
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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Submission Format Programming Idea
I had a submission declined because I accidentally left out the 'L' in link so that it read [ink]. Is it possible to put in the programming that the [link] word needs to be properly formatted before it can be submitted? If [link] is the only error in the submission, which mine was, and it can be cau
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Export All data in HTML
Hi. I hope the developers see this. Please, let us export our data and all our lists and all the other stuff in HTML format. As of now, it is only possible to export each list for itself in JSON/Excel it seems. Would be nice if this simple method could be implemented. Cheers!
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Contribution declined - Rejection Reason
When a Contribution is 'Declined' it is often just missing information or supporting evidence. The status of the Contribution should be less 'permanent' - "Declined" implies Finality. Contribution Status should be: Submitted Being Reviewed Needs more Evidence Needs better Formatting Declined - Relev
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Mobile trivia editable but not goofs
IMDb support question This has been a problem since the very beginning. When the mobile site was implemented, there was no contributing at all, but subsequently, the mobile site allows adding and editing Trivia items, but Goofs remain read only. As a frequent user on mobile, why is this discrepancy
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Writing reviews to another language except the English Language?
Hi everyone My mother-language is Farsi / Persian, I can speak, write in the English Language a little, not much and perfect like a native who knows many words and has enough knowledge about grammar. Writing a good review and talk about strong and weak points a movie, tv show, performance, scenario
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Remove the Series/Episode Level Info boxes
So whilst agreeing with another contributor's comment the other day, I thought I'd post the idea (sorry if it's been done before recently) to get rid of the notices highlighted in red in the picture below They most appear on the Companies section and on most Basic Data options, maybe other places I'
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Missing episode status of series
Would it be possible to show the current status of episodes, exists in archives, missing etc. on the actual episode page. There's a great deal of Interest in finding lost shows, it might help to alert users towards a particular series & raise the profile of that show & generate fresh publicity which
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Flashing Lights Category in Parents Guide
I’m genuinely concerned for individuals who have photosensitive epilepsy (I’m not one of them), or are otherwise sensitive to flashing lights. I’d really like for IMDB to add a category for Flashing Lights in the Parents’ Guide where people can vote as Mild, Moderate or Severe just like the other 5
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Films from before 1927 should not be allowed to be classified as musicals
Currently, there are 200+ films from before the advent of sound listed as "musicals" on IMDb. (See for yourselves: https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?release_date=,1927-10-05&genres=musical) The Jazz Singer, generally considered the first 'talkie' and the first movie musical, was released on October
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Suggestion: Automatically remove keywords when two-thirds of their votes are "not-relevant"
The specifics on how this works could be up for debate, but currently the only way keywords get removed is via users manually putting them through a removal process. The problem here is that very few people seem to do this and we end up with many releases having a mass of inaccurate or duplicate key
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