Data Issues & Policy Discussions

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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Spouse/Marriage Data - If both spouses are listed on IMDb, any marriage data updates should be automatically applied to both spouses

When both spouses are listed on IMDb, updating the marriage data for one of the spouses should automatically update the data for other other spouse as well. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that is not currently happening. Is there any reason why the system is not set up this way? These automa

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Contribution API

I am working on an API for retrieving the contributions in a JSON format. From the API you will be able to retrieve the total amount of contributions per user, everyone per month, per year, and the all-time contributions. I hope the API will spark some interest, especially for those who are interest

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DCP mastering, still not category

Digital Cinema Package (DCP) mastering for films is still not an official category despite over a decade of mainstream use. Older posts with this question have gone unanswered. Please correct by adding this critical job to the category database for those of professionals who work the position (I hav

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IMDb Categories

I know there is a growing number of individuals like myself who work as Publicists, Unit Publicists who would LOVE IT, if IMDb were to create an independent category for us versus being piled in the MISCELLANEOUS CREW option. We spend countless many working hours (often times 12-14hr days... 7 days

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Make list of trivia, quotes and reviews more efficient

I suggest to create a ratio to autohide contributions that have passed a specific number of negative feedback, so the list of data is more efficient and not so long. I've noticed in the past year for sure that, for instance, there has been an abuse in trivia regarding actors connections to other mov

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Please put photo of actor from movie not the current photo. Showing current photo is confusing when I look up old movies

Please put photo of actor from movie not the current photo. Showing current photo is confusing when I look up old movies

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Automatically transfer ratings to films and TV shows from Kinopoisk to IMDb

Hello! I'm from Russia. We have a great analogue of your site called Kinopoisk. Here is his Internet address: https://www.kinopoisk.ru. On this site there is the possibility of transferring ratings to films and TV shows from the IMDb site there. But there is no way to transfer ratings from Kinopoisk

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IMDb Should Have a Better Poster Policy

Currently, the rules are: The most iconic and widely-recognized poster, of the best image quality. English language posters are preferred if available, although we may exercise editorial discretion to override this in some special cases. https://help.imdb.com/article/contribution/images-videos/how-d

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Photos with spoilers (Question/Idea)

I was very surprised that major spoilers from the final episodes were included in the Itaewon Class photos area, especially from #6 onwards. Is this considered acceptable? Is there a way to report them (I notice 'spoiler' or 'other' are not options in the current report menu for photos). I hand than

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Top Voters Badges

Are IMDB planning to create a "Top Voters" Badge, a bit like some of the other "Top xxx" badges?

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