Submit to Core guidelines

The Submit to Core feature is a great way to help improve our Core online movie database.
With the submit to Core feature you can:

• Submit new comics that are not in Core yet
• Submit corrections to existing Core entries

To preserve data quality and consistency, and to help our content managers, please follow these guidelines:

Barcodes

• Please, no spaces or dashes
• Make sure to include the 5-digit or 2-digit barcode extension. This part is essential for identifying the extra issue and variant.

Cover images

• Do not submit images with watermarks
• Submit JPG images (not PNG) and keep the image file size below 800kb and below a resolution of 1000×1000px. We don’t want to be too strict in this, but we have to draw the line somewhere, as we sometimes receive multi-megabyte, 6000×4000px images which are just clogging up the system.
• Do not submit Preview Art as the Cover Image. If you don’t have the actual cover image, just do not submit a cover image.

Plot field

Do not use the Plot field to enter a message to us about your submission, as your message may actually end up in the Core as the Plot!
If you need to provide extra info about your submissions, just contact us through the CLZ Help Center.

Creator Names

When submitting creator lists, always use their “most commonly used name” and try to stick to the naming already used in Core.
For example:

• use “Stanley ‘Artgerm’ Lau”, not “Artgerm” or “Stanley Lau”
• use “Peach Momoko”, not “Peach”, not “Momoko”
• use “Jean ‘Moebius’ Giraud”, not “Mobius”
• use “Jochen Weltjens (Guru-eFX)”, not “Guru”
• use “Jock”, not “Mark Simpson”
• use “Junggeun Yoon”, not “Yoon” or “Junggeun”
• use “Ram V”, not “Ram Venkatesan” or “Ramnarayan Venkatesan”

We are aware that some collectors like to include creators exactly as listed on that specific comic. But for Core, we prefer consistency, if only to make the “Creator folders” feature work correctly, with just one folder for each creator.

For all fields

For all fields, director, actors, format, release year, etc.. do not use “ALL CAPS” or “all lowercase”. Unless of course, that is the correct spelling.

Use a real CLZ User Name, not the generated User ID

For our content managers, it is important to “get to know you”, and to learn to trust your submissions, because you always submit quality data, great cover scans, etc…
They do this by recognizing your CLZ User Name. And User Names like “TheRealDeadpool666” are easier to remember than User ID “894737”.

Set your username on your account page at my.clz.com.