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gromit82, Champion
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Chip: Please provide all the details about what you are trying to change, including specific names and titles if applicable, and the links to the relevant IMDb pages. What you have in mind as a "category" may not be what we are thinking of as a "category".
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Are we talking about Genres? And which title are we talking about?
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Thanks for your quick response. I wanted to change this entry from Video to Series. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6287552/reference
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Hi, Chip Phillips. Yes. The way to change the title type in the context of its original release is through a title correction whereby either "(TV)", "(V)" or "(VG)" without these quotation marks is appended to or dropped from an entry's mnemonic identifier (the title followed by release year in parenthesis). The format to signify a series or an episode is different. Expressed using placeholder a title (like "Title of Thing")...
A movie will automatically be classified as a feature movie or a short movie depending upon its running time and the nature of its release. A series will be classified a miniseries or simply a series depending upon whether a the keyword "tv-miniseries" is applied or not.
For guidelines and more information, please see https://help.imdb.com/article/contribution/titles/title-formatting/G56U5ERK7YY47CQB#.
- A cinema movie has the form:
Title of Work (Year)
- A television movie has the form:
Title of Work (Year) (TV)
- A video, music video, commercial ad or home release movie has the form:
Title of Work (Year) (V)
- A video game has the form:
Title of Work (Year) (VG)
- A series has the form:
"Title of Series" (Year)
- An episode has the form:
"Title of Series" (Year) {Title of Episode (#SN.EN)}
A movie will automatically be classified as a feature movie or a short movie depending upon its running time and the nature of its release. A series will be classified a miniseries or simply a series depending upon whether a the keyword "tv-miniseries" is applied or not.
For guidelines and more information, please see https://help.imdb.com/article/contribution/titles/title-formatting/G56U5ERK7YY47CQB#.
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(The bit about Roman numerals is "if necessary" rather than "optionally", I meant.)
gromit82, Champion
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Chip: A change like this is done via a Title Correction.
Go to the page for this title at https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6287552/ and click "Edit page".
On the next screen, scroll down to near the bottom of the page, and on the Title Correction line, select "Add correction".
On the next screen, there will be a blank space in which to enter the corrected title. On that line, enter the title as:
"All the World's a Cage" (2016)
That is, put the main title in quotation marks, and no (V) at the end.
In the Explanation box, enter an explanation that this is a webseries, not a single video. Also, I recommend including a link to wherever the episodes of this series can be viewed to prove that it is a series, because that will clearly establish that the title is a series. (I personally haven't been able to find any episodes other than #1 and #10 so far.) Click "Check these updates".
On the next screen, you will get a warning that says, "There is a mismatch between the title type of the old and new titles. Are you certain that you wanted to change the type of the title as well as its spelling? ..." That's what you want, so 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".
Allow a few days for the correction to go through. Good luck!
Go to the page for this title at https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6287552/ and click "Edit page".
On the next screen, scroll down to near the bottom of the page, and on the Title Correction line, select "Add correction".
On the next screen, there will be a blank space in which to enter the corrected title. On that line, enter the title as:
"All the World's a Cage" (2016)
That is, put the main title in quotation marks, and no (V) at the end.
In the Explanation box, enter an explanation that this is a webseries, not a single video. Also, I recommend including a link to wherever the episodes of this series can be viewed to prove that it is a series, because that will clearly establish that the title is a series. (I personally haven't been able to find any episodes other than #1 and #10 so far.) Click "Check these updates".
On the next screen, you will get a warning that says, "There is a mismatch between the title type of the old and new titles. Are you certain that you wanted to change the type of the title as well as its spelling? ..." That's what you want, so 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".
Allow a few days for the correction to go through. Good luck!
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Thanks for your quick response. I wanted to change this entry from Video to Series. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6287552/reference
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Please follow the advice given above to submit a correction.
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