Data Issues & Policy Discussions

Dear Imdb staff, hereby to request revising the Imdb policy with regards to editing and removing film credits for film professionals on Imdb.  It's a violation of privacy not to allow to edit the personal Imdb profile pages, especially when one pays for Imdb pro too.  Hereby to reque

When browsing throught non-american animated titles I often see actors/actresses credited from both original cast and US casts, which I think is the proper way. However, the distiction between the original and dubbed cast is rather mixed up. There is not a clear list of what is the dubbed cast and w

I want to develop an algorithm that de-skews IMDB rating histories. I hypothesize that early episodes in series are skewed downward by viewers who check out a show and decide it's not to their liking and stop watching (see sample show graph below.) What remains is the average rating of "loyal viewer

I have noticed that there aren’t Lithuanian symbols when adding titles or names. This is sad, as in this day and age people should be able to spell their names right and many other websites support symbols from other languages than English. In Lithuanian case, there’s only a few, for example ė (t

There are a few movies produced by the Navajo Nation, considered an autonomous country, and several silent movies produced in the Ottoman Empire, yet neither of these countries are listed in the pull-down menu. Please add them, so the movies can be listed correctly. Navajo films currently have th

Would it not be a GOOD idea to put the message block for password recovery at the first page of the website instead of it being buried in later pages? I guess this is asking to much, or there is insufficient knowledge of web site programmers to think of such a concept. Anyone in the site technical s

When adding credits to an episode there is an option to copy credits from a selected season or year. If you do that, it will copy all the data from the first credit for that person in that season/year (as far as I can tell). That is not always helpful. If the credit has been copied and approved but

Add a way to sort by these three categories on the IMDb contribution page so that it is easier to keep track over your contributions and fix potential issues with your submissions. This would make it easier to fix declined items, make it easier to spot how many items you have contributed that have s

Often when reading fun facts on movies people refer to visual or audio details that can easily be missed. It would be beneficial if those submitting the details can insert stills and small clips. 

Why not start a music database with the same format as the current IMDB?Currently IMDB is the best movie database ever. It would be so cool to have a similar one for music and musicians.