My clients IMDb page has recently been redirected to an error page. His IMDb has been active over 7 months, top of the google search results under his name, has probably over 20,000 page views and now its gone for no apparent reason?
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm6060051
Is this some vandalism?
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm6060051
Is this some vandalism?
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Posted 6 years ago
Vincent, Champion
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Unless all of his credits were deleted individually from every show his name page would not vanish from vandalism of one page (unless he only had one credit and the credit went away for some reason). But if he has more than one credit, all the show pages would have needed to be edited to make them all drop credits.
I'm just guessing here; but sometimes pages go missing for a day or two if there is back end work being done; server migrations, etc
Do you know how long the page has been down?
What is the persons name? How many credits did they have?
Have you searched to see if the system created a new name page with a new ID number? I'm not sure what kind of error causes this, but I have seen it happen before. For some reason a persons original name page may get deleted (because they lost their only credit on a film for example); and than they get a new page auto-generated when a new credit is made for them.
It's hard to think of other scenarios without more info. If it's just a server migration it may fix itself in 24 hours.
If you end up needing to wait for an IMDB employee, their responses tend to be during weekday business hours, so maybe tomorrow (Friday)
I'm just guessing here; but sometimes pages go missing for a day or two if there is back end work being done; server migrations, etc
Do you know how long the page has been down?
What is the persons name? How many credits did they have?
Have you searched to see if the system created a new name page with a new ID number? I'm not sure what kind of error causes this, but I have seen it happen before. For some reason a persons original name page may get deleted (because they lost their only credit on a film for example); and than they get a new page auto-generated when a new credit is made for them.
It's hard to think of other scenarios without more info. If it's just a server migration it may fix itself in 24 hours.
If you end up needing to wait for an IMDB employee, their responses tend to be during weekday business hours, so maybe tomorrow (Friday)
bluesmanSF, Champion
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Who is your client? It's hard to take a guess knowing nothing other than, that link doesn't work.
One guess would be, maybe he ended up with two pages and they got merged together and is now found at a different url.
Can you add any details? If you, for some reason, don't want it posted here on a forum, you could send a note to the Help Desk via this form
One guess would be, maybe he ended up with two pages and they got merged together and is now found at a different url.
Can you add any details? If you, for some reason, don't want it posted here on a forum, you could send a note to the Help Desk via this form
Vincent, Champion
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After some more searching, is this the same person?
http://www.tv.com/people/brandon-westly-cyrus/
Are any of those roles credited on screen?
Extra and "boy at pool" sound like they may be uncredited.
Again this is just speculation; but for example if his Divergent credit had been added to the film while it was in-production and than someone went through and changed it to uncredited ~ and everything else was also uncredited. His entire name page would be hidden until an on-screen credit for him was added back to the database.
You may need to submit screenshots of his name appearing in credits for each show that they are visible.
http://www.tv.com/people/brandon-westly-cyrus/
Are any of those roles credited on screen?
Extra and "boy at pool" sound like they may be uncredited.
Again this is just speculation; but for example if his Divergent credit had been added to the film while it was in-production and than someone went through and changed it to uncredited ~ and everything else was also uncredited. His entire name page would be hidden until an on-screen credit for him was added back to the database.
You may need to submit screenshots of his name appearing in credits for each show that they are visible.
bluesmanSF, Champion
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Was his page created because he had credits or created via IMDb Pro?
If Pro, is the subscription still active?
What were the credits for?
Credited on screen, or not?
If so, is someone else credited there? What's the page for the titles look like? Are the credits just gone or given to another name.
Is this happening to one, or more, clients. Do you mean "client's" or "clients?"
Help us help you.
Silly conspiracy theories don't help anyone (least of all you, since you're wasting time coming up with them). Some real information will go a lot further in finding out what the situation is.
If Pro, is the subscription still active?
What were the credits for?
Credited on screen, or not?
If so, is someone else credited there? What's the page for the titles look like? Are the credits just gone or given to another name.
Is this happening to one, or more, clients. Do you mean "client's" or "clients?"
Help us help you.
Silly conspiracy theories don't help anyone (least of all you, since you're wasting time coming up with them). Some real information will go a lot further in finding out what the situation is.
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Experienced contributors have given good advice here. One screenshot of the name in the credits of a title that is already listed - with enough context to identify the title - is worth more than any number of speculations about other credits or what may have happened in the past.
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I've been speaking with a few employees through the help desk and currently meeting with my team to bring some context to this. I'll be back with a better reply as we work towards collecting the source of the information. See you all tomorrow and if you still have more information to add/request please keep dropping it below. Thank you. I really appreciate it!
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And thank you especially Owen for taking time out of your work schedule to leave some advice.
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