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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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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How to add a new Subgenre?
Hello. On this help page it says "Expand the lists below to see suggested subgenre values. It is possible to contribute other values not listed below, however please only contribute another value if an equivalent suggested value does not exist." How do I do that? I tried to use the " Provide an expl
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Ongoing issues with troublesome 'unknown' season label for known specials
There is an ongoing problem with the label 'unknown' for series specials which do not form part of a specific season. Less experienced editors, more often than not, seem to add the specials onto the beginning or end of seasons which they clearly do not form part of, in some instances in fact the spe
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Add a link to the contribution status at the top of the “Contribution Confirmation” e-mail, more efficient for our productivity.
About 1 or 2 month ago, you changed the model of the e-mail we received in “Contribution Confirmation”. You put the clickable option “View the status of this contribution” completely at the bottom of the e-mail page, whereas before it was at the top of the page, so that in 1 click we could immediate
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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://con
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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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