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Wednesday, November 24th, 2021 8:10 PM

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Remove the Series/Episode Level Info boxes

So whilst agreeing with another contributor's comment the other day, I thought I'd post the idea (sorry if it's been done before recently) to get rid of the notices highlighted in red in the picture below

They most appear on the Companies section and on most Basic Data options, maybe other places I've not noticed. In my opinion it's mostly useless especially nowadays, removing it will not stop anyone adding at a series level but it may stop people misinterpreting how to contribute, like recently when my company data was being removed from episodes by someone who likely thought it was irrelevant because it was on the series page. Many episodes of TV have unique lists of different companies, and episode level entries are a must, so this info on Miscellaneous companies is pretty useless.
Same for certification, there's a lot of shows nowadays that have different ratings for different episodes, even The Simpsons which is usually TV-PG has a few TV-14's every season because they are more adult in content.
Running times are always all over the place too now, thanks to streaming and looser attitudes on Cable shows, I recently watched a show from 2007 where every episode was 47m02s long but now you can have a 39min episode followed by a 54min episode and whatever they like.
It contains no information that really teaches anyone what to contribute and where that they can't figure out from the other information that's already right there like the guideline links.
In short this info box feels outdated, unneeded and potentially causing valid data deletion through misinterpretation.
So maybe other's agree with this, let's see.

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3 years ago

Regarding companies, this guideline has been added for production companies some time this year:

For TV Series, as a Production company may change throughout a series run - the company should be added to the individual episodes (even if the company was the same throughout).

Companies data

I don't like that wording either because it may suggest that companies shouldn't be added to the series page. There is no reason to discourage adding companies to series pages or episode pages.

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