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sopranos quote declined

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my recent Sopranos quote( 230220-175751-740000) was declined and it's only six lines so I don't believe it violate the brief policy, so can someone from the imdb staff elaborate this particular quote was declined?

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Hi @assmn108 -

This episode quote has now been approved and should be live on the site shortly.

Cheers!

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hi @Michelle​, I was wondering you could elaborate something for me. Your colleague Bethany recently deleted of all of my Shark Tank submissions which really disappointed me because I put in a lot of time and effort into it which was to add content and/or data into a Internet Movie Database and quite a few other submissions have been declined (by I don't know who) since then. Why does a quote submission have to be brief and "memorable" and "interesting"? What one individual finds interesting someone else may not. I feel a quote is a quote, no matter how long or short it is, as long as it's from that particular movie and/or tv show it should be approved. Also, I was wondering why quotes have to be brief? Is it a logistical or technical issue? If a dialog is long and is broken up into sections to comply with the "brief" policy and some sections are approved and aren't, isn't that dialog going to be incomplete and I don't think imdb wants incomplete content and/or data on it's database. My last question is last year I had no issues submitting the long Shark Tank posts, why all of sudden long submissions are no longer allowed?

thank you for your help

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@assmn108​ Probably to avoid tons of copyright infringing transcripts clogging up the site and legal issues resulting from such.

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@VonPunk​ thank you for your intervention and with all respect, and to avoid peculation from you and other members, I prefer to hear from someone within the imdb staff, I took it very personal that all my hard work was deleted without notice

thanks again

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3 years ago

Hi @assmn108 -

Currently, we do not have a specific guideline on character length requirement for title quotes, and the length can vary across the site (from single lines to multiple lines, for example, see "The Godfather") . 

Concerning your previous quote submissions for "Shark Tank" (ie. 230125-132559-160000) I can see that it was declined because it was more of a dialogue of the scene versus a snippet of significant dialogue.  Ideally for title quotes, we are more specifically looking to capture significant/memorable dialogue.  While I agree, something one person finds memorable may not be perceived the same to another, and that is okay as different quotes resonate with different people, but we want to avoid a lengthy dialogue exchange.

I hope this helps!