New Parents Guide

Well, you can start with this (from the Related Conversations below this topic) and continue with further searches if you wish.
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The new feature is not like the old contribution interface. Perhaps suggestions for improvements will be considered. Though I'm not sure why parents guides need a lot of markup.

this due largely to the fact that I never ever encountered a lot of rubbish in Parents Guides.

At one point, there was so much abuse going on in the wiki(d) areas (which are the FAQ's and the Parents Guide) that it was necessary for IMDb to take drastic measures. It was no longer possible for just anybody to contribute to it and people had to ask IMDb permission to add to it: http://www.imdb.com/swiki/special?ParentalGuideHelp#.2.1.3

In some cases (arguably rare), there may be a need to link to a whole other website, such as when a concept from a movie is of significance to a content advisory about the movie but also requires an explanation as to what it is, for people who might be clueless about the given concept. As of the change and thus far, presumably it is only possible to link locally and by using database entity keys (such as tt#, nm#, co#, ns# and ur#). I'm basing that off which links survived the transition from the old system to the new system. All of the local key links appear to have been kept.

While it is true that markup is not necessary, the transition from the swiki system to the submission-style system kind of failed to address the XML character entity references in the existing body of underlying data that comprised all of the parents guides. Luckily, there are very many uses of that stuff, as the swiki guides do not mention all of the markup conventions that the swiki system recognizes. I'm quite possibly the only contributor to even use such things, and I use them quite a lot.

I agree that editing, adding or deleting each paragraph (now items) individually is a pain. The choice of making that way causes me to wonder if it has something to do with dividing the processing workload among the data-editing staff. I cannot shake the feeling that the implementers did not think this upgrade through, but maybe it is that they indeed want to make things harder for whom they believe to be trolls. I don't know. I wish that I knew, but I don't know.

the Parents Guide that literally no one complained about.

There have been complaints about the Parents Guide since it was created by IMDb about ten years ago. I know 'cause I was one of the complainers. :)

As I've said upthread, there was a problem with trolls and there were always some edit wars going on. Both those problems will now be gone.

Perhaps most of these problems were solved with the previous restriction of access, but it makes sense to try IMDb's more traditional approach: access for everyone with processing to catch errors.

It is taking forever for the changes I make to post.

From now on, staffers are actually gonna check the submissions made to the Parent's Guide. So yes, it will take (a bit) longer for your submissions to make it online, but the overall quality of the Parent's Guides will increase.

I doubt that the quality of the guides will increase.

I would like to see less subjectivity as well, but this update is not going to help with that. The staff mostly only approves, declines or ignores user submissions, seemingly rarely (if ever) making due adjustments on their own.

You just asked a good question, but I too wonder why Parents Guide for some titles have been "empty and unhelpful" like this recently. Did some people quit editing, as Sushi Xtreme believed would happen? I just checked on the Parents Guide on the "It" remake, but it now appears to be full, helpful and fleshed out.

According to my experience, I've got most of mine sentences added (almost) immediately. But for some of these sentences I've submitted, it took several weeks before they finally got added. Why, I wonder. Let me say, if a movie I watch contains no sex, violence, profanity or alcohol/drugs/smoking, I can't just write "none" anymore as I could with the old Parents Guide. I must write in full sentence such as "there is no profanity", something that can be a pain sometimes, just like having to add such items individually. Again, why? Isn't "none" fine enough?

And I wish we could continue to have the codes and tags like we had before, particularly the spoiler tag. To be honest, I'm happy for the fact the IMDb would do anything in order to make their site as good as possible for their users, and to reduce the chance of trolling. But seriously, I did enjoy the old Parents Guide stuff better than it has become right now.

Despite my complaints, I'm somewhat fine with the layout otherwise. As a faithful IMDb user, I will continue to use the site, and I will still contribute by adding basic information like distributors and alternate titles, and eventually add some new titles if needed.

Hello there. You should be able to edit the Parents Guide. I just did with a Japanese anime film I've finished watching a few minutes ago, and it worked pretty fine. Just click on "edit" with blue fonts, and then "Add an item" that pops up under whatever content you will edit, it be "Sex & Nudity", "Profanity" or whatever you want. After you click on "Add an item", a white box should appear in the middle of the screen, and you should then be able to write whatever relevant stuff you would, and then submit. And so you wait until any item you submit gets approved. However, if any item contains spoilers, that you should be able to tag "This is a spoiler". Below is a screenshot for an empty parents guide I've took to prove you an example. :-)



Below is an example for a full Parents Guide, in case you would like to add a new item or edit an already existing item.

 

I hope this was helpful for you, because I did describe as good as I could. ;-)

I hate the new parents guide.

Yes, you're not alone. I see several IMDb users hate this new Parents Guide stuff.

Thanks very much Chribren. Real nice of you to take the time to explain it all, but I don't have the Edit button listed for all sections (only for the Certifications) and I still see " Add to guide (Coming Soon)" mentioned at the top of the page, so I guess I'll have to wait a bit before I can add/correct/delete the Parents Guide. But again, thanks for taking the time to explain.

Do you only get the edit buttom for the Certifications and still see " Add to guide (Coming Soon)". That's very strange. :/ Maybe you can try to contact any of the IMDb staff and explain the problem, and maybe they can fix that problem for you. And then you should be able to edit the Parents Guide. Hoping for the best. :-) Oh, and you're welcome anyway. ;-)

If the company is guiding or pushing for that in some way, I agree that they should not, but I'd imagine that at least a few people would be interested in filling out the Parents Guides for individual episodes.

I'm sorry to say that, but the IMDb actually wants us to write episode specific items for individual episodes, instead of using the "in one episode" stuff Sushi Xtreme mentioned. We get to see a warning about this whenever we are to edit parents guide for any TV-series. In my opinion, I should wish for our sake that we could still use the good old "in-one-episode-method", while some other users could write episode specific moments in individual episodes if they wished.