
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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Credits not on screen but listed online
Many modern television programmes don't have on-screen credits and instead say something like "For full credits, go to our website", with the full credits being listed on the official website. It seems misleading to have to credit everyone (including producers, directors, editors, etc.) as uncredite
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Why doesn’t IMDB add plays to its listings?
Yes I know its a site made for movies but there is no site that lists plays in any database format is there? Movie Stars do plays too don’t they?
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Allow Em Dash in Plot Outlines and Summaries
Please allow for the special character of em dash (—) in plot outline and summary sections. Currently, these are automatically replaced with the grammatically inappropriate regular dash (-), or worse yet, manually transliterated as two dashes (--). The em dash is an appropriate character for plot ou
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Could you prevent new users from making reviews?
One of many issues are fake user reviews. Recently I have went to read Thor Ragnarok reviews prior to seeing the movie. What I found out was that 90% of the reviews have 10/10 and almost all (maybe besides 1-2) are 2 day old accounts. Some of those accounts are from the same people, as they share re
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More video game settings
As video games become more and more relevant in entertainment, it would be very helpful if they saw increased importance in IMDb. In particular, we can currently only choose from movie genres, which don't always comply with video game genres. Also, in distribution types we can choose from things suc
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Updating actor credits in bulk
While perusing pages of some of my favorite soap actors, I constantly find there are many character names that are misspelled. It them appears as if this person has played many different versions of themselves (i.e., Camila Banus is listed as Gabriela Hernandez/Gabriella Hernandez/Gabi Hernandez/Gab
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An 'Edit' Option to Change 'Image Type'
Dear IMDb Staff, IMDb title images are currently available in 6 types as follows: When an user submitted image becomes live on the database, there is no 'Edit' option to change these image types. Suppose an user submitted an image under 'Still Frame' category, but the image is actually a 'Production
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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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