Some joker deleted the "animation" genre from two animated films...

...and now it won't let me add it back because "unable to verify".

The titles in question are Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) and Space Jam (1996). Nearly every scene in Roger Rabbit and the majority of scenes in Space Jam feature animated characters interacting with live-action performers. This undoubtedly qualifies according to the genre guide, which states that for an animated film:

Over 75% of the title's running time should have scenes that are wholly, or part-animated.

Note that it specifically mentions "part-animated".

These films are quite possibly the most well-known films of the live-action/animation hybrid subgenre. Production stills and descriptions are all over the internet. Clips, trailers and behind-the-scenes videos from either film would not be hard to find. Throw a rock at a group of casual cinema fans and you're likely to hit someone who has seen one or both of these movies. It should not take a genius researcher to quickly "verify" that the animation genre qualifies.

Unless IMDb has suddenly changed its rules about what qualifies as "animation", the genre should be restored immediately and whoever is responsible for deleting it should be defenestrated. And if IMDb did change the rules (for some ridiculous reason), then it should have updated the genre definitions to reflect that.

However, I don't suspect it is the case that IMDb intentionally changed its rules. My suspicion is that some contributor didn't even bother to read the genre definitions and just decided to delete the animation genre because they were using their own personal (puritanical) definition and didn't care what anyone else thought. Then, I suppose, whoever was in charge of approving the contribution was either too ignorant or too inattentive to realize it was wrong.

For reference, these are the rejected contribution numbers:

#231124-165510-824000

#231124-165538-930000

There may be more out there besides these two which have been erroneously deleted, but these are the only two I've caught.