Submission Guide: Links to External Sites (Names)
Submission guidelines
Thank you for keeping IMDb up to date. This section is for links relating to a person - official sites, articles, video and sound clips, links to image galleries. Here are the key guidelines:
- To help site visitors, give the site's name and a meaningful, short description.
- Please avoid using ALL UPPER CASE, it is difficult to read.
- If the site's language is not English, include the language in brackets.
- Link to pages specific to a person rather than homepages (unless the entire site is about a person).
- Descriptions should be in the third person (e.g. not "my website"). Please avoid opinion.
- Links not eligible for listing: Adult content sites without adult warning, sites with nudity, merchandising sites, password-protected sites (including friends-only access social media sites).
I want to submit a link to...
...the person's official website
...the person's official Facebook / Twitter / Blog page
...a video related to the person - full movies, short films, clip sites, interviews etc.
...photos or other images related to the person
...sound clips related to the person
...an interview with the person
...a review of a movie/show starring this person
...newspaper, magazine or other online articles relating to the person
Official sites top ^
- Description format & examples:
Official Site or Official Site [CountryCode] (only give the code for non-English sites)
Official Blog
Official Fan Site
Company Site Name (e.g. Pixar Animation Studios)
Facebook (for personal Facebook accounts)
Facebook Fan Page (for public "Like" pages)
YouTube channel (for youtube.com/user channels)
- Note: Official sites, including official Fan Sites, are sites managed by the person or their official agent/representative (otherwise they are Miscellaneous Links).
Video Clips top ^
- Description format & examples:
Website Name - Description (language - if not English) (date if given)Examples:
YouTube - Interview for "The Dark Knight" (2008)
Vimeo - Demo Reel
BestMovies - Clip collection from movies (Italian)
KeithSchofield.com - "One with the Freaks" video
Variety - "Brokeback Mountain" interview (2005)
Images / Photos top ^
- Description format & examples:
Website Name/Source - Image description (date if given)Examples:
GoneMovie.com - The Godfather III still
Getty Images - Red Carpet photos from Total Recall premiere (2012)
mymovies.com - Photo Gallery
Site Name - b&w; photo (2000)
Site Name - Photo Gallery
- Please link to image gallery pages, not single images. We may limit the number of single image links for a person at our discretion.
- Link directly to the source site, not to search result pages.
Websites featuring sound clips top ^
- This is for a link to an audio clip (for example .au, .wav, .mp3) or a dedicated audio clip page/site.
- Description format & examples:
Website Name - description (language - if not English)Examples:
moviesounds.net - MP3 gallery
soundclips.com - Personal quotes
Soundcloud
Reverbnation
BBC - Radio interview (2011)
Npr.org - Fresh Air interview
Miscellaneous Links top ^
- This is for anything not covered by the other categories, e.g:
interviews
news articles
entries on other databases (e.g. Wikipedia)
making-of articles
fan sites etc.
- Movie reviews & movie trailers:
These belong in the title's links section
- Description format & examples:
Website Name - description [author if given] (language - if not English)(date if given)Examples:
Variety - article: "Can Jones repeat his debut success?" (12 February 2009)
Le Monde - article: "Le box office en 2010" (French)(11 August 2009)
Film Intuition - "Hurt Locker" interview [Jen Johans] (7 July 2009)
Wikipedia
ActorsAccess profile
Fan Site (Chinese)
- Write dates in the format Day Month Year, e.g. 5 November 1995