@ausley wrote:

Item: 流言终结者
Type of Problem: Incorrect_content
Extra Details: missed some episodes, locked and cannot add

Thanks for your report!

Can you point out which episodes in which seasons are missing, in your opinion?

Also, why do you add episode titles in English when your editing language is Mandarin? Example:

https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/1428-mythbusters/season/1/episode/4/edit?active_nav_item=primary_facts&language=zh-CN

Is that correct?

First of all, I didn't add English episode titles in Mandarin version. I can translate them late. I haven't gone through all seasons. Based on discovery channel website (https://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/mythbusters/), 1st season includes three pilots. If we count them into season 2 as discovery channel thought as season 1, season 1 should have 16 episodes instead 11.

@ausley wrote:

First of all, I didn't add English episode titles in Mandarin version. I can translate them late.

According to the episode changelogs, you did add them on February 3rd. But it doesn't matter now because you translated them - thank you!

I haven't gone through all seasons. Based on discovery channel website (https://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/mythbusters/), 1st season includes three pilots. If we count them into season 2 as discovery channel thought as season 1, season 1 should have 16 episodes instead 11.

Alright, thanks for your examples!

I took a look at the discovery channel website and compared the episodes to the TMDb listing -> it's definitely a different order in general! The order here on TMDb is per calender year, meaning season 1 includes all episodes from 2003, season 2 all episodes from 2004, and so on. Which also means that adding episodes according to the official website isn't a good idea -> TMDb does not follow this order.

BUT: I was curious why TMDb does not follow this order, and I searched for older discussions here on TMDb. There are indeed 2 old discussions that you should definitely read before you add more content to this series:

1. https://www.themoviedb.org/talk/54e05d58925141195a004bfb
   
2. https://www.themoviedb.org/talk/569c74069251415e60001d9d
   

You can also read this link about the calender year order on TVDB:

https://forums.thetvdb.com/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=47#p1070

Finding the correct order of all episodes seems to be a nightmare, but it looks like that TMDb decided to group them per calender year and lock this structure, so noone can destroy said structure by accident. This is my assumption - I was not involved in making this decision, so another moderator has to reply to this discussion to give you a final answer.

What you could do: Just add the episode descriptions/titles while ignoring the overall seasonal structure. I'm not sure that works perfectly for every episode, but I don't see a different way right now, to be honest.

I'll keep this discussion open for another moderator to respond!

Thanks for the explanation. Now I'm clear about the logic.