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Friday, January 17th, 2025 2:18 PM

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Fix wrongly rejected

I have submitted the same correction to an erroneous synopsis, twice, and each time it has been rejected, with different reasons.

The 1946 BBC programme "First Year Flashbacks":

   https://contribute.imdb.com/title/tt9195108

is described as "Reopening of Television Service, 7th June 1946".

While it does /include/ a clip of that, it contains far more, including footage filmed on various dates, some of it in the United States.

I submitted a change to make it "Highlights of the first year of BBC television filmed broadcasts, following the reopening of Television Service, after WWII, on 7 June 1946"

This was rejected as "We believe your contribution contained factual inaccuracies."

So I submitted the change again, explaining as justification that "My amendment may be verified at https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00s7hzf/firstyear-flashbacks which reads : 'First transmitted in 1946, these are highlights of the films shown on BBC Television since it reopened in June of that year after a seven-year gap caused by World War II. The BBC's television service had stopped transmitting on 1 September 1939, and did not resume until 7 June 1946'; and which gives a broadcast date of '31 Dec 1946'."

This was rejected with the completely unhelpful boilerplate "Does not meet contribution guidelines" - with no mention of /why/ it supposedly does not do so.


Should I just give up?




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9 hours ago

Hello Pigsonthewig,

Can you help us posting the 18-digits submission reference number? in order to take a look for you!

You can find the submission number in your Contribution History page. 

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250109-194611-967000 then 250113-142243-287000

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Thanks for the reference number! I have re submitted and approved the changes to the Plot, it will be live shortly!

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Thank you.

But why did this happen (it's not the first such case I've experienced), and how can it be avoided in the future?

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It looks there was a processing error, I also recommend adding evidence with the submissions for us to verify the contributions are correct.