 'The' and no apostrophe.
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benj clews
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Posted - 11/14/2013 : 17:56:50
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Originally posted by Marshall G
'The Dallas Buyer's Club' should in fact be 'Dallas Buyers Club', according to IMDb and every poster I've seen. No 'The' and no apostrophe.
Thanks
Should be sorted now- thanks for letting me know  |
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lemmycaution
"Long mired in film"
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benj clews
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Demisemicenturian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 02/02/2014 : 21:00:05
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Originally posted by benj clews
The new import code doesn't presently move The, A, etc... to after the title so anything that causes an automatic reimport, such as getting the latest top 10 or a few other things may reset this. I guess the simple fix will be for me to sort the new import code.
Or perhaps better still would be too go for the I.M.D.B. system of presenting titles in word order but having the alphabetisation apply as normal. However, would there be a way of standardising all the previously added titles? |
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benj clews
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Posted - 02/03/2014 : 11:36:40
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Originally posted by Salopian
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Originally posted by benj clews
The new import code doesn't presently move The, A, etc... to after the title so anything that causes an automatic reimport, such as getting the latest top 10 or a few other things may reset this. I guess the simple fix will be for me to sort the new import code.
Or perhaps better still would be too go for the I.M.D.B. system of presenting titles in word order but having the alphabetisation apply as normal. However, would there be a way of standardising all the previously added titles?
Yeah, the standardization wouldn't be too bad on data already present. The problem would be in ordering films irrespective of A, The, etc... at the beginning. One to think on, but obviously not such a high priority. |
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Demisemicenturian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 02/03/2014 : 21:29:33
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Originally posted by benj clews
Yeah, the standardization wouldn't be too bad on data already present. The problem would be in ordering films irrespective of A, The, etc... at the beginning.
I don't know the programming, but I'd imagine that if it can be programmed to move articles then it can be programmed to ignore them for alphabetisation. One can do it in Excel anyway.
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One to think on, but obviously not such a high priority.
Hhmmm, I dunno. The problem at the moment is that it makes the site a bit of a mess and it also makes it harder to find films in lists -- when adding one to an accolade, one often has to scroll down to two different places, for example. But it is indeed less urgent than sorting out the hosting and the blocked films &c.  |
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Film title correction
