
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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"www.doesthedogdie.com"
https://www.doesthedogdie.com/ lists some useful specific guidance. How would IMDB feel about adding a link, or is it considered a competitor ?
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How its possible. IMDb doesn't allow reviews in Spanish!
Hi im Ricardo from Mexico. well your page is one of the biggest research data for movies, and that also means that a lot of people use it, including Latin-America people. HOW!! it is possible that imdb doesn't allow reviews in Spanish!, Spanish is the second most talked language in the world, also y
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I don't care what Hollywood has to say about Politics
I go to movies and use IMDB to get away from work and the constant drumming of politics all around us. Now my haven has been taken over. Whether I agree or not is not the point. I stopped reading the IMDB news because every other article was political and I don't mean a movie about politics, I mean
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Uploading photos for contributions
It would be really nice when we are editing cast/crew lists if the "provide an explanation to assist in processing this change" box allowed us to upload photos. I have to upload them to my personal dropbox account and then link that photo.
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Imdb feature film length
I believe the IMDb feature film length should be changed from 45 minutes to 40 minutes to be consistent with American and British Film Institutes as well as the Oscars. Attention span is about 6 seconds, no wonder box office is down . Let's get some common sense ; great efficient filmmakers can tell
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Rendering of Standard Character Entity References in the Systems Replacing Swikis
A number of swiki pages (mostly title FAQ pages but also Synopsis pages) on IMDb contain standard XML/HTML character entity references in addition to links to other websites. The migrations from the old system to the new system as used by the revamped interfaces for Parents Guide pages and Synopsis
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Making confirmation email into a faithful record of what was submitted - for ease of checking
Would it be possible at some stage to review the code that generates the confirmation email for each submission so as to correct the cases where important information is omitted from the email. Examples are: Prod/Misc Companies: Company name and attribute are listed, but credit order is omitted. Ser
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Writing credits
I've got a problem about writing credits on the site. People like Billy Joel or David Bowie usually write their own songs and are credited as such but acts like The Spice Girls are credited as writers as a group instead of individually. I think it would be better if they were credited on the site as
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A provision for Japanese programs
In Japan, the tradition is to market different seasons of a show as their own unique shows. For instance: - In the 70-80s there was Lupin III shows Part 1 (1971-72), Part 2 (1977-80) Part 3 (1984-85) and Part 4 (2015-16). However, since the shows were produced by different studios and were more than
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