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Duplications from new Podcast Series category
Although the new Podcast Series category is great, I have found some incidents where titles are added which already exist on the site listed as TV series.
With one which only had a few episodes, I tried the old thing of moving the episodes across first, so that I could then combine the main title. However, that didn't work, and it actually suggests on the Help page that you don't need to do that with podcasts as you do with TV series.
So with another title I then tried combining without moving the episodes across first, but that didn't work either. The other problem with this title is that is has hundreds of episodes, which are now duplicated, so even if it had worked I would have had a mammoth task of trying to get all them combined one by one as well.
And you never even know whether it will go through anyway, as title corrections are the one category which do not include the Track Contribution feature.
Vande
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3 years ago
@Michelle I have thought of a way of solving this. Could you delete all the episodes from this title:
tt12531018 as they don't have the correct titles
and then combine the main series page into this title:
tt17154492 so that we can keep all of the ratings and images.
I can then re-add all the cast members once that is done.
Thanks!
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Vande
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3 years ago
The reference numbers for the Podcast Series I mentioned where I tried to move episodes across so I could combine them are:
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Vande
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3 years ago
The ones I experimented with moving across the main podcast title without moving the episodes first are:
220203-181713-795000
220203-131624-632000
220203-123352-125000
220203-110215-649000
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Michelle
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3 years ago
Hi Vande -
Just confirming the duplicate Podcast series titles:
Triggernometry
TRIGGERnometry
Modern Wisdom (2018)
Modern Wisdom (2018)
The best way to resolve this issue, is to merge the titles associated with the least comprehensive series to the most comprehensive series, once all the data has been moved we can then make any necessary adjustments to the title Podcast type.
So the first step is to request title merges for the duplicate episodes, once all the episode titles have been merged, the duplicate series titles can be merged. The preference to merge the titles rather than delete them, is so that we can preserve all the relevant data and ratings from the duplicate title pages.
Upon skimming through many of the updates you referenced above, I can see that these merges have already been approved in the meantime.
Let us know if you have any questions or issues submitting these merge updates!
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Vande
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3 years ago
They have finally gone through, so just the umbrella series title to go now.
An interesting aside: if you correct the title and leave the episode number in, it still gives you the warning that you are combining with an existing title, but it then creates it as a different episode (one numbered and one not).
But if you correct the title and remove the episode number, it DOES combine it with the existing unnumbered episode, but then puts the episode number back in!
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