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Blatant moderation failure — IMDb approves Uyghur Arabic script as an official title for Kazakhstan

Hello IMDb Community and Support Team,I am creating a separate post because the moderation quality for alternate titles in Central Asia has reached an embarrassing low point, proving a systemic failure in how data is verified.Please look at the official release info page for Minions (2015) / tt2293640:
URL: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2293640/releaseinfo/Under the Kazakhstan section, IMDb editors have approved a title written in Arabic script / Uyghur language: "ئەگەشكۈچىلەر - سېرىقچاقلار".Let's break down why this is a massive blunder:

  1. Wrong Language: This is Uyghur, not Kazakh.
  2. Wrong Script: Kazakhstan uses Cyrillic (and officially transitions to Latin). It has never used Arabic script for movie distribution or official state matters in modern history.
  3. The Source: A random bad actor literally copy-pasted a translation used on Uyghur television channels and submitted it as a title for Kazakhstan.

Instead of filtering this obvious fiction, IMDb's moderation team blindly approved it.For years, I have been fighting against the mass approval of "phantom" fan-made titles for older Hollywood movies in Kazakhstan (from studios like Universal, Paramount, Warner Bros., which historically release films in Kazakhstan exclusively in Russian). Every time I try to delete these fake literal translations, support rejects my contributions to "preserve factual data."This Uyghur script error is ultimate proof that the data being protected is NOT factual—it is unverified misinformation submitted by users who don't even know the geography or languages of the region.My Requests:

  1. Please immediately delete the Arabic/Uyghur title "ئەگەشكۈچىلەر - سېرىقچاقلار" from tt2293640.
  2. Audit the user account that submitted this data, as they are systematically polluting Kazakhstan's database.
  3. Instruct the editing team to stop blindly approving translations for Kazakhstan without proper linguistic or distribution verification.

Thank you,
DOS

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27 days ago

Bump. It has been over two days, and there is still no official response or acknowledgment from the IMDb team regarding this blatant data error. To reiterate: approving a title in the Uyghur language using Arabic script for Kazakhstan is the equivalent of approving a Japanese Kanji title for France. It is geographically, linguistically, and historically impossible for official theatrical distribution in the country. This is a clear-cut case of database pollution by an unverified contributor. Could a senior community manager or data administrator please:
  1. Manually remove the fake Arabic-script title "ئەگەشكۈچىلەر - سېرىقچاقلار" from tt2293640.
  2. Escalate this issue to the moderation quality control team to review how Central Asian data is being vetted.
Leaving clear misinformation active on a major title like Minions hurts the credibility of IMDb's data. Thank you.

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27 days ago

Hi DOS-

Thank you for the feedback, we'll pass this along to the respective team!

If you have spotted incorrect information, you can submit the respective corrections through the contribution form. If it were the case that they were declined, you can post the 18-digit references below so our staff can take a look.

Cheers!