Currently, when submitting an edit, there is only a pop-up message that confirms the submission, but we have no possibility to track the edits and new additions of actors/titles and the only notifications we receive eventually is for rejections, if it's accepted you need to go check for yourself to know it was changed or added.

If multiple edits are done, or if it takes a long time for them to be reviewed, it's up to us to keep track of the edits done, otherwise, it's impossible to know their status, which makes it difficult. Thus, it would be useful to have a page in the profile where each member can see and follow the edits he has submitted, with the date the edit was done and a status such as "pending review", "accepted" or "rejected", for example.

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Need to figure out what I can pull votes from for this.

Also, an additional bit on the submission form which says that Reset will un-submit your edits/additions regardless of the Successful pop-up and you need to close the page and open a new one.

Would have figured out my mistake there far earlier if there was a way to check on edit statuses.

But maybe that's just me being old and stupid. Kyubin's suggestion will help everyone who's doing their best to make the database more complete.

No it's not you Elisheva, I agree, this system can be quite confusing and difficult.

Thank you for enlightening exactly why I keep submitting edits despite an hostile environment here : "doing their best to make the database more complete". When I see some edits that are accepted, I really lose the will to keep searchig for reliable sources to put the best information about the actors and titles for everybody.

 And thank you for your vote !

Thanks Kyubin, and you're welcome. It does feel hostile here, especially in the early days when I was learning the site's weirdnesses around edits by trial and error and for the most part being left to work out what I'd done wrong on my own. And that sinking feeling of an "Your edit has been rejected" message.

I've had the experience of more accurate, detailed and sourced (press release from the organisation) information being rejected for bare bones hardly anything at all because that was accepted first.

I'm persevering now because I'm really enjoying older or less known Thai films. They often have sparse pages here, I'm disabled, have too much time to fill, could do with a sense of purpose and I'm careful, so I'm a good person to help make those pages more interesting for others. Might only be a handful of people who care, but maybe the more widely-used romanisations I've found in my searches (MDL's rigidity sometimes means this site is the ONLY use of a romanisation) will help someone else find the film for themselves and their day will be a bit brighter for it.

They put up so many obstacles to this. I know it's supposed to be about mods not having time, but this is a site where they persist in keeping a very visible "or add tags" on every title's page yet only accept tag edits through Edit (not Tags) but Genres, which then requires a mod to send out instructions every time someone suggests a tag through the very visible "or add tags" on the title's page so idk.

Anyway, if we get votes through contributions, does that mean reviews, edits or both? I have a 2003 comedy to try to get into the database and there are more I could review. My next two votes will go here because I want MDL to be the best it can.

Well, we are exactly on the same page on that, I perfectly understand you. Let's hope more contributors of the website will vote for this improvement. However, I don't know how we get more votes, sorry. Again, an obscure system.

 ASTER:
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Admin says it's in the next release no less. Wow :)