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Friday, November 4th, 2016 1:33 AM

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Suggested addition to the title-merge help page

IMDb, please consider adding the following text to the Title Merge help page at
   www.imdb.com/help/show_leaf?duplicatetitle.

I'm quoting this text from an error message that appears
during a merge request for titles with differing years.
The year in the new title must match the year in the old title.

If you need to change the year as included in the title, please submit a release date corresponding to the new year. If you do not know the exact date within the year, it is okay to omit the day and month in the release date. We will then update the year in the title accordingly if required.

Please note that if you are correcting an existing release date by more than a year, you should also provide an explanation to assist in processing this change.

Note:  I anticipate that someone might argue against adding that text to the help page  (since it is already available in an error message during a merge request).  But my view is that such information should be included in both the help page and the error message.
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