Data Issues & Policy Discussions

Data Issues & Policy Discussions

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I am trying to update my short film release date

It keeps getting denied because they can't verify it. How can get it verified. Post was delayed

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Conflation of actor Larry Fletcher with Lawrence Fletcher (I)

Lawrence Fletcher appeared in both Nat Hiken shows: Phil Silvers Show and Car 54, Where are You? The credits on the Phil Silvers Show use the name Larry Fletcher. Unfortunately, IMDB has added the Phil Silvers appearances to a Larry Fletcher page but not the Lawrence Fletcher page. Larry Fletcher is

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Double IMDB credit

HiI’m reaching out to clarify a misattribution on IMDb. I directed a short film titled Christmas Mubarak (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9102662/?ref_=nm_flmg_job_1_cdt_t_7), which was released in 2018.However, a year later, this short was bundled—without my knowledge—into a Christmas feature film alo

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Two fake episodes

Two of the episodes shown here are not real. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15745434/?ref_=ttep_ep_67 - (S1.E67 ∙ Mexican Roots: The Story Of Maya and Miguel)https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15835158/?ref_=ttep_ep_1 - (S9.E1 ∙ Back to the Pilot)Delete them now, Maya & Miguel orignally ended it's run in 20

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Can’t add cast members to a completed cast even though the cast is not complete

Have tried to complete the cast for Hideo Gosha’s Yakuza Wives but the contribution keeps getting declined. IMDB is saying the cast is already complete which it isn’t. Have supplies evidence from other sites showing more actors who had parts but still declined. I’ve come across a few times when movi

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Linking a movie to actor's page

My film page for Martyr of Gowanus includes the actors. But when I go to the actors' pages they don't include the movie. Why?

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John Ford’s cavalry trilogy

Why is this not being processed factually?With Fort Apache (1948), She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) and Rio Grande (1950), John Ford created his famed trilogy of Western-Drama-War (military, indian-attack-indian-war) films. All should have those three genres (with Rio Grande also correctly and only h

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IMDb Title Year Incorrect – Chidiya (2016) should be Chidiya (2025)

Hi IMDb Team,Our film Chidiya was completed in 2016 but was never released publicly until May 2025, when it had its first theatrical/digital release.Despite multiple submissions and valid proof, our corrections are being rejected. The 2016 release date is incorrect — it was a private/unfinished scre

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Remove titles from IMDb

Hello. I'm writing this because years ago I made pages for films I intended to make but never did and thus do not exist. I would also like to delete pages for certain people also credited on these pages and the credits on my own page but not the page itself.This is my page: https://www.imdb.com/name

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Fake credits alert!

So I just stumbled onto this page and it raised a TON of red flags for me: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0192543/ For context, I've been working with music videos since 1998 and have extensive knowledge on the topic. But I'd never heard this name before. And while I'm sure I don't know every DP who ev

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