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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Remove rule about modifying posters
Suggestion to remove this rule about poster images: If the existing display poster is incorrect – you must request a new poster to replace the current image first. Submitting a request to delete the existing 'primary' poster, before the new one is live will result in your con
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Index page
It would be a good idea to restore the user review index page to make it easier to browse a user's reviews without refreshing the bottom of the page.
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Processing Time Tracking - Graphs Attached
Clarification: This data is based on my own dataset generated from the IMDb processing times page (Public known information) and data is added every 12 hours. (9 am/pm UTC). Also I am not a member of IMDb staff. Hello, after the massive increase of contribution over the last month (september-octo
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Persian Plots
In The Name of God Hi IMDb, One of Oldest, Historical & Traditional language of world wide in humanity is Persian what's more than 100 million people are talking Persian on Earth Planet[1] that it's belongs to Aryan people[2] where part of it's coming from first powerful
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Revise Delete/Amending Film Credits Policy
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
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Dubbed versions (animation)
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
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API Improvement needed for de-skewing ratings
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
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Please add Lithuanian symbols so people can spell their names correctly
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
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Add Ottoman Empire & Navajo Nation to list of countries
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
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Reset Pass Word
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
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