Data Issues & Policy Discussions
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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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Delete these subgenres for all of these titles
The Beauty Makeover lifestyle subgenre has multiple movies in that are not a beauty and makeover movie. These movies are beauty competitions which are different to beauty and makeover. Please delete the beauty and makeover subgenre for all of these titles. Thank You Miss Universe 2012 (TV Special 20
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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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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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Show titles shown in different languages
When reading about Oscars in AP news, I’d go search for the titles. The foreign films were listed in English in the news story but when I went to search for them on IMDB it could find them, but I couldn’t read the title in the other language so I didn’t think it found it. when I found the Oscar’s li
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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: SPOILER: 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 c
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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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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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Changing my name
Hi, I have an active imdb pro account that has been under the name Paulina Csitkovits since I got it. Recently, I have booked a project and I have also changed my artistic name to Paulina Reyes. I can't find any option to edit my name on my computer. Has IMDB changed this? I need help as I have book
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