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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cast and crew verification should have evidence upload
Many of the update forms have an evidence upload link. The form for confirming that cast and/or crew are complete does not have that option. If it had, I could upload the PDF I have of the full end credits of a TV episode which I used to add and correct all the cast and crew. I could also upload the
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Add the ability for contributors to cancel their pending contributions
Proposal: IMDb should add the ability for contributors to cancel their pending contributions. We've all been here before: just minutes after submitting a data contribution to IMDb, we realize that our contribution was in error. Yet the erroneous contribution may remain pending multiple days befo
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Could we please have a separate "Colorist Department"
The role of Colorist and related jobs such as color timer, conforming, finishing, versioning, HDR etc. really need to be in their own category. It can be very hard to find who did the grading and finishing on a project, colorists are scattered between editorial, visual effects and maybe some other d
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Alternate titles : Please add Korean letters Hangeul.
Hello Whenever I use IMDB, It’s little inconvenient that IMDB does not support Korean letter system. Is there any plan to add Korean letters? I truly hope that I can use Korean letters on IMDB. Thanks.
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Make all languages selectable as “Language” instead of hiding many as “Attributes”
It is not helpful to hide the actual language a film is in as an “Attribute”, which does not seem to be visible unless one goes to make a correction. Many of the language selections are not even proper terms or language families — “Central American Indian”? And “Aboriginal” is an imprecise term of v
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Inconsistent Usage of the Film Noir Genre Tag
So even before the new genres were added IMDb had Film Noir called out as a separate genre tag; I agree it should be called out as a separate genre; however, I have not seen it applied consistently. To start at the top, there is no precise definition for Film Noir though most would agree that styli
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Implementation of new genres
Back in July 2010, there was a discussion about new genres to be added to IMDb. After a discussion, eventually the following five genres were approved by the IMDb staff:Soap OperaEroticaAwards ShowExperimentalLifestylehttp://www.imdb.com/board/bd0000042/nest/165524169?p=3&d=167577501#167577501In
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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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New category: Collections
I would like to see IMDb add a new category called "Collections." (@Michelle thought this idea might be worth its own thread.)Collections would group together titles in a more efficient, versatile and dynamic way than the Movie Connections can.There could be a "Star Wars" Collection with all the Sta
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Petition for Choreography Department Category
At the request of IMDB they will only consider any category changes with a large amount of members agreeing that it should be changed. This posting is meant to involve the community of members who think it is important to move Choreographers out of the Miscellaneous Crew category and moved into its
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