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Should student and amateur films have their own category? Or should imdb merely be more stringent on short films?
The amount of short films gets larger and larger.
Over 15,064 in the next 3 years - Short Film, Released between 2021-01-01 and 2050-12-31 (Sorted by Popularity Ascending) - IMDb
and undated, i.e. unreleased - another 20,000
379 a day - Short Film, Released of 2021-01-01 (Sorted by Popularity Ascending) - IMDb
44,000 made last year - but how many got released. Imdb search removing the option to search films that are listed as COMPLETE, abandoned, in pre-prod or searchable films must only be released.
To quell this tide, should there be more rigid rules what does and doesn't get listed?
Also, surely video shorts be made a sep. listing. And then maybe even music vids.
Compare -Video, Released between 2021-01-01 and 2067-01-01 (Sorted by Popularity Ascending) - IMDb
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Video, Released at least 2021-01-01 (Sorted by Popularity Ascending) - IMDb - Almost 1,000 undated videos - surely these could be deleted or listed as being in development? Or looked into more.
jeorj_euler
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3 years ago
The perceived problem of bulk does not really warrant a policy change. The actual problem is that of people who complete these film school projects, get the films documented on IMDb and then turn around at some point, wanting the films or possibly only the participants thereof to not be cataloged on IMDb. They actually sometimes even denigrate their own respective works.
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