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Contribution ideas – plots and episode data
If you’ve a hankering to submit some data but don’t have a specific project in mind, we could really use some help in filling in the holes in our TV episode data.
We’ve a list in the Contributors Zone which shows TV series with missing stuff (plots, cast, crew, episode titles, etc, etc). So if you happen to be a fan and have any of those series on DVD, that’s where to find out what’s missing.
If you’re a keen plot submitter (or would like to be), try this list of popular titles with no plot information. We need plot outlines (two lines to give a flavour of the episode – the sort of thing you’d see in a TV listings magazine), plot summaries (a paragraph giving a more detailed idea of the plot but with no spoilers – the sort of thing you might want to read if you couldn’t make up your mind whether to watch), and plot synopses (ideally a complete scene-by-scene description of everything that happens).
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Episodes that are submitted without episode numbers…
Posted by admin in Data Display, General on April 21st, 2009
Episodes that are submitted without episode numbers are automatically shown as being from an “unknown season”. Moving an episode to the correct season is easy: click on the gold Update button at the bottom of the page, scroll down to the Other Corrections section at the bottom of the page and select Correct from the pull-down beside Episode Title / Number. Once the correction has been approved by our editors, the episode will move to the correct season.
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A Belated Welcome
I’d intended to post a “hello and welcome to the new blog” a little while ago but events overtook me and we had to get the news out about the change in cast order. But here we are now. Hello.
We’re still deciding exactly how we want to use the blog (and we may never properly decide – I have a feeling it’ll just sort of evolve as we post stuff), but we’re hoping it will be a useful way of passing on news from the data team.
This week there’s encouraging stuff from the biographies manager who’s especially pleased to be receiving quite a bit of stuff about various actors’ theatre work which fits nicely into the “other works” section on the bio pages (take a look at Kevin Spacey, for instance). On the downside, he also says he’s been getting quite a few dates of birth without a country, (particularly noticeable, he says, when it’s the USA) and asks you not to forget to include the country with the place of birth.
I’ve not heard from any other list managers, so I’m assuming they’re either blissfully content or so busy that they haven’t got time to talk to the likes of me.
Cheerio for now