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Sunday, January 10th, 2016 4:51 AM

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Listing of episode pages without episode number

Two days ago, I cleaned up seasons 14 and 15 of The First 48 by attempting to "Add episode" for 30 missing episodes.  From those 30 attempts, IMDb found 10 existing pages that simply did not have an episode number specified; thus, they did not appear on the "Episode List" pages.

Does an error listing exist that shows all episode pages on IMDb without an episode number?

If yes, can contributors access it?  Where?

If no, would somebody please create such a listing?  It would allow contributors to pinpoint and fix existing deficiencies.

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9 years ago

IMDb has provided a Series Needing Episode Data page; however, Episode Number seems to be the one item they have not listed. Perhaps they could be persuaded to add this to the list.

The list can be found on the Contributor Zone page as one of the Data Research Projects.

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Thanks for the link to the "Series Needing Episode Data" page; I've bookmarked it.  The data on this page is workable, but I'd suggest several enhancements:

1. As you mentioned, "episode number" should be added.  When an episode page lacks its episode number, the page doesn't appear in the correct "Episode List"--that's significant.

2. Tabular format with sortable columns.  If a contributor wants to work on oldest series first, sort the "year" column.  If a contributor wants to work on series with the least number of missing plots, sort the "plots" column.  Etc.

3. Specify the exact episode number for each missing item.

An example from the page...

"Doctor Who" (2005): Existing episodes missing 1 plot and 1 title

Contributors really wouldn't enjoy looking through Doctor Who's 10 seasons to find the *1* missing plot and the *1* missing title.

Strangely enough, most the first 15 items on the page *do* specify the exact episode number for most of the missing items.  Example

  1. "Sherlock" (2010): Existing episodes missing 3 plots and 3 titles
    Missing plot: (#4.1)(#4.2)(#4.3)
4. The table needs a way to update quickly so contributors don't waste time chasing down a missing item that has already been fixed.

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9 years ago

Episodes without episode numbers appear in the website's episode lists under "Unknown season".

Some episodes purposefully have no number.

A Google search may help find examples:
https://www.google.dk/search?q=site:imdb.com+inurl:episodes+"unknown+season"

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Thanks for bringing "Unknown season" to my attention.  (One of those "right in front of my nose but it didn't register" things)