IMDb Contributors Blog http://contributors.blog.imdb.net Just another IMDb Blog weblog Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:40:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Man and Superman We view Superheroes and their alter-egos as two separate characters (as opposed to one character with two different names).

Sometimes, Superheroes and their alter-egos are manifestly distinct personalities – bumbling, clumsy Clark Kent vs. Self-assured, confident Superman, for example, and most…

]]> http://contributors.blog.imdb.net/2010/03/04/man-and-superman/ Certificates Although it seems like the perfect place for it, there’s no need to put the MPAA reasons for a movie’s rating in the “attribute” section of the certificates form. We get that info direct from the MPAA so you can…

]]> http://contributors.blog.imdb.net/2010/02/19/certificates/ What’s in a name? We list people on the site by their professional name (stage name, best-known public name, what have you) and this, obviously, isn’t necessarily their real name. If you happen to find out someone’s real name, please don’t try to change…

]]> http://contributors.blog.imdb.net/2010/02/18/whats-in-a-name/ URLs for external reviews – TV series If you’re sending us links to reviews of TV series, please remember to send them to the right place.

  • if the review is of an individual episode, send the update from that episode’s title page
  • if the review is of a whole…
]]> http://contributors.blog.imdb.net/2010/02/16/urls-for-external-reviews-tv-series/ Movie Connections – top tip Please take a look at the Movie-Connections (movie-links) guidelines for how to connect a series of
movies.

If you have Movie A and it has two follow-ups, you may think it is correct to
just add those two movies to Movie A with…

]]> http://contributors.blog.imdb.net/2010/02/11/movie-connections-top-tip/ Links to YouTube clips on name pages Are you submitting links to YouTube clips of yourself for your name page? Rather than sending in links to loads of individual clips, it would be much easier for other users to find stuff if you collect all your clips…

]]> http://contributors.blog.imdb.net/2010/02/08/links-to-youtube-clips-on-name-pages/ Color info It’s perfectly fine to add an attribute to note the color process used.  Common examples are:

  • (Metrocolor)
  • (Eastmancolor)
  • (Fujicolor)
  • (Technicolor)

But please note that Technicolor was only a process until the mid-70s, after which they only processed Eastman/Kodak, so these should go to the technical…

]]> http://contributors.blog.imdb.net/2010/02/01/color-info/ Spelling We recently noticed that for a good long while we’ve been spelling the abbreviation of “microphone” as “mike” instead of the more commonly used “mic” in the pull-down menu for goof submissions. From 14 January 2010 it will be changed.…

]]> http://contributors.blog.imdb.net/2010/01/13/spelling/ Top 200 Contributors for 2009 This is a quick note to announce the top 200 data contributors to IMDb for 2009. The list and more details have just been posted on the IMDb message boards — thanks and Happy New Year from everyone at IMDb!

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]]> http://contributors.blog.imdb.net/2010/01/01/top-200-contributors-for-2009/ Happy Holidays Thanks for all your contributions throughout 2009. We’ll be operating with a reduced staff over the Christmas and New Year period so it might take longer than usual for us to check and approve your submissions. Please bear with us…

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