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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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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Include radio serials/adaptations and audio dramas/books

This came up on another thread, so I thought I'd post it as a suggestion: https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topi... There is a large amount of crossover between radio and audio works, more so than video games: * They often have large casts, script writers, etc., often sharing the same big names as ot

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Release date attributes

Please add guidance on streaming/VOD/internet releases to the attributes section of the release date submission guide. https://help.imdb.com/article/contrib... For instance, the distributor guide describes both "VOD" and "internet" attributes, should both also be used for release dates? https://help

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Making Gameplay Eligible on IMDb

Other than voice overs, what else can be done to, or added to, gameplay in order to make it eligible to be listed on IMDb? I know (or at least I assume that) that machinimas are allowed, since it most likely will have a separate narrative from whatever game it was recorded in. Not to mention all the

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Remove rule about modifying posters

Suggestion to remove this rule about poster images: If the existing display poster is incorrect – you must request a new poster to replace the current image first. Submitting a request to delete the existing 'primary' poster, before the new one is live will result in your contribution being discarde

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Index page

It would be a good idea to restore the user review index page to make it easier to browse a user's reviews without refreshing the bottom of the page.

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Processing Time Tracking - Graphs Attached

Clarification: This data is based on my own dataset generated from the IMDb processing times page (Public known information) and data is added every 12 hours. (9 am/pm UTC). Also I am not a member of IMDb staff. Hello, after the massive increase of contribution over the last month (september-october

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Persian Plots

In The Name of God Hi IMDb, One of Oldest, Historical & Traditional language of world wide in humanity is Persian what's more than 100 million people are talking Persian on Earth Planet[1] that it's belongs to Aryan people[2] where part of it's coming from first powerful (civilization, scientific, i

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Revise Delete/Amending Film Credits Policy

Dear Imdb staff, hereby to request revising the Imdb policy with regards to editing and removing film credits for film professionals on Imdb. It's a violation of privacy not to allow to edit the personal Imdb profile pages, especially when one pays for Imdb pro too. Hereby to request to amend your p

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Dubbed versions (animation)

When browsing throught non-american animated titles I often see actors/actresses credited from both original cast and US casts, which I think is the proper way. However, the distiction between the original and dubbed cast is rather mixed up. There is not a clear list of what is the dubbed cast and w

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