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Friday, January 17th, 2025 2:18 PM

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Fix wrongly rejected

I have submitted the same correction to an erroneous synopsis, twice, and each time it has been rejected, with different reasons.

The 1946 BBC programme "First Year Flashbacks":

   https://contribute.imdb.com/title/tt9195108

is described as "Reopening of Television Service, 7th June 1946".

While it does /include/ a clip of that, it contains far more, including footage filmed on various dates, some of it in the United States.

I submitted a change to make it "Highlights of the first year of BBC television filmed broadcasts, following the reopening of Television Service, after WWII, on 7 June 1946"

This was rejected as "We believe your contribution contained factual inaccuracies."

So I submitted the change again, explaining as justification that "My amendment may be verified at https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00s7hzf/firstyear-flashbacks which reads : 'First transmitted in 1946, these are highlights of the films shown on BBC Television since it reopened in June of that year after a seven-year gap caused by World War II. The BBC's television service had stopped transmitting on 1 September 1939, and did not resume until 7 June 1946'; and which gives a broadcast date of '31 Dec 1946'."

This was rejected with the completely unhelpful boilerplate "Does not meet contribution guidelines" - with no mention of /why/ it supposedly does not do so.


Should I just give up?




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Hello Pigsonthewig,

Can you help us posting the 18-digits submission reference number? in order to take a look for you!

You can find the submission number in your Contribution History page. 

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250109-194611-967000 then 250113-142243-287000

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Thanks for the reference number! I have re submitted and approved the changes to the Plot, it will be live shortly!

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Thank you.

But why did this happen (it's not the first such case I've experienced), and how can it be avoided in the future?

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It looks there was a processing error, I also recommend adding evidence with the submissions for us to verify the contributions are correct.

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1 month ago

Please will you also review #241228-145700-735000  - also rejected twice; another "processing error"? - and which can be verified at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilding_series

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@Pigsonthewing​ Hi-

Thank you for providing the submission reference! Further reviewing as well, it has now been re-submitted on your behalf and approved. The changes will be live on the site shortly.

As Fran mentioned above, you can provide the evidence on the explanatin box as well.

Cheers!