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German release dates get constantly declined

For years, I've been adding German release dates without any problems. In the last months, however, submissions get constantly declined because the IMDb editors are "unable to verify" (my source is allscreens.de, the German association of motion picture distributors). The thing is that this behaviour only applies to release dates, other data (like distributors, certifications, cast members) gets accepted without issues. Can you explain why IMDb editors are so restrictive regarding release dates? I mean, this one of the most basic information that is missing (with IMDb sometimes the only movie site where this information is not included, e.g. "The End of Oak Street" which opens next month) where submissions can be easily verified with a Google search or by visiting allscreens.de.

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Hi Elwood_Blues-

In order for us to further review, can you post examples of these contributions by providing us with the 18-digit submission reference numbers?

Cheers!

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Sorry for the late reply, but for a time it seemed this problem resolved itself as submissions were accepted without issues. However, this is now happening again.

Examples:

260913-102035-427000

260913-101903-551000

260913-100851-978000

260913-100735-322000

260913-100421-311000

260913-095727-823000

260913-095342-600000

Interestingly, 260913-101122-722000, 260913-100129-100000 and 260913-095925-250000 were accepted after a while.

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Hello Elwood_Blues

I have checked the submissions:

260913-101903-551000 and 260913-095342-600000 for this two Release date correction submissions, there is not official evidence to verify. 

For the remaining submissions the provided evidence is a Home page and does not show any information about the movies you are submitting the Release dates for. You have to provide valid and official evidence for us to take a look!

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Since when is there a requirement for evidence regarding general release dates? According to the help guide, this is only required for premiere events.

And regarding the homepage... this is the official homepage of the German association of motion picture distributors. At https://www.allscreens.de/filmstarts it shows all the release dates for Germany - except for the distributor's website, it does not get more official than this.

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@Elwood_Blues​ - Hi, 

Thank you for providing the link! After further investigating, these submissions have been reviewed again and re-submitted. The changes will be live shortly.

If you have supporting links, you are welcome to add them for release dates in order to help our staff to further verify the information. 

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@Elwood_Blues​  Sorry about the hassle which should not have applied to you.  We have made some changes on the back-end to ensure your release date submissions are handled speedily; no need to worry about the evidence link for release dates.  

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Thank you all very much for your help!