[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' date=\'Mar 18 2004, 10:15 AM\'] The guy saw a fact he wasn't sure about so he wisely came here to see if he could get it verified. That is precisely what to do when you want to be sure about an IMDB piece of information. I really don't see why it's necessary to bash this wonderful resource every time it's mentioned. [/quote]
Because they're a competitor.
Seriously, until a few years ago, IMDB was a user-supported database with limited editing capabilities, so mistakes are bound to occur. Now that their traffic has hit a critical mass, they can finally afford staff to edit this stuff. My employer and IMDB competitor,
www.allmovie.com, despite the fact we focus only on movies available on video/DVD, have a full-time staff of seven whose only job is to find mistakes and correct them.
We get dozens of corrections a day (and hundreds on our music site) and each of those have to be researched before they are entered. To echo Matt, cut IMDB (and other, more-superior B2B entertainment data delivery systems) some slack, there's a lot of data out there.
--Mike