Saved Updates” in your contribution history question

Hi My apologies if this message has created any unnecessary panic. It is not as bad as it sounds: In response to: "First question: Will this new system for the cast and crew edits deleted a few or more past edits made by IMDb users on their filmographies especially ones that seem wrong?"... No - edits that have already been submitted in the past will be unaffected. In response to: "Second: So from September 19th - September 29th we can not make any edits to people that are cast and crew members on IMDb until it is fixed, but can we still make edits to companies to soundtracks?"... You absolutely will still be able to make edits to cast and crew members. Only unsubmitted cast and crew contributions have a chance of becoming slightly corrupted, if you leave them unsubmitted for a long time. I also want to clarify that the risk of this happening is low. We will just make a change at one point during the period, and if your submission happens to be started but not yet submitted when we make the change, then there is a small risk that some of the data might become slightly corrupted. For example, you might need to re-enter some text into fields like character, in some rare cases. These changes should be obvious to you. You should see automatic warning messages in the tool, alerting you to anything that has changed, and prompting you to fix it before submitting. Given this low risk, we just suggest that users try to avoid spending many hours building up a submission in the contribution UI without submitting, in order to minimize the risk of having to fix lots of items before submitting them. In response to: "Final: Will this new system, proof read any future edits to cast and crew members on IMDb?"... The new system will continue to behave exactly as before in this regard.

I understand, the submissions I've saved on the imdb site and haven't been sent in are mainly for TV shows will not be affected, is this correct? thanks

@dylan Okay and thank you so much.

@assmn108 - TV shows will be affected in the same way as other title types like movies. If you have large contributions that you have not yet submitted, for TV shows, movies, or any other title type, then we suggest completing and submitting those before September 19th.

Is there an announcement coming on what’s being changed?