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Full list of tv series without end year?

Hi there,

To assist with filling in missing data, is there an easy way to filter or a full list of tv series without an end year available?

Many thanks

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3 years ago

Maybe don't do that if you don't really have that information?

Not accusing you but I noticed someone is blindly adding inaccurate "end years" to lots of series in batch recently. Possibly using some sort of automation. Last week I asked support to delete a few end years and I'm preparing a new list of titles to ask the support to remove end years (some are series I added with few episodes and was planning to add more episodes in a free time, someone just blindly spammed them with inaccurate end years)

This is from a message of me to support last week when I asked them to remove an end year:

It's possible someone is spamming blind inaccurate "end years" to title pages randomly for easy points as I started to see more inaccurate "series end year" additions recently. Last week I requested you to remove an incorrect one from a 2022 series too, what's the rush, someone blindly adds an end date to an ongoing series and why it's accepted?


If you check here: https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/data-issues-policy-discussions/introducing-contribution-for-series-end-years/5f9c32c74833932251ff3f03


You will see this note: "Uncertainty of renewal isn't sufficient to add an end year unless the final episode was at least 3+ years ago."


That means blind end year additions like these to recent series shouldn't be accepted without evidence. 2022 is not "3+ years ago", 2021 is not "3+ years ago"

They create more work for staff with these blind submissions.

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3 years ago

Thank you for that. Yes I've seen it on a couple of new uncancelled titles too. What's the point of them being contributors for those sorts of points from doing something that defeats the purpose of being a contributor (ie: submitting wrong info)?

I hope I'm not in the minority here, but I refuse to submit info like that without hard evidence from other sources, One of the many reasons I'm a paid subscriber to newspapers.com and a few other artificat media services like that.

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3 years ago

Perhaps series marked as “TV Mini-Series” could be marked as having an end year?
It's either a mini series (and it's finished, end year = last episode year) or it isn't (and there is no end year unless confirmed as cancelled/ended).

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3 years ago

That's more up the avenue of what I was thinking.

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@trent_b_davidson​ I don't think it's possible with web site but it's possible to generate a report using title.basics.tsv.gz file from datasets here: https://datasets.imdbws.com/

Here, I generated some text files for you (there are too many titles to post here, thousands): https://we.tl/t-LnrWSHQVYo (link should expire after 7 days)

Mini series and normal tv series reports are seperate.

I would again advise not adding things without actually knowing for sure, it's harder to remove it than adding it. Things can be marked mini series erroneously, some people add that keyword just because there are a few episodes listed on IMDb when in fact show itself has a lot more episodes but not listed on IMDb yet etc..

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@mbmb​ Your advice against adding an end year without knowing for sure is sound; however, I believe that series tagged as mini-series without an end year having their last episode more than 10 years ago would be quite safe to add an end year.
Some examples:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092629/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115145/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101200/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092471/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0256019/

Perhaps this one wasn't a mini series, but I can't fathom it continuing after so many years:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094562/