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Typos on IMDb help pages, where to report it (very minor typos)
First time member, first time making a submission;
Reading the help pages prior to making my first 'Goof' submission, I saw a couple very minor typos.
Is this the best (or only) place to report these?
On "How to effectively report problems" they said 'date editors' when I think they mean 'data editors'?
On "Data Processing Times" they said 'submitted after' when I think they mean 'submitted before'?
First typo details:
Page:
https://help.imdb.com/article/imdb/general-information/how-to-effectively-report-problems
Under:
"4. Try correcting the error:"
In first sentence:
"...you can submit an update to our date editors."
Did they mean:
"...you can submit an update to our data editors."
Second typo details:
Page:
https://contribute.imdb.com/times
Under:
"Data Processing Times"
In "Notes:", last bullet point:
"...contributions submitted after that date will have already been processed."
I think they meant:
"...contributions submitted before that date will have already been processed."
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gromit82
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17 days ago
Troubleshooter: Thanks for posting the corrections here; this is the right place to bring them up.
The link to the first error you mentioned should be:
https://help.imdb.com/article/imdb/general-information/how-to-effectively-report-problems/G8UFAVKZND9M5HXL#
And I agree that it should say "data editors" instead of "date editors".
As to the second error, I don't think it actually is an error. At https://contribute.imdb.com/times it says:
(Emphasis added.) I think that this really does mean to say that most contributions submitted after the Oldest Item date will already have been processed; a lot of data gets processed quite quickly. Since the Oldest Item date is to indicate the oldest item that has not been processed, every item submitted before the Oldest Item date should already have been processed -- not just most of them.
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