Contribution Interface Updates - New Features Now Live

Thank you for raising these bugs! I've passed them onto the team.

The issues with Writer orders being mandatory has been fixed. Thanks again for raising it! We will also fix the issue of automatically converting that pattern in the Role field to lower-case as soon as possible. I will update you when it's fixed. Many thanks again!

It's labeled "credited, but did not work on title".

I do not see that option. Only the five options which I mentioned. I'm updating the cast list of a TV episode.

What device are you using? The other attribute options should be listed underneath the ones you listed. Is there definitely not a scroll bar for you to scroll down within the pop-up to see them?

If you're on a touch device like an iPhone/Android phone then you may just need to swipe to scroll down the list?

I am using Microsoft Edge on a laptop. There is no scroll bar, but I now notice that when I zoom out to 67%, five more options appear. Amongst them is indeed the 'credited, but did not work on title' one.

Thanks, I will pass this onto the team.

Hi - you're right that we're now warning about a blank Role for all credit categories, whereas before we only warned about it for the "departmental" credit categories that had both the Occupation and Attribute fields. You can totally leave it blank for non-departmental credit categories like Editor as before. If you leave Role blank for a credit category like Editor then it should display on the site as "editor", i.e. we will fill in the role for you as we did before. We do plan to relax that new rule in the contribution UI as soon as possible, so that it behaves like it used to, i.e. it will only warn you for the non-departmental credit categories as before. I hope it's not too painful in the meantime!

Regarding your edit: Yes, the same thing applies to Composer - it will still display in the right way if you acknowledge the warning and leave it blank (will display the role as "composer" on the site). Composer is one of the credit categories we plan to exclude the warning for asap, so as to match the previous behavior of the interface.

Thanks for clarifying, Dylan. It won't be a problem for me, long as I know I'm doing the right thing in my contributions by doing what IMDb is wanting me to do, I'm okay ticking the box until it gets polished up in the future. Cheers.

Great to hear, thanks!

that means when I add a new title with more than 25 Self Credits it can happen that it takes hours till I can continue cause many titles are shown hours after being accepted

Thank you for raising this. We're looking into it and will get back to you as soon as possible.

I agree.

and now we cant correct longer simply wrong added Selfs from Actor and Actress like on UEFA Women Euro 2025, Wimbledon and French Open were all players are flagged as Actors and Actresses

I did the ZDF MOrgenmagazin vom 16.09.2025 right before, cause of the Changes I needed 4 submissions for that

Now I have to add Titles first without Self datas long before I will work on it like Arte Journal, cause it has always more than 25 Self Credits, the Morgenmagazin has mostly between 75 and 100 Self Credits

But we can add now 25 Writer Credits

Thank you both for flagging this. We're looking to get the limit for Self increased asap. I will keep you updated.

"and now we cant correct longer simply wrong added Selfs from Actor and Actress like on UEFA Women Euro 2025, Wimbledon and French Open were all players are flagged as Actors and Actresses" I have added the non-fiction keyword to "UEFA Women's Euro 2025", which has the effect of changing all its cast credits to self credits. This is much simpler than editing all the credits. However, I do think it might be helpful if a credit was still automatically moved to Self if you added Self to the character name. I tested it on one credit on a different title, but it is still under Actress/Cast despite starting with Self. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10641222/

Thx and on Eurobasket 2025 too please

You can add it yourself in the keyword section.

I never worked with the keywords before, its easier when you do it please

Yes, I've been experiencing this too. This needs to be fixed. https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/data-issues-policy-discussions/text-automatically-converting-to-lowercase/68df24dc8f11a15bc21527c7?commentId=68df55ed8f11a15bc2163e46&replyId=68df5802ed0edd20f68dcd4d

Hi and thanks for raising this bug - I will pass it on to the team.

Thank you!

The cast credits that are for one reason or another identified as Self credits should be accessible in the Self section.

Hmm, ok, thanks. I see that now when I select EDIT PAGE from the title page. But when accessing IMDB through a computer's web browser, I was selecting EDIT appears to the right of Top Cast, which is then followed by the credits for the cast. It's a bit silly to have an EDIT button next to the listed cast of a news show, if it's going to pull up a non-existent list of actors. Thanks for the reply, but this still needs to be fixed.

The edit link next to Top Cast gives me a menu with Cast and Self.

Thank you for raising this. To help us diagnose, please could you share the link to the title page that you were trying to edit?

Not while using Chrome on a computer, it doesn't.

As I said above, it's any page where the cast is composed of SELF credits. FYI,...I'm accessing IMDB with a Chrome browser on a PC. Here's just one example: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt38109615/

Can I no longer add an image to provide an example?

Where are you entering it? I don't see that autoconversion in the Self section.

In the Self section, in the role. If I c&p NRL it remains all caps, but if I type it in, or edit it to correct it, it reverts to Nrl. A message is displayed (I've just noticed this actually) states: The following fixes have been applied automatically: - creditedRole has been converted to Title Case to conform with our formatting standards. So will this happen with all acronyms? https://imgur.com/a/s6qLiJy

I see it now when I tried in a news episode. I didn't see it when I tried in another title type.

Thank you - we will fix this asap. Were you contributing it under the new Self credit category or Cast (Actor/Actress)? And in the Role field or somewhere else like the "credited as" attribute?

No, as I said, I was creating a new title, where it asks basic info: Title Name, Type, Year, etc. Literally the first step here: https://contribute.imdb.com/updates/edit?update=title&ref_=helpms_ch_t_newtitle_ra I added the title anyway with "the Beatles". It is still being processed. I will correct it once you guys fix this on your end. Thanks.

Ah I see, thanks. I have passed this on to the team.