User talk:Erik/IMDb

Enough examples
Think if we can get enough examples we could turn this into an essay and link it on the MOS page for reasons why we don't use IMDb?  BIGNOLE     (Contact me)  22:53, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
 * That's what I was thinking. :) I was reallyyy hoping to dig up an archived page of Spider-Man 3 that showed Aunt May / Carnage, but they don't have a revision that recent. — Erik  (talk • contrib) - 22:57, 28 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Well, I found the url link, but when I did an internet archive search it says that the site owner blocked the address so that you can't view it.   BIGNOLE     (Contact me)  23:25, 28 July 2008 (UTC)


 * How suspicious. :-P An essay would be a good idea, though... I'd have to add some prose, such as how they shift the goalposts when it comes to release years.  Bah, too many little projects going on. :)  I never even incorporated the Marvel Studios company history! — Erik  (talk • contrib) - 23:27, 28 July 2008 (UTC)


 * This is the most reliable source I can find so far that discusses IMDbs slip-up. You're telling me about little projects? :) lol. I don't know how many Smallville pages I have in the works.   BIGNOLE     (Contact me)  23:29, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

Note to self: Include a section about how IMDb's Top 250 is penetrated by blockbusters with fan bases, being seriously manipulated by demographic skew. — Erik (talk • contrib) - 11:01, 29 July 2008 (UTC)


 * I've been wanting to formulate some more official guideline explicitly frowning on IMDb usage for sourcing for some time now (alluded to at WT:FILMC). You might also want to appropriate the bottom of User:Girolamo Savonarola/essay, which is an essay from meta which I took it upon myself to save a few months back when it was threatened with deletion over there. (We really need an essay section for the project anyway.) Girolamo Savonarola (talk) 11:35, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

You might find these links useful: two seperate interviews where a film called Drake & Josh in New York is dismissed as an IMDb rumour. PC78 (talk) 02:00, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Another interview, where Rob Zombie has some uncomplimentary things to say about IMDb . PC78 (talk) 02:26, 20 October 2008 (UTC)