Data Issues & Policy Discussions

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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Video Games Categorization

Hi! I'm adding new titles to IMDb for two years now out of my very busy schedule. But the biggest frustration I'm having is the lack of proper categories & metadata for video game titles. Video games are released for different platforms like Windows, iOS & PlayStation and have different

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Handling of names on your platform

Dear IMDb. I am writing to share some observations and suggestions regarding the handling of names on your platform. I have noticed that there are some challenges with the correct representations of names, especially when it comes to diacritical marks and non-Latin writing systems. For example, if

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Advanced Keyword Searches: Allow multiple keywords to be selected from the Advanced Title Search screen, and allow "or" keyword searches

This suggestion involves IMDb's Advanced Title Search, available here: https://www.imdb.com/search/title/ I have two suggestions regarding the keyword section of this search screen. 1. Allow multiple keywords to be selected from the Advanced Title Search screen First, the Title Search shou

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Add an "Episodes level" for the vintage Movie Serials format

The IMDB lists individual episodes of TV series. (A long time ago, they did not.) Would it not be logical to do the same thing for the vintage movie serials of the first part of last century? Their episodes are almost exactly the same as television episodes. And right now they can't, for example, ha

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Add images (and all other) new contribution types to the contribution history page

Although I get an email confirming my image contribution (example: IMDb update receipt #180422-161133-961102), and it has a link to view its status, I'd really like to see that contribution on the page https://contribute.imdb.com/updates/history/ Any chance that's on the IMDb To Do list?

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"reference-to-" keywords

I'd like to see all the "reference-to-" keywords changed. Consider this:- Add a new category called Referenced - Remove reference-to- from any keywords that begin this way - Categorize said keywords as ReferencedExample:Reference-to-Cary-Grant would become Cary-Grant in the keyword category, Referen

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Idea: Add mental health/trigger warning to parents guide

Hi IMDB, would you be able to add a mental illness warning/trigger warning section to the parents guide? It could use the same severity ratings as the violence, sex and drugs categories, but it would focus on potential triggers for people. For example, I have recently become aware that people with e

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Suggestion to bring back the this number of reviews have been deleted function

Hi, Before IMDb changed its format around 2017, reviewers were able to see at the top of our review page how many reviews of ours had been deleted, either by us or removed through reporting. We were also able to see which reviews had been deleted/removed. Something that was incredibly helpful. From

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Tracking exact counts of your submissions.

Hi all. As suggested by Michelle and Ozzy, I now come to you all with this topic. I've had several questions regarding the Badges, the substages (chapters, whatever you call it --> after 100,250,500,750,1000, etc.) and, lately, just exactly how many new names I have added. I like to be able to

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Restoring the "literature" section for title pages

For some years IMDb had a Literature section for title pages. This was intended to include information about such items as: books that films were based on novelizations of films books about the making of a particular film printed reviews that were not available online and could not be link

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