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unable to "Load Previous Update" using Reference search field on contributor Update History page (leads to a broken page)

I submitted an update requesting that a credit of mine (which has been on IMDb for years) please be moved from the "Additional Crew" section to "Production Department".  All of my other credits related to being a production coordinator, assistant production coordinator, or production secretary were automatically moved a short while after the new "Production Department" category was created, except for this one credit.  Despite never receiving an email that my update with reference # 260516-181242-502219 was rejected, I clicked on the submission "update receipt" email I had received from IMDb the day I submitted, and that page says "Declined (1)" with "Reason: Unable to verify."  The page goes on to explain the following:

If your submission was placed via the IMDb.com Desktop title or name page submission form, you now have an option to provide evidence with your additions, as well as corrections or deletions. Please go to your Contribution History, re-load the submission reference and tick the box “provide an explanation to assist in processing this submission” and “check these updates”. The field will become available in the submission form. Please include evidence, or provide a URL which contains supporting evidence within this field.

Unfortunately, whenever I go to the Contributions History page, enter my reference number, and click the "Load" button, I am taken to a page that is basically blank:

If I click the checkbox and then the "Continue" button, I am brought back to the same exact page without ever seeing anything that might pertain to my rejected update request.

This is a very roundabout solution to a simple update request that is only based on moving a credit to a new department category, but given the "Load Previous Update" field doesn't work, I'm not even able to provide details or proof as to why I'm submitting this credit update.  I've seen a few other posts on the forum where people mention encountering the same problem of a blank page when trying to load previous updates using reference numbers (one example), but none of these mentions were ever addressed (although the original update submissions seem to have been corrected by IMDb employees per replies on those particular posts). 

Any help regarding both my update submission being rejected (reference # 260516-181242-502219) and the inability to "Load  Previous Update" using reference numbers would be greatly appreciated.

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Hi AdgeTimick-

Thank you for posting the reference! After further reviewing, this processing error has been reported. Your credit has been moved to the respective category and the changes will be live shortly. 

As per the blank page, can you confirm if this happens everytime you search a contribution? or just with this one? 

We have forwarded this to the respective team and once we have further information, we'll post it below. 

Cheers!

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Col said that move requests are only listed in the newer history:

https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/data-issues-policy-discussions/credit-category-corrections-moving-credits-to-another-department-option/69dfa7f2efc7b532ffb433d6?commentId=69f7b199415d0159c6e1d996

But that also means the explanation quoted in the first post is misleading.

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@Maya​, thank you for your help!  To answer your question, I also tried to make a "Trivia" edit a few days ago via reference # 260521-060813-405719, and that was "Declined" with "Reason: Does not meet contribution guidelines."  I'm not sure what guidelines weren't followed, so I would need to review them again before trying to edit the update, but I went ahead and attempted to load the denied edit anyway to see what happens.  Strangely, I got the same "blank page" problem via the "Load Previous Update" with ref # 260521-060813-405719 ("Trivia" update) as I got with ref # 260516-181242-502219 ("Move Category" request) that I mentioned in my original post.

My usual browser is Firefox [ver 151.0.1 (64-bit)], so today, just to see whether it was a browser issue, I even tried doing the same process of using "Load Previous Update" on Google Chrome [ver 148.0.7778.179 (Official Build) (64-bit)] and Microsoft Edge [ver 148.0.3967.83 (Official build) (64-bit)], but neither browser was any more successful.  One note, though: when I hit the "Back" button on Edge after a failed attempt to use "Load Previous Update", I was given a different page, one I hadn't seen before saying the update does not exist [contribute.imdb.com/updates/update?load=260516-181242-502219]. See screenshot below:

Furthermore, I read the link that @Peter_pbn replied with above. Given neither of my recent updates that were rejected (reference # 260516-181242-502219 and 260521-060813-405719) appear on the older Contribution History page located at https://contribute.imdb.com/updates/history, yet they do both appear on the new "Your Contribution History (Beta)" page located at https://contribute.imdb.com/contributions/history, I can't help but wonder if the addition of the new Contribution History (Beta) page has something to do with being unable to edit contributions using the "Load Previous Update" field via the old Contribution History page.

Hope that all makes sense and is at least somewhat helpful.

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@AdgeTimick​ - Thank you for confirming and the information! As per the trivia, after further review, it has been corrected and the changes will be live shortly.

As per the blank page, the change might not be immediate but please know that the respective team is aware of this issue.