How to Collect Evidence for Deleting a Credit?

I have two directing credits on my page for projects I had nothing to do with. I know in order to get them removed, I need to prove that I have no affiliation with those projects. However, the director of those projects and his company "Wiley Films" have no web presence at all, that I can find. The music videos also don't show credits, or list credits in the description.

Can I use the total omission of credits from those videos as proof that I was not affiliated with those projects? If not, how else am I supposed gather evidence to remove those credits?

The first request I submitted was declined. Reference: 220919-022823-973000

Side note: I love that the canned IMDB response of being the most "the most complete and reliable source" means crediting me as the director of a music video with millions of views, and then refusing to let me NOT take credit for it. Brilliant.

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Giancarlo_Cairella

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3 years ago

Thanks for letting us know about this mix-up.

The credits have been updated. The deletions were not approved because, as Adrian correctly guessed, the credits do belong to a different person named Wiley, so removing the credits instead of correcting them would have led to loss of data, which is why your submission was rejected.

The right action here was to move the entries to a different name, which we have now done (please allow a few hours for the change to propagate through our system and be reflected online).

I do agree that the standard response in this particular case is not clear and partly misleading -- that's an unfortunate limitation of having to process a large amount of data contributions and not always being able to respond with the best explanation of the circumstances behind a certain action.

Ideally we should craft a personalized response to every contribution and provide better guidance on how to resubmit the request, but we're not there yet.

Thanks for your understanding.

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@Giancarlo_Cairella No worries! Thank you for the quick response and solution!

3 years ago

Peter_pbn

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Deletions that are rejected because you would have preferred the credits to be moved is a common issue here. It could use a better treatment in help pages.

This text on Evidence for deletions could reference the possibility that credits should be moved and not deleted:

Deletion requests rejected as Unable to verify, mean our data editors believe the information is factual and as such shouldn't be removed.

If you believe the information is inaccurate and should be removed, please re-submit your deletion request and try to include as much of an explanation as you can, and they will review the request for you.

Same for I tried to delete data, but it still appears on IMDb. Why? which says, "If you notice an error or omission in our data, please submit a correction or deletion."

The page How do I correct credits? does show how to move credits, but also refers to a FAQ item which says, "If the credit is wrong, and should be removed from the name or title page - you can submit a deletion via the same interface, simply choose 'delete instead of 'correct'."

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adrian

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3 years ago

Is it possible the credits belong to another person with the same name?

The best way to completely delete them is to screen capture the entire credits for said project and show your name doesn't exist. However, it is much more common for credits to get attached to the wrong name and just need to be moved to another person.

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