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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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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Detect and flag lazy links
Some yahoos are too lazy to create links and they just type the name and year of a movie. IMDB needs someone to write a string that can flag a year set in parentheses - a characteristic of this kind of item - and prompt the commenter to use a proper link.Also, there needs to be a way to autogenerate
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“Report this” in the Trivia section needs a “Series spoiler” option
Sometimes an item on the Trivia page for an episode can contain spoilers about events later on in the series, like “When this person does that it foreshadows his dead three episode hence.” Even if the item is place in the spoiler section of the episode’s Trivia page it ruins one’s enjoyment/surprise
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IMDb for Authors
Hi there, Do you think there could ever be a section for writers of novels added to the site? I’m a self publishing author myself and I would sign up to have a profile on here immediately! It would certainly help authors like myself building up our work and possibility of getting noticed by peop
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why no goof badge - see lot of trivia items that are really goofs
I'm curious why there's no goof badge like there is a trivia badge? The reason I ask is that I've seen a bunch of trivia items that are really goofs (and see here on the board that others have found the same).I'm guessing it's because there's no badge for goofs, so the person does it as a trivia ite
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Stargate SG-1 19 dups out of 36 - wow
Stargate SG-1 ep 1.1 has 19 duplicates out of 36 pics. How could this happen? It's seem that imdb could possibly develop an automated way to find something like this. I wonder if one person submitted all of them or did multiple people. Interesting.https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0234794/mediaindex?ref_
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