Data Issues & Policy Discussions
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Why it takes hours from new titles shown which are on accepted they are shown?
Why it takes hours from new titles shown which are on accepted they are shown? Before yesterday they were visible after some minutes. Since yesterday it takes hours, when I add a new series I need to wait hours till I can add the episodes than.
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Why are these not accepted as Film Noir titles? Specifics, please.
250603-194050-633000 Track Contribution 2025-06-03 19:40:50 Humoresque (1946) Genres - 1 item added 250603-193858-351000 Track Contribution 2025-06-03 19:38:58 The Well (1951) Genres - 1 item added 250603-193409-520000 Track Contribution 2025-06-03 19:34:09 Let Us Live (1939) Genres - 1 item ad
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How are Contribution Resubmissions processed?
With maybe five exceptions out of thousands of contributions, I have noticed that resubmissions are usually not accepted, either with or without explanations. Contributors are encouraged to make resubmissions when a contribution is declined. But, are resubmissions “shuttled off” Into a separate ca
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Request for Accuracy and Clarification on Kazakhstan Titles in IMDb
Hello! I started adding information to IMDb in 2009, back when we had to deal with the KOI-8 encoding — those were the times when technology was just beginning to develop, and every step felt like a big achievement :) At that time, I was adding data about movie premieres in Kazakhstan and Russia, as
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Why servers work on titles so slow this weekend?
For every new title i create i need to wait for an hour till it worksIt says the requested URL was not found on our server and i can't access the title to do something with itIt always worked in a few minutes when it's acceptedSame with release datesYesterday i added some release dates on some title
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Correct Poster for the title Bora (2025)
Dear Sir, I have uploaded two posters for the title Bora (2025) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt32215887, one is portrait format and the other landscape. Somehow, the system decided to use the landscape picture and it doesn't look well. Please, how make the portrait format picture as the official pictu
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Merging two companies
There is another page of our company Oberon Productions [it] titled only Oberon Production without anything inside... The two pages should be merged...
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Why were these contributions rejected?
Twice, so it's not a coincidence. https://contribute.imdb.com/contribution/250531-064542-794000 https://contribute.imdb.com/contribution/250602-062217-305000
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Incorrectly merged "Stargate Origins: Catherine" movie with TV series
Someone have merged the 2018 movie "Stargate Origins: Catherine" with the TV series "Stargate Origins" (tt7161862). The previous IMDb associated with the movie was tt8657468. There are multiple confirmation that the movie exists and is different from the 10 episodes TV series https://www.wikidata.
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