Category talk:Articles sourced by IMDb

Scope

Is this category solely for BLPs? or also for film articles only sourced to IMDb? Perhaps the category should be renamed to "Biographies sourced by IMDB"? -- œ^™ 09:31, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

It's probably for pretty much anything that has IMDB as a reference. If someone can tell me why we don't like IMDB though I'd like to know. --vgmddg (look | talk | do) 18:37, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

I'd like to know too. I think the original intention was to tag articles that use IMDb and ONLY IMDb as it's only single source, which is usually insufficient for BLP's. -- œ^™ 21:14, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

What OlEnglish said. In past discussions some editors strongly dislike IMDB as a source because it is open to user editing or user contributions, i.e. it is like sourcing from another wikipedia. An actor can enter or submit his/her own bio information. However IMDB is generally reliable for what movies an actor has appeared in I believe, and apparently has sections of data that are centrally controlled and verified and regarded as reliable. So in practice many articles do use IMDB as a source. The articles that have the "IMDB-only" type tag on them are being criticized for having too much reliance upon IMDB. The category allows editors to navigate among them. I don't think we really want to add this category individually to any articles. There is no intrinsic interest in all articles having IMDB as a source; just the thinly sourced ones need to be identified. Perhaps this should be named "Category:Articles seeming to be inadequately sourced by IMDB and little else", but the current wording "Articles sourced by IMDB" was thot to be more polite. --doncram (talk) 21:26, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

But is it necessary to tag film articles too? Shouldn't we restrict this to just BLP's? The template is {{BLP IMDB refimprove}} after all. And why do we need to separate these from Category:Articles sourced only by IMDB? They should all be in one category. -- œ^™ 21:38, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

Request to populate "all" category

I have created requests here to populate a category All articles sourced by IMDb with pages in subcategories of this category. Please weigh in here. —swpb^T 19:18, 6 October 2016 (UTC)

What happens when a BLP dies -- i.e. no longer a BLP but still sourced by IMDb?

For example, François Perrot died, and had

" in his article. He is no longer a living person so "BLP" doesn't fit but "{{IMDb-only refimprove}}" doesn't exist. What template is best used here? Sxg169 (talk) 18:24, 21 January 2019 (UTC)