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"TMDB-Synchrotron" Bot looks to be making some odd changes ...
posted by dokuroSTAFFMOD on January 21, 2024 at 6:41 PM
Today I noticed the "TMDB-Synchrotron" bot has made a couple of strange updates:
- One example is from the series The Split to episode 1x3 where the title was changed to "Episode #1.3". I have reverted the change -> https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/79053-the-split/season/1/episode/3/changes
- Second example is from the series Boy Swallows Universe to episode 1x6 where an incorrect external id to imdb was added. I have fixed this update -> https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/209332-boy-swallows-universe/season/1/episode/6/changes
The bot might want to be reviewed in case there is other changes it is making which are incorrect.
Reply by Travis Bell
on January 21, 2024 at 6:45 PM
Hi @markcurrancavan,
Thanks for the report. We’ll review these edits to see how we can improve moving forward.
Reply by dokuro
on January 22, 2024 at 3:05 AM
Thanks. If I see other oddities should I report them here or are you tracking stuff like this yourself in the background ?
Reply by David
on January 22, 2024 at 8:08 AM
His changes on on that show are a bit strange as well. He added Germany as production and origin country and the overview is random.
Overall the Synchrotron is working good of what I saw.
Reply by Travis Bell
on January 22, 2024 at 9:22 AM
Report them here if you can. We can keep things consolidated to a single post that way.
Reply by dokuro
on January 23, 2024 at 5:40 PM
FYI... the bot again changed the episode title for The Split -> https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/79053-the-split/season/1/episode/3/changes :-)
Reply by AstroNoud
on January 24, 2024 at 7:12 AM
I noticed strange behavior since December 23. TMDB Synchotron is periodically adding the text "Cinema Canvas: " in front of the original title and saving it as a translated title for languages nl-NL and/or nl-BE. I have been changing this back but for e.g. Donnie Brasco it just recently reverted the change again. See https://www.themoviedb.org/search/movie?query=cinema%20canvas for all affected movies.
This makes zero sense. Cinema Canvas is a TV broadcast showing films on Belgian television and has nothing to do with Dutch/Belgian titles of movies.
Reply by superboy97
on January 28, 2024 at 8:36 PM
TMDB-Synchrotron has wrongly added France as production country to the Die Biene Maja (2013) German show.
Reply by David
on January 29, 2024 at 4:50 AM
He added quite a few to the original show as well.
Reply by superboy97
on January 29, 2024 at 5:07 AM
I have fixed and locked the data. It have also added the production company of the 2013 show to this old Japanese one.
Reply by dokuro
on January 29, 2024 at 5:19 AM
Add this one to the list of bad updated from the bot ...
Reply by raze464
on January 29, 2024 at 10:30 PM
TMDB-Synchrotron made this entry into a duplicate of Taking On Taylor Swift by adding the genres and title of the latter to the former.
Reply by Shei
on February 1, 2024 at 3:31 PM
Also an odd change here: https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/238846/changes?filter_key=key&filter=name
Adding a pt-PT title for a completely different children's show to an anime.
Reply by superboy97
on February 1, 2024 at 3:52 PM
TMDB-Synchrotron has wrongly added the fr-CA title "Sexe a New York" to the fr-FR translation of Sex and the City (1998).
Reply by Troy Barnes
on February 2, 2024 at 8:42 AM
TMDB-Synchrotron is adding production info for the US version of The Office to the UK show, as well as adding Drama to the genres.
Reply by Kampfkeks
on February 2, 2024 at 1:46 PM
This edit is also nonsense:
https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/94722-tagesschau/season/71/episode/68/changes
TMDB Synchotron for some reason added the data from a completely unrelated series to this episode of a German news programm.