IMDB

Francesco Spreafico frspreaf at tin.it
Thu Apr 19 23:22:14 CEST 2001


From: "Olivier" <mouse-ducks at wanadoo.fr>

> If  it's just writing a text like "X was born on ... worked for Y for Z
years..." using information
> you've gathered everywhere, that's fine and even better if  you link to
the sources somewhere.

Yes... for example I felt somewhat unconfortable when I wrote a short
biography of Scarpa for the Internet movie database... all I know about
Scarpa's life I read somewhere; of course I have, how else could I know?
But still there is no way to credit generic sources on the IMDB site and I
felt VERY unconfortable about that. I wound up linking that IMDB page on my
site and stating there that all I know I've learned from [see bibliography
on the site], but to be honest I still feel unconforable... and I did not
copy one single line, just trying to remember stuff without checking,
afraid that that way I'd be tempted to copy some sentence. (I just checked
the dates, later)
I think I've managed, and I've also managed in put my main source (The Blue
Book) in the publicity section of the IMDB Scarpa site.
(Strange enough, they seem to reject the link to Eta's "Last Balaboo's"
site; I've submitted it three times for their link section and still it's
not there)

BTW the page is http://us.imdb.com/Name?Scarpa,+Romano
Most of the info I've submitted myself (all but the "Fourth King"), and
some are certainly not precise ("animation director" for "The Adventure of
MArco & Gina"? Why on earth did I submit that??), I hope I'll be soon able
to make corrections, with the new book about Scarpa being published next
week.

Geez I'm noticing now that they just added new stuff in the publicity
section, they're a bit slow but good! :-)

--
Sprea
http://digilander.iol.it/sgrizzo (Scarpa)
http://heinlein.cjb.net (RAH)





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