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Tuesday, March 4th, 2025 6:29 PM

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Adding tittles like Dr or Detective/Sergeant/Lieutenant/Captain/Officer

Hi I add character titles to shows like CSI franchise, Law & Order franchise, SWAT and FBI franchise. Not going overboard cos the IMDB policy on over titling. For example adding "CSI Detective" to CSI NY characters and not going over bored like using "Crime Scene Investigator Detective 1st grade" or whatever. But IMDB keeps knocking back 8 episodes an my OCD wants all the episodes to be the same. #250304-010638-011000 #250304-011131-570000 #250304-011835-180000 #250304-015039-842000 I don't know why It keeps getting rejected I don't know how to verify the credits as in the credits it just as the actors name.

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John: My advice would be that if these characters already have a first name and a last name listed, leave the character names as they are and don't bother adding their titles. This is what the over-titling policy says: "Avoid extra embellishments/repetitions/nicknames unless they are part of the credited character name: it's enough to list Robert Patrick as John Doggett in the "X-Files" TV series, instead of "Special Agent Jonathan Jay 'John' Doggett"; Jeri Ryan played Seven of Nine on "Star Trek: Voyager", not "Seven of Nine, Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix 01, aka Annika Hansen"; Edward Norton played Will Graham in Red Dragon, not "William Graham" or "Special Agent Graham" or "FBI Special Agent William 'Will' Graham"; Matt LeBlanc plays Joey Tribbiani in "Friends", not "Joseph 'Joey' Francis Tribbiani". You get the idea." https://help.imdb.com/article/contribution/filmography-credits/characters/GKLQVXKH7U8DATWX# I realize that it might be desirable to some to have consistency, so that we don't have some characters on the same series with titles and others without (even if they have the same job as the characters with titles), but IMDb policy is that we don't actually need to have those additional titles provided.

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I mean i added Dr. to the names of the characters on ER and they were rejected.

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I thought a good compromise would be just putting a Detective in front f characters names for Detective and ADA (short for Assistant District Attorneys) for Law & Order Characters.

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Anyone there

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John: I saw your messages but I don't have any more advice on this topic.

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@JohnConnor84: You state "an [sic] my OCD wants all the episodes to be the same". It's not relevant what you want or what I want. It's relevant what IMDb wants. IMDb wants to list characters the way they are listed in the credits. The first sentence of the guide that @gromit82 has linked to states in bold letters "Wherever possible, we list character names as they appear in on-screen credits, i.e. the end titles cast listing." I advise you to (re-)read those guidelines.

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Marco: There are many TV series where the opening credits have just the names of the actors in the main cast listed, without their character names (and those main cast members are not listed in the closing credits, with or without character names). See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRXNVdiqMuU for an example ("Law & Order: Special Victims Unit"). I think that's what John means by "I don't know how to verify the credits as in the credits it just [h]as the actors name." The question is how detailed the character name should be on IMDb when the character name is never printed on screen in the credits.

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@gromit82: Thanks for the information. In that case it might be a good idea if IMDb added a paragraph specifically for titles for non-credited character names. I think that might help to clear things up.