Data Issues & Policy Discussions
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Academy Awards Event Overview
Event Overview: http://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000003/o... The statistics in the Notes section could be updated if anyone here is able and willing to find the information. In the Awards section, these two items could be removed as they are meant to be listed with a year and they are already include
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Can it be changed so genres can be added to individual episodes of TV shows?
There's a problem with IMDb posting inappropriate updates of genres to TV shows where some episodes might individually be described as being one genre that the series as a whole isn't, but IMDb lists it as this genre anyway.For example, "Tales from the Crypt" is predominately a horror series, but ha
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Separate articles from Miscellaneous Sites
On External Sites pages, many of the links listed under Miscellaneous Sites are various other movie sites with profiles for titles. Links to actual articles about a title can seem buried in such a list. It would be cool to have a separate subsection for articles on the same page. This would also be
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Martial Arts Movies
"Martial Arts" should be a genre (I'm pretty sure everyone would back me up on this)
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Unit Production Assistant should be categorized under Location Management
The Unit Production Assistant position is actually part of the Locations department on a film, but IMDB currently has it categorized as Miscellaneous Crew. Now that IMDB has added a Locations Management category it would be more appropriate to move the Unit Production Assistant category under Locati
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Number of photos/titles with photos on stats page
Can you add the number of photos as well as the number of titles with photos to www.imdb.com/stats?(note: the number of people with headshots is already listed on the stats page)
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Change attribute "uncredited" to "No Screen Credit".
Hi IMDB community, I have a proposal regarding the attribute “uncredited”, change to “No Screen Credit” or NSC for short. I note the attribute “uncredited” discussion comes up from time to time and for different reasons and I believe this suggested change will also help with those others concerns. M
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IMDB, please save your reputation: stop the user rating sabotage
The deliberate, politically motivated sabotage of movies like The Last Jedi & Black Panther is blindingly obvious to all. The trolls even claim credit for their actions, and the IMDB user ratings do not line up with any other gauge of these movies' overall success & public receptions. IMDB,
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Updating information (esp. via the app)
When updating info - be it trivia, or whatnot, and your info contains actor's names, or protect info, t you can't include this info the 'old' way; via 'qv' info. Now you must do it with 'links', i.e. ( link=...). If this is being done from one's phone, or tablet, this information isn't easily gleane
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