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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Should the checkers of reviews, have to detail which-reasons for declining a review?

2 quick yeses and nos each, could be a better idea for answers to this one... ----------- Should the checkers of reviews, have to detail which-reasons for declining a review, to be co-operative / efficient / to-save-time? Is it realistic to expect ordinary-people to keep them all in mind as-well-

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Keywords: Allow public voting and downvoting. Allow the wider community to decide what gets tagged.

Is anyone here familiar with rateyourmusic? It's a music cataloging site. It has a very specific way of tagging content. Here's an example. You can see on this link that the album is tagged as "Merseybeat" and "Pop Rock". This isn't tagged by moderators who review tags, but by the users of the websi

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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

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Length of Mini Bios

Might I respectfully suggest to increase the minimum length of mini bios from 50 to 100 words ? After all, how can justice be done to a person's entire life/career by summing it up in a scant three or four sentences ? Anyhow, just a thought.....

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Short films (esp. those post-2010 moved to their own db)

Problematically further ghettoises the genre but it frees up info though again actors mkght have double entries

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Gender- adding they/them pronouns

The current options for gender are male or female. It's 2021, time to add some additional options. It would be great to have "_ is known for their work on..." 

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More options for sorting cast as actors

Instead of having to use the reenactment keyword for titles that don't feature reenactments, I would like to see other ways to categorize credits as acting credits rather than Self. For example, most talk-shows have non-fiction as a keyword, which sorts all their credits as Self. This includes Da

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Revision of Support Contact System

There have been recent complaints about problems with the support request system, but the problems go deeper than restoring the mentioned lost functionality. The system has problems which cause unnecessary work and confusion for both contributors and support employees. The system doesn‘t (or at

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Am I taking a quiz making a contribution...?

I swear I'm not a complete idiot. Twice now (the other was likely a year ago), I've seen an entry have something with a question that I thought was a quiz and it turned out I was submitting something (and my guess is NOT likely to be correct). They sent me an email with a confirmation (IMDb up

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More video game settings

As video games become more and more relevant in entertainment, it would be very helpful if they saw increased importance in IMDb. In particular, we can currently only choose from movie genres, which don't always comply with video game genres. Also, in distribution types we can choose from things suc

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