
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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Forcing contributions to add episode when the add a new podcast to the database
Hello! If this question / ide has already been discussed , I then apologize here in advance. but I did not find a thread after I searched in several ways. My ide / Question. Has it been discussed to add a function when you are add a new podcast. Which forces you to add at least three episodes that m
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Profile pictures that show up only in contributor mode
Everyone wants the ability to add profile pictures without paying a fee; but since these fees are a source of revenue for IMDb, that may be impossible. How about pictures that show up only in contributor mode? Seeing a picture of someone is an invaluable tool for me as a contributor. It helps me det
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[ Activity page for Plot Authors ?? ]
🙄 We've chatted about this before - still not fixed ?? (Mon Nov 20 2017) Link Activity page to Plot Authors Col Needham IMDb member since October 1990
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Date added to IMDb for Titles and Name pages ??
@Bethanny 😁 Could IMDb add the Date the page was created to IMDb for Titles and Name pages ?? recently added... Hot and Mean 33 (2024) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31260000/ Blood of Dracula's Castle 69 (1977) Double Chiller Theatre (TV Series) No credits?? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31260005/ Pi
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VR credit
I filmed in a 2D VR mini series (virtual reality) I don’t see an area to property add this type of credit under additional. Is there a way to contact IMdB to suggest virtual reality filmmaking as a new section?
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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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