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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Arbitrary Release Date Definitions Of Titles
Titles of certain films date as 'first time shown' -- is becoming a major headache for producers and distributors. Too many films have flooding the market over the last 5 years, distributors - retailers - platforms (worldwide) are referencing IMDB's year as the year the film -- anything over 2 years
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Filmography on Name page varies from Refinable version
For Robert Mitchumhttps://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000053/the filmography on his Name page breaks down this way:Notice 114 for Actor: Movieand 8 for Self: DocumentaryBut when I access his Refinable filmography (BTW, really like the new Quick Links on the Name page):https://www.imdb.com/filmosearch?sort=
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New option: production number
We have three ways to identify the episode of a series: by title, by air date and by number. I'd like to have a fourth option: production number.For a series that doesn't have proper season breaks, we already use production numbers, in effect. We often pretend that a long-running soap opera or YouTu
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Credits for Restored Editions of Films
It's 2019. There are hundred of newly restored editions of older films being re-released, including the work of craftspeople and artisans helping clean films up for high definition 2K and 4K presentation. That IMDB refuses, literally kicking and screaming "the attribute 'restoration/restored' is ine
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Is "unable to verify" the right term to use?
I've noticed several recent threads here where people have received messages that IMDb was "unable to verify" their submissions:https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/review-declined-because-unable-to-verify-contributionhttps://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/why-is-something-that-is-common-knowled
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Please try to refine the list.
Please try to refine the list by adding Dag II and a request, please do not remove Swades from the list..it has a special place in the heart of Indians.
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Displaying the number of credits by job category
A person's credits are displayed in order of the number of credits in each job category (except that Thanks, Self, and Archive Footage credits are always displayed last).However, the number of credits is not displayed in a manner which is useful to users. See the following from Tom Hanks' page, for
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Support OpenData
Integrate with OpenData sources such as Wikidata and Open Unique ID's such as EIDR and ISRC
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Simple, brief critique buttons
I think buttons available on each movie/show title used for a more quantifiable and direct indication as to why the movie was disliked or refused to be watched by users, using the same categories you have available to show severeity of a type of content, i.e. a dislike or not watched button due to s
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