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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Suggestion: Support "qv" syntax for links on Quotes pages
In a discussion on the CH board, staff member Will (swiftw) indicatedthat the "qv" link syntax is not currently supported for Quotes. www.imdb.com/board/bd0000042/nest/261564454?d=261649606#261649606In my reply there, I've listed the numerous existing attemptsto create "qv" links in Quote submissio
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The Awards submission guide's advice will confuse newcomers ...
The Awards submission guide begins with the following advice:To begin submitting data, click on the relevant event on the IMDb Awards page, then scroll to the bottom and hit the yellow Edit Page button.OK, lets suppose that we want to add a 2016 Primetime Emmy win.Let's follow&nb
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Suggestion: Combine the "Title Formats" Submission Guide and the "How are titles formatted?" help page
I suggest the possibility of combining these two pages,which currently contain some overlapping information: The Title Formats Submission Guide: https://contribute.imdb.com/updates/guide/title_formats The "How are titles formatted?" help page: h
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Crazy idea: Archiving credit screenshots in the database?
Since I've been observing discussions on this public board, I've noticed that it has often been necessary to post images of screen credits for verification.For various reasons, and even long after a title's screen credits were thought to have been completely and correctly recorded, questions or clai
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The way the Israeli release names (in Hebrew) are displayed is unreadable
Movies for Israeli users are displayed in a localization of sorts - Except it's not the Hebrew name of the movie, but rather a Hebrew transcription of the name in English lettering, so for example Watchmen should be "השומרים" but instead it is "Ha'shomrim". This is unreadable and quite unhelpful. If
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Images policy
As far as I can tell, for titles that have images but no poster, there is no way to move a non-poster image out of the primary slot, correct? This is disappointing because non-poster landscape oriented images sometimes wind up in the poster window and are tough to make out (i.e. the subjects
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Citations to reveal sources of information (a suggestion for long-term development)
Currently, IMDb does not provide a way for contributors to include source citations for display with contributed data. Implementing that capability throughout the system would presumably be impractical in the near term, but perhaps might be of interest as a very long-term possibility?Today I used I
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Spoiler tag for images?
Can IMDb consider implementing a "spoiler tag" for images?If users could tag images as containing spoilers, could IMDb then ensurethat the system would not display spoiler-tagged images on main title pages?(Spoiler-tagged images would remain available on a title's gallery page,but would not be d
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The downvote option in the User Reviews Section might still be abolished
I wrote this post:"I realize that it would be a huge issue and this idea might sound precariouslyrevolutionary but the reasons for coming up (no pun intended) with it are quiteobvious. Let me list them briefly.Point 1. If someone – for whatever reasons – didn’t find someone else’s review “useful
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Experimental movies
please create page " the best Experimental movies all time" like best animation ever page.thank
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