Extensive damage by the same contributor

Hi @tom_wake,

Thank you again for reporting this.

I am aware that we had previously made contact with this contributor, as such I will follow up with the investigating team to ensure a further review of this data and situation is conducted as soon as possible. I will provide any updates I receive to this thread when I have them.

I hope this helps!

@Ozzy​ Thanks,

I've also just found another page with the same errors, but it's so completely unsalvageable that I'm going to request that it be deleted.

The common link here, across all five pages found so far, seems to be that these are British series airing on PBS in America, with a PBS link being submitted as the "official site" in all cases.

Thanks also for the clean-up on the titles mentioned in my initial post, which I see have been tidied up nicely; please could the same be done for the "Maryland" one above (or, better yet, delete that page, as well as the name pages attached to it, since there's nothing to be gained by merging them; in fact the bad data might even make the original pages worse)

Hi @tom_wake,

Thank you for the additional information here.

I can confirm we are coaching the user and cleaning up these title pages where we can, but if you were to notice any further pages or any other related issues, please submit title corrections via the Contribution Form for us to review.

Cheers!

Hi @Ozzy​ 

I have found two more pages that show all the signs of being from the same contributor; I would have submitted corrections via the update form, as requested, but the "title deletion" option does not appear on the form, and once again, these entries are in such a terrible state that merging the pages would do far more harm than good.

The UK-made TV movies The Gruffalo (2009) and The Gruffalo's Child (2011) have been given duplicate listings with the wrong format (TV series), the wrong release year (2017) the wrong production company (USA), and with the writers and directors listed as cast members. As usual, all the names have been reversed, e.g. "Smith John" instead of "John Smith". Literally nothing about these entries is correct, and merging the pages would only serve to add the incorrect data to the proper entries (unless you were to strip away all the data first, in which case you might just as well delete them anyway).

Please could the following titles be deleted (not merged):

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt32376224/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt32376229/

Of course, that would still leave the nonsensical name pages intact, albeit without any credits attached, so these would need to be deleted as well:

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm16144070/

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm16144069/

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm16144068/

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm16144074/

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm16144073/

Thank you very much

Hi @tom_wake,

Thank you for reporting these titles and name pages, these were added prior to our original investigation and as such were missed from the clean-up. We have now removed them from the site, this update will appear live shortly.

Cheers!