
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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With Covid more movies are being released on demand through online and cable platforms. I would be nice to see the revenue numbers include online/on demand rentals and purchases. Currently this is norm during the Covid and may become the standard after Covid. Just an idea. thanks
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allow attaching of images in "explanation" field when updating information as a contributor
When updating information, the "explanation" field should allow images to be attached. Thanks.
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Color Grading needs its own job category
Color Grading needs its own job category. Colorists don’t know where to put their credits, they’re currently hidden under editorial or vfx, neither of those are accurate. Such an important job really deserves its own category. Who can I contact about this?
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“Video” (V) tag
I think IMDb should get rid of that tag. It’s redundant now: pretty much all movies are going to be “straight-to-video”, since theaters are dying.
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Add VoD distributor type
Since basically every type of content is distributed via a VoD platform, either directly from the start or some time later, the distributor type should have an option for that. This was proposed five years ago by Peter_pbn but has not yet been implemented so I'm bringing it up again. While doing tha
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change topic name
Wo He Wo De Jia Xiang https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12363162/ this name should be *My People, My Homeland* for English
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Portuguese language
In the marital status data of an actress, the corresponding field mentions ESPOSAS (wives), which is a direct but erroneous translation of SPOUSES. The correct equivalent for SPOUSE(S) is CÔNJUGE(S), as can otherwise be seen in the iOS version.
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separate camera and electrical.
I use IMDB to find camera crews on jobs. Is there any way to separate camera and electrical? Sometimes there are so many names to go through just to find the first and second assistant camera. It would be so helpful. Thanks
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Keyword "Police-Officer" and Gender-Versions: multiple keywords with same meaning, hundreds of combinations
Data-Analysis: Main-Keyword: gender-neutral-versions: police-officer (6881 titles) police-officers (0) female-versions: female-police-officer (327 titles) female-police-officers (0) male-versions: male-police-officer (50 titles) male-police-officers (0) These are today's correct definitions and gend
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