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90 Points
Somebody merged their page to mine, and now it can't get removed
Somebody merged their page to mine, and somehow it got approved by IMDb that they were in fact me, adding more than 150 false credits and pieces of information. But I spent hours last night, trying to delete each credit each with an explanation of what happened, and each got declined because I can't prove this person isn't me. Like, ?????????? How on earth did this other person prove they WERE me????????? How do I prove I'm not them?????? Also, been trying to fix the date on one of my films for months, it says it was released in 2019 but it's still in post! How do I prove that, too????? Send a screen shot of my editing timeline??? My birth certificate?????
VonPunk
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17.4K Points
4 years ago
First off you can't delete those credits because they are legitimate credits the just belong to the poor guy who had his page merged away and if you delete them, when the pages get re-separated he'll have his credits missing through no fault of his own.
The right thing to do, what you are partially doing here, is to let IMDb know about the issue and give as much detail as you can to which credits are not yours via a list of names that aren't you, look at the bottom of the page in the Alternate Names list and list what aren't yours. Then IMDb can look into the issue and hopefully re-separate the pages. But be patient as this can take awhile to do.
An IMDb staffer will likely be along shortly so if you get the extra info up asap, that'll help them and get things moving quicker. Also details about the movie date issue and any contribution numbers from that should be posted also.
All the best.
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shaneryanreid
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90 Points
4 years ago
Yes I've used a few names over the decades but my page was totally accurate 3 days ago (aside from missing some credits that IMDb refuses to approve). But then 2 days ago somebody with the names Shane Schoepner | Shane Schoeppner | Shane Schoppner suddenly appeared on my page (with a whopping 150 or so credits, including 'other works' and trivia/quotes/etc), also including his bio which states in the bio that he was born in a decade different than that on my profile (the conflict right there should have never allowed it approval I'd think). Which has me wondering, how on earth did somebody ever prove that this guy was me? And now IMDb won't remove it because I can't prove I'm not him. Like, seriously?
This is such an unbelievable headache I've already wasted so much time on. I wasn't trying to delete valid credits I was trying to get invalid credits removed from my name. I've reached out to them multiple times asking them to please just merge the guy off of my page and back on to his own, I don't get how this even happened to begin with. We don't share the same name (aside from just a simple first name), don't share a birthday, we each had our own pages with tons of credits over the years...how do two completely separate people suddenly get merged together?? And they keep saying I can't prove I'm not him? Meanwhile they won't approve a credit for a movie I produced which actually is accurate, nor put one of my films in post-production phase as it says it was released in 2019 when it's in my editing timeline. Again, asking that I prove it wasn't released (how do you even prove that? it's easy to prove something WAS released, but not that it WASN'T). Like it'd be easier to prove that somebody is ALSO somebody else, but how do I prove I'm NOT this guy?
I did see that there is a blank page with his name Shane Schoppner - IMDb so maybe I'll try seeing when I have time again, if I can figure out how to move one credit there and start with that.
Ugh, anyway, thanks for the response, this is all too overwhelming to deal with this week.
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