
Data Issues & Policy Discussions
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Could you let me know who could create a title for a new movie?
Hi there, Just saw a Chinese new movie showed up in your website using Chinese pinyin instead of its official English name? For better understand by most of your audiences, may I ask you to change the name to its official English name? The official name of the movie mentioned above is The legend o
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What are the requirements to become an IMDb 'qualifying' film festival?
I have seen there are certain requirements to become an IMDb 'qualifying' film festival on this page: https://help.imdb.com/article/contribution/other-submission-guides/events/G9DXDPWT2TWSXP8U?ref_=helpsrall# However, it also says on another page that a selective festival means that 'the ratio of s
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Unable to Delete Redundant Credits
Lately, I seem to be unable to delete credits which are redundant across multiple sections. I'm certain I used to have no problem doing this. Listed below are examples from 3 different TV series where I attempted the same deletion. All were declined even with screenshots included: #250129-070939-16
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IMDb Top Data Contributors for 2024 (and Happy New Year 2025 from IMDb)
Included below is our end-of-year message to IMDb's top data contributors for 2024. Introduction and Thanks Welcome to the 30th edition of our annual letter of thanks and celebration for IMDb’s data contributor community and for all our customers worldwide. I am IMDb&rsqu
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Reviews are being declined without cause
Initial post under #250128-033620-599604 was declined and the second one I posted under #250130-031109-060304 is pending acceptance None of these posts /reviews contain objectionable languages unless you're programming to render biased reviews against others. I can just move to other platforms if yo
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photo connected with my name is incorrect
Hi, The photo connected with my name Dan Gibbons coproducer The Invitation (with Lance Henriksen) is incorrect. How do I get this edited? Thank you, Dan
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I have been mistakenly credited on seasons of a production I did not work on and I cannot delete them.
I have tried several times to delete credits on seasons of a production I did not work on. I have even "submitted evidence" in the form of the contract I had at hand for the seasons I DID work on, and yet the submission was STILL rejected. I fail to see what "could not be verified" when I literall
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Request for Accuracy and Clarification on Kazakhstan Titles in IMDb
Hello! I started adding information to IMDb in 2009, back when we had to deal with the KOI-8 encoding — those were the times when technology was just beginning to develop, and every step felt like a big achievement :) At that time, I was adding data about movie premieres in Kazakhstan and Russia, as
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Two pages for the same podcast series (The Brett Cooper Show)
The Brett Cooper Show The Brett Cooper Show These two pages refer to the same podcast series and need to be merged.
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Good Wednesday, I had the revelation of finding an additional second reference to this website in the game which the reference number shows to add to the already existing trivia line about it. Not only had I previously sent it in under a previous reference number (one source of the compiled video o
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