Data Issues & Policy Discussions
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Editing plot outline of Hamnet (2025)
The current plot outline for Hamnet (2025) violates IMDb guidelines, as it reveals a major plot point: the death of Agnes' son, Hamnet, which occurs roughly halfway through the film. I attempted to modify the outline myself, but my contribution was rejected multiple times for “not meeting contributi
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Declined Submission cause of Duplicate
The Following Submission was declined citing duplicate, but there was no duplicate submission: #260310-051832-897000 help!
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The “romantic-comedy” and “romcom" and "rom com" keywords should be deleted, with Romance and Comedy as genres instead.
The guideline: Repeating genres: For example, we have the genres Romance and Drama so you can submit these as genres to the title rather than submitting the keyword romantic-drama.Does not the same apply to Romantic Comedies? Why is this an exception, if it is? With advance title search, one can als
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#260313-222034-334000 Keeps Getting Declined
Whenever I update genres for https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1323508, it always gets declined. Update #260313-222034-334000
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Several Issues in Need of Resolving
Someone has incorrectly merged the entries for Red Iron Road (the web series) and Red Iron Road (the feature-length movie edit). I made a thread about this over a month ago, but nothing has happened. These two entries (which used to be tt22797236 and tt36718746) need to be un-merged into separate IM
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Unable to remove erroneous release date from my film’s page
My film (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt17525818/?ref_=nm_ov_bio_lk) was released on 18 January 2025, and the release date was accurately entered on the page by myself. Recently, an additional (incorrect) release date of “17 September 2023 (internet)” has been added to the page by someone unconnected
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This discrepancy seems suspicious
Sherlock Holmes: Mare of the Night (2025) has a 3.0 rating from 177 votes, but it also has 30 user reviews, nearly all of which are 10/10. This discrepancy seems suspicious. Sherlock Holmes: Mare of the Night (2025) - IMDb
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Slight Changes to my Own Plot Outline Rejected
I submitted a plot outline and it was accepted. Shortly afterward I submitted a few adjustments to the factual data therein and it was rejected as not meeting contribution guidelines. Could I get some kind of hint as to what is wrong? ID: #260316-084633-492000 Thanks
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Short film incorrectly labelled as part of web series
Ralph Sepe is a Youtuber who makes film reviews. This series is called Ralphthemoviemaker, like his channel. Ralph also makes short films, which are not part of his Ralphthemoviemaker show and are correctly listed separately on his IMDb -- King Candy, The High.... https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5644130
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Release date update resubmitted with evidence – kindly review
Hello, I previously submitted a release date update which was declined due to “Unable to verify.” I have now resubmitted the update with supporting evidence under submission ID: 260317-201533-701000. The updated release date (19 March 2026 – internet) is based on official sources (OTT listing/traile
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