What's the proper procedure to join 2 episodes together into one (and result in every episode after them in that season being renumbered) if the two episodes have the same title but with "part 1" and "part 2" appended to it?
I've tried various methods, including all in one step or in two steps, but they are all rejected (in the first step), and the instructions aren't very clear in the case where both titles are the same. The first broadcast dates are the same, no problem there.
When the episode pages were first created the contributor listed the episodes per syndication not original run. A double-length episode was the original; in syndication they were split into 2 parts. IMDb policy requires episodes be per original run not syndication, so I'm trying to correct this; just need to know I'm doing it right so it won't get rejected.
I've tried various methods, including all in one step or in two steps, but they are all rejected (in the first step), and the instructions aren't very clear in the case where both titles are the same. The first broadcast dates are the same, no problem there.
When the episode pages were first created the contributor listed the episodes per syndication not original run. A double-length episode was the original; in syndication they were split into 2 parts. IMDb policy requires episodes be per original run not syndication, so I'm trying to correct this; just need to know I'm doing it right so it won't get rejected.
Posted 4 months ago
GoodFlixGary
The subject of this thread is moot, since IMDb already lists the episodes I've mentioned correctly as one episode. Nothing left to merge, all done.
The issue now is a different one: it's about on-screen titles. As stated in the rules you quoted, the title must be as it appeared on screen in its original run. Since the original run of all the ones I've mentioned do not have "part 1" in the title on-screen in the first broadcast, that material is incorrect and should be removed. There is no part 2 either.
It's very slow. Got another one corrected. Just 2 left now. One Rockford Files, one Bob's Burgers. Some idiot changed the one Rockford Files to "part 1 & 2" which is still wrong obviously. That wasn't you, was it? Don't know how that got approved. It's not part of the title on screen in the original broadcast.
There is another issue: the running time. The running time for the episodes I've mentioned are all wrong. I've posted the correct time, but it keeps getting declined.
Ed Jones(XLIX)
Continue on with your messing up the database.
Good luck
Why does no one care?
GoodFlixGary
And I care. Maybe you do to. But there's not many of us. And we're close to powerless; we're at the mercy of a bunch of editors who don't care and just push buttons (usually to decline with an "unable to verify" meaninglessness). As such a situation continues, people who care get discouraged and stop contributing. It's frustrating and one just gives up trying to correct mistakes. ADDING information to the database is a lot easier and is usually accepted fairly quickly. But if you're just one to correct wrong data, you've got an uphill and time-consuming battle.
meka
GoodFlixGary
It was pretty funny, but he apparently deleted it. Too bad; would have been nice to leave it for everyone to see how mentally unstable he obviously is.
I have encountered him before in another thread of mine, and he made no sense there either, and you're right he can't comprehend the rules. I just told him he was repeatedly making no sense and wasn't helping and he should just go away, and he did.
Anyway, his sabotage has been reversed. The "part 1 & 2" in the title has been removed now, after my last correction. One more to go (on Bob's Burgers, to remove "part 1 & 2" from a single title), but someone else did that last year, I doubt it was Ed.