Data Issues & Policy Discussions
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Merging two titles that are actually two episodes of the same series
tt32436778tt0983514 Hi, These two titles are listed separately on IMDB as TV Movies. They are actually two episodes of a series, with the same title sequence. I don't know how to merge the two titles, so that they have individual episode numbers and individual titles. At the moment the umbrella titl
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This sucks
This is literally pain. I raised this issue before, but it's still not fixed. I unmarked not to leave old name on the credits, but it as always doesn't work. I even specifically asked not to leave that old incorrect name, but it still was left. And now to remove all these incorrect tags, because of
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Bring back review comments
Hello, I never post reviews on IMDb, but I frequently read them to get a feel for what may or may not be worth watching. There was a time when I could look up a movie on IMDb that looked interesting, see what other people had to say about it, and find at least one or two reviews from people with sim
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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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