
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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Why are the external review links still "nofollow"?
I think it would benefit IMDB contributers a bit more, certainly for those sites who are sending traffic back to IMDB. In all those years I would have expected that you would change this.
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IMDb needs to stop deadnaming trans people
IMDb should not put trans people’s old names out there. The site should make an exception for the policy of not removing factual information, since this is extremely disrespectful to all trans people working in the film industry. Trans people’s deadnames aren’t information that people are entitled t
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help with what color is this badge?
Forgive me, but can someone please tell me what color is considered gold and which is bronze? I'm thinking the one on the left is bronze, but I'm not positive. The reason I'm not sure is because imdb has right after this gold, silver, and bronze which one would think would be the order of the 3 item
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Took me Just Under or Over 3 Hours to Get Through all this, due to a lot of Internet Searching
I ended up editing 150 trivia items on this trivia page last night: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1979376/triviaThere certainly were a lot of stuff without qv links that I myself ended up implementing, with me constantly going back and forth to snag the last portion of web addresses to IMDB Pages to
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Idea for submitting trivia items with option for verification
I recently had a trio of trivia items rejected that I had done some reading on before posting. Thanks to the board here that's been resolved, but it just gave me an idea. When doing a correction or deletion of a good or trivia item, there are radio boxes for why one is making the change along with a
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Stand-Up genre
I think it's really confusing having all those stand-up shows in the database under the 'Documentary' genre. What's keeping the staff from adding the genre 'Stand-up'? Note: This conversation was created from a reply on: Adding stand up special.
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Great Performances
1. Turner Program Services2. A&E Television Networks3. National Endowment for the Arts4. 20th Television
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Character Description
I would like to suggest that IMDb give a brief character description for each character in the cast list Not just who played the part.
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Cartoon Characters and Puppets Versus Actors and Actresses
Sorry to disappoint many (and, on occasion, even myself), BUT animated characters and puppets ARE NOT real people, and SHOULD NOT have 'Name' pages, but SHOULD BE listed as Character performed by actors or actresses.Donald Duck, Charlie McCarthy, Mortimer Snerd, Kukla, Ollie, etc., should not have '
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How to make an idea for a new Oscars badge for IMDB?
I would like to make a badge for users to get on IMDB, more specifically an oscars badge. I am aware some years are present, but other years aren't.
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