Need advice to prevent declined contributions

I often submit contributions for anime titles involving both Japanese and English casts.

Unfortunately not every fan appears to care as much or be as thorough as myself concerning details and accuracy.

I feel bad for criticizing an otherwise great site but in my personal opinion whoever is overseeing the submissions for anime content isn't doing a very good job (or is possibly an understaffed department)

Of the worst and most obvious examples is how an uninformed fan (or possibly the talent themselves or some rep of theirs) will lazily "Select All" episodes in a series to credit to a role when the cast member has in fact only worked on a select number of episodes.

For some odd reason this awful behavior only seems to be associated with anime credits. American cartoons for example usually don't suffer from this laziness and their imdb credits are a far more trustworthy source of information.

Solution? Simply submit the removals of the incorrect episode appearances for those anime roles.

However it's not as easy as that. Removing incorrect information is incredibly difficult and no matter what sources I give they are often declined.

I have no idea if an actual living person is moderating the submissions or if it's A.I. that hasn't been trained well enough...

Regardless I'm not sure how to proceed going forward after being denied once again.

I've linked official/licensed/legal video streams of the episodes (that contain the official English ending credits) as proof that the cast members DID NOT appear in these episodes.

Like most things, any licensed material isn't free so a subscription is required

e.g. funimation.com

Would my odds of approval be improved if I linked illegal streams instead?

In my opinion it would be counterproductive to do that. Would be unfortunate if the only way correct information can be processed is simply because of convenience and accessibility; and that's if you ignore safety concerns as most free illegal streaming sites require visitors to turn off their adblocks to expose the user to spam and malware.

Would it help if I took a screenshot/snapshot of the actual ending credits and uploaded the jpeg or png file to a site like imgur and then pasted the link?

Or would the human moderator/A.I. not even bother to check?

I get the horrible feeling that whoever is reviewing these submissions quickly checks other databases for a resolution. If not provided then there's the expected "Your contribution has been declined.We have been unable to verify your contribution. Unfortunately we were unable to accept your submission as we were unable to verify the information provided."

After all most other databases simply list the character role associated with the cast member; they usually don't go into further detail on specific episode appearances.

If the staff don't have subscriptions to the various official/legal anime streaming services like funimation, hidive, crunchyroll, etc then I suggest it should be a requirement, otherwise how do you expect to actually be useful in approving or denying anime submissions?

If you expect fans like myself to provide thorough verification/proof (and still be denied anyway because you can't verify it on your own end) I'm at a loss on how to make the evidence to support my corrections even more dummy-proof.

It would honestly be tedious to have to post here every single time a correction is declined so I'm hoping for a helpful solution from an official imdb rep to reduce wasting time/effort going forward. Simply resubmitting the form again after 2 weeks would be a never ending cycle. Or would the editor finally get the hint that maybe I know something they don't concerning the situation?

In a perfect world I could simply submit and approve anime submissions myself but I doubt imdb is hiring someone for this particular field (anime). I'm aware imdb sometimes hires people for the position of Data Editor but they don't seem to be posted very often and if hypothetically hired I would need a work visa anyway to work in another country so I don't see this likely happening.

I've done similar work for other databases specializing in anime for 10 years mostly as a volunteer. It's always bothered me that the top website in the world for entertainment in comparison stands out in a negative light for this medium.

If possible I would be interested in working freelance for imdb and wouldn't ask for unreasonable compensation.

When I say the anime situation in general is bad, I'm not exaggerating. If an editor was willing to help me personally they should be prepared to review thousands of corrections. Just corrections, adding new accurate credits would be its own infinite separate pile (as new anime constantly premiere throughout a calendar year)

All that work sounds daunting (and it is) but I wouldn't mind helping to chip away at that workload. Feels like if I don't that incorrect info will linger indefinitely...

Don't suppose imdb's contribution system tags "notable" user accounts as trustworthy so their submissions (whether additions or corrections/removals) are approved without issue instantly.

I'm more than happy to take a test to help make things easier.