Quoting Kathy:

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If there are no contribution notes, and no voters expressing their opinion, it is likely that the data entry is incorrect.

You're forgetting that there are numerous users who never visit the website, and thus never vote. I'm pretty sure that we who do vote constitute a minority of the users.

As a guy who lives in Canada, which has maybe like, one tenth of the voters/contributors that a larger locality like the U.S. has, I can quickly scan my own local and look back on contributions I've made, and count at least six examples of profiles that at one point contained a cover scan that didn't match the UPC of the profile and that had zero contribution notes contained for the profile. They were all still very valid profiles indeed, and after a bit of work on my part, they now contain correct information and correct cover scans. So throw me into the group that thinks more care and consideration should be taken when asking for profiles to be removed. Sometimes it really is a simple matter of only a handful of people owning the profile in question and possibly having some people who own the profile not actually voting on it.

I see the arguement that indeed those profiles in question could absolutely contain some really bad information (all the ones I corrected had terrible information in them), but I don't see the arguement of making it harder to choose one profile to put in your wishlist. Find the movie you want to put in your wishlist, put a profile for it in, and when/if you purchase that movie and it has a different UPC, delete it from your wishlist and add the one you bought to your owned collection. (And really, if there's thirty valid releases of a movie all with different UPCs, how do you know which UPC is going to be the one you end up buying anyway?) I do it every single Tuesday. Canadian profiles are VERY rarely added ahead of time due to it being harder to find pre-release info for them (such as the correct UPC). Therefore I add the U.S. pre-release profile to my wishlist and when I buy the Canadian profile with a different UPC, I delete the U.S. one from my wishlist and add the Canadian one to my local and the system. There's absolutely no inconvenience at all about right clicking and choosing "delete from wishlist" in my opinion.

If you're worried about bad data, run the repair tool and remove unused crew/actors/studios from your local. Really, every single time you add a profile to your wishlist, you're inviting bad data into your local anyway.

I don't feel like the arguement of it making it harder to choose which profile to put into your wishlist really holds too much water in this instance. Sorry. Just an opinion and no offense meant!

Oh great, another thread about accents. How is it we got on this subject?

The way this works in Wikipedia (and I think it's a good rule) is the burden of proof is on whoever wants the entry to be there. It's simple to prove something is valid, nearly impossible to prove it's invalid. If things like cover scans that don't match the entry aren't evidence an entry is invalid, I have no idea how you're ever supposed to remove anything.

Quoting Merrik:

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If you have a problem, bring it up with Ken.

I have no problem with Ken. He validated May 14, 2010 rules that say the same thing as I do. Your contributions are not in accordance with those rules. FYI, they can be found here.

I did not want to distract the topic, I just made a remark about what you said.

Quoting T!M:

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.... but bad data in the online database still affects the CLT numbers, which people subsequently use to propagate incorrect IMDb-mined names.

CLT numbers are mainly affected by fictitious data recently contributed. Those data are against rules, as they exist updated May, 2010.

Quoting surfeur51:

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Quoting Merrik:

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If you have a problem, bring it up with Ken.

I have no problem with Ken. He validated May 14, 2010 rules that say the same thing as I do. Your contributions are not in accordance with those rules. FYI, they can be found here.

I did not want to distract the topic, I just made a remark about what you said.

A post which twists my words, is more than slightly condescending and provides a link to absolutely no proof to back-up your stance. This off-topic conversation between us is officially done.

I have had only 5 or 6 of the profiles that were submitted to be deleted and they all seemed to have missed typed upcs. The correct upcs are also in the database so I don't see a problem removing the bad ones.

Quoting Bfd245:

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I have had only 5 or 6 of the profiles that were submitted to be deleted and they all seemed to have missed typed upcs. The correct upcs are also in the database so I don't see a problem removing the bad ones.

The question is... were these different UPCs really just mistyped? or is it another UPC for that title... one that is less popular then the other. I have seen this before... matter of fact I have a few where I have the less popular UPC... and the profiles were in terrible shape till I got them updated.

What we are saying is you can't go only by "They Seem to be Mistyped UPCs".