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Friday, July 16th, 2021

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Request to delete plot summary Devil's Feud Cake #2

To my surprise, this two year old post has been Closed recently: https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/data-issues-policy-discussions/request-to-delete-plot-summary-devils-feud-cake/5f4a7a308815453dba9d524c

Given the fact that there were still some issues I mentioned that hadn't been answered, I think this thread shouldn't have been closed. Apart from that, I would like a staff response to my response to Will where I stated "This plot summary goes against your own guides. Apart from that, the first sentence doesn't describe the plot of this title and should/could be deleted. That would leave a plot summary of 112 characters. I don't see how that is useful."

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4 years ago

Hi Marco -

You will need to refresh my memory, can you confirm which summary listed on the title page is incorrect?

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@Michelle Thanks for the response.

It's not an issue of being incorrect, but the current plot summary (the one starting with "Another in a series") should be deleted I feel. There is already a plot outline listed for this title and the current plot summary is too short to be a plot summary. It is currently 225 characters long (while the minimum for a plot summary is 240) and the first sentence doesn't have anything to do with describing the plot. It should therefore be deleted. Without this first sentence, this plot summary is only 112 characters long, which is less than half of the minimum length it should be. Keeping this plot summary goes against IMDb's own guide. Also, it potentially misleads/confuses contributors because of this.

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4 years ago

Hi Marco -

Thanks for the additional information, I reviewed the Plot Summary and can confirm that it was initially added to the title page prior to our existing summary requirements were set in place.

As this summary does not meet our current criteria, it has now been removed from the title page.

Cheers!