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I've often wondered why some sets are listed with manufacturer name and set name and others aren't.  There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to it.  Fleer Tradition is listed as such, but Fleer Ultra is just Ultra.  Topps Heritage vs. Stadium Club.  Several Upper Deck sets are listed as Upper Deck, but SP and Collector's Choice are on their own.  Maybe it's just my OCD flaring up, but this bothers me.  Am I the only one?  Does anyone know why it doesn't seem to be in a more uniform manner?

Oh no, not this again....

Admin weighed in on the topic back in 2016

https://www.tradingcarddb.com/Forum.cfm/Page/S/ID/95270/?MODE=VIEW&ThreadID=2837&PageIndex=2

Thanks - and also for the reminder of why I hesitate to post questions on here.  Never mind, I will keep them to myself in the future.

Thanks jaysee for bringing this up. It confused me too and frustrated me when searching for cards/players.

After reading through the thread at the link above I kinda see why the reaction was "oh no not this again".

I guess the bottom line is that the overproduction of cards in the 80-90s left a big mess behind and no single approach to cataloguing it is going to work perfectly.

Also - if I weren't such a fan of Martin Freeman I would find the snarky responses rather off-putting as well. 

That gif was not intended to be snarky.  I was legitimately confused as to that response (that Martin Freeman was a literal google search of "confused gif"). 

He asked a question.  He got an answer.

Unless you're referring to my original response as snarky...to which I got nothing.

Dan's post may have read as a bit snarky. 

Everything else was ask and answered. 

I think you bring up a good point. I believe that the "Brand" field is insufficient in dealing with issues like this. The fact that this issue comes up as often as it does is indicitive that there is currently a shortfall within TCDB as far as set identification goes. 

Personally I would like to see another field in the set listings that gives us the ability to add "Brand" and "Company" when a set is added.

• "Brand" = Stadium Club
• "Company" = Topps

• "Brand" = Ultra
• "Company" = Fleer

Here's a discusion from a couple months ago on a similiar topic: https://www.tradingcarddb.com/Forum.cfm/Page/I/ID/0/?MODE=VIEW&ThreadID=10869#62647

Keep bringing up issues like this...the squeaky wheel thing.

In addition....in the 2016 Forum thread, Admin says:

"As always, if the majority of site members think that brands like these should be changed to include the card company, then it can definitely be changed."

Admin is gracious enough to let us (all members) have input on how this site functions. If we don't talk about it in the forums, it will never change.

jaysee88 wrote:

Thanks - and also for the reminder of why I hesitate to post questions on here.  Never mind, I will keep them to myself in the future.

Seems everyone missed the last line from Admin:

"As always, if the majority of site members think that brands like these should be changed to include the card company, then it can definitely be changed."

I was around when Fleer Ultra was first released. Since that first day I'd NEVER heard to it referred to as just "Ultra"; always "Fleer Ultra". That was until I joined this site in 2014.

OCHawkeye wrote:

Admin weighed in on the topic back in 2016

https://www.tradingcarddb.com/Forum.cfm/Page/S/ID/95270/?MODE=VIEW&ThreadID=2837&PageIndex=2