Data Issues & Policy Discussions
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remove news about other project with same name
Hi, could you remove this related news about a different project with a similar title? This is for my page House of Ashes, but this news should go to this video game project, The Dark Pictures: House of Ashes. Thanks!
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Two different people with the same name
The preexisting person has received AP credit for my project. Additionally, I need to add more credits. I need to have my profile confirmed.
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Unable to delete duplicate photos
There are a number of duplicate still frame images attached to the films "Attack on Titan: Part 1" and "Attack on Titan: Part 2". When I attempted to remove them they were rejected with the reason being: "Does not meet contribution guidelines." "Shingeki no kyojin: Endo obu za wârudo" (aka
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How is the rating of a film determined?
How is a film rating determined, like how can a film have a rating of 7 when all the reviews are a 9 or 10? ...and how can a show have, say, a 6.5 rating, when only whole stars are available to use?
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Allow em dashes in outlines, summaries and especially synopses
I find em dashes useful when writing plot summaries—especially the synopses—but IMDb does not support them. I'm hoping the staff will change this situation and allow them. Right now, em dashes are changed to hyphens. And so a sentence like this— The preacher's daughter—a young woman who recently
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Audiobooks Are Now Eligible - Ideas for How to List Them
Audiobooks are now eligible for inclusion on IMDb, and @Ozzy suggested I create an Idea post with suggestions for how they should be listed in the future. Right now, they are listed as Videos, which is less than ideal, but no doubt intended to be temporary. I hope other contributors will reply with
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Phil Eastman is a he and not a she
On Phil Eastman's IMDb page (nm0247666) it says in his mini bio that he is a she, while he was not. Here is what the mini bio says: Phil Eastman was born on November 25, 1909 in Amherst, Massachusetts, USA. She was a writer, known for Go, Dog. Go! (2021), Gerald McBoing-Boing (1950) and&n
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Error?
https://contribute.imdb.com/contribution/241023-220022-236000 What does "other" mean?
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Doctor Who: Dark Eyes (2012) is an audio book
It is classified as a TV series, but there is no such video, just a Big Finish production. I'm not sure IMDB stores audio books?
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My age rating edits were rejected despite providing evidence
I was editing the parental guide for Dan Da Dan since it had a lot of incorrect age ratings, one that even contradicted a pre-existing age. I even provided evidence for some of them, while others I had to say that there was zero evidence for them, and they still got rejected. I'm not sure what else
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