Why is it so taxing to change a title's type?

A few titles I've submitted recently all have incorrect media types, instead of what I know I'd selected during submission.

'The Haunt' is listed incorrectly as a Music Video, when I know I'd selected TV Special from the title type drop list.

'The Read-Thru is listed incorrectly as a Short, when I'd listed it as a TV Special (aired locally) from the title type drop list.

And several titles that were listed as TV Specials ended up under Self, which is sorely confusing. I'm not sure what's going on, but it'd be fabulous to be able or know how to go in and correct them all to their appropriate types, please.

Thanks.

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gromit82

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Nettiegurl: I don't know what most of these problems are caused by. However, I can say that IMDb assumes that all TV Specials are nonfiction. If a title is classified as a TV Special, IMDb treats it as a nonfiction program and thus all the cast members will normally have it in the "Self" section of their pages.

If a program is broadcast as a "special" (in television promotional terms, not IMDb terms) but it is a purely fictional show, then it should be entered into IMDb as a TV Movie, not a TV Special.

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Is this even an eligible title? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt28312449/

Both your evidence link and CV describe it as "haunted house attraction". Is that an eligible thing for a title page?

You also seem to be adding a lot of theatre plays as a title page. Are all of them actually aired or released in any form?

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PLEASE help me out with this! I just updated several newer credits, and they're ALL listed under Self - instead of actual credits. Which I'm honestly shaking my head.

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at correcting them in Edit Page has not helped. SAME error emails

Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled Credits listed as Self

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Sorry - I've tried replying several times but the server was kicking me out, whatever was going on....

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Sorry if my tone came off a tad harsh there. The support help pages are not helpful in the least!

The “haunted attraction” (The haunt) is an eligible credit, as it was a locally aired TV commercial or promo I was involved.

Most of my profile sent to you in the screenshot, has since updated to the correct title types (thank you!)

The only one that has not updated that I could see, is
Family Counseling Centers of West Michigan (1996) (Music Video) - Young Daughter

Which should be correctly labeled a Commercial (not a music video)

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Here is how to correct the Family Counseling Centers title.

Go to the page for it at https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27720250/. Click "Edit page".

On the next screen, scroll down to the Keywords line, and select "Add 2 items". Continue scrolling to the Title Correction line, and select "Add correction". Click "Continue".

On the next screen, there will be lines on which you can submit two Keywords. On one line, choose the category Other and submit the keyword: commercial

On the other line, choose the category Other and submit the keyword: family-counseling-centers-of-west-michigan

Below that, in the Title Correction section, there will be a blank line in which to enter the corrected title. If the specific commercial had a title (not just the name of the center), say, "Joanne's Family", then you would enter the new title as follows in this example:

Family Counseling Centers of West Michigan: Joanne's Family (1996) (V)

There will be an explanation box for you to fill in. Enter something like this: "This title was actually a television commercial, not a music video. It had been entered into IMDb incorrectly. This submission is to correct the title type. I was a cast member in this commercial." Click "Re-check these updates".

On the next screen, in the Keyword section, you will get a warning that says, "... 'family-counseling-centers-of-west-michigan' is not one of the existing keywords we have in this section ...." Select the option for "Add this as a new keyword."

In the Title Correction section, you will get a warning that says, "... There is a mismatch between the title type of the old and new titles. ..." Check the box marked "Warning understood, go ahead anyway." Click "Re-check these updates".

On the next screen, your data should appear with a green background, and you should be able to click "Submit these updates".

Good luck!

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Nettiegurl: Please see my first response above:

If a title is classified as a TV Special, IMDb treats it as a nonfiction program and thus all the cast members will normally have it in the "Self" section of their pages.

If a program is broadcast as a "special" (in television promotional terms, not IMDb terms) but it is a purely fictional show, then it should be entered into IMDb as a TV Movie, not a TV Special.

It looks like you have a bunch of television programs which are fiction labeled as TV specials. The Importance of Being Ernest -- the Oscar Wilde play -- is fiction. Nunsense II: The Second Coming -- the musical -- is fiction. The Pirates of Penzance -- the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta -- is fiction. For titles such as those, please delete the tv-special keyword because IMDb classifies all TV Specials as nonfiction.

If you have a program which is mostly nonfictional but contains some fictional scenes where someone is playing a character other than themself (say, Community Foundation: Heroine Drug Awareness), please submit the keyword reenactment to indicate that the people playing characters in that title should have it listed in the Actor/Actress section rather than the Self section. Reenactment is a special keyword used by IMDb to override the "Self" flag for Documentaries, TV Specials, and other nonfiction programming.

I hope this helps. Good luck!

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@gromit82 Hello, and thanks for the responses!

I tried the correction tips you shared, and the browser seems broken as no matter what I did, it kept giving me the same copy paste error notes, even after refreshing the page a few times. Talk about maddening.

Then the site kicked me out while in-progress... Don't know what's up, but it's never been this taxing to simply update a few credits, and or make needed corrections.

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Nettiegurl: What do you mean by "copy paste error notes"?

Maybe your Internet connection is the problem. Are you able to try submitting these corrections from a different computer?

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Sorry - I'd meant that the errors were just repeat or unchanged, after several correction attempts and refreshing the page.

I use Chrome and full wifi, so don't think that is the issue of why the Correction pages haven't responded so well. Unfortunately I'm unable to replicate it even with screen record. As I've tried that but there's usually been a glitch also :/

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