Data Issues & Policy Discussions
This category is managed by our IMDb Content team. IMDb Content is the team that collects and manages the content that makes IMDb authoritative & accurate. We depend upon our users to supply the majority of our content, and will use this space to both answer questions and collect ideas for how to make IMDb more authoritative, accurate, and easy to add to.
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update history status overview and filter function
The update history page is currently not extremely helpful to get an overview of the status of your contributions. Adding a Status column including a symbol for accepted, pending, partly accepted, ... as well as a filter function to find contributions faster would make it so much easier. https
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Feedback: allow a review I just submitted to be edited
I made a typo in the title of my review so I immediately submitted a fixed review. It appears they might have been submitted as separate reviews based on the fact the contribution numbers are different. In the future it should be possible to edit the original review and re-submit.
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Certificates
As a contributor I've noticed a problem with regard to the availability of certain certificates, for example - in Norway, in 2015 the ratings system re-vamped introducing a '6 years and older' rating (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_Media_Authority - https://www.medietilsynet.no/tv-film-radi
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The worst keyword on IMDb?
My top nominee: "stand-alone-movie-without-sequel" Of the millions of titles on IMDb, this could probably be applied to millions. Please delete this meaningless, useless, unnecessary keyword from the database.
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Too many plot outlines have spoilers
NUTSHELL: Would IMDb please consider to perhaps supply a pop-up box that stops contributors and reminds them of NO SPOILERS clause ("are you sure there is not even a teeny-minute spoiler in what you're about to submit??) that displays (and thus blocks a contributor temporarily) before someone is abl
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Streamlining the "Type" section for the New Title page
I've seen would-be contributors on various social media platforms complain that adding a new title to IMDb is confusing. Streamlining the Type section could make things easier. I've added thousands of titles, and sometimes my brain still glitches at this section. My suggestion: Under Type, we see
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Companies profile edit
Can you make an option like there is in the name profile to edit credits on the listBecause sometimes there is so many wrong credits, hundreds evenIt's painful to delete it one by one, title by titleI spent now few days clearing just one company profile from wrong titlesAnd there is so manySometimes
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Interests - Interests Suggestions & Feedback
Following on from the launch of Interests, we are pleased to announce that Interests can be added to, or removed from titles, where appropriate via subgenre keywords data. For more information on how to add or remove Interests, please see our new Help guide. IMDb is powered by the fans
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Reduce the minimum size for IMDb user reviews
Please remove the required characters of 600 from the review function. Or limit to much lower. I may have a short review. Include a sort feature which allows us to filter by this is you must.
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Suggestion for New feature: Voice Actors
It is common that movies, cartoons and tv series are dubbed (have the original voice, in the original language is replaced by a local actor voice in the local language) in other countries with a different language. Here in Brazil dub companies tries to keep the same local voice to each actor, so som
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