Today I noticed the "TMDB-Synchrotron" bot has made a couple of strange updates:
The bot might want to be reviewed in case there is other changes it is making which are incorrect.
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Reply by Troy Barnes
on February 21, 2024 at 9:35 AM
The bot is adding info for Suits to the 2018 Korean remake.
Reply by raze464
on February 26, 2024 at 1:21 PM
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.
Reply by dokuro
on February 29, 2024 at 3:28 AM
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".
Reply by dokuro
on February 29, 2024 at 4:03 AM
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).
Reply by Tim Uruski
on February 29, 2024 at 11:15 AM
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.
Reply by dokuro
on March 1, 2024 at 5:41 AM
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.
Reply by David
on March 1, 2024 at 6:05 AM
Note: Which is also the 4th genre added to the entry now. Rules say it should be 3 max.
Reply by superboy97
on March 6, 2024 at 4:40 AM
He did the same thing for the DC's Legends of Tomorrow movie and maybe others.
Reply by Adriana
on March 29, 2024 at 7:42 AM
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
Reply by Sylvain
on April 4, 2024 at 6:02 AM
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
Reply by superboy97
on April 4, 2024 at 6:15 AM
Done.
Reply by OttoKerner
on April 13, 2024 at 3:05 PM
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.
Reply by Tim Uruski
on April 15, 2024 at 1:11 PM
@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.
Reply by dokuro
on April 15, 2024 at 1:16 PM
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.
Reply by Tim Uruski
on April 15, 2024 at 2:51 PM
We've spun up a separate bot account that runs at a much lower frequency for manually handling specific backfilling. I'll be keeping an eye on it here: https://www.themoviedb.org/u/TMDB-Betatron/activity