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Wednesday, April 9th, 2025 12:36 PM

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Syntax for group (eg "pupils of X school") when they are credited for acting roles

I have recently submitted a few cast lists where the on-screen credits include acting roles for a collection of pupils of a school. I presume these *should* go in the cast rather than being added in Misc Company section because the people are seen on screen rather than being behind-the-scenes musicians, consultants, suppliers of archive material etc which is what I think of Mic Company as being used for. How should the school name be formatted? The form validation changes "Pupils of Yardleys School, Birmingham" (example https://i.postimg.cc/NMYJ51JR/Image1.png) into "Birmingham, Pupils of Yardleys School", and similarly converts "Pupils of Malton School" into "School, Pupils of Malton", so I presume that is IMDB's preferred syntax. But should the school name and the word "School" be kept together: "Yardleys School Birmingham, Pupils of" and "Malton School, Pupils of"? They display the same way on title and cast list pages, but I wondered whether there were any advantages internally in IMDB's database.

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Hi martin_695862- They should be formatted as how they appear on-screen (like the example mention above). However, yes, based on our current technical requirements these names are intentionaly changes/formatted this other ways on the contribution form before submitting. But once they are live on the site, you can let us know and we can fix them manually. Cheers!

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Now that the entry for the group has gone live on IMDB, could you get an admin to correct the display format. Here is a screenshot of an on-screen credit https://i.postimg.cc/43MrGHm9/Image1.png The IMDB ID is nm17207961. It currently displays as "Birmingham Pupils from Yardleys School" and should display as "Pupils from Yardleys School, Birmingham" (preferably with the comma, though without it if the comma causes problems). Many thanks.

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@martin_695862- Hi, Thank you for posting the information! We have fixed the display of the name now and the changes are already live on the site. Cheers!