
Data Issues & Policy Discussions
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A/A IMDb Staff. Displaying bug (DIRTRADE items without an explanation)
Hi, everyone. To wrap up my personal trilogy of threads about director trademarks (after #1 & #2), I'm reporting that DIRTRADE items that lack an explanation for the trademark are not displayed on the title page. While adding timestamps to some goof & trivia for the great The Evil Dead (1981), I not
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Badly Formatted titles?
This is concerning #260717-013853-808000 and #260717-014045-020000. I'm not exactly sure what is badly formatted here, nothing clear is given here. Additionally, another episode title was put in with a title in all lowercase and was accepted, but somehow that isn't badly formatted? I'm confused here
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submission declined
Hello, my recent submission (260704-005601-983000) was declined, I believe it's word for accurate, can someone within the IMDB staff elaborate why it was declined? thanks
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Can't add release date
This TV Series https://www.imdb.com/title/tt38891054/ have no release date, although all episodes was released, and has release date. If I try to add it through the new quick form, I get an error that the title has a status of "in production."
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Title missing "Mark as watched" and "Rate" buttons/can't add release date
Hello, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt38891054 I'm not able to rate this series or mark it as watched due to missing corresponding buttons on the page. My thought the issue is the title has no release date https://www.imdb.com/title/tt38891054/releaseinfo/ though it has already released and aired epis
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Multiple IMDB profiles
I’m an actor and I have some IMDB credits for some of the projects I’ve been in. But for some reason, some of the filmmakers I’ve worked with have created different IMDB profiles of me instead of putting the credits on my first account. I have three different profiles, how can I merge them into one?
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The Bureaucracy Strikes Again
Here we go again. I submitted some last names to the characters in the movie, "Tyler Perry's Duplicity" and they were all rejected for the following reason: "Your contribution has been declined. We have been unable to verify your contribution." [#260713-174257-865000]. Okay. I give up. Having review
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Summer Tour (2025) - Official Site rejected?
#260716-193641-768000 Not sure why this addition was rejected? Looks like this is the official site. Utopia is the distributor. https://summertour.utopia.film/
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Emergency Action Needed - Implement Voter Verification
IMDb ratings are not culturally or commercially congruent to social media upvotes - or even governmental elections; IMDb ratings outlast topicality cyles and outlive governments globally - they appear at the top sections of search engine results and are the permanent face of a film; it's beyond an e
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How do I find out why a submission was declined?
I'm trying to correct an incorrect comment (it has basic geographical errors), and it's been declined three times. The only reason given is, "Does not meet contribution guidelines." I can find nothing in the "guidelines" that gives me any clue as to what the problem may be. I tried to guess and resu
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