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Thursday, January 15th, 2026

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And, again, why has this not been processed correctly

260111-072810-804000Track Contribution 2026-01-11 07:28:10 Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me (2022)Keywords -  2 items deletedGenres -  1 item added
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Hi bradley_kent, 

The reason this contribution was declined was because it was a duplicate of an already pending submission from yourself. As always, we ask contributors not to re-submit data until it has been processed. You can find this information in your Contribution History. If the original pending submission has been also been declined, you can add that reference number to this thread for me to take a look at. 

Cheers!

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I use Your Update History rather than Contribution History to track my contributions.  Contribution History is much too cumbersome to find previous contributions. (Wish there was a search option.)

I do, however, delete the previous submission when I resubmit.  I wait at least there days before resubmitting. 

I have hundreds of genre resubmissions that have not been processed.  I wait and wait and wait, with many still unprocessed since last year.

My genre contributions are not fickle nor haphazard.  Most stem from incorrect keywords that duplicate or combine genres.  This includes keywords like “biographical-documentary,” which I am trying to correct by having Biography and Documentary as genres (This audit has been completed.), or “fantasy-comedy” into Fantasy and Comedy genres.  I am trying to help IMDb be more objectively accurate -- and to follow its own guidelines.

I respectfully request that ALL my declined genre contributions in my Your Update History be reprocessed, correctly. (Most, of course, are resubmissions.)

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Both history pages, as well as email confirmations, include tracking information which shows whether your contributions have been approved, declined or are pending.

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Hi bradley_kent,

Can you confirm that clicking the link in my previous response takes you to what you refer to as your "Update History"?

As I know you contribute a high volume of data, I would encourage you to wait for the 1-7 day window to pass before submitting any re-submissions. More information on this can be found in our guide. This is so you can avoid having any re-submissions being unnecessarily declined as duplicates while your original submissions are pending processing, or having to go back through your history to check your original submission's processing outcome. For clarity, any contributions made last year will not be unprocessed, but either approved or declined. 

As previously explained, when contributing genres to titles on IMDb, we ask that you refer to our guidelines and provide sufficient evidence or justification for any additions, especially if they have been previously declined. Please also consider that certain keywords on titles aren't always verifiably indicative of a title's renowned genre(s), and the existence of a genre-based keyword does not always imply the title falls within that genre, specifically if they're multi-genre keywords. In that case, we would recommend either correcting or removing any erroneous keywords from the title. 

Thanks!

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260110-072047-449000Track Contribution 2026-01-10 07:20:47 Who Is Alvin Greene? (2010)Genres -  2 items deleted

Alas, among many others, I do contribute deletions of incorrect genres, but they do not get processed correctly, either.

60111-220308-874000Track Contribution 2026-01-11 22:03:08 Holy Sofia (2024)Genres -  1 item deleted
260111-220252-269000Track Contribution 2026-01-11 22:02:52 Lovely clownettes (2020)Genres -  2 items deleted

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