Remove IMDB and TVDB Requirement for TMDB

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Remove the requirement for TMDB to have IMDB and TVDB IDs

You didn’t check or communicate with TMDB to fully understand their rules and processes.

This is a problem that needs to be fixed/removed. It seems like you’re relying on TMDB but not relying on them.

For example they treat American Idol as two separate shows while TVDB and others do not. This means they will not add those values into the new show because they can’t have duplicate values.

They do this for most network changes for a show. This means that many shows like this will no longer function in trakt.

Remove this requirement, restriction, or process.

If you’re looking for duplicates set a search check to prevent the exact name from showing up twice, allowing for admin override. This is easily done. I’ve worked with developers to accomplish this and with LLMs (it’s not really AI) it’s even easier.

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Repeating my comment here in the dedicated request thread,

This isn’t worth it.

Good pages being blocked is a bigger problem than bad pages being allowed.

And I’m saying this as someone who has spent many hours submitting hundreds of reports to delete spam pages.

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QFT.

And I think they’re conveniently sidestepping the issue of how many of our records got deleted when all TMDB entries without an IMDb or TVDB just disappeared from our watched history.

I’m slowly working my way through updating all the ones I can identify from my last backups, but this is a slow tedious job. Something entirely unneccessary.

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