
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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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 autogenerat
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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 people w
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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 it
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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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Picture Features We Could Use
I think it would be nice if we could rearrange the photos we've uploaded and also tag people like the photographer, makeup artist, hair stylist, copyright holder etc to have it visit their page even though they aren't physically in the photo.Would also be nice if, when a film or other person tags us
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What's the best way to show theme song lyrics in quotes
Here's two examples of how the lyrics for a show's theme song are quoted. (and ignore the annoying all caps).One has it with each lyric line as a separate quote line, and the other has it with the entire lyrics in one quote line.I prefer the one where each lyric line is in a separate quote line (ie
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Contributors' Charter
Contributors' Charter https://contribute.imdb.com/charter I suggest including a bullet point saying something along the lines of: We will make our best efforts only to approve contributions that are accurate and in keeping with IMDb policy.
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