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Trivia Issue and External Link Issue
Howdy Again,
There are 2 issues. (separate things)
1. Can a staff member please do a bit of an audit. I have a friend who is a prolific contributor and has added numerous things but he's also got a very interesting sense of humor. He has the habit of jokingly going to the trivia section of movies he watched and he loves putting "Based on a true story" on them because he thinks it's cute. I'm sure you can look up who I'm talking about. I wouldn't usually bother with it but I watched 2 movies today and both had his "based on a True Story" joke trivia on them. (obviously they weren't) I think he's probably done it to maybe 100 - 200 films. Below are the 2 submissions I made cleaning up 2 of them.
| 240114-120408-322000 |
240115-072848-270000
Now to the bigger issue and it sort of shows the flaw in the Fansite issue. Over the years a few people have felt the need to add external links links to all the actors profiles sites that just has a few screen shots and that's it. Usually these were sites run by one person who sort of started it out of a hobby. The 3 main ones that come to mind are "Actors Compendium" aka Aveleyman, Another Fine Mess, and MovieDude. Each website is only run 1 person. (1 person each website of course)
Example
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0103362/externalsites/?ref_=nm_ql_rel_2
Well Aveleyman apparently shutdown with the new year and now there are probably 50,000 or more invalid links to external sites on actors and tv episodes.
Another Fine Mess / Lordheath which is run by a guy who deems all the information his and calls IMDb a lot of bad names and constantly refers to them as the company as thieves is about to go behind a paywall so all of those links are about to become invalid also.
https://www.lordheath.com/statement.html
So hopefully IMDb has a system for a mass search because it's no exaggeration when I saw that there is probably close to six figures in links that are either invalid or about to become invalid.
Phil
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2 years ago
Hi @phillip,
Thank you for your problem report.
We have investigated the trivia submissions you have referenced above and taken the appropriate action. Regarding the external site URLs, I have contacted the relevant team to review this issue and will provide any updates to this thread as and when I receive them.
I hope this helps!
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