Music video title formatting

As indicated at https://help.imdb.com/article/contribution/titles/title-formatting/G56U5ERK7YY47CQB#, the formatted title of a music video on IMDb should be in the following format: Artist/Band: Title (year) (Music Video) Example: Justin Bieber: Ghost (2021) (Music Video) This implies that every music video entered into the database ought to have a colon in the main title to separate the artist name from the song title. However, not all of them do. Here are some examples: Wait (2024) (Music Video) Tere Bin (2024/II) (Music Video) Sad (2024) (Music Video) Hanuman (2024) (Music Video) Blinka Lilla Oskar Tyberg (2024) (Music Video) Had to Fall (2024) (Music Video) Khan Sahab (2024) (Music Video) Rab Ne Milaya Kyun (2024) (Music Video) I suggest that if someone attempts to submit a music video to the database, and the entry as submitted does not include a colon in the title, they should get a warning along the following lines: "Music video titles on IMDb must be in the following format: Artist/Band: Title (year) (Music Video). Your title entry does not include a colon to separate the artist/band from the title, which suggests that either the artist/band or song title may be missing." Whether this should be a yellow (bypassable) or red (non-bypassable) warning, I will leave up to the staff.

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I'm going to bump this thread by adding some more examples to the list. Down the breeze (2023) (Music Video) Latka (2023) (Music Video) My Dream (2023) (Music Video) Sky High (2023) (Music Video) Teri Aadat - 2 (2023) (Music Video) Now that I think about it, the warning that a title entry for a music video must contain a colon should probably be a red (non-bypassable) warning.

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And here are some more examples. Lai Lai Udtay Gaa (2022) (Music Video) Breathtaking (2022) (Music Video) Once and Never More (2022) (Music Video) Plastic Love (2022) (Music Video) Ruckus (2022) (Music Video)

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And here are some more. In the End (2021) (Music Video) Panixiya (2021) (Music Video) 2 States (A Love Story) (2021) (Music Video) Machhli (2021) (Music Video) Touching Light (2021) (Music Video) There are at least four possible reasons why these music videos may have been entered incorrectly: The artist name has been omitted. The song title has been omitted. The title is really a short film that should not be classified as a music video. The artist and song title are actually both there, but the colon has been omitted so the IMDb title has been misformatted.I suspect that #1 and #3 are the most common problems we are dealing with, but any of these could be the situation.

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And here are some more. Bamsen er min allerbedste Ven (2020) (Music Video) Salamath Malayalam Album Song (2020) (Music Video) Kidnap (2020) (Music Video) Ho Ke Door (2020) (Music Video) Cool Lip Gang (2020) (Music Video)

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I'm going to keep posting examples at least until I get a response from the staff. Smile Deke Dekho (2019) (Music Video) One World Ft. Taboo of the Black Eyed Peas (2019) (Music Video) First Girlfriend (2019) (Music Video) Act Naturally (2019) (Music Video) Theke Wali Heer | R Maan (2019) (Music Video)

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Some more examples: Smoke Shisha Play Fifa (2018) (Music Video) Stranger (2018) (Music Video) Mildred's Pizza (2018) (Music Video) Era (2018) (Music Video) Like love (2018) (Music Video)

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