As I have seen this happening more often again, a friendly reminder NOT to add future episodes without title AND without date.
It is mandatory that either the date OR the episode title is known, otherwise it is not allowed to add a new episode.
thank you
Juan
Friendly? Why not evil? It suits you more you always said.
I wonder what's the reason could possibly be for creating generic episodes without name and date? People never cease to amaze me :)
Thomas wrote:
Friendly? Why not evil? It suits you more you always said.
heh, I am the dark soul of tvmaze, but I am a friendly devil :)
JuanArango wrote:
heh, I am the dark soul of tvmaze, but I am a friendly devil :)
The devil you know :)
tnt wrote:
I wonder what's the reason could possibly be for creating generic episodes without name and date? People never cease to amaze me :)
I guess I could see that happening when there's a confirmed episode count, but no other info.
Aidan wrote:
I guess I could see that happening when there's a confirmed episode count, but no other info.
yeh, this might be a situation where this can happen.
Aidan wrote:
I guess I could see that happening when there's a confirmed episode count, but no other info.
Aren't adding episode count to season info is enough?
tnt wrote:
Aren't adding episode count to season info is enough?
yes, but probably some people do not know this :)
agreed. i've seen episodes that aired back last year without a date still and just TBA as the title, kinda worrying.
JuanArango wrote:
yes, but probably some people do not know this :)
Maybe that's because access to the seasons is kind of hidden, especially for new series when there's no episodes. So you can't actually get to the seasons level except that manually typing "seasons" in URL.
I'm glad to see this subject being brought up, i have been increasingly frustrated seeing listings for shows that are pure guess work, on US cable networks you might just get away with it because shows have shorter seasons and generally take few breaks, but on network tv you are going to run into problems a recent example being Whose Line Is It Anyway were 10 episodes for the new season were listed one airing each week which was pure guess work and after the first four episodes had aired the show took/is taking a few weeks off, so that is 6 episodes that have had to have their guesswork airdates removed. The new season of Ballers has had all 10 episodes added, the new season of Episodes has had all 7 episodes added, Nashville has had the 11 episodes for the second half of its season added, as i said earlier about cable shows they may turn out to be okay, but is there any real need for doing it in the first place?
I would suggest that everyone who sees episodes with TBA without an airdate deletes them or lists them here, so they can be deleted.
Just caught another person adding episodes without name and airdate :( Good thing is that we all seem to catch them because of our promotional steps for each user :)
tnt wrote:
I wonder what's the reason could possibly be for creating generic episodes without name and date? People never cease to amaze me :)
Easy. You thought you knew the air date so you add it, then you realize you goofed, and so you blank it out again. That leaves you with a TBA episode. Another thing that can happen is you accidentally create too many new episodes, or you created a duplicate record. Or maybe you're just fixing someone else's mistake. Then you blank it out and put TBA because pretty soon there will be a new episode there, and there's no sense in getting admins involved who are the only ones who can delete.
If the admins don't want TBA without an air date I understand that. I'm not arguing with that. I'm just saying how it can happen. Also, I think some people just like adding TBA episodes because it makes them feel like they're contributing. Maybe some of them don't know they're not supposed to do that.
http://www.tvmaze.com/users/7190/namelessass
This guy doing this en masse. Apparently because he doesn't know, how to create an empty season to set a premiere year/month.
tnt wrote:
http://www.tvmaze.com/users/7190/namelessassThis guy doing this en masse. Apparently because he doesn't know, how to create an empty season to set a premiere year/month.
Juan already noticed yesterday and contacted him. It's only a couple of episodes though, I deleted them.
david wrote:
Juan already noticed yesterday and contacted him. It's only a couple of episodes though, I deleted them.
Maybe something can be done to simplify access to seasons level? Especially for the new shows, which doesn't have any episodes.
tnt wrote:
Maybe something can be done to simplify access to seasons level? Especially for the new shows, which doesn't have any episodes.
I'd agree with this. It took me forever to figure out how people were setting a "Returning in" status! :)
LadyShelley wrote:
I'd agree with this. It took me forever to figure out how people were setting a "Returning in" status! :)
BTW, this thing have a kind of redundancy. Even when the airdate of the first episode is already set, you have to set year and month in the season properties to have this "Returning in" to display. Why the airdate of season premiere cannot be used?
