Data Issues & Policy Discussions

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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Feedback on Redundant Biography Display of Birthdate

Hi IMDb Team, I wanted to provide some feedback regarding the biography display on IMDb profiles, specifically focusing on auto-generated biographies. Currently, the date of birth appears both at the top of the bio section and within the first sentence of the biography text. This redundancy seems

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Recognition of Michif as a Language

This is a poll proposing that Michif, the Métis language, be acknowledged by IMDB as a language. Please upvote if you agree that it should be recognized and added in.

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Tracking of episode title and number additions/corrections

Episode title and number additions/changes are one of the few items of data that don't get reported in the confirmation email for a submission or in the imdb.com/updates/history page for a submission.Is it possible to add them so they get tracked just like all other data - particularly if there is a

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Why is "Release Type" not required when submitting a TV episode, but when fixing?

I was fixing episodes 1/2 (which imdb also had as "11"), as they did not premiere in 2020, but 2022. I also submitted 3 as 2020 by accident then realized the errors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Love_Never_Lost (yes, it is Wikipedia, easier than linking to some Chinese websites to back up my cla

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Aggregate Amazon reviews the IMDb reviews so they're all in both places

It would be highly beneficial for film and TV makers along with users and audiences if the reviews for a title on Amazon would be aggregated and combined with the reviews for that same title on IMDb. That way all the reviews would be in both places and that would help get scores for both sites and h

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Missing Age Certificate

For Qatar: Banned, 18+, 15+, PG 15, PG13, PG, G                   For UAE:   Banned is missing for UAE. It would be helpful if an admin can input these ratings.

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Submission Guide for Bulk URLs Question

Hi Support, I run a review site (FilmBook) that is updated regularly and currently has well over 900 reviews published. Does IMDb's automatic review linking service still exist from 2011?: Submission Guide for Bulk URLsIf you have a review site that's updated regularly, with at least several hun

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Certificates

As a contributor I've noticed a problem with regard to the availability of certain certificates, for example - in Norway, in 2015 the ratings system re-vamped introducing a '6 years and older' rating (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_Media_Authority - https://www.medietilsynet.no/tv-film-radi

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A couple of bugs pertaining to soundtrack credits

There seems to be a couple of bugs relating to soundtrack credits. The first may just be an oversight. First, if you go to a name page, you cannot edit soundtrack credits from there. This is quite inconvenient if you need to make a lot of changes, say like adding an alternate name (aka "as attribut

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Add new languages.

Hello, I was correcting details of a movie called Sangi-gai 2023. It had wrong information about the movie language, it mentions language as "Indian sign language" which is incorrect. The movie is in Hindi & it has a lot of it's dailogues in Nyishi(Indigenous language of Arunachal Pradesh, India

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