Hello!
I’d like to clear up a misunderstanding about how the submission and approval system works on MDL.
When multiple users submit the same correction, we review them in the order they arrive. The first valid submission is approved, and the others are rejected with a standard message explaining that someone else submitted it first. That’s exactly what happened in this case.
As for your claim that a Volunteer Staff member “took property” of your contribution — that’s simply not true. Approval staff, like any other MDL user, have the right and responsibility to edit profiles when necessary. In this instance, after approving the first valid submission and a bio edit from another user, I made a separate edit to update the cast list according to our romanization guidelines — something none of the other pending submissions had addressed.
Our role as staff is to maintain accuracy, consistency, and proper formatting across the site. Every submission is timestamped and handled fairly based on order and correctness. No one here needs to, or would, take credit for someone else’s work. Accusations like this, without any basis or understanding of how the system functions, are both unnecessary and unfair.
While we value the time users take to contribute, once a submission enters the moderation queue, it’s processed according to MDL’s guidelines and priorities. There currently isn’t a system for users to track submission progress (there will be one in the near future), but rest assured that we handle them carefully and fairly.
In the future, I’d kindly suggest verifying how the process works before making assumptions about staff actions.
Thank you for your understanding.
