New WWE PPV TMDB Import Loophole

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Hi @Sonply- I’d like to bring up a loophole that is starting to be problematic going forward for wrestling PPV requiring IMDB-ID. This has already happened a few times.

Here’s the scenario:

TMDB users are creating the PPV entries in TMDB which is named correctly and tagged correctly with IMDB-IDs. But then after these PPV’s gets imported into Trakt, they rename the title to it’s respective post shows, then let it refresh in Trakt, then they remove the IMDB-ID.

https://trakt.tv/movies/wwe-wrestlemania-42-saturday-post-show-2026

https://trakt.tv/movies/wwe-wrestlemania-42-sunday-2026

I only know this because I’ve added these to my watchlist, then recently it got updated to reflect the post show.

Then they re-created new entries for the actual PPV.

I assume now, the actual PPV entries will have issues importing into trakt…

is there a workaround for this? seems like it’s a real mess. Now to make it worse, IMDB seems to have only one entry for WWE Wrestlemania 42 now, so I can’t update it in TMDB.

It seems like now, it’s more of a headache to be able to track my watching of wrestling PPV :frowning:

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yea what a mess…

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Hi,
We currently don’t have a way to manually import movies without the IMDB ID, but we will add a way to import those pages based on cases like this, were the listing at TMDB and IMDB is different (having 2 pages at TMDB and 1 at IMDB).
I’ve removed the ID from the post show page at TMDB and added it to WWE WrestleMania 42 - Saturday. Since it now has the ID, it should import normally in a few hours. The second page will need to be imported when we create that alternative option.