Alternative title policy

I wonder if it is for technical reasons pertaining to how IMDb displays titles tailored to specific geographical locations.

Michele,

Vincent provided 2 titles. It seems you cleaned up (most of) 1 of them. The other is Relic (2020)

I still don't understand why an original title would be repeated attached to any country. In the case of  Bad Boys For Life (2020), why does Australia need its own title, which is identical to the original? Does the film need a "world-wide English title" which is the same as the original, already in English?

@Michelle 

I have to say I am extremely disappointed by your answer: my topic was about policy setting, and you are focusing only on corrections, without bringing any answer to the raised questions, and therefore without lifting the confusion on how alternative titles are processed and considered by IMDb.

In the mean time, I submitted another correction for Adieu les cons (2020).

Before my correction #201021-151317-135000, there was:

Adieu les cons (original title)

Adieu les cons (France)(imdb display title)

Adieu Les Cons (France)(imdb display title)

Please note that in French typography, the last entry is incorrect: you never capitalize initial letters, except for proper nouns.

Since both "imdb display title" are redundant for a French film with a French title, I submitted their deletion. The result is that the deletion of the first one, with the correct typography, was accepted, but the second one, with the incorrect typography was declined...

The reason provided is:

We were unable to approve this contribution.We have been unable to verify your contribution. Unfortunately we were unable to accept your submission as we were unable to verify the information provided. If your submission was placed via the IMDb.com Desktop title or name page submission form, you now have an option to provide evidence with your additions, as well as corrections or deletions. (etc.)

What evidence are to be submitted when it is a mere linguistic rule to apply, and that the almost identical title was deleted alright?

All in all, I feel being exploited as free labor to correct the weaknesses of the database (and adding money value to IMDb and Amazon) without being given the means to to it properly. I have therefore decided to stop wasting my time to strugle with incompetent and unreachable editors and policy setters, trying to fathom what IMSb has in mind regarding alternative titles, and let it keeping on making a fool of itelf when it comes to non US production.

V.

Regarding "Adieu les cons", only the correctly capitalized title is still there now.

The correct French display title for a French film does not need to be deleted just for being redundant. Guideline: "We are now encouraging the submission of an imdb display title for all known countries, including the country of origin." 

Thanks Peter.

I'm not so sure it is contempt so much as it is non-observance of the discomfort the contributors may feel. Often they only solve the solvable part of a problem and leave the unsovlable part (or bigger picture) to be addressed at a later time. We should perhaps always be forthcoming about our discomfort with large-scale chronic problems.

Sorry about this. I can see what happened here — Peter answered your question, and then separately from this a large scale bug was addressed earlier in the week. The duplications should have been eliminated now (or at least any remaining now are contribution accidents vs. a behind-the-scenes issue at IMDb). We should have followed-up on the latter, sorry.

Thank you Col, I appreciate your message.