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"Shorts" longer than 44 minutes and "Movies" shorter than 45 minutes

Currently there are 2546 title items tagged as "Movie" with runtime equal to or less than 44 minutes, and 460 items tagged as "Short" with runtime equal to or more than 45 minutes. https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature&runtime=,44 https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=short&runtime=45, How is this possible? There should be an automatized system rejecting these runtime inconsistencies.

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Hi CUDIU, 🦉 Here is a short list of Short extra possibilities: ● A "Made for TV" title was submitted as a feature or video, and vice versa; ● A group of titles having completely the same nature but one-minute runtime deviation are differentiated as "short" and "full length", and a contributor tried to manage such ridiculous situation, adding the same set of genres to each title in the group. For example, the series of animations about Charlie Brown; ● Short genre was properly added to a title having an incorrect type which was changed later; ● A short film page was merged to a segmented feature page, and the genre was not submitted for removal; ● A contributor added the Short genre to a collection of short films, while such cases are not cleared out in IMDb guidelines; ● A contributor treated a title as a collection of short films, while it was a segmented movie but the segments were not represented at the moment of genre addition; ● A production was started as a short film but developed into a full length, or vice versa, or changed from/to TV, and the genre remained untouched. 🪶 The above list does not represent my opinion on how they should be categorized, but is compiled only to show "how is this possible". Unfortunately, an automatized system could not solve all the related problems. However, I think that IMDb could prevent almost all of the wrong assignments if the Short genre would be treated the same for TV and non-TV titles, and the runtime would cover the longest among the standards existing on various festivals devoted to short films.

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