Data Issues & Policy Discussions
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"Your data referred to another item which has been declined or deleted, and this means that your data will not appear on the site."
My title was declined and I can't find the reason why. I got this message on each individual item. Is there something wrong with my title as a whole atm? Here's the title number #250310-144706-898000
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Overzealous photo tagger for Dutch soap GTST
The image guide states that names should NOT be tagged in "Back of the headshots or shots with deliberately out-of-focus or heavily obscured faces." For Dutch soap Goede tijden slechte tijden (GTST) someone has been adding names of actors that are only seen with the back of their head or, in some ca
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Possibly fake titles
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21827020/reference/ There are so many red flags about this title, for instance check the additional details. On Mubi website this very title is associated with a person who supposedly has a good history of propagating fabricated information about himself : https://mubi.c
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Primary image Friday Night, Saturday Morning
Currently, this is the primary image for Friday Night, Saturday Morning: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0199271/mediaviewer/rm1024211712 This image would serve the purpose better: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0199271/mediaviewer/rm935627009 Unfortunately, I can't submit this via the regular route, so
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Year range Janguru Bukku shônen Môguri
Currently, Janguru Bukku shônen Môguri (The Jungle Book) has a year range of 1989-2020, despite the fact that all episodes (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0283750/episodes/?season=1) are from 1989-1990. Other sources also say it ran from 1989-1990 (for example: https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclo
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Name problem
"Fares Helou" is named wrongly as "helou fares" https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1097214/ Fares is the first name. Helou (In some works it is written as "Al-Helou") is the last name. This is clearly in his official website and official Instagram and Wikipedia https://fareshelou.com/ https://www.instag
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Keyword cigarettes
Keywords should be singular, not plural (as per the guide: https://help.imdb.com/article/contribution/titles/keywords/GXQ22G5Y72TH8MJ5?ref_=helpms_helpart_inline#). Therefore, I'd like to ask staff to delete and then block the keyword cigarettes: https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?keywords=cigarette
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Issues adding new languages
@Col_Needham Hopefully, enforcing a language order number at the time of submission will be implemented relatively soon (the same obviously goes for the lack of displaying language attributes). That being said, there is also the matter of languages not being known to IMDb and therefore being imposs
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User-hostile update interface
Is anyone else struggling with the new interface for updates? 1. The red, yellow and green coding made it simple to find any errors/duplicates. Now I have to read each entry to glean which one needs to be tweaked/removed. 2. Each entry now contains an error message, even when there is no error with
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Please do something about this
I rised this issue few times last few years, but nobody cares about it. I really really REALLY can't do this anymore. IMDB contact is the worst support on the web by far. They must be bots or ai, because i don't understand how people can be that incompetent. I do contributions since 2020 and i encou
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