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Tuesday, February 1st, 2022 7:29 PM

INTRODUCING: File Upload Verification for Contributions

INTRODUCING: File Upload Verification for Contributions

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We’re excited to announce that we have added support to allow for uploading evidence along with your submissions to help our data editors verify the credits are factual. When providing evidence to support your submission, you can link us to a third-party website with the content available to view, alternatively for filmography and bio data submissions, you can now upload the file directly to IMDb and include it within your contribution.

 

Types of evidence likely to be accepted:

  • Third-party news articles
  • Screen grab of end credits
  • Call Sheets
  • Receipts
  • Link to title on streaming platform
  • Pay stubs
  • Contracts

If you’re unable to provide sufficient supporting evidence, your request may be rejected - you would then need to re-submit with additional evidence. For further details and instructions on how to add supporting evidence, please see our How to guide: How to submit evidence

Thanks as always for all your feedback – please feel free to post your questions and comments to this thread.

Known Issue(s):

  • IMDb App
    • We request customers to update their iOS app version to the latest version (12.4.1) as the experience on the versions before this might have issues with the upload functionality.

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2 years ago

Sounds good, hopefully it will speed things up.  I gave it a go this morning but I also started a new thread here with the screen shots as back up just in case. 

Thanks

Don

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2 years ago

Is it possible to have the upload feature on the same page and automatically add the reference code (evidence file) to/with the explanation box once uploaded?

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2 years ago

For the first time, today, I noticed that imdb added a page to upload a screenshot as evidence of credit. I'm SOOO HAPPY they've done this.  In the past, I've had to deal with rejected credit after rejected credit and upload a screenshot as the still image on one of my vimeo videos or something in order to show them evidence. This new upload feature(I'm assuming it's new as it's the first time I've encountered it) makes life SOOOOOOOO much easier so kudos to whoever suggested that. Thank you! :)

Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled Providing evidence of screen credits!!! Perfect fix!

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2 years ago

Add upload support for title corrections.

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2 years ago

I know I'm not welcome here because my input was deleted twice from this thread but I'm trying again because @Michelle said "we do welcome all questions and feedback, both positive and negative" in another thread and since it's bumped recently by Peter already, I hope this won't bother people.

I questioned why it's not active on all submission types, because for example, correcting or deleting a release date always requires some proof, but it's not active on that submission type. That was confusing.

It looks like we can bookmark that upload page and then use it to get "upload code" for anything but since that upload link is not active for every submission type, one has to ask: "Is it OK to do that?"

I mean, are you OK for someone using that upload form to upload evidence for a submission type that doesn't have this upload link activated?

I still use a third party image hoster when I needed because it's not so user-friendly. Because you can't just upload it directly on submission form, you have to find the upload page if it's not activated for that submission type, then upload it there and get a long code. Then there is the question of "is that ok use upload feature for this submission type", so I just go to usual image hoster instead.

Also, when we need to refer or amend or re-submit a submission later, with this feature, all we can see is a long code. But if we used a third party image hoster, we can click the link we provided and check the link so we can amend accordingly. But we have to remember what exactly was that if we uploaded the image with this feature because all we can see is a long code. I think that's not so user friendly.

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I've not made use of the image upload feature of the submission form yet, but for the longest time, I've used the community forum itself (on Sprinklr and previously GetSatisfaction) as an image host and placed the URLs to specific images in the explanation field of the submission form. I feel the direct upload way is not easily vulnerable to privacy breaches, unlike using an image host that may operate beyond the controls of uploaders. I've never uploaded anything that wasn't of a public nature, so this hasn't been a problem for me. I wouldn't be bothered if the URLs were publicly known, and even hoped that the servers (the content delivery network) hosting them would do so for decades, but alas sometimes those hosts go offline.

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2 years ago

There is no upload evidence for Episode Title/Number changes and this is one of the edits that frequently require a screenshot to get accepted.

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@adrian​ Hi!

Thanks for pointing out the limitation, we've forwarded the observation to the appropriate team.

Cheers!

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2 years ago

it works perfect, everything proven by screenshot and uploaded there gets declined