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’…

For now it is still the same. We can still update those TVDB pages and I’ve been migrating the ones that are possible. Some people also report pages that still use TVDB after fixing their TMDB page, so that helps. Basically, we prefer TMDB pages, but valid TVDB pages will not be removed if they are…

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 ow…

Any further work in this area to get a consistent set of guidelines for which items are listed on Trakt in general or do we accept that Trakt lists “TMDB items and some exclusive TVDB items with many views”? @Sonply

[image] CanePlayz: 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? D…

Handling of items that are not on TMDB but on TVDB

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CanePlayz (Jacob P.) December 20, 2025, 1:07am 9

Fair, thanks for the clarification!

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Handling of items that are not on TMDB but on TVDB

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