Hi, I'm the one cleaning up this stuff. I usually e-mail he user when I delete something, but it seems I forgot to do it in this case.

The reason many of these DVDs get deleted is that they are in essence made up of fragments from different TV-episodes and we don't allow TV-content. The one you added yesterday is a perfect example of this as you can see here: http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/123_Count_with_Me_(video)

It becomes more complicated in cases where they shoot some new material for the DVD and that's why some stuff remains in the database. It's a mess.

Hi lineker,

Could you explain what is gained by deleting these things? Presumably -- and correct me if I'm wrong -- many or most people accessing TMDB are doing so because of XBMC. IMDB is a much more comprehensive database, Amazon property notwithstanding, and XBMC's scraper is the only reason I touch TMDB. So deleting borderline movies accomplishes little (as I see it) except preventing people from easily adding those borderline movies to XBMC. And in the case of Sesame Street -- won't you please think of the children?! :-) Really, I'm curious what you perceive these deletions as accomplishing, because to my mind all they do is make TMDB less comprehensive. Why not add a flag to the database structure corresponding to whatever property of the movie makes it less worthy in your eyes ("compilation of TV snippets" flag) and let the content remain?

Hi,

This type of TV content has remained in the database for years because the content has been unfamiliar to most users (and moderators).

For comparison, if a company would release similar content based on Friends or Homeland, there would be users reporting those entries hours after they were added.

Please remember that we are also used as a source for third party movie sites, where the biggest one at the moment is Letterboxd.

Really, I'm curious what you perceive these deletions as accomplishing, because to my mind all they do is make TMDB less comprehensive.

Well, we are a movie database and we allow some TV content, but according to our television rules the rest should be deleted. Yes this means TMDb becomes slightly less comprehensive, but also that the database becomes more correct. :)