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Duplicate pages of the documentary film by Alexei Navalny about Putin

After the publication of a high-profile documentary investigation by Alexei Navalny about Vladimir Putin, users created several pages of the same film
- A Palace for Putin. The Story of the Biggest Bribe
- Dvorets dlya Putina. Istoriya samoy bolshoy vzyatki
- Putin's Palace
Since these are one and the same movie, I think that they need to be merged and the duplicates removed.
Also this movie was filmed and released on video, so you need to change the release category to "video".
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Hi, Den Budanov. You bringing this to the attention of the IMDb Community is much appreciated. Thank you! Have you submitted the appropriate corrections? If so, then please share here the 18-digit reference numbers of those submissions. If not, please know that title merges are facilitated via the title correction option in the submission form for an IMDb title entry, and the way of doing this generally is explained at https://help.imdb.com/article/contribution/titles/how-can-i-merge-two-titles/GAL233TVTCPMLVDK#.

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Hi den_budanov -

 

Thanks for reporting and posting your submission numbers, the title merge requests have now been approved and the changes should be live on the site shortly.

 

Cheers!

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@Michelle thsnks. There is another unresolved question: how to make attribution for the film - "video", since the film was shot for the Internet and premiered on the Internet.

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That involves a title correction, as the title "format" is encoded as an abbreviation in the mnemonic identifier of the IMDb title entry, as explained at https://help.imdb.com/article/contribution/titles/title-formatting/G56U5ERK7YY47CQB#. The "identifier" to which I refer consists of the original on-screen title of the movie, followed by the calendar year of release in parentheses, followed by a capital letter or two in parentheses, representing the title format. (Furthermore, as we know, for disambiguation purposes, the parentheses encapsulating the year may also be encapsulating Roman numerals, separated from the year by a forward slash.)

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If you want it classified as Video, add (V) to the title as it already appears on the Edit page > Title Correction:

Dvorets dlya Putina. Istoriya samoy bolshoy vzyatki (2021) (V)

Provide a clear explanation (perhaps better than I did below), and reply to the warning with a check.

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Another problem: when merging three pages, the scriptwriters were duplicated. 
I have submitted an amendment (210120-184038-162000) but do not know if it will be accepted.

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Very good, Den Budanov. Also, thank you, bderoes, for a case-specific answer to the "attribute" question. Just to note, sometimes it can be hard to quickly gauge the experience levels of other IMDb Contributors. I think, for the most part, we cannot go wrong with providing case-specific answers. To my understanding, Den is interested in contributing with regularity, so understanding IMDb's various data schemes should be important to him.