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Contribution guidlines

Does adding two attributes, such as (voice) and (uncredited), or (voice) and (archive sound) really go against contribution guidlines? If so, then why?

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Yes, per https://help.imdb.com/article/contribution/filmography-credits/cast-acting-credits-guidelines/GH3JZC74FVYKKFMD#voice: "Due to the difficulty of verifying uncredited voice involvement, we don't allow uncredited voice credits." Whereas indeed there are cases of filmography items that bear both attributes (e.g. Julianne Moore being the voice of ARIA in EagleEye), since somehow proof of participation was uncovered. Yet the IMDb staff do reserve the right to remove certain items that reflect uncredited work and retroactively revise the eligibility criteria: https://help.imdb.com/article/contribution/filmography-credits/i-worked-on-a-title-but-did-not-receive-a-screen-credit-can-it-be-listed-on-imdb/G3BDEA5Y4U9LP9BW#. As far as I know, there isn't really a strong justification for this reservation of right, but sometimes performers do come here to demand that any reference to one particular uncredited work or another be suppressed from display. At the end of the day, this is why the a number of IMDb's policies are referred to as guidelines, but IMDb is committed to making sure that credited work is never removed once it is documented in the database, and apart from verification of birth dates and death dates, most of the remaining guidelines are kind of wishywashy. I suspect that questions of high workload, if not chronic technical limitations, factors into the flexibility of (and establishment of exceptions to) some of the policies. In other words, sometimes it is just to hard to articulate a concrete guidelines that accounts for all contingencies.

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What about the "archive sound" attribute?

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Well, most likely archive sound is supposed to be treated the same way that archive footage is treated. Also, having both a "(voice)" attribute and an "(archive sound)" attribute is redundant, meaning that the "(voice)" attribute wouldn't be indicative of anything more than the "(archive sound)" attribute alone.

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Can you explain how the archive voice credits of Get a Horse or Once Upon a Studio were added to the site?

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Hi @BrianKT​ -

The attribute "archive sound" should be used when voice work from elsewhere is used in the title, but was not specifically created for that project.

Concerning the redundancy of combining the attributes: "voice" and "archive sound" - I have raised this issue with our Policy team to review further, as well as consider improvements (i.e. an "archive voice" attribute).