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For the old discussion about the development of this template, see this page

Fun little external link icon

If you have a browser that shows the external link icon () then you can set any IMDb links to show its own icon (Archivo:IMDb external.png)

Check out m:Help:User style for more info on CSS selectors.

Edit your "User:{your login}/monobook.css" (replace {your login} with your username) and add:

#bodyContent a[href *="imdb.com/"],
#bodyContent a[href *="imdb.co.uk/"] {
	background: url(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/53/IMDb_external.png) center right no-repeat;
	padding-right: 13px;
}

Once you save the page, you may need to hold Shift and click Reload.

Please see help on m:Help:User style

Do you see it here on this plain link?
or on this interwiki link?

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Fitch (talk • contribs) 01:25, 12 January 2006

Links to {{IMDb name}} in main text which look exactly like Wikipedia bluelinks

I use the {{imdb}} template family all the time, either to add a WP:EL or to solve a problem (with due regard to Wikipedia:External links/Perennial websites#IMDb - I've seen split biographies, duplicate biographies, wrong birth and death dates, you-name-it). I agree with the long-established WP:CONSENSUS - IMDb is not WP:RS.

I have just discovered that it is possible to use {{imdbname}} in main text and to make it look exactly like a Wikipedia bluelink. Diff - look at the first two words, which are boldfaced and which bluelink directly to IMDb with no sign that it's both off-wiki and non-RS.

I do not know if this is possible with other templates in the {{IMDb}} family, but I bet a pound to a penny that it is. This needs to be somehow stopped, and any other existing misuse removed. Narky Blert (talk) 17:13, 8 August 2020 (UTC)

Links using [[imdbname]](!), which is not a template, are possible via the meta:Interwiki map. There are more than 350 of them. I agree that IMDb should not be on that list, but the place to discuss this is meta:Talk:Interwiki map. It seems there has been very little discussion about IMDb there so far. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 03:47, 9 August 2020 (UTC)

PS: I corrected the links to "Interwiki map" in my previous post. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 04:12, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

@Michael Bednarek: Thank you for your advice. I've posted at meta:Talk:Interwiki map#Proposed removals. Narky Blert (talk) 19:47, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

This strikes me as something that should be addressed here locally, perhaps through an edit filter, rather than by a direct change to the MediaWiki software. Nardog (talk) 02:53, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

More useful IMDb listing

A more useful IMDb listing that shows the episodes of television series is available. Can this be made available through the template?

Compare these:

* [https://s.media-imdb.com/name/nm0026578/?ref_=tt_cl_t1 more useful IMDb]
* {{IMDb name|id=0026578|name=Dave Anderson}}

• more useful IMDb
• Dave Anderson at IMDb

From the current Template listing try to find which episodes he was in?

Jim Craigie (talk) 10:00, 2 October 2020 (UTC)