
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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Plagiarism protection
When you start checking it becomes clear that many trivia items are directly copied from Wikipedia and other online sources, which means bad quality and is against the rules. Maybe you could use software that automatically searches for phrases and flags those with exact web matches, like schools tha
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Clarification regarding external links
There was a recent discussion at https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/data-issues-policy-discussions/added-dvds-that-are-constantly-rejected/648dd2caa2a8d86316feb9aa regarding the fact that some types of external links are not wanted for titles that are already in the database -- but ar
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Add capability to download your IMDb submission history.
There have been several times where it would be helpful to be able to download my IMDB submission history in some common format (CSV, Tab separated values, etc.) so I can analyze various issues. I would be interested in having such items as the submission ID, links to both the submission and the tra
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Suggestion: How to Handle Episode Numbers for BONUS Content
There are hundreds of podcasts and YouTube channels that self-number their episodes, but also provide BONUS content. This makes things difficult for IMDb contributors. Should we leave the episode-number field blank? Should we add episode numbers? The trouble with adding episode numbers is they will
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Add multiple episodes at once.
Hello, Everyone! I'm Willson from Indonesia. Through this post, I want to convey my ideas regarding adding episodes. As we know, there are still many countries that produce TV series with episodes of up to hundreds or even thousands of episodes. Therefore, I would like to propose that IMDb add a fea
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Add support for Kazakhstan / Russian local AKA titles
Hello! Why doesn't Title display language work? My Title display country Kazakhstan, Title display language Russian BUT I don't see title movies in Russian. Why? Is this a bug?
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The imdb should be overhauled, and here's why and how.
In my opinion, Imdb is the vastest and most complicated canyon of information there is on the internet, moreso than even wikipedia. What began with the intention of being an online Halliwell's or Maltin's has transformed into something way more complex - with 7 million people listed, and an ever-gro
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can you delete the ' China Contonese ' the option from Country/Language ?
In honestly we never use any title with Contonese in China mindland despite in Guangdong Province, we alaways use title with simplified Chinese the Mandrin. only this one option for China Mindland always. The Contonese title only availble in Hong Kong As a result I hope you can correct this error as
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New Award
As this year’s award season gets into full swing, I hope you might have a minute to consider a new idea. I have been working on a project for several years and the more I see IMDb in the news, on social media, and watch its growth and direction the more I think this idea is a great fit for the futur
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Between "artist" and "person"
Hello. A few days ago I had an... talk? discussion? nevermind, an exhange of ideas with IMDb's staff about the credits of singers and bands in music videos. From my point of view, I told them, there is a thick line between "artist" and "person"; i.e., Michael Jackson. When Michael filmed "Thriller",
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