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Today I noticed the "TMDB-Synchrotron" bot has made a couple of strange updates:

  1. 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
  2. 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.

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For series Quantum Leap (1989) the bot incorrectly added episode lengths of 1 hr to episodes 3x11, 3x13 and 3x14 leaving other episodes untouched.

https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/4018-quantum-leap/season/3/changes?filter_key=account_id&filter=6517bc779d592c00e5ef3485

The bot is adding info for Suits to the 2018 Korean remake.

The bot is adding some incorrect info to the Incredible Hulk show from 1977. The production companies are for the 1996 cartoon and the Finnish overview it added is about the Ang Lee movie.

Another bad update -> https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/85224-britain-s-most-evil-killers/changes. The bot added the english translated name of "World's Most Evil Killers". I have deleted this change as its incorrect. The show is called "Britain’s Most Evil Killers".

And yet another bad update -> https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/754609-mrs-harris-goes-to-paris. This time the bot added the english translated name of "Mrs Harris Goes to Paris". I have deleted this change as its incorrect. The show is called "Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris" (with a . after Mrs).

The TMDB-Synchrotron bot is going to be paused for a while so we can address the mismatched data. Thanks for all the reports! I will update here when it is ready to resume.

FYI... another one which seems odd. The bot added genre of "Drama" to the 2024 movie Lift -> https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/955916-lift/changes?filter_key=account_id&filter=6517bc779d592c00e5ef3485. I've not removed this (yet) until I watch the movie but seems like an odd genre for this movie type.

@markcurrancavan said:

FYI... another one which seems odd. The bot added genre of "Drama" to the 2024 movie Lift -> https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/955916-lift/changes?filter_key=account_id&filter=6517bc779d592c00e5ef3485. I've not removed this (yet) until I watch the movie but seems like an odd genre for this movie type.

Note: Which is also the 4th genre added to the entry now. Rules say it should be 3 max.

@superboy97 said:

TMDB-Synchrotron has wrongly added the fr-CA title "Sexe a New York" to the fr-FR translation of Sex and the City (1998).

He did the same thing for the DC's Legends of Tomorrow movie and maybe others.

The bot has also added content rating NR to Paw Patrol https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/57532-paw-patrol/changes. The show already had a US content rating

Hello,

The bot has also added a wrong French (fr-FR) name to Apocalypse : La 2ème Guerre mondiale whereas the original name is already the fr-FR one.

I have already deleted the name added by the service, but I assume it will be added again. Would it be possible to lock the French name?

Thanks a lot!

Have a nice day sunny

@garion.84 said:

Would it be possible to lock the French name?

Done.

I have removed a few incorrect "NR" ratings for United States from these shows, all of which were added by the almighty scripting of that bot: https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/79744-the-rookie https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/1639-heroes https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/71712-the-good-doctor https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/32692-blue-bloods https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/80748-fbi https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/121658-fbi-international

Maybe teach it not to add a new rating to a title, if that title already has a rating listed in that country.

I've also noticed that these shows all show more than one rating for other countries, but I didn't bother to look them all up.

@OttoKerner Thanks for cleaning those up. I'm putting together a fix that should prevent it from adding NR to an existing certification. Our contribution guidelines state that we can use a higher rating if there's multiple values, so I might code that into Synchroton after I deal with the NR issue.

@timuruski said:

@OttoKerner Thanks for cleaning those up. I'm putting together a fix that should prevent it from adding NR to an existing certification. Our contribution guidelines state that we can use a higher rating if there's multiple values, so I might code that into Synchroton after I deal with the NR issue.

The guidelines don't explicitly say not to use multiple values but my understanding was that a single certification was always preferred.

Might be worth confirming that's before adding more logic to your bot.

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