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According to someone who answered a similar question over at Quora, the studios are probably providing the description along with base metadata, and no one at Netflix is tidying it up: https://www.quora.com/How-are-Netflix-descriptions-written I used to be a designer there and I also worked for Ascent Media doing metadata for studios who stored their video files with them. From what I understood, studios deliver (or instruct their offsite file storage companies like Ascent to deliver) digital files and any associated metadata the facility had in regards to it. When I was at Ascent, the metadata associated with the titles was geared so that the files could be identified and filed properly,...
Full answer by JennieK_NS: https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/66326 (CC BY-SA 3.0).
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