Contribution Declined for Not Following Guidelines

I have been making contributions for almost 20 years. Most have been accepted. But some have been declined, reworked, declined, reworked, and declined again with the only direction being to refer to your guidelines, which didn't offer any help. This infuriated me so that I gave up contributing for two years. I was drawn back, but it's happening again with reference to not complying with formatting standards. I have compared mine to mine and others that were accepted and I don't see the problem. We don't get paid for this. I have no personal connection to these two submissions. Most of us do this for love of cinema. The two most recent contributions to be declined for this reason are 2023-11-19 02:26:21 and 2023-11-11-17:54:6. I have seen in other posts you have supplied some specificity. Can you for me?

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gromit82

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2 years ago

John and Glen: Please post your last full data submissions here on this message board. You can copy them out of the receipts you would have received from IMDb by e-mail immediately after sending them in. Some of the regulars on the board may review them and, if they can, they may provide suggestions as to how to improve the submissions to get them included in the database. (Also, please include the submission reference number -- it's an 18-digit number that will look something like 230123-123456-789000.)

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johnaquino

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@gromit82 Somebody declined two contributions that I took the time to write and refer me to guidelines that provided no real explanation. I asked for some specificity as I have seen other users receive. Instead, you want me to post my contribution in the hope that other users will offer ideas about what they THINK the problem might have been. The two contributions were 231119-022621-696000 and 231117-022621-696000. If you can provide the specificity, fine; if not, we'll just forget it.

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Bethanny

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jeorj_euler

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Wait. Isn't modifying a goof item to include an explanation on why/how the original claim being made isn't accurate allowed when the item is being re-categorized as "incorrectly regarded as goof"?

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jeorj_euler

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Yeah, but in those cases, the explanation would go in the explanation field, a separate form field from that of the goof item message itself.

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jeorj_euler

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When deleting a goof item, there is an explanation field right in the submission form, and filling it out is required, in order to submit.

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Bethanny

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jeorj_euler

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Okay.

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Michelle

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Hi

2 years ago

johnaquino

Contribution Declined for Not Following Guidelines

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