Adding "short" as a genre to a 44-minute film was rejected several times

@Ozzy​ this is the last one - 240114-230025-134000

Hi @plur62,

Thank you. I have reviewed this issue and can confirm that we have added the genre manually, as there is a technical issue causing the multiple declined contributions. The updated genre will appear live on the site shortly.

Cheers!

@NYVKE​ Our threshold is 45 minutes, please see https://help.imdb.com/article/contribution/titles/genres/GZDRMS6R742JRGAG?ref_=helpms_helpart_inline#short 

@Col_Needham​ 

Aaah, okay.

From Wikipedia:

"The notion of how long a feature film should be has varied according to time and place. According to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the American Film Institute and the British Film Institute, a feature film runs for more than 40 minutes, while the Screen Actors Guild asserts that a feature's running time is 60 minutes or longer. The Centre National de la Cinématographie in France defines it as a 35 mm film longer than 1,600 metres (5,200 ft), which is exactly 58 minutes and 29 seconds for sound films."

I thought the SGA specified 75 minutes.

Hard to keep track of these things.

Hi @plur62​,

We do not accept Wikipedia as a suitable source of evidence for most contributions to IMDb. Our threshold for the Short genre running times is detailed in our help guide, as mentioned above.

I hope this helps!

@Tonio_Fraga​ 

I used to work as an college lecturer.

My rule for Research Papers was: "You may read Wikipedia to get a general understanding, and use the external references on Wikipedia as references, but not the Wikipedia article itself."

I stand by that.

I never made one; it is not relevant to the subjects I taught. 

@Tonio_Fraga​ 

To me it's not a question of whether Wikipedia is better or worse than IMDb. One major user-contributed secondary source relying on information from another does not necessarily produce the most accurate data.