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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Add a new series title type

There's a crying need (of both contributors and users) to have theatrical short subjects, and short subjects within a TV series, listed as their own series. I can understand this. IMDb may want to consider a new feature. Link series. A link series will have links, instead of episodes. For example, t

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Captioning errors entered as Goofs

I'm seeing a lot of Goofs identifying differences between the movie's audio and the captions; these are not Goofs per IMDb guidelines. If the word "episode" triggers an automatic response of "Don't repeat episode names/numbers.", an analogous response should be created whenever the word "caption" is

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Allow people to delete reviews even when it's pending

When someone posts a review. It would be super nice to actually allow people a function that allows you to delete that review or edit it after it's posted but currently in "pending" process. I don't want to waste moderator time. But I had wanted to send a review of Insidious: red door movie. But had

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Screen time

Would it be possible to add screen time (number of minutes in movie or show) to actors' filmography?

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Category addition suggestion to 'contact details' -- Manager- Social Media

Most of our clients now have managers and social media managers and it would be helpful if the contact information could reflect that

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Adding missing certifications

I want to add a new certifications for Kuwait, Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria and UAE. These will be Kuwait: E old ratings: G 16+ -16 Bahrain: 18+ (Banned) Iraq: G PG 13 PG 15 15+ 18+ 18TC Jordan: G PG PG13 15+ 18+ (Banned) Morocco: Tout public (Banned) O

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Plagiarism protection

When you start checking it becomes clear that many trivia items are directly copied from Wikipedia and other online sources, which means bad quality and is against the rules. Maybe you could use software that automatically searches for phrases and flags those with exact web matches, like schools tha

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Clarification regarding external links

There was a recent discussion at https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/data-issues-policy-discussions/added-dvds-that-are-constantly-rejected/648dd2caa2a8d86316feb9aa regarding the fact that some types of external links are not wanted for titles that are already in the database -- but ar

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Add capability to download your IMDb submission history.

There have been several times where it would be helpful to be able to download my IMDB submission history in some common format (CSV, Tab separated values, etc.) so I can analyze various issues. I would be interested in having such items as the submission ID, links to both the submission and the tra

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Suggestion: How to Handle Episode Numbers for BONUS Content

There are hundreds of podcasts and YouTube channels that self-number their episodes, but also provide BONUS content. This makes things difficult for IMDb contributors. Should we leave the episode-number field blank? Should we add episode numbers? The trouble with adding episode numbers is they will

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