Question about External Submission Rules

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Ok. Here's my question. I work for a film review site that I usually link to IMDB pages. My question is this: I recently attended a film festival that had a variety of horror shorts. I was going to post them all on the same page, but got to thinking about the IMDB linking rules, and they said the review needs to be page specific. So, do I have to write several different posts, or can I just link to the one with all the movies on it.
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Shannon and David

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4 years ago
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Michelle, Official Rep

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Hi Shannon and David -

We prefer that the link re-directs to the specific review related to the title. So for example, if you were posting a link to a review from a news station, you should link to the exact page where the review is located at, not to the news station main website with all their other news data.  Does that help?
2016-11-07T21:47:05+00:00
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Is it ok for the page that is linked to have other films on it as well?
4 years ago
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Shannon, David, and Michelle: I believe that what Shannon and David are suggesting is allowed, and I know of at least one example where a single page with reviews of multiple short films has been entered as an external review for each of the shorts reviewed there. See https://lasr.cs.ucla.edu/reiher/reviews/acad.shrt.html and the following pages where it is linked:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087156/externalreviews
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087880/externalreviews
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087040/externalreviews
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088223/externalreviews
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087871/externalreviews
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088332/externalreviews

All of these shorts were reviewed on the same external page, and that page is listed as an external review for all six of them. In fact, as of this writing, it is the only external review listed for any of them.

Michelle, can you confirm that this is acceptable?
4 years ago
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Hi gromit82 and Shannon and David,

Yes that is acceptable seeing as the link suggested is not just to the main site page but to a specific review page.
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