Data Issues & Policy Discussions
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The “romantic-comedy” and “romcom" and "rom com" keywords should be deleted, with Romance and Comedy as genres instead.
The guideline: Repeating genres: For example, we have the genres Romance and Drama so you can submit these as genres to the title rather than submitting the keyword romantic-drama.Does not the same apply to Romantic Comedies? Why is this an exception, if it is? With advance title search, one can als
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Combining different job roles
hiiiiI'm finally updating my imdb after 10 yrs just working without recording all of my credits.. eek Because I have been an AD and also an actress, its sometimes rejecting me when i log my credit and giving me caitlin walsh (vii) and I want to just have one solid profile. I'm imdb newbie so forgive
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Episode number correction declined
Hello there, Maya. Need your help again, this time regarding episode order. You see, I noticed for the Disney cartoon The Replacements that for the first season, all of the segments are only presented in one episode, despite that season airing with two segments in one half-hour. While I was able to
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10 hours delay for a new episode approval
Is the system down?I have submitted 10 hours ago Season 2 Episode 1 of a Turkish series aired on September 10th, 2025, and the submission is still pending...Cheers!
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1 completely black and 1 completely beige "photo" not deleted
In the following submissions, I've tried two times to delete these "photos": https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041061/mediaviewer/rm1405897216/ + https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041061/mediaviewer/rm1271679488/For some reason, these "photos" are still online. How could this have happened? All four submiss
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Deleting an episode that doesn't exist from a title page
Merlin (1998) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0130414Lists 3 episodes, but this is a 2 part mini-series, totalling 182 minutes in length. Which is correct as per the running times of the first 2 episodes added together. The non existent 3rd episode, is devoid of most information, it has no cast list. T
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Problems with the edit interface.
Hello,I am Javi, the creator of the web series "La historia de Huesitos": https://www.imdb.com/es-es/title/tt38356576/?ref_=fn_all_ttl_1Some credits on the title page are showing duplicates without their last names and the wrong people (IMDb merged my new actors with existing people with the same na
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So difficult to operate , can you suggest any agent you can assist my IMDb account . Willing to pay
I need to update my biography on Google . My bio
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Poorly cropped, grainy or dark images
The image for actress Roxanne Arlen (nm0035161) is not only grainy and of poor quality but shows her midriff rather than her face. Much better options exist on her page (rm1669693697 or rm411402497).Similarly, the image for actor Oscar Beregi (nm0073471) is also poorly cropped and dark. There are ex
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Declined Submission Despite Evidence
Hello,I once again have a declined submission, despite providing evidence. I've resubmitted it a couple times, the latest being #250919-164931-662000.I think part of the problem might be that the evidence is in audio format (although I did write out the quotes in my submission), so I've taken screen
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