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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Uploading more than one photo at the same time?
Is there anyway in the future we could get the ability to upload more than one still shot, poster etc at a time? Of course the upload might have to be for the specific categories of photos being uploaded; as someone who's constantly adding new pages and adding the photos, this would be a major time
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Credit for extras in IMDB tab
Why cant IMDB have a subsection of "Extras and Background"? Dog Handlers, Caterers, Gardeners and even Dogs themselves get onscreen credit. Extras are extremely important in todays TV and Film industry, What is the problem with letting them have an extras and background subsection under "Cast and Cr
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Trivia, Goofs etc submissions: allow the use of italics and/or bold text modifications for submissions
Allow users to italicise and/or bold words in submissions for trivia, goofs etc because some words are required to be differentiated from other English words (e.g. scientific names of species should always be italicized or underlined).
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Silent film composers
I was commissioned to compose music for the silent film Little Annie Rooney (imdb.com/title/tt0016028/fullcredits), which was shown in theaters and broadcast on TCM this year; the soundtrack was also released on iTunes this year. I tried to get my credit added with the attribution (2016) but it was
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Shorts incorrectly listed as wide theatrical releases
In the thread at https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/no-actors-credits, IMDb staffer Marv encouraged people to suggest ways to deal with short films being incorrectly submitted with release dates without attributes. A release date with no attribute is supposed to mean a wide release (which, in t
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Romance and War Genre Definitions
Suggested revision of definitionsRomance: Should contain numerous inter-related scenes (40% of screen time or more) of characters and their personal lives with emphasis on emotional attachment or involvement with other characters, especially those characterized by a high level of purity and/or devo
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treat videos like photos and allow tags for only the videos actor appears in
Hey, there. I'd like to suggest an idea. Treat videos like photos on IMDb. When a production uploads a photo, just the actors appearing in that photo are tagged. It doesn't make any sense that every actor and crew member in every video uploaded by a production is tagged, whether t
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Searchable Occupation database
I have been updating cast and crew in some films recently.One problem I have with crew members is that sometimes it is not obvious to which department the occupation given belongs. Not being a professional in the film/ TV industry, many of these job titles make little sense to me (scan and shoot,&nb
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Editing Images - How to change stills to 'behind the scenes'
When editing images I have noticed some say 'Still of ------ in ------', some say '---- in ----' and some say '----- behind the scenes of ------' how do you change the categories of these images? One example is that this image http://www.imdb.com/media/rm4035560704/nm3389576?ref_=nmmi_mi_all_bts_10
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Any plans to allow adult images (with strict rules)?
Hello,I worked and am still working on various movies and series that could be categorized as softcore and others as explicit erotica/adult movies. So I'm not talking here about close-up/hardcore/no-story-needed porn videos (even though I also work on some of those).At the moment, getting images acc
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