
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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Can we make update changes to IMDB contribution system to prevent mislabeled credit vandalism?
To the IMDB staff, I know it has been very hectic for the staff, and I've found loopholes on the IMDB contribution that allowed some pranksters to mislabel company credits and the credits names for Directors, Producers, Writers, Cast, Crew Members like what has been happening to the Pororo the Pengu
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linking non-Amazon Watch Options
Since Watch Options include non-Amazon platforms, please let contributors link non-Amazon Watch Options when one isn't already linked to a title.
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Suggestion: Consider blacklisting "gratuitous" in Parents Guide items.
As outlined in the "Parents Guide" submission guide, [...] the beliefs that parents want to instill in their children can vary greatly. Please only describe the facts of relevant scenes [...] It seems to me that whether a given occurrence of nudity, gore, et cetera is gratuitous or not is necessaril
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IMDB should make a "Podcast Special" title type.
Why we can't add an one-episode only podcast shows?
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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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