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Wednesday, September 21st, 2016 5:10 AM

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The Awards submission guide's advice will confuse newcomers ...

The Awards submission guide begins with the following advice:
  • To begin submitting data, click on the relevant event on the IMDb Awards page, then scroll to the bottom and hit the yellow Edit Page button.
OK, lets suppose that we want to add a 2016 Primetime Emmy win.

Let's follow precisely the instructions quoted above:

  1)  Click the given link from the guide to the IMDB Awards  page.

  2)  From there, click the given link to the Primetime Emmy Awards  page.
       That link is supposed to go to:  www.imdb.com/event/ev0000223/
       but, at the time of this post, that link immediately redirects to:
       www.imdb.com/emmys/nominations/

  3)  "... Then scroll to the bottom and hit the yellow Edit Page button" ?

But the page to which we've just been redirected,
www.imdb.com/emmys/nominations/,  does not have
an "Edit page" button.    (Don't believe me?  Check it!)

Of course, as the expert contributors know,
we simply need to take these further steps:

From the page that we've reached   (www.imdb.com/emmys/nominations/),
click the desired year in the sidebar on the right? ... But we want 2016.
At the time of this post, 2016 is not yet listed in the sidebar on that page.
The latest year listed on that page is still 2015
at the time of this post.

So, we click that 2015 link to:  http://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000223/2015
Finally, that page's sidebar does include a 2016 link,
so we click it to reach:  www.imdb.com/event/ev0000223/2016,
and on that page we can click the "Edit page" button.

TL/DR:
Newcomers deserve correct and complete instructions.
The first sentence from the Awards guide (as I quoted at the beginning of this post)
omits the latter steps that are necessary for the case that I've described.
Can the Guide's instructions be improved to clearly mention these steps?
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