Editorial Correction of Summaries

It is allowed to correct.

See the word "Edit" Start there.

Second thought.

Do not edit these.

They read more like a plot synopsis.

They contain too many plot points and spoilers.

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Plot Outline

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Example:

A Law Enforcement officer happens upon a tragic traffic accident on his way to work. What he does not realize is the effect that it will have on him and his family in the near future.

Plot Summaries

Example:

I wont write one but follow the rules below.

 Summaries should be more than 239 characters, but still reasonably brief. Aim for a paragraph or two. Shorter summaries may be re-routed to the outlines list.

• Try to avoid spoilers. (Some very small spoilers will be allowed, but big spoilers will upset other readers.)
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• Try to keep your BY: line consistent if you write more than one summary. You will never make it into the top 20 if you have 5 variations of your name/email address. You may enter Anonymous (or, equivalently, leave it blank) if you wish. We recommend the format Your Name <email@example.com> if you want to include your email address. Please note: if you include your email address it will be published.
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• Standard [link=title number] format can be used when referring to other titles.

Plot Synopses

Same here. Will not write one, but do follow the rules below

 A synopsis should be a detailed description of the entire plot of the title, including spoilers, so users who haven't seen a movie or missed an episode of a TV series can read everything about the title. A synopsis must include exclusively details of the story of the film, with no commentary.

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Thanks for all of the prompt and thorough feedback, Karen.  Unfortunately, the "Edit" function doesn't work for me.  I have tried it both on a PC in Firefox 87.0 under WIndows 10 Pro x64 20H2 and on an iPad Pro 2020 in Safari under iPadOS 14.4 and in both cases, selecting "Correct" from the dropdown list next to the summary does not switch the corresponding text box into edit mode as shown in your screenshots.  There are no error messages, but perhaps I don't have a high enough rating yet to edit anything.  If that is the case, it would help to have a message to that effect.

The interface can be confusing for a first time user!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@Karen_P Thanks again for all your help!  I must have once done this correctly, but I don‘t edit frequently, and it didn‘t occur to me to use that button when there wern‘t yet any changes to check.  Is there a way to submit user interface (UI) change requests?   I am writing this in Safari on my iPad because I am also having problems with the sprnklr UI in Firefox under iPadOS: the search function doesn‘t work, clicking on my avatar doesn‘t bring up the context menu and I amunable to post anything.

As to the ARD Plot Summary for „Gefangen“, what do you suggest?

Should I rewrite it and post it as a synopsis, or should I just delete the spoilers in the course of my correction?

P.S. sprnklr is working again in FF on my iPad: I had to leave the site and call it up again and then everything was fine.

Everyone who has joined IMDB can make edits to practically everything apart from being able to add/edit people's profile images.

I rarely add or edit plots because I can't be bothered to think of the best way to sum a production up, but most of the time it's because I haven't seen the productions in question. The same goes for biographies.

However I've edited quite a few recently because they contained spelling mistakes, grammar mistakes, broken links they've attempted to add, and/or worst of all Americanisms on British subjects.

I unfollowed some of my old posts here tonight (and will be unfollowing many more old posts soon), one of which was by an American regarding a British actors biography.

He wanted to add two shows he claimed were bigger than the three shows mentioned in the "automatic biography" which isn't actually a biography. It's just IMDB picking three of their productions, based on various things to rank how popular or significant they are.

The two shows he claimed were bigger shows, definitely aren't bigger than the three picked automatically, and I should know, because I'm one of the few people today who actually pays attention to viewing figures. Those three shows get between 5 and 10 million viewers, whereas the shows he claimed were more popular got between 1 and 2.5 million viewers.

This is usually the case with non-Brits (usually Americans) and British shows.

They think they know what's popular in the UK, because they listen to the clueless critics, rather than the British public.

I occasionally recommend British dramas and comedies which average between 5 and 10 million viewers to American reactors on Youtube, but they ignore my recommendations (especially dramas) as usual, to watch shows which got between 1 and 4 million viewers, because that's what they incorrectly think is popular.

And then they sometimes wonder why they're not getting any viewers.

Back to the topic, so I checked his biography.

It seemed ok, as it contained most of his major roles, although it needed a few minor corrections. One of which was to remove a quote mentioning 1 of those 2 shows, which they claimed was "his breakthrough role."

It definitely wasn't like I said above.

He had already been in 100's of episodes of two of the biggest, and longest running shows on British TV, and then went on to play the lead in a critically acclaimed TV series, and was a household name to people who didn't even watch those shows, before appearing in that "popular" show with fewer viewers.

So I corrected the minor mistakes, corrected a couple of broken links, reworded some sentences, and added a few more recent films and TV shows to his biography.

I have similar problems with User Reviews, some of which are rife with usage errors.  However, it seems that they cannot be edited.