Poor submissions hall of fame?

Thanks, MovieCat. Keep up the good work please.

Here's one I deleted from Pinocchio (1940):

Goof: Stromboli mentions to Pinocchio London and Monte Carlo as some of the cities they will tour but as this film is presumably set in Italy it would be impossible to visit those cities by road as London and Monte Carlo are in Britain and a French island.

There were three errors in that one goof:

1. Stromboli never says they were going to travel only by road and not by sea.
2. Monte Carlo isn't in France.
3. Monte Carlo isn't on an island.

You're kidding....you're not kidding? OMG!

I've done some deleting lately, too. I was going to submit a trivia entry, but when I went to the page, I saw that someone else had already written one for it. But it was so poorly written that I didn't even want to attempt editing it! Instead, I wrote my own version and submitted it, then submitted a deletion request for the other one. I'm not kidding, it was about six lines long and had absolutely no punctuation. So if you read it aloud, you'd run out of breath before getting to the end! Its overall grammar was bad, too, not just its lack of punctuation. It was swiftly deleted.

I've had some weird photo deletions recently... I should have screencapped one, as it was for a long-running quiz show, and one of the entries, hidden amongst other snaps for the same episode, had what looked like someone's wedding reception added as one of the photographs.

Also did a deletion last night in trademarks - did Barbara Windsor REALLY have a "deep, sultry" voice?!??

A weird "plot outline" here for an episode of MOR BBC sitcom "No Place Like Home" (which was broadcast when Professor Green was THREE):

"World-famous rapper Professor Green takes an intensely personal journey to uncover the truth behind the suicide of his father, and why suicide is the single biggest killer of men under 45. By understanding the complex factors behind it, and the ways it is being tackled, Professor Green highlights the urgency of addressing suicide in today's society."

I'll put that there as it might be nice to put that plot outline into the correct show... when I can work out what it is.

From the keywords department, one trove of bad submissions that comes to mind is the "more than one" keywords. 

Just check this link: https://www.imdb.com/find?s=kw&q=more+than+one

These keywords were all added by a top-100 contributor who is otherwise very knowledgeable and useful when it comes to older movies, but he also has been known to come up with some really bad keywords.

In this case, he appears to be skirting the contributions guideline that says keywords should generally be singular, not plural:

Plurals - Use singular words. For example, trains should be train

Here are some examples of his keywords:

This isn't really a "poor" submission, more of a mystery... I've been tidying up the Paul Daniels Magic Show, and one episode had very specific details about a nude model, even down to multiple quotes, trivia points, etc.

I got all the episodes, and double-checked them against BBC Genome, and.... not only was it not in the episode, it wasn't in ANY episode that year.

I felt bad, but I had to delete the lot, wipe it all out.

Maybe as strange is that they'd also linked to the BBC viewers' feedback show "Points of View", citing an episode that he was on. Said episode was on YouTube, so I watched it, verified the correct date against Genome, etc., and... he wasn't on that, either.

On the profile of Robin Leach, host of "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous":

"Judgement day from Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) occurred on his 56th birthday."

WHAT?!!!? Was Robin Leach associated with that movie in any way?

Maybe I need to list how old celebrities were when Bambi's mother got shot.

I had need to add an episode to the BBC's Six O'Clock News, which understandably is sparse. (Seven episodes a week for 30-odd years or more? I wouldn't attempt it).

I get on the title and it's just rammed with JUNK. Pictures of toys, YouTube, hotel adverts, the lot.

Here's one plot summary I've just put in to be wiped: "Princess reveals a secret to Ray while Yo-Yo throws a baby shower for her daughter."

What goes through peoples' minds when they do stuff like that?? And how many more overlooked titles have this kind of spam in them?!!?

I submitted deletion for the following two alleged movie connections, both pertaining to Despicable Me (2010). Apparently, in somebody's mind, Despicable Me referenced the following TV series and film:

"All in the Family" (1971)

When Gru meets the girls, one of them is named Edith. Which is a reference to All In The Family, where Archie Bunker's wife is named Edith.

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)

When Gru meets the girls, one of them is named Margo. Which is a reference to National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, where The Griswold's next door neighbor is named Margo.

This is a prime example of starting with correct premises and ending up with an incorrect conclusion. 

Movie connection for Dangerous Liaisons (I've put in the deletion request already):

Dangerous Minds (1995)
Michelle Pfeiffer stars in a movie which has Dangerous as the first half of the title.

Here are some keywords I just came across that belong here.

Recently removed a "goof" from Mary Poppins that said the young girl had bad teeth.

I can see the old BBC show The Young Ones might need tidying up. Some weird ones in there.

This one I just deleted because I thought it wasn't a "goof" as much as extreme pedantry:

"While digging his grave, Neil calls his shovel a spade and explains that he always calls it that. He is not using a spade, you can clearly see it is a square shovel."