Can someone point me to the relevant rules/support articles about how to handle these kinds of shows? And the criteria that defines "anthology" shows, because I'm not super sure these kind of shows will fall under that definition.
For those not aware, the Kamen Rider and Super Sentai franchises put out a new weekly series every year under a different title (this is much like Power Rangers). Each of these titles can and almost always do have their own spinoff mini series, one-off specials and movie and DVD/BD releases. To most people not familiar with this site's SOP, that would indicate each title should get their own series entry and organize their tv folders for scraping as such. However, most of the Kamen Rider series are treated as individual seasons of one 'metaseries', https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/2661-kamen-rider . The complicating factor here is that there are also individual series like https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/127523 https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/130850 etc.
Super Sentai works the same way as Kamen Rider (a new series every year) however it does not have a 'metaseries'. Each show has it's own title https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/120398 https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/106803 etc.
I would strongly urge you to allow the Rider series to work the same as the individual Sentai shows. This allows progress tracking in media programs separately, makes associating Season 0 specials with individual shows much easier and lets credits for cast/crew to be easier associated with specific episodes/shows. However, even if this decided to not be the right approach, then I really think we need to see some consistency in these entries. It is very difficult to determine how/which entries need to be added/maintained from the existing entries.
Help? Please? :)
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Reply by superboy97
on August 9, 2021 at 3:51 PM
This is planned, but it's impossible to give a date. It will have to wait until we have better moderation tools. With the current tools, we can't move the data and have to recreate all the episodes with all their associated data.
I have done this for the Super Sentai series because there were many duplicates and it took me more than 3 weeks with 6 to 7 hours per day. I have better things to do.
Reply by LegendaryLass
on August 9, 2021 at 3:56 PM
Sorry, meaning the ultimate approach you're going for here is individual series? I am more than happy to help with that, in fact I added several individual series the last few days but have been getting messages they are duplicates and were deleted. Unless I'm misunderstanding which approach you're taking, I think one of the other moderators may be working counter to that.
Reply by superboy97
on August 9, 2021 at 4:00 PM
As I have indicated, the move is planned for the future. We can't do it now. So, until we do it, you shouldn't create separate series.
Reply by LegendaryLass
on August 9, 2021 at 4:01 PM
Thank you! Just happy to hear it's on it's way to being fixed. Will hold off until then.
Reply by topbrangzx
on October 8, 2021 at 4:11 PM
This is great , we really need this. I have my own metadata on plex. Nice to share.
Reply by MaskedRider
on November 27, 2021 at 8:19 AM
Hello! I just want to inform that I copied all data I could (except original episode titles and additional images) from Kamen Rider «season 2» to Kamen Rider V3 individual page (not created by me). You can see here: https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/135785-kamen-rider-v3 . I will try to help as much as I can with other shows but that won't be much, because I have seen only several of them.
Reply by superboy97
on November 28, 2021 at 12:11 PM
Did you read above: "So, until we do it, you shouldn't create separate series." ?
Reply by LegendaryLass
on November 28, 2021 at 12:21 PM
It’s not like they’re the only ones doing it… I’ve seen several dupes pop up
Reply by MaskedRider
on November 28, 2021 at 3:19 PM
I'm very sorry, I didn't see that. But I also didn't create it as I also said. Are there any reasons I shouldn't help?
Reply by superboy97
on November 28, 2021 at 3:21 PM
Creating duplicates will give us much more work at the time of the split.
Reply by MaskedRider
on November 28, 2021 at 11:57 PM
I understand. I'm terribly sorry again. I didn't want to annoy you with that. Please forgive me. Thanks for the reply. Can I have one more question, please? I didn't and won't create any new entries but can I move information to entries that are already created? I will report if there are any duplicates.
Reply by superboy97
on November 29, 2021 at 12:28 AM
You can add the data to the global Kamen Rider entry.
Reply by MaskedRider
on May 27, 2022 at 4:06 PM
Hello again. I have a question. Two of upcoming Kamen Rider series, Kamen Rider Black Sun and Fuuto PI were added as separate entries. Does it mean all upcoming Kamen Rider series can be added in entries separate from the main one?