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Sunday, March 30th, 2025 2:23 AM

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merging episode titles

There's a TV show where at least two episodes have double entries and I think should be merged together. I saw this link - https://help.imdb.com/article/contribution/titles/how-can-i-merge-two-titles/GAL233TVTCPMLVDK# - but I wasn't sure if I did it right or if there's another page in the help section that I should be looking at. Number 3 talks about merging two separate shows and how you should merge episodes first before merging the parent page for the show. What if it's two episodes listed for the same season of the same show? I started second-guessing myself and just wanted to be sure I submitted the two merges the right way, so I figured I'd ask. 250328-215101-935000 250329-235723-622000

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Hi tom_delfino- Thank you for posting the submission reference numbers! Taking a look, I can see that the first one was already approved and as per the second one, the episode has already been merged to #2.10. As per your episode question, you can still sent them to merge if they are duplicated. The changes will be live on the site shortly. Cheers!

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Oh, cool! I double-checked one of them this morning and thought that one of them had been declined. I don't know if that was reversed or if I just misread, lol. For future reference, did I submit them correctly or is there a better way to do it in the future? Just so I know for next time. Thank you!

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@tom_delfino- No worries! None were declined. Yes you did, however, for the second one you can just submit the episode merge like you did for the first submission. The second one was correcting the episode number but you can just submit the duplicated title correction as a whole. Cheers!

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@tom_delfino- Apologies, yes, that one was declined. On the first submission you submitted the correction with the duplicated episodes that needed to be merge. But on this second one, you submitted a correction to the episode number only from 2.17 to 2.10.

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Okay. Now I see where that declined one said TITLE NUMBER EDIT and the one that was accepted says TITLE MERGE ADDITION. So I can't simply just change the episode number?

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@tom_delfino-Correct, you can but it is these cases where there two duplicated episodes, it's better to use the merge option.

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I'm sorry to keep bugging you with questions, but where's the merge option? On my end it looks like I chose the "Episode Title / Number" option to correct, unless I'm missing something.

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@tom_delfino- All good! Yes, that is the correct option, however, you will need to enter the episode title text and episode number for the title you are merging the episode into. So, not just correcting the episode number only.

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Oh, okay. The same option, but I just have to fill out the whole thing with the new info instead of updating just the episode number? Good to know! I'm not sure how how that affects it if everything is the same except for just the episode number, but I hope that problem never comes up. Thank you!

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Your welcome!