Data Issues & Policy Discussions

I was looking for guidance in the Goofs page of the Help centre, but I didn't see anything about the specifics of how to format an "Incorrectly Regarded as Goof" submission. In particular, do I keep the full text of the original Goof submission before explaining why it's not a goof? Thanks!

Submission 251126-091635-721000 has been declined with reason "unable to verify".The text of the submission is Date of DeathEdit Before November 2025 (prostate cancer)After 14 November 2025 (prostate cancer)Your Comment “ https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/nov/24/ian-marchant-obituary "died aged

So I've been helping put some info into a currently airing title, Genius Game: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31775027/reference/?ref_=tt_rvAhead of every episode someone will add a plot outline before it's even aired. Fair enough. They probably piece it together from the "next time" clip at the end,

THE SEVENTH DAY (2020) Goof addition declined #251129-163519-883000 Goof Addition When Father Louis prays the Our Father during the first exorcism, he concludes it with the doxology which starts "... for thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory". This is the Protestant version of the Lord's Pra

I uploaded a poster and tagged it correctly to the movie, country and language. Still, it doesn't show as primary image as it should and like others do that I've uploaded. Any reasons? All things were approved. #250929-065926-810402 Another question: if I upload a poster which has nudity in it's art

Hello! I'm an artist with a kind of specific pseudonym "j4vaman". I released my first short film on November 28, and submitted a page for it on IMDb. Despite this being my first title and my name purposefully starting in a lowercase letter, I was added into an already existing profile called "J4vama

Hello all. This week I added a film I came across that was shot in 2024, currently awaiting release, but not in the database yet to IMDB. It was succesfully added but submissions on four of the eight cast members were declined. I went ahead and provided a bit more proof and re-submitted the four cas

Surrealism Someone seems to believe that any title that is not strictly realistic deals in surrealism. That includes all science fiction and fantasy films/shows as well as absolutely anything that's animated. "Surrealism is a cultural movement that developed in Europe in the aftermath of World War I

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

I stumbled upon a TV movie entry for "Polizeiruf 110: Aquarius" under https://www.imdb.com/title/tt37813541/reference/. However, this is actually an episode of a series and already has an entry under https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1542295/reference. I submitted a merge (#251125-221346-996000), but it