
Data Issues & Policy Discussions
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ATS for companies
In Advanced Title Search, please allow text input for "companies" (instead of check boxes). Please limit it to producer companies (excluding distributor companies). Thanks.
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disable ratings for shell episodes
(There's no help page for contributors about shell episodes.) Please enable a data designation for shell episodes that will disable their user ratings and warn contributors to consider redirecting contributions. Thanks.
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NO exceptions for any Alternate versions, Director's Cuts, etc.
I want to make my opinion public on this subject: There should be NO EXCEPTIONS whatsoever for ALTERNATE VERSIONS. There is a separate IMDb page for: Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12361974/ which is an Alternate Version (re-edit) of: Justice League (2017) https://w
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Suggest for more appropriate actor primary images
The portly Austrian born actor Walter Slezak (nm0805790) became best known to international audiences after moving to the U.S. in 1930. Most people would remember him from his excellent villainous roles (eg in Hitchcock's Lifeboat) or as the Clock King in Batman. The primary image currently in place
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Bring back spell check for user reviews.
Dear imdb, another idea/suggestion from me to you, friends at imdb. The title is self-explanatory. I think this feature was lost during the big update a few years ago. Love, Horst
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camera and grip and electrical department
Have look at any callsheet around the world. There are 3 different departments. Camera, Grip and Electrical. I am a Grip. I am not camera or electrical. Only takes a handful of letters to add "and grip" to our department.
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To accidentally close the website while writing a review should save a draft
While writing a review, if you were to leave the site, or close the web browser by accident, you will not get a confirmation request. (Which is very common practice for web pages tagged as forms). Furthermore, the fact that movie reviews takes long to write makes it vital to have some sort of fail-s
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Is there any way right now to find out if one of your reviews got reported/deleted?
like you could previously on http://www.imdb.com/user/ur0000000/comments-deleted Has anybody here had one of his reviews deleted recently and gotten any heads-up per email or so? If not, I would like to suggest this as an idea for the future!
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Why is data not saved when you re-check?
I just spent over three hours on a submission of the credits of a 2011 short film involving many people already in the database, but it failed to reload after numerous rechecks as I added more data in different categories as I went through the end credits. This random occurrence seems to have cost m
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Image tag correction issues
I just recently took a look at the new "Edit Tags" function for correcting the identities of people in photos, and this is a great idea. However, there are a couple of issues I believe should be addressed. In particular, suppose that a person with the same name but the wrong roman numeral has been l
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