
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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Bill Stafford is alive
For many years, imdb has been listing him as deceased in 2001 but below video proves he's still alive. https://youtu.be/OnzQuOy99u4 https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0821247/?ref_=tt_rv Thus channel owner has even been in touch with him: https://youtu.be/sAQDS-BRTCA
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IMDB refuse to remove me from a film I had nothing to do with.
221229-215924-431000 The soundtrack to Westside story was recorded by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and I have sent in the end credits to confirm this. Some idiot has listed several UK musicians (including myself) who don't even have the right to work in the US and had nothing to do with this
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How is the average on ‘32 weeks’ 5.3/10 when the actual reviews are so high?
Refer to the reviews - unable to paste image rated 10 - 23% rated 9 - 30.3% rated 8 - 26.3% rated 7 - 11.1% etc etc
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watermarked screenshots
most or all of the screenshots have someone's watermark in them that is obviously not a part of the product. isn't that against the guidelines? if all the watermarked screenshots to be deleted i can make new ones, i have the game installed https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1454909/mediaindex?refine=still
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What proof is needed to get a credit added?
I know of someone who has a credit for a movie that was submitted by a fan. She is not seen in this movie, she is not heard in this movie and she isn't even a member of SAG. So I'm wondering what proof was used to give her this credit?
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Can I change short film listings to episodes of a tv show?
I've got a few short films that were posted as such but I wanted to switch them to episodes of a TV-Show called "XanderSketches Presents...". That way they could all be under the same name as a sort of anthology series and so I could post more under that title. I haven't made a credit of that show n
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Much of update history missing
https://contribute.imdb.com/updates/history?start=1150 At least half of my update history is missing. Please restore. I want my full history to use in a data analysis project. Briefly : I joined IMDB in 2000, chiefly to update large gaps in the credits of Japanese movies. I added thousands upon thou
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searches by mpa ratings?
Is there any way to use IMDB to search for movies by mpa ratings?
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No Holiday Genre or Keyword
Unable to find movies in the Holiday Genre because it is missing from the genre list and from the keyword list.
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Wilhelm Scream: Who Keeps Track of This?
I'm working on a documentary about the famous "Wilhelm Scream" sound effect and I've noticed that the sound effect's usage is well-documented in IMDb trivia. Is there any particular person contributing or multiple? I've noticed the entries typically start with "WILHELM SCREAM"
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