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Sunday, April 30th, 2023 3:51 AM

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PLOT SUMMARY ADDITION - Your contribution has been declined.We have been unable to verify your contribution.

What is the point of writing summaries or reviews only to get a response of "unable to verify" each time. What do I need to do, send you a copy of the show for you to watch?

A network TV show is on when it airs and then off, so it isn't like I can send you a copy of the DVD. 

And if you are going to watch the entire show to verify my summary or review, why don't you just write it? IMDB.com is making money off everyone's free contribution to the site, so maybe you can do this yourself. What is the point of contributing if it just gets rejected as "unable to verify" because you do not watch or have access to the show we watched. 

I've even received "unable to verify" when sending a link to the show on YouTube or some other site, so clearly there is no reason not to verify it. 

https://contribute.imdb.com/contribution/230428-000037-570000/?ref_=ra_his_wa

Besides, what are you going to do in verifying? Tell me none of this happened? Do you think I watched Superman and then wrote how Casper and Wendy had a good time in the country?

At this point, a summary has been posted now, so there is no point in doing this one. There probably isn't any point in doing future ones, either.

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Hi @Chris_Patx -

As the message you got says, we were unable to verify, in some cases we need a link to a reliable source that can help us confirm the episode's plot is something along the lines of what you wrote, a link to where the episode is available or a news article talking about what happens are good examples. Also for plot summaries we can have up to 3, so you can feel free to resubmit if it's different from the live one.

Cheers!

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@Bethanny

Also for plot summaries we can have up to 3,

Actually, it's five, and it always has been five (https://help.imdb.com/article/contribution/titles/plots/G56STCKTK7ESG7CP#summaries?ref_=helpms_helpart_inline).