I only try to understand... and hope that anybody could explain me the technical reason or - if not technical - the reason why a screener or someone else did that.

I had a load of initial contributions, more than 40 profiles, all contending the phrase "as told by" in the title. And most of them had that phrase in exactly that spelling on the cover. Well, some have "As told by" and some only with capital letter ("AS TOLD BY"), but I get back title updates for all..... now "as Told by".

So as I get the updates, I have to block them for each and every title - and you can imagine that I like to know how this happens. Especially: How I could avoid that the next time.

Yeah, I know you will tell me that I don't need to accept the update, I know that! But as all those profiles are initally contributed, nobody else than either the database here or the screener is responsible for a change which makes no sense. And: Checking and blocking 40+ updates is unneccessarily invest of time.

Quoting scotthm:

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If you will read the contribution rules regarding Titles you will see that an automatic capitalization filter is applied, and there is a capitalization tool that will show you how a particular title will be contributed to the database.  There was much discussion on the topic in years past.

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Well, I've been there before and the result is completely different (that was the reason for this thread). If I enter "as told by" there, I get back "As Told By", so this tool can't be the reason for.

I just entered one of your titles, "The History of the ECW 1994 as told by Shane Douglas", and it came back as "The History of the ECW 1994 as Told by Shane Douglas".

As scott said, after much debate, we settled on the AP standard which indicates that the following words should not be capitalized:

Articles (a, an, the)

Short (fewer than 5 letters)

Coordinating Conjunctions (and, but, for)

Prepositions (at, by, from, etc.)

Quoting Magmadrag:

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Do I have to understand that "logic" behind?

No, not necessarily.

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And: This seems to be only for english titles? As the german ones are kept as they are written on the cover?

There's an automatic contribution filter for some English-language localities, which actually forces the "correct" capitalization, no matter how "wrong" you may have capitalized it in your profile. Most localities don't have that filter, but that still doesn't mean titles are "kept as they are written on the cover". Instead, the contribution rules on titles state:

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Use capitalization rules common to the language of the title. “Tout va bien” is correctly capitalized. “Tout Va Bien” is not.

So it doesn't matter of the cover says 'tout va bien', 'Tout Va Bien' or even 'tOUT vA bIEN' - we don't just copy the capitalization from the cover into DVD Profiler, but we stick to a standard. For English-language titles, that standard we stick to is the AP standard as outlined in the contribution rules, and there's even a Capitalization Tool for that. For other languages, there are no dedicated tools, but there's still the instruction to use capitalization rules common to the language of the title, instead of merely copying the capitalization from the cover.