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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It's no longer M.P.A.A. - Since 2019, it's just M.P.A.
The organization previously known as "Motion Picture Association of America" changed its name officialy in September 2019 to "Motion Picture Association," eliminating the "of America" part. This change is explained in the official website of the M.P.A. thus: https://www.motionpictures.org/who-we-a
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Make sure reviews are reviews again (minimum of 50 words instead of 50 characters)
Idea: Make sure reviews are reviews again.Current situation: Recently, IMDb has decided that a user review should at least have 50 characters. I feel it is impossible to write a review in - let's say - 60 or 70 characters. However, because IMDb allows this, a lot of useful, insightful observations l
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Plot summary formatting restrictions incompatible with certain types of content
I wish to update the episode listings of "Friday Night Videos" with episode information. Given the format of this show, the episode information essentially breaks down to a list of music videos. The formatting of "plot summary" converts new lines to spaces, turning a list into a long string o
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Things that make IMDb easier to use
I live in an area that have frequent power failures so why not implement a function that automatically save the text input (every 1 minute?) when we users are writing a review. As it is now, we lose everything when the power goes down (as it did write this) and we must start all over again! Even if
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It is 2024 and IMDB trailers still don't have closed captions?
DOES IMDB CARE ABOUT ACCESSIBILITY???
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The “Credit only” situation
It has always struck me as unfair and quite deceptive actually, for tv series particularly, how the “credit only” credits are displayed. If a person is credited for all episodes of a series but appears in none of them, they are still listed at the top of the cast list, above those who actually cont
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Series end year
Can you make an option to change series end year on the edit page?Yeah i known you can add end year on the edit page, but you can't change or remove itNow you need to write to imdb contact and wait a day, and sometimes it doesn't happen on the first time, because like i said it before, i will say it
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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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