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A heads up: Admin implemented a change on the Browse by Year / Browse by Brand pages so Brands are now separated out by letter/number on each sport and Non-Sport, and it'll now list everything that was inserted into the Brand field when sets were created (it wasn't doing this before). This is why it's important to enter the correct Brand and not just copy the set name into there. The last few weeks, I've been going through and cleaning up the best I could, but with the new update, there are a LOT more choices that'll need to be consolidated.

Example: Baseball

Anyone helping out and creating sets, please check other similar sets first to make sure the correct Brand is entered so we don't have to go back and do extra work. Obviously companies put out multiple products a year, and we want to continue to keep those separated (Topps, Topps Chrome, Topps Total, etc.). For example:

-- Minor league sets, please use just "Choice" or "Grandstand" and NOT the full "Choice Fake City Rumble Cats" or "Grandstand Northwest BattleDogzzz". If they were produced and distributed by the team itself (like through a team store), please enter just the team name ... no sponsors. (Sponsor info can still appear in the Set Name and/or Release Notes.)

-- Anything produced and distributed by a college, please use the college name and nickname ... don't include "Schedules" or sponsors or anything else.

-- Team Issues, please enter the team name unless a major company like Panini, Topps or Upper Deck helped produce them.

-- Anything from Topps Now, please use "Topps Now" ... don't include the team name. Same with Topps On-Demand or similar offerings from Panini.

-- "Topps Match Attax", "Topps Cricket Attax", etc. may vary. Please check other examples to see what was done there.

-- Anything unlicensed, please use "Unlicensed".

This will help organize sets better for all users that want to search using this option instead. If anyone with sufficient permissions can assist with updating Brands or submitting IRs to update Brands, that would be appreciated!

Thanks!

Bumping this one because I'm seeing requests for Brand updates that shouldn't be done.

Minor league sets, please use just "Choice" or "Grandstand" and NOT the full "Choice Fake City Rumble Cats" or "Grandstand Northwest BattleDogzzz". If they were produced and distributed by the team itself (like through a team store), please enter just the team name ... no sponsors. (Sponsor info can still appear in the Set Name and/or Release Notes.)

For example, "Pizza Company Montana Bears" should have a Brand of "Montana Bears", then Release Notes should have something like "30-card set sponsored by Pizza Company". Collectors/users will most likely be searching for the team and looking for that under the Brand filter, and if the sponsors change over the years, we want to keep all of that team's sets grouped together.

2002 Pizza Company Montana Bears
2003 Pizza Company / Radio Station Montana Bears
2004 Telephony Company Montana Bears
2005 Telephony Company Montana Bears
2006 Telephony Company's New Name Montana Bears

All of the sets above should have the same Brand of "Montana Bears".

Also another reminder that just because a food company sponsors a set doesn't make it a "Food Issue". Please assign the set where it belongs. Minor League, Team Issue, etc.