Disappearing seasons

Cecile wrote 3 years ago: 1

Hello

I have notice that some future seasons created disappeared without a trace.

For instance, I have created season 4 for Snowpiercer yesterday and it's gone today : https://www.tvmaze.com/edit/view?id=14665766 but there is no delete log to match.

Any reason ?

david wrote 3 years ago: 1

Empty seasons are automatically cleaned up. This was done to prevent deleting episodes from leaving empty/useless entries on the season index.

What's the reason that you would explicitly want to add an empty season?

Cecile wrote 3 years ago: 1

In order to keep current informations. Since season 4 has been commissioned, I thought it had to be added. Never mind, I'll wait until we have more information about it.

Thanks :)

david wrote 3 years ago: 3

Check :)

Once the premiere year/month of the season is made known, you can add the season and set that information (https://www.tvmaze.com/faq/14/show-extras#seasons) and then the season won't be cleaned up anymore.

markus wrote 3 years ago: 1

Ha, just fell for that as well with a bunch of Star Trek shows.
Kind of problematic if you ask me - it might happen more often that a season has been confirmed without a year, than deleted episodes leaving orphaned seasons.

Auto-delete of a season together with the last episode being deleted instead?

Cecile wrote 3 years ago: 1

@markus wrote:
Ha, just fell for that as well with a bunch of Star Trek shows.
Kind of problematic if you ask me - it might happen more often that a season has been confirmed without a year, than deleted episodes leaving orphaned seasons.
Auto-delete of a season together with the last episode being deleted instead?

I'm not sure to understand what you mean.

For what I understood of @david 's response, seasons are deleted only if totally empty, so a season with episode wouldn't be concerned

david wrote 3 years ago: 1

@Cecile wrote:
I'm not sure to understand what you mean.
For what I understood of @david 's response, seasons are deleted only if totally empty, so a season with episode wouldn't be concerned

Correct.

Cecile wrote 3 years ago: 1

@david

On that subject, I saw that many seasons are added empty with a fake/placeholder name (to avoid deletion, I guess).

Is that authorize ?

[for example : https://www.tvmaze.com/seasons/135481/stranger-things-season-5 ]

Cecile wrote 3 years ago: 1

I have looked of the running shows I am following and found those :

TomSouthwell wrote 3 years ago: 1

@Cecile wrote:
@david
On that subject, I saw that many seasons are added empty with a fake/placeholder name (to avoid deletion, I guess).
Is that authorize ?
[for example : https://www.tvmaze.com/seasons/135481/stranger-things-season-5 ]

No its not ill remove the placeholder names now, please let us know if you come across anymore.

markus wrote 3 years ago: 1

@Cecile wrote:
I'm not sure to understand what you mean.
For what I understood of @david 's response, seasons are deleted only if totally empty, so a season with episode wouldn't be concerned

For a season after the currently running one, why would I do that.
We are missing a way to have seasons that have been announced but no further information is known.

@TomSouthwell wrote:
No its not ill remove the placeholder names now, please let us know if you come across anymore.

Why? Once these seasons have been confirmed as ordered in a press release or otherwise officially announced, there is no reason to delete them.
They have the same status as any show that's in development.

TomSouthwell wrote 3 years ago: 1

@markus wrote:
For a season after the currently running one, why would I do that.
We are missing a way to have seasons that have been announced but no further information is known.

Why? Once these seasons have been confirmed as ordered in a press release or otherwise officially announced, there is no reason to delete them.
They have the same status as any show that's in development.

@david has already given a really clear response above, I don't know what else you want as an answer.

Cecile wrote 3 years ago: 1

@TomSouthwell wrote:
[...] let us know if you come across anymore.

They seem to be always created by the same few users ; maybe just send a message to them

TomSouthwell wrote 3 years ago: 1

@Cecile wrote:
They seem to be always created by the same few users ; maybe just send a message to them

A discussion has already been had with those users, but thanks :)