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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I’d like to rate a whole series not episodes. One series is sometimes way better than another.
New rating capability
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Years listed for revived shows is misleading
Usually, when a TV series is listed on IMDb the page includes, among other information, the years in which the series originally ran (for example, 1994-2004 for the show Friends). Unfortunately, this gets a little confusing for shows that have been revived for additional seasons years after their or
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Suggestion: Animated movies in addition to the actors photo & the characters's name, you should show a photo of the animated character
Suggestion: When showing animated movies (They are kind of popular) next to the actors photo, or next to the characters's name, you should show a photo of the animated character.
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spoiler series
if you show the number of episodes of every actors by clicking on something, it can avoid spoiling series!
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Split segment titles
Among the movies registered in the IMDb, there are hundreds which are "segment movies", i.e. made of several segments with distinct casts and technical teams, very often even the directors. Usually, only the producer is common to all of them. E.g. see: 8, RoGoPaG, the seven segments of Woody Allen's
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Correction Explanations
I have recently started editing crew credits for movies and television shows that I watch. I provide an explanation for all credits I correct/update. It can be a rather lengthy process. First, you have to select correct/update, then you have to select which credits needs to be updated or corrected,
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Clearer "Version of" connections
I find the current appearance of "Version of" movie connections a little messy and buggy. With the new system of adding complex connections, the "reason" field is no longer directly editable by users. When it was, sometimes the connection would be added but the reason would remain blank (which wasn'
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Show a warning when adding an "alternate language version of" movie connection
An "alternate language version of" movie connection is applied, as described in the submission guide, to titles that "were made concurrently using the same sets and sometimes overlapping cast/crews", which was common during the early talkie era but then went obsolete a long time ago. However, i
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Explicit first name(s) and last name(s) in the Personal details section
Score of displayed names are made of more than two elements. If you are not familiar with the culture of the country of origin, it makes it difficult to identify which element(s) make up the first name, and which the last.I would like to have a specific explicit entry in the Personal Details s
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Improve the process for reporting a news item
I have a suggestion for improving the process for reporting a news item that has been linked to the wrong person.When one wants to report a news item, one clicks "Report this". That will take one to an "IMDb Contact Us" form, and the news item constant of the news item will be within the URL (exampl
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