Data Issues & Policy Discussions
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Unsure Why Plot Outline Rejected
Hello and happy new year!I have submitted a film of mine, and it has been approved for publication, except for the plot outline. This is the ID of my contribution: #251230-133034-858000 I don't know what is wrong with the plot outline when looking at the guidelines. Could you let me know the specifi
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Stranger Things, S5 E7 “The Bridge” coordinated review bombing.
Episode 7 of Stranger Things Season 5, “The Bridge,” is currently experiencing coordinated review bombing on IMDb. Social media posts are encouraging users to mass 1★ the episode, based on personal preferences regarding character relationships, not the episode’s actual quality. This has artificially
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Removing me from a film I never participated
I am trying to remove myself from a film in which I never participated (Director - Andrei Kalesnikau). But the system asks me for proof. How can I prove that I did not participate in the film. I don't even know what kind of movie it is.https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14959456
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Man on the Run
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26931594/releaseinfo/ Does IMDb have evidence that this documentary was released last January? It was at Telluride in August and will be on Prime in February. https://deadline.com/2025/08/paul-mccartney-man-on-the-run-documentary-1236501591/ As long as the January 2025 d
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Sweden automatic 15 rating
In Sweden, the valid ratings of today are: 0, 7, 11, 15, as verified by the Swedish Mediemyndigheten If media is unrated, it will be considered 15 automatically. There is no need to have your media rated if it is going to be rated 15 anyway, as stated by the Swedish Mediemyndigheten. I tried adding
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Animation crew member declined
Hello once again. I have another issue. I recently have seen the recent SpongeBob movie, The Search for SquarePants in theaters just now. I noticed that one of the storyboard artists involved in the film in the credits just happens to be Cow and Chicken creator, David Feiss. So when I tried adding h
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Japanese Hustle Life
This fanmade show dosen't exist at all, even the external sites lead to nothing but link rots which claims that there is more information relating to the eponymous title, So on a side note, this needs to be removed. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21359484/
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Another death date declined, despite using evidence
Hello, once again. I have another death date declined issue again. For animator, Christine Smith, I added a death date since it was confirmed by an animation friend of her on Facebook that she has just passed away from cancer. And yet, they still declined it because they are "unable to verify", desp
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Airdate correction has been declined
Attempted to correct airdate on a nature documentary based on newspaper listings from 1993, and it got rejected. Would somebody be able to change that? Thank you in advance! #251225-201224-428000
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Narrator credit rejected
Before submitting, I previously tried submitting information about a Discovery Channel special's narrator. My previous submission was "pending" but I knew it was going to be rejected, this submission was an attempt at trying to fix the edit before it would be accepted, since I had a screengrab of th
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