
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.
20.8K
All
Question
Problem
Idea
Praise
Announcements
- •••
Original cover as primary image
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.
Idea
•
No Status
22
0
0
"television" versus "tv" keywords - How should they be merged?
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,
Idea
78
3
2
Make short genre mandatory according to runtime
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
Idea
•
No Status
121
4
12
Should the checkers of reviews, have to detail which-reasons for declining a review?
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
Idea
73
2
-2
Keywords: Allow public voting and downvoting. Allow the wider community to decide what gets tagged.
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
Idea
•
No Status
145
8
-2
Length of Mini Bios
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.....
Idea
•
No Status
31
0
0
Short films (esp. those post-2010 moved to their own db)
Problematically further ghettoises the genre but it frees up info though again actors mkght have double entries
Idea
70
2
1
Gender- adding they/them pronouns
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..."
Idea
•
No Status
231
7
2
Revision of Support Contact System
There have been recent complaints about problems with the support request system, but the problems go deeper than restoring the mentioned lost functionality. The system has problems which cause unnecessary work and confusion for both contributors and support employees. The system doesn‘t (or at leas
Idea
•
No Status
53
3
5
Am I taking a quiz making a contribution...?
I swear I'm not a complete idiot. Twice now (the other was likely a year ago), I've seen an entry have something with a question that I thought was a quiz and it turned out I was submitting something (and my guess is NOT likely to be correct). They sent me an email with a confirmation (IMDb update r
Idea
•
No Status
42
1
0

