Yesterday I reported this item Auralnauts Star Wars - Trakt since it does not have a TMDB page. I thought that was our main criterion for the removal of items. Now it wasn’t removed because it still has a TVDB entry associated with it. How do we handle such cases in general? Do we usually say there’s a reason behind the fact that there’s no TMDB page and adhere to TMDB’s general guidelines or do we keep items as long as they have either a TMDB or a TVDB page?
Btw I’m not trying to challenge the decision, I’m just trying to understand.
We usually keep pages that are only linked to TVDB if they have good data and a lot of plays. If they really don’t exist we can remove, but we don’t want to delete user’s data specially if that show has already ended.
I see that point. The thing is that this logic also applies to many items that were previously on TMDB and aren’t anymore, because many of them do actually exist in some form (and therefore have plays associated with them), they just don’t fulfill TMDB’s requirements to be listed.
Do we have our own guidelines for when an item should exist or not? TMDB’s ones can be found here New Content - New Content Bible — The Movie Database (TMDB) under “Not supported”, whereas I couldn’t find such clear rules for TVDB. It certainly would be good if we had such rules to make it clear what is listed on Trakt and what isn’t.
Adopting TMDB’s guidelines (if we were to fully agree with them) could also help with Items removed from TMDB.
Now that I think about it, they are kind of similar. However, the other one was about a new way going forward in general while this one was meant to ask a question regarding a specific scenario.
