INTRODUCING: Contribution Updates to Release Date Attributes

Submission form is still same for me. When will we see it? How do we add a festival name with this for example? I guess "Additional information" box is where we add it but I hope the ability to browse existing names was not removed? Because that's how I choose festival names, looking from existing attributes and choosing the most used one. Also added guide text says: "For example, when submitting a movie, the following release types will be available:" but the table lists all types for all title types. So saying "when submitting a movie, the following release types will be available" doesn't look right. And "Updated" date in the guide is not updated.

It isn't stated how to add more than one attribute such as (Toronto International Film Festival) (premiere), but it looks like we can add them manually in the Additional Information field. It looks like "Broadcast on TV" adds the attribute "TV release" even when submitting to a TV title. The existing logic was to leave the attribute blank for a default TV release on a TV title just as you would leave it blank for a theatrical release on a feature film title. I understand this as a policy change and not just added functionality in the update form. The guidelines still include the section about the "video premiere" and "TV premiere" attributes, but I wonder if it is outdated when the new release type options suggest attributes like "DVD" and "TV release".

I saw this new format tonight when I added a new date to The Earth Dies Screaming. And right away, there is a big problem!!! While I can now add what type of release it was, using the new drop-down menu, there was *no place for me to add the city*! Always I have been able to add the city (e.g., The Earth Dies Screaming opened in Paducah, KY, as verified on newspapers.com). But now there was no place to put that information into the form. (I included the information in my reasoning, but there was no place to put it into the form.) So, though my changed date was accepted almost right away, the city "Paducah, KY" is not showing. This is a loss of information for IMDb fans. I hope and pray that IMDb is not going to go through the tens of thousands of city/state entries and delete them from the site!!! IMDb fans like myself have devoted thousands of hours collectively to determining and providing city/state information for the dates they provide. And as a user, I *want* to see that information continued!!! I have nothing against the inclusion of "release type", but it should be *after* the city/state information on the form, not *instead of* the city/state information!!! If this is an unintended error, please bring back the column for adding city and state. On the other hand, if it was a policy decision by IMDb staff, it was a BAD policy decision and should be reversed IMMEDIATELY. Incidentally, "release type" is not that helpful as an additional category, since it was ALWAYS possible to put the information (e.g., premiere) in parentheses after the date. And in fact the new categories are TOO RESTRICTIVE, since they only allow you to put "At a festival", whereas before you could put "(Vienna Film Festival) which is more precise. Someone at IMDb was not thinking clearly when they made this change! I have a suggestion for future changes of this type. You have the emails of all the regular contributors to IMDb. Suppose that every time you consider a major format change, you send out an automated mass e-mail survey to all experienced IMDb users (who have contributed, say, over 100 changes), and ask them what they think of the current format, whether they would like to see any changes to it, and what they would think of a proposal to change it in such and such a way. Most would not respond, but those who would respond would be the most intelligent and articulate IMDb users, the ones who care the most about presenting maximum information clearly. Then you could get intelligent feedback *before* making any change, rather than answering criticism afterward.

It's not possible to correct bad attributes with this? For example TV Premiere attribute from Norway date here should be removed: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15711284/releaseinfo But I can't do it anymore: Moreover, let's assume that date was wrong and if I tried to change it, I couldn't do that as well: Likewise, I removed the bad attribute from Chile release date here before this new submission form launched: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11198334/releaseinfo But the contributor added the bad attribute again (and somehow it's approved) and I can't remove it now (someone from Chile adds poorly formatted attributes like this to both theatrical movies and shows a lot as I occasionally correct release dates from Chile, I think they think attribute field must be filled with something always no matter what)

Can this be added to the new episode pages too. I've wanted that for an age, put the drop-down menu where the red ring is possibly?

Perhaps this message should be updated as it refers to an empty attribute field which can no longer be empty.

There may be some confusion about how to enter a theatrical release of something that was originally a TV release, and the form and guidelines don't help much. Maybe "theatrical release" should be an option in the form.