Can I change short film listings to episodes of a tv show?

I've got a few short films that were posted as such but I wanted to switch them to episodes of a TV-Show called "XanderSketches Presents...". That way they could all be under the same name as a sort of anthology series and so I could post more under that title. I haven't made a credit of that show name but if it's possible to do these switches then I will be doing so. Here are the pages of the films that I would change to tv show episodes:

If this isn't possible that's alright. They weren't originally intended to be part of a show but now that time has passed and I've thought about it more I think that would be very fitting with where I'm trying to go with the stuff I'm making. These are all projects that I've made by myself so if I need to prove somehow that I'm actually the Xander Haan involved in these films I'm willing to do that.

Thank you!

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jeorj_euler

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3 years ago

While the technical capacity does exist (or exited), the appropriateness of carrying out such an action, in terms of IMDb guidelines, usually is non-existent or, at best, may not be easy to determine. Episode-type IMDb title pages have a mnemonic identifier scheme that differs slightly from title pages of all other types. I've explained it before as follows:

Yes, there is a way to change a non-episode into an episode of a series. The destination mnemonic identifier has the form:
"Title of the Series" (Year) {Title of the Episode (#SN.EN)}
...where Year is the calendar year of the release of the series, SN is the sequential number of the season to which the episode belongs, and EN is the sequential number of the episode counting from the first episode of the season to which it belongs. The title of the series is enclosed within double-quotation marks, whereas the title of the episode is not.

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Bethanny

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3 years ago

Hi @XanderHaan -

We will need to keep the titles as they were originally released, if they were originally released as shorts, we can't change them.

Thanks!

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jeorj_euler

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I've noticed that some YouTubers (or other vloggers) exhibit confusion or uncertainty about what constitutes the way their own content is organized, and IMDb contributors are often unable to make the determination on vloggers' behalves because the vloggers may not use a numbering scheme for their uploads and podcasts. We used to be able to submit corrections to the effect of changing episode-type title pages into standalone-type title pages, but the feature was removed from the submission interface, so those use cases always require the intervention of IMDb data editors. There is/was a thread where Bradley Kent, "KP" and I were discussing how Tarl Warrick's show ought to be organized, and we were all in agreement that there was too much ambiguity to justify the amount of work to be done, even if acquiescing to an "all or nothing" approach.

— Jeorj Euler, an IMDb regular registrant

3 years ago

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Can I change short film listings to episodes of a tv show?

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