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Wednesday, May 1st, 2013

Submitted External Reviews Not Showing Up On Movie Page?

I keep adding/submitting legit reviews from legit sites but they aren't being added to the movies page. How long should it take? It's been awhile.

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13 years ago

I see two possible issues here:


  1. These submissions were sent only about a week ago, so the might still be pending. It takes 2 to 10 days in most cases for data to be processed, but it can take longer in some cases.
  2. More importantly: the description field only includes the name of the author of the review but not the name of the publication. This will almost certainly lead to the submission being discarded.


As per the guidelines listed at http://www.imdb.com/updates/guide/tit... the format for the description field is:

WebsiteName [ReviewerName]

E.g.

New York Times [Joe Bloggs]
Variety.com [Mike Reviewer]
SomeOtherSiteorBlog [Virgil Writer]
etc.

Your submissions only include the name of the reviewer -- you should try again and be sure to include the full description with the site/publication name.

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13 years ago

URLs shouldn't be taking more than a week currently.

Check if you followed the suggested formatting:
http://www.imdb.com/updates/guide/tit...

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13 years ago

Thanks. I did exactly what they wanted. Is there a way to contact IMDB directly?

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13 years ago

This is as good a place as any, but you should post reference numbers for your updates to allow staff members to look into the submission history.

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13 years ago

The reference number for this submission is 130424-031141-198000

The reference number for this submission is 130423-035144-126000

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13 years ago

Thank you. I will do it again.