
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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The country "Turkey" is now TÜRKIYE since June 2022- It should be changed in IMDb database, in my opinion
"Following an official letter submitted to the United Nations by the Republic of Türkiye, the country's name has been officially changed to Türkiye at the UN." (03 June 2022) Shouldn't it be changed in IMDb database? It always hurts my eyes when placing a submission where the country must be added..
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Are you ever going to make watching the film or tv show a requirement for writing outlines and summaries?
I contribute to pages quite a lot, and most of the contributions are rewriting plot outlines and deleting nonsense summaries, written by people who have clearly never watched more than a few minutes of whatever they're writing about. Many have clearly been contributed after only watching the trailer
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Quantity of Cast & Crew
Any easy way to count the quantity of Cast & Crew for a title?? to compare with other titles Just Cast?? Just Crew?? Samples Barbie (2023) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1517268/reference/ Full Cast & Crew [Ctrl] F (find) "..." : 1,415 names Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt
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Language addition urgently needed
I was gonna add some multi-award winner films with Luganda language but you don't have that language in options. Please add this language: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luganda If you need a movie example, I can give this one that's already on site but can't add the language of course: https://www.i
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Gifs in the image galleries
Would IMDb consider allowing us to submit gifs to the image galleries? Would other contributors be in favor of it?
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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 genres than
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Add new languages.
Hello, I was correcting details of a movie called Sangi-gai 2023. It had wrong information about the movie language, it mentions language as "Indian sign language" which is incorrect. The movie is in Hindi & it has a lot of it's dailogues in Nyishi(Indigenous language of Arunachal Pradesh, India), b
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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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Credits for Restored Editions of Films
It's 2019. There are hundred of newly restored editions of older films being re-released, including the work of craftspeople and artisans helping clean films up for high definition 2K and 4K presentation. That IMDB refuses, literally kicking and screaming "the attribute 'restoration/restored' is ine
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Hair is Hair and Make up is Make up.
Hair is Hair and Make up is Make up. I'm dissatisfied that these two specific categories are lumped together. I have asked that this be separated and the answer was technically cannot do...Any hairstylists agreeing with this please ask to have this changed. Technically it was set up as so and can be
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