Data Issues & Policy Discussions
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Who are the people who rate films lost almost 100 years ago?
Question & Idea We know that thousands, probably tens of thousands of feature-length, short and documentary silent (and numerous sound) films have been irretrievably lost for various reasons (most often due to fires in film studios), but, somehow, many of them have IMDb ratings, although many h
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incorrect credits
I' am Fuad Al-Qrize, on my IMDB (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6394365) I can see that there are a lot of incorrect credits, everything except (Producer of https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15739720) is not correct, can you help remove everything except (Producer of short movie "Extinction").
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Set Decoration Credits Misappropriated
Over the last year many technicians have been credited in Set Decorator category as Set Decorators BUT they are not Set Decorators. They have other jobs on the show such as Set Designers, drafts people, assistants etc but they are not Department Heads. There is only 1 Key Set Decorator on a show. Th
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Doctor Who listed incorrectly
Doctor Who is under a new production company and is restarting their season numbering. They’ve officially ended Doctor Who (2005-2022), and they’re now beginning Doctor Who (2023-). Somebody needs to fix this on IMDb as it currently lists the new episodes as season 14, but there is no Season 14 in t
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Review disappeared
My review of "Woman of the Hour" disappeared several days after posting it. Any idea why this would be? (There was no copying & pasting or anything like that, I've been an IMDb member for 12 years and have like 8 reviews.)
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as attribute for cast name of 'Beth' no longer accepted
Recently noticed that an 'as' attribute for the name 'Beth' when adding cast data is no longer accepted. Other 'as' names seem okay. Why is "(as Beth)" no longer a valid attribute?
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Companies profile edit
Can you make an option like there is in the name profile to edit credits on the listBecause sometimes there is so many wrong credits, hundreds evenIt's painful to delete it one by one, title by titleI spent now few days clearing just one company profile from wrong titlesAnd there is so manySometimes
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My edit didn't go through (working directly with actor), Official sites/external links
Dear Friend at IMDb,My edit 241023-035817-323000 didn't go through, I added Instagram and Facebook to his "Official Sites", while X/Twitter was already there.Usually when there is three official sites it opens the "External Sites" section, which is our goal.I never ran into that problem before just
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Problem submitting date of death when obituary does not give it (reasonable assumption of "this year")
Some obituaries and/or death announcements do not give the date of death. Is it reasonable to assume that an obituary published in November relates to a death some time in the current year? I've had several dates of death which have been rejected as "We have been unable to verify your contribution.
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How to obtain permission to use an IMDb copywrited still photo with a review posted to a digital news organization?
I want to submit a review of The Day of the Jackal TV series on Peacock to a digital news organization and include the publicity photos below posted on IMDb. How do I obtain permission to use the photos.
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