Data Issues & Policy Discussions

Hello, IMDb contributors. I sent the below message to the IMDb help desk and they advised me to post it here to measure the level of interest in the idea. Original suggestion below : I have a general suggestion regarding the Awards section of the database. In terms of major awards such as the Academ

Many sites that rely on public contributions have systems where users have rankings to say what data they can edit that already exist on their sites. So would it not be possible for the top most reliable contributors on IMDb to have some sort of status where their contributions cannot be altered by

Hello, As a general remark, please leave original and iconic movie covers as they are; replacing primary image with alternate covers can be visually misleading in lists and simply do not represent movies as they were originally intended. Thank you very much. Best.

I've noticed a lot of bifurcation in various keywords that include "tv" and "television." How should those keywords be merged? My proposal would be as follows: (1) Use "tv" in keywords that refer to the actual content that appears on television, including shows, programs, series, commercials, news,

According to IMDb rules, any movie with a runtime of 44 minutes or less is a short film. However, the only way to have a title identified as a short film is by adding the short genre in the genre film, otherwise, the title will appear as a feature despite its runtime. Over the last months I have add

2 quick yeses and nos each, could be a better idea for answers to this one... ----------- Should the checkers of reviews, have to detail which-reasons for declining a review, to be co-operative / efficient / to-save-time? Is it realistic to expect ordinary-people to keep them all in mind as-well-as

Is anyone here familiar with rateyourmusic? It's a music cataloging site. It has a very specific way of tagging content. Here's an example. You can see on this link that the album is tagged as "Merseybeat" and "Pop Rock". This isn't tagged by moderators who review tags, but by the users of the websi

Might I respectfully suggest to increase the minimum length of mini bios from 50 to 100 words ? After all, how can justice be done to a person's entire life/career by summing it up in a scant three or four sentences ? Anyhow, just a thought.....

Problematically further ghettoises the genre but it frees up info though again actors mkght have double entries

The current options for gender are male or female. It's 2021, time to add some additional options. It would be great to have "_ is known for their work on..."