Someone added the prefix "Betty Boop-" to all of the IMDb display titles for Betty Boop short films of the 1930s.

Someone added the prefix "Betty Boop-" to (almost) all of the IMDb display titles for the Betty Boop short films of the 1930s. Example: Betty Boop- Taking the Blame. Every one of these display titles should be deleted.

(NOTE: Some of the Betty Boop shorts of this period already have Betty Boop's name in the original title. Example: Betty Boop for President. These have been left alone.)

I'm hoping the contributor can be identified and all of his work deleted. Otherwise, there will be a tedious project ahead identifying which IMDb display titles must be removed.

There seems to be a desperate desire by some contributors to collect these old short films into a series of some kind on IMDb. Their attempts to transform the shorts into TV series have failed, and now one of them has done this. Again, I hope the staff will consider my idea of adding a new category called Collections. Here's my Sprinklr post about it: Collections.

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gromit82

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2 years ago

This same thing happened in November 2022, also involving someone adding "Betty Boop- " to the titles of her cartoons.

As I said at the time,

... perhaps IMDb should have applied more skepticism to the data submissions which proposed these (imdb display titles) for these films.

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@Bethanny For the ones where the alternate title begins Betty Boop- with a hyphen immediately after the "p" in Boop, I think you can go ahead and delete all of those alternate title entries.

https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/data-issues-policy-discussions/no-betty-boop-was-not-a-tv-series-in-1930/61417e5e7999fd0798c634a5

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Peter_pbn

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Correcting the titles might be better than deleting. Then, future corrections to the titles may also be more likely to be rejected than additions of display titles to titles that have none.

(Bimbo's Initiation, which Jay said he corrected in the old thread, has apparently not been affected by the new changes.)

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jay_spirit

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I knew something about those titles felt familiar. I'd forgotten that we'd already talked about it. I even took a screenshot.

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Ozzy

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Hi @jay_spirit,

Thank you for reporting this.

We have filed a ticket (ref. #D117869183) to investigate the cause of this issue. We would also remind you that a title's display text can be corrected via the Contribution Form. Although we do appreciate that this would take a considerable amount of time in this case, we do encourage our contributors to correct errors or inaccuracies when they observe them.

Cheers!

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jay_spirit

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I took care of it. That was less trouble than I thought.

In some cases the original title was altered, but in most cases, "Betty Boop-" was added to the IMDb display title. I edited the IMDb display titles instead of deleting it.

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Someone added the prefix "Betty Boop-" to all of the IMDb display titles for Betty Boop short films of the 1930s.

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