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Wednesday, October 2nd, 2024 12:02 AM

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Submission systematically declined as Duplicate, for 2 months

I've tried to add an alternate title (imdb display title for France) to La prisonnière de Bordeaux (2024) for 2 months, but each time my submission is declined with reason "Duplicate" - "The item you have submitted is exactly the same as a submission that you or another user have already entered, which is still pending review by our staff."

I tried 4 times:

  1. 240724-233411-720000 on 2024-07-24
  2. 240829-211631-714000 on 2024-08-29
  3. 240908-081632-042000 on 2024-09-08
  4. 240924-205932-541000 on 2024-09-24

Why does it take so long for such an obvious addition (as being a French film, the imdb display title is the same as the original title)?

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7 days ago

Hi @vinc17,

Thank you for your problem report.

Your contributions have been correctly declined as duplicates, as the information you are trying to add is already listed on IMDb. To see this, you can change the display language for the page in the top right corner of the title page. By setting it to Français (France), you will see the title you are trying to submit.

We will look to update the messaging "which is still pending review by our staff" as this appears to have caused confusion, as the French IMDb display title is already live.

I hope this helps!

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@Ozzy​ No, the alternate title is still not there in the releaseinfo page. If one sets the language to Français (France), I suppose that one sees the French title because this is the same as the original title: for instance, I also get the French title if I change the language to Italiano (Italia), as there is no imdb display title for Italia. Note that if an imdb display title is the same as the original title, it is still required to add it. Hence my report.

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@Ozzy​ Concerning the "it is still required to add it", see the last paragraph of the title policy at Alternate Title Policy Change (August 2018) and the Alternate titles (AKAs) help - Attribute definitions: "We are now encouraging the submission of an imdb display title for all known countries, including the country of origin. [...]"

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@vinc17​ the french title is shown

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Hi @vinc17,

Thank you for the additional information.

I can confirm that the title text had been approved, but there was a back-end display issue that was preventing it from appearing in the Release info page. I have now fixed this issue, and the title should appear live on the page shortly.

Cheers!

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@Ozzy​ Thanks, I confirm the fix.