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Tidying Up the Database
A couple of suggestions to help out contributors:
- There are many orphaned profiles. These are usually created due to a credit being renamed to another profile leaving the original one empty. Could I suggest that if a profile has no credits or bio whatsoever for more than a year, the profile is purged. When adding a person to a production, many of these empty profiles pop up. When it's someone with a very common name, this can cause the genuine profile to not appear in the rather short list of possible profiles.
- There are many series that haven't officially ended, but aren't coming back.... ever. If a series hasn't had an episode added in more than 5 years, mark it as ended. In the rare event a series returns after a long gap, adding an episode will reinstate its status.
- Similarly to #2, If a production has been marked as being "In Production" for more than, say, 5 years, it's probably no longer in production. Perhaps automatically mark these as "completed, but not released" (or similar).
Kristin
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25 days ago
Regarding point 3.
I have been following some independent/hobby filmmakers, and it is not uncommon for something to take more than 5 years.
And setting them marked as "Completed but not released" based upon guessing is not a good idea, the database should be based upon facts and not guessing.
Not all that are started will be completed either.
At least there should be a "status unknown" instead.
I do understand and agree on the desire to "clean" up the database, however, I just don't agree on the suggested method.
May I rather suggest that the system instead sends an automated mail + sms to the person that created the listing asking for an updated status after year x, y, z?
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