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Artist page HUGE problem
Hello, guys
My name is DIlyan Kalchev and im an actor from Bulgaria... I've recently started updating my IMDb page as I'm getting a lot of attention, because of the new release of the first Bulgarian Hip Hop movie "Murda Boyz: Mahlenska Klasa", which is on fire, currently sold out in 20 cities. The movie is spread nationwide in all the major cities in the country. It already started receiving reviews from everywhere.
My question is, how come the algorithm of IMDb is deciding that my Actors Page is know for a movie "Found by You" that has 0 reviews, never been published anywhere, and its a university project. Everywhere shows that Dilyan Kalchev is an editor. This is making me really frustrated and angry, because IMDb team declines my changes to the "Found By You" cast, because i wanted to delete myself from there... They are not allowing me to remove it. As this is MY personal profile, that is violating my presence and people get confused... PLS HELP
Col_Needham
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2 years ago
@didonkin To change your “Known for” titles please see the relevant question/answer on https://help.imdb.com/article/imdbpro/manage-your-imdb-page/manage-your-filmography/GH8XTYSWKU2P96TA
To change your primary profession, please see https://help.imdb.com/article/imdbpro/manage-your-imdb-page/manage-your-primary-professions/GWW6XSGATEXS8K5V
As to why valid credits cannot be deleted, please see https://help.imdb.com/article/contribution/filmography-credits/some-of-the-information-on-my-page-is-not-really-necessary-or-useful-anymore-can-i-remove-it/G554S973BTP3GUQS
Hope this helps.
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eboy
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2 years ago
IMDb won’t remove valid credits from your name page, so that’s not the solution to your ”Known For” credits.
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eboy
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2 years ago
It’s true that the ”Known For” section is kinda ”broken” - at least for people who have older credits in different departments. I mean (for example), what’s the real point of listing ”he’s a director, editor and actor”, if the person has a few odd directing/editing credits from the 1990s, and then several acting credits (and some very recently). It would be just common sense to list that he/she is an ”actor”, period (actor, with some older credits in another departments).
That being said, IMDb name page is not a personal CV/resume. Sure, many people use it as such, and quite often it works great in that regard, but still. The real purpose is to save/preserve historical data.
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didonkin
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2 years ago
@Col_Needham @jeorj_euler @eboy Hello,
Don't get me wrong with everything I just said. IMDb is an amazing platform and no one can say anything against that. I've read all the benefits from having an IMDb Pro subscribtion, i've done my research. All Im trying to understand with all being said, especially about the part with the CV/resume, is that this could actually be a perfect platform to do so, right? In other words from what you say is that, I can even come up with any Title that has never existed, and there is no way this could ever be deleted, because the IMDb system won't let you delete any "Factual" and "historic" content from the website. But I definetley believe that there should be some system to "check" upon all these titles that could be fiction or fantasy of someone else. What about movies that started, but never had the chance to finish, and they actually never got released?
I'm truly not the person that the founder of IMDb should listen to, but there are some big gaps I believe in the system, that could improve every artist's profile/page. Or at least give to claimed pages the chance to explain why would they want something to be OFF their profiles, there might be a strong reason. Its just that if you are not in PRO, you are completely restricted..
People of Bulgaria as you mention, are just not as interested, because if you find out how much an actor is making here, no matter how good your role is, is just on the tip of the toe, compare to even low budget films in UK or USA.. Maybe a middle IMDb Pro (or IMDb semi-Pro) would be an option to consider making, like more affordable prices, with some of the features in it....
Anyways i won't waste your time anymore, as this is important to me I will have to subscribe to PRO for a month, just to fix this problem with the "Known For" section. But I believe sometimes your team should make exceptions, because in my case I gave you what I think strong argument, about all this! University project is winning over one of the best films in the country this year...
Thank you for your time!
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