
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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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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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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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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