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Contributor adding inane trivia about Dutch holiday

Hello everyone. This is going to be a little esoteric, but please bare with me. A while ago I discovered someone on IMDB adding weird, activistic trivia submissions to tv-shows or actors related to the Dutch St. Nicholas holiday. At first I removed or edited a few of their contributions, but yesterday I came upon another one that was so insane and out of left field that I realized I had no idea how widespread this nonsense was: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt11575354/trivia/?item=tr4901154&ref_=ext_shr_lnk This trivia is so completely nonsense, that I'm flabbergasted that A: this person thought of this and B: this person added it to IMDB and got it approved. Just googling 'Black Pete' and IMDB I came across many other similar trivia additions. A few links here: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt9632574/trivia/?item=tr5316858& https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0445070/trivia/?item=tr5090325&ref_=ext_shr_lnk https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0445070/trivia/?item=tr6598486&ref_=ext_shr_lnk https://m.imdb.com/title/tt9850330/trivia/?item=tr5212141&ref_=ext_shr_lnk https://m.imdb.com/title/tt9850330/trivia/?item=tr4418953&ref_=ext_shr_lnk https://m.imdb.com/title/tt9850330/trivia/?item=tr5212141&ref_=ext_shr_lnk https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12957490/trivia/?item=tr5288442&ref_=ext_shr_lnk This person is also obsessed with actor Don van Dijke, who portrayed a certain Chefpiet on various St. Nicholas-related shows. His entire IMDB biography is full of these inane additions. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2268681/bio/?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0445070/trivia/?item=tr4819799 Could someone look into this person and maybe prevent some of their absurd submissions from being approved?

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Hi capdeac- Thank you for reproting and posting the links! After reviewing and investigating, further actions have been taken on the contributor responsible. Cheers!

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@capdeac: This was on my list of things to check out and, if necessary, report but I hadn't gotten around to it yet. So thanks a bunch for your post! By the way, this trivia page is very open about the motivation of the contributor (especially the part in Dutch, which I assume you can read): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11028400/trivia/

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No problem, it was something I was thinking about for a while too but it was only when I found yet another of their trivia submissions that I decided to make a post about it. Having read the link to the trivia page you provided I'm baffled that this contributor has been able to go on for this long. In no way does stuff like this belong on the IMDB. And in the case of that Dutch text (and yes you assumed right, I can read it) it begs another question; how can such a long chunk of Dutch text even be approved to an IMDB trivia page in the first place?

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@capdeac: It's amazing what can get past the staff sometimes. (An example I posted today: https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/data-issues-policy-discussions/hitmans-wifes-bodyguard-is-not-someones-name/68af77061e91244adb47f194 - of course it has to be said that IMDb responded very quickly and fixed it.)