
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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profile photos
Any chance of you designating someone to whom profile photos of deceased / pre-1945 actors / actresses may be submitted? I have run across so many Silent film era stars who have no profile foto. They're long gone and will never have a profile foto per your current Pro-account only submission policy,
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Suggested usability change when editing Marriage section of a person's entry
Suppose a person already has a Marriage entry which has a start date but no end date and just the "Present" box ticked (because the marriage is ongoing).If that person dies, you add the end date as being the person's date of death. But if you forget to untick the "Present" box, that date is ignored.
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It might be time to consider adding missing data to IMDb's non-commercial use download datasets.
The number of entries that are missing from the IMDb downloadable datasets seems to have increased substantially over the last few years (by my quick estimate, about half of IMDb's titles - which assumes a third of the tconst numbers are bad/deleted). As far as I can tell, this is because two catego
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add "incorrectly regarded as goof" to the first Edit Goofs page list
Currently the Goofs page edit gives a list of options that doesn't have "incorrectly regarded as goof". So one has to first enter something as a goof, and after it is processed by editing team and to the page for all to see, then he/ she or someone has to mark that as "incorrectly regarded as goof".
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Sorting list of TV shows by episode number
I have a list of all the TV shows I want to watch someday. Many of the TV shows on that list are quite short and don't have a lot of episodes. Is there a way to sort the TV shows in a personal list by number of episodes? If not, could this be implemented in the future? I think this could be quite us
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separate category for Military Technical Advisor
I suggest that, in the "profession" section (immediately beneath the talent's name), there should be a separate category for Military Technical Advisor. There are not many of us, and it is a very specialized niche. The current category (Additional Crew) doesn't really tell potential clients anything
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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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In overview page for a series, the character an actor plays, should be drawn only from their earliest appearance
There are occasions where the character attributed to an actor, may change, usually due to some plot reveal in the story. In later episodes, the cast list may have this actor playing the role that was revealed but was a mystery until this point. For example, if Tom Cruise plays bob during episodes 1
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PEGI ratings
The PEGI ratings are used in multiple countries, and a game like Halo 3 (tt0494232) currently lists the PEGI rating for 4 countries. But it might be more optimal to instead include 5 (or 6) new ratings for IMDb: Europe:3, Europe:7, Europe:12, Europe:16, Europe:18 (and Europe:!) which can be used for
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How can I delete my contribution history?
Hi. I added some posters recently and could see my contributions on Your Contribution History (beta) page. Really want a clean slate (because now it feels like a mess - posters were random, I just went through some titles with bad posters and added better ones) and don't want to re-create my account
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