Mark a actor as credit only

I don't think the questions you raised are relevant from my point of view. If that person was forgotten to add or did not appear in that episode, those people will have their answers very soon when they are watching that episode, cause I am sure that people don't care about it when they are not watching that series.

It worries me more if someone who is not watching a specific series starts adding cast, cause what source do they use and is that source correct/reliable (F.E. IMDB is not reliable at all)?

What if they're not watching the episodes at the time they look up the person or episode? I thought most of the point of TVMaze, or any TV database, was to give people information when they aren't watching the episode. Nothing that is at TVMaze can't be found out very soon when you watch the episode.

"It worries me more if someone who is not watching a specific series starts adding cast, cause what source do they use and is that source correct/reliable (F.E. IMDB is not reliable at all)?

They're probably the same kind of people who care about who appeared in episodes when they're not watching the series. :) But I don't see what you can do about it. You could tell people to only submit information based on what they actually see on-screen. But there's nothing you can do to make people watch a show to get their information.

Do you want to limit them that way? At the very least, you'd exclude any show before it aired. I've yet to see a source that was 100% reliable except fro the show itself. Heck, CBS mucked up this week's guest cast list for Braindead by displacing every character one-off from the actor who played them.

True. You don't have to go to IMDB to find inaccuracies.

Like in my initial example, episode 2x1 of Mr. Robot, where 3 of the people being credited in the intro aren't actually in the episode.

(Or Killjoys episode 2x2, where they forgot to credit the most prominent guest actor, for that matter)

For instance, I'm watching Powers and I'm thinking, "Wow, Adam Godley and Noah Taylor are really good. I wonder what they're like in other shows."

Taylor is credited as a main star in the mini-series And Then There Were None. If I want to see him, he's only listed for episodes 1 and 2. Does that mean he doesn't appear in 3-6? That someone forgot to credit him? I don't want to go through entire episodes just to discover he's in them or not.

That may not be everybody's point of view, but as a person who watches shows for the actors as much as the shows, it's my POV. And I don't think I'm the only one who watches shows for actors. :)

Gadfly wrote:
For instance, I'm watching Powers and I'm thinking, "Wow, Adam Godley and Noah Taylor are really good. I wonder what they're like in other shows."
Taylor is credited as a main star in the mini-series And Then There Were None. If I want to see him, he's only listed for episodes 1 and 2. Does that mean he doesn't appear in 3-6? That someone forgot to credit him? I don't want to go through entire episodes just to discover he's in them or not.
That may not be everybody's point of view, but as a person who watches shows for the actors as much as the shows, it's my POV. And I don't think I'm the only one who watches shows for actors. :)

In this instance I'd ask myself if the rest of the episode information is there (summary, guest cast, writer, director, screen cap etc). If the answer is yes, then I'd feel pretty safe knowing Taylor isn't in the episodes listed. If the information is fragmentary, then having a "credit only" listing doesn't solve the problem either.

It sounds like your issue is that you don't trust the data provided, which since the site is relatively new it isn't surprising that things are missing, still. But the missing data issue isn't solved by adding more data points that will also just be missing.