I'm done trying to help incomplete foreign movie pages

[MoviePropMaster2008]

Warning: A Rant!

I've tried to fix really spare or lame FOREIGN movie pages. I've put on posters, I've searched the web for production stills, I've downloaded foreign trailers to screen cap them, since I can't get a lot of them unless I order by mail from overseas, which is expensive, or the format is different and I have to convert it ..... all of which I don't want to do.

Then I noticed that a vast majority of these pages are done by 'drive by' contributors. Guys who put in a page, then stick around for about a month and are never seen nor heard from again.

No more. Frankly I'm sick of it. We have the {{no effort}} template and still these guys don't get the message. Having a LAME page is actually worse than having no page at all.

If the movie is available for rental at my local Hollywood/Blockbuster/video store then okay, someone here MAY eventually fix it. But why should the rest of us go through the 99% labor to finish someone else's sparse and lame page? I'm actually FOR deleting the pages and telling anyone, to make the effort or don't do it at all.

I note to many new members how PhoenixEnt has his pages nearly 100% done BEFORE he uploads a new movie page. He knows that a lot of the membership doesn't have nor may not have seen the films (especially the older ones). His method is what these 'drive by' members should be emulating. The "No Effort" template describes their maddening lack of courtesy, better than a 1000 words.

Again, the majority of other people's criticism of IMFDB is that we have too many incomplete pages. I'm sure guilty of not finishing a page 100%, but I am trying to fix that. But these 5% pages are just too much. Creating a new page with just a few lame lines "The soldiers use MP40s" just won't cut it any more.

I just wanted folks to know why the MODs sometimes go on deletion sprees. We get fed up with lame pages, lame files or lame contributors.

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