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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IMDB, please make updating your profile more user friendly!
There are 21,897 similar posts on this topic, and from a UserX perspective, this is a very large focus-group that indicates your platform for updating is much too complicated. I'm guessing that 90% of users of IMDB do not have personal assistants with degrees in wiki-coding. I'm sure many will agree
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"f-rated" keywords are totally ridiculous and should be eliminated
f-rated Used for any title which is either directed by a woman, written by a woman, or features significant women on screen in their own righttriple-f-rated Used for any title which meets all three of the f-rated criteria: directed by a woman, written by a woman and features significant women on scr
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"Plot Outline" Character Limit Should Be Included in the "Message" Box
After I took the time to compose a Plot Outline for a TV episode, I found out it was not acceptable because it was over 240 characters. It would be helpful to include this information in the Message box so contributors know this before they write. (I know it's available via the Help button, but why
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IMDb update receipt #170325-190152-602000 has Track Contribution tab for 27 March 2017
I realize it is an estimate but, my quote was added within a day of submission. This trivia, along with a goof and an alternate ending comment, are still pending and they were all submitted on the same day as the quote. It'd be nice to have a way of getting an updated estimate or if the submissions
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Last Week Tonight contributor question
I am working on creating a wiki for last week tonight (lastweek.wikia.com) it looks like someone in the IMDB community is also a huge fan and has been adding the trivia for all episodes starting with "each episode's title screens includes a faux Latin motto referencing a recent event..." if you are
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Confusion about Episode Sequence Numbers on the "Adding a New Episode" Page
There are many, many posts about episode season/number corrections and many complaints that people aren't numbering episodes properly. A lot of the confusion is due to the way episode sequence numbers are inputted on the "Adding a New Episode" page. Many contributors likely miss the instruction to a
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Could we please stop calling female actors actresses?
The term Actress is obsolete in a society where gender is non-binary and equal.
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I miss a staus Column on the "Update History"
Hello. I really miss a status Column on the "Update History"- For example a column at the end of each row that has status either for example: Pending, approved, not approved. I know about the "Track contribution" button, but that is not on every entry, anyways I will have to then click on the button
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