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Thursday, April 10th, 2025 1:57 AM

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Blatant By-line Bio Theft!

In the last 24 hours, a by-line thief inserted deliberate errors into my biography of actor William Conrad (nm0002016), latterly amended by me on December 3 2023 (231203-020636-006000). This was tagged by "Anonymous", which makes me believe this to be an act of pure malice. This sort of thing has happened before on multiple occasions and I had hoped that IMDB had finally put a stop to these random trolls stealing the work of others! see below: "A self-effacing man with a good sense of humor and never afraid to speak his mind, Bill Conrad died of heart failure in February 1994. He was elected to the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame and (posthumously) to the Radio Hall of Fame in 1997. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous" I have since re-edited the page.

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9 days ago

You're saying the contributor added false information to your bio of William Conrad, removed your name, and replaced it with "Anonymous"? It sounds more like incompetence than malice. The contributor may have added information to the bio (despite his unfitness for the task), then replaced your name with "Anonymous" because he thought the most recent editor should place his name there—and he didn't want to use his real name. Either way, I hope the staff can stop this person from doing it.

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The contributor added deliberate errors (and made spurious changes to punctuation) SPECIFICALLY to replace my name with his on the by-line. The changes were NOT IN ANY RESPECT EDITS, nor was ANY NEW INFORMATION ADDED. Sure looks like malice to me!

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@janusminoa- Thank you for reporting and providing further information! Upon reviewing, further actions have been taken to prevent incorrect modifications. Cheers!

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Much obliged. Thank you!