Credit Errors don't belong in Crazy Credits

@Bethanny​ Here's another one: 230109-050238-456000.

They keep getting declined for the reason "Does not meet contribution guidelines". I'm asking for the item's deletion BECAUSE it doesn't meet IMDb's guidelines. Credit errors clearly do not belong in Crazy Credits. It says so right in the guidelines. So why are my deletion requests being denied?

I've already copied the items to Goofs or Trivia as appropriate. They need to be deleted in Crazy Credits. They shouldn't be declined; I shouldn't have to ask you to do it every time.

@Mvybuf​ Hey!

Resubmitted on your behalf and approved. I have also talked to our editors about it so you don't have further issues with it :)

Cheers!

@Bethanny​ According to the "Goof" guidelines, character errors in the Cast list don't belong there either.

"B. Unacceptable Goofs

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• Character names: Credits with character names not actually used in the film are not goofs."

It appears that the only place to put them is Trivia.

@david_glagovsky​ I wonder what that guideline is referring to exactly. "Character names not used in the film" - that doesn't sound like an error. An error would be a different spelling or a different name altogether than the one used in the film. I would think those would be valid goofs.

I think what that rule is referring to is cases where a character is never named in the film but gets a name in the closing credits. That's not a mistake, so not a goof.

Clear mistakes in the credits would be goofs. Though if I were running IMDb, I'd put them in Crazy Credits - but I would rename the section: there's nothing crazy about a mistake.

@Mvybuf​ You may be correct. I just wish the guidelines were more specific with examples.

@Mvybuf​  An excellent point, although I would say that as it was exactly what I thought about a wrong name.

I have to accept the moderator’s answer, though, as the submission guidelines for goofs actually say “This is not the place to record errors in the credits, …”

Moderator decisions are already random enough, with an extraordinary number overturned when challenged. I suspect adding a grey area would only make this worse.

the submission guidelines for goofs actually say “This is not the place to record errors in the credits, …”

No, the Crazy Credits guidelines say that, and they link to the goofs page as if to say the errors belong as goofs.

@Peter_pbn​ My error. Comes, I think, from switching between several almost identical-looking pages of densely-typed text.

sadly, for all its merits, IMDb is not the prettiest or most intuitive site to use.