Data Issues & Policy Discussions

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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Please Add Link to Polls FAQ to Community Home // All Categories // Services // IMDb Poll

Currently the link to the IMDb pollspage is shown on this GS Category page: Community Home All Categories Services IMDb Poll https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/categories/imdb_imdb_poll Related IMDb pollIt would be helpful to also include a link to the Polls FAQ (https://help.imdb.com/article/imdb/fea

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Suggestion for edit pages

Hopefully this will make sense, and it's probably been recommended before although a quick search I don't see it specifically as a suggestion. On the edit pages for trivia, goofs, and otherwise where applicable, a button that auto fills in "SPOILER:", "[link=]", and similar types of things to help b

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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 Mitchum https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000053/ the filmography on his Name page breaks down this way: Notice 114 for Actor: Movie and 8 for Self: Documentary But when I access his Refinable filmography (BTW, really like the new Quick Links on the Name page): https://www.imdb.com/filmosearch

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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 YouT

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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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Not into Phoney Hipster Shit .

Want something for Seniors that isn't condescending.

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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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