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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Add the ability for contributors to cancel their pending contributions
Proposal: IMDb should add the ability for contributors to cancel their pending contributions. We've all been here before: just minutes after submitting a data contribution to IMDb, we realize that our contribution was in error. Yet the erroneous contribution may remain pending multiple days befo
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Cast Tutor and Chaperone
There is no drop down for supporting children on set with lessons and breaks. Please could this be amended? Thank you
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Page Leong age
In the IMDB it says that this lady was born in 1980, but it cant be because she was an adult in Another 48 hours, and that was 1990. So what is her age?????, someone knows????
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Unaired pilots?
What is the imdb policy on those? For example http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0768444/ was once the unaired pilot for Married with Children, but if you click it now, it takes you to the actual pilot episode. In there for example, we have two actresses portraying Kelly Bundy because it was Tina Caspar
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Lots of news mentions but only 2 are on my iMDB page - any contributor want to add the others?
I randomly discovered I have an iMDB page. This is cool and all but it mentions 2 news mentions that include me, whereas there were more than a dozen (they're all linked in a paragraph in this article - you can Ctrl+F for Tamron Hall and find the mentions). Is there a contributor who would like to p
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Merge two profiles for the same actor who has similar but different name on credits
Hello, my daughter's name is Pele Liliko'i Saso Howe. Recently she has book things un Pele Liliko'i Howe and Pele Saso Howe. One is an Actor profile and one is an Actress profile. I'd like to merge the two and make it an actress profile. Any suggestions? Here are the links: https://pro.imdb.com/nam
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keyword for adaptations
What keyword is commonly used to describe when a title is the only element shared with a sourced literature, which entirely differs in its plot? Also, what keyword describes an adaptation that's fairly faithful except set against a different period or setting? Thanks.
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C'mon, (C'mon) IMDb, what are you thinking re genres, subgenres and keywords?
When it comes to genres, subgenres and keywords, why is IMDb being so illogical, even defying its own guidelines and encouraging unnecessary, cluttering repetition? It makes no sense. KEYWORDS SHOULD NOT REPEAT GENRES BY COMBINING THEM. “war-romance,” simply (and obviously), combines two genr
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Remove old posters
There are old posters from old designs that we need removed. Please delete all posters except the main one. Thank you! https://www.imdb.com/title/tt19781790/?ref_=nm_knf_t_1
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Adding a voice actor to a program
I submitted the voice cast list to the obscure tv special Return To Mocha but they wouldn’t accept Frank Welker’s credit even after I provided evidence, even though the version uploaded on YouTube cuts off the credits, he is listed here in this video at the hour and forty four minute mark as part of
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