To answer your question about the TV import, no. But it did bring in duplicates (especially with people who didn't have an IMDB ID).

What looks to have happened here was the duplicate was reported and one of our mods merged the two profiles. He chose the newer ID as the one to keep around. In principal, this isn't how we're supposed to do this. The older ids are the ones that should be kept. I'll make sure everyone is reminded of this.

Are there more like this? I couldn't honestly tell you but there have been a lot of person cleanup going since TV got added.

Cheers.

Hard for me to tell without going through and individually comparing them. There is over a 100 which have disappeared, but I am fairly sure quite a lot of those are not mergings or duplicates. So you should be okay.

Just a quick note as I was the one that merged the two. I usually keep the original profile. In this case though, the issue was a bug that had the original Simon Baker profile set to adult:true despite all movie credits being set to adult:false. A bit hastily I then solved it by moving all those credits to the other profile. I won't do that again.

The older ids are the ones that should be kept.

For some merges it would mean manually moving 50-100 credits to a profile with less than 10 credits. A lot of extra work, but it could be done of course.

We also have a couple of active users merging profiles. If there is one credit on the old original profile and 35 on the new one with TV-credits, they are moving the one old credit to the new profile. Exactly what damage does this do? Just trying to understand.

We also have a couple of active users merging profiles. If there is one credit on the old original profile and 35 on the new one with TV-credits, they are moving the one old credit to the new profile. Exactly what damage does this do?

Yes, I know. This is why I've never made too big of a deal about this.

Adi and I probably have slightly different reasons. I'm going to tell you I care about Google and SEO and he's probably going to tell you that as a 3rd party developer, he had the original ID mapped to things on his own and now those links are broken.

It's a balance of work vs. being practical. It's just in principal, we should be keeping the original ids around.

I understand. I was probably influenced by viewing data at Letterboxd where users usually access an actor/actress via a movie page, meaning that a new profile won't really matter. For other purposes I can see that it does indeed matter.

Things being broken is annoying, but it is part of the territory. That said, my post was purely out of concern as to whether I was going to encounter a lot of this. e.g. thousands. When you are dealing with 350,000+ people and an automated process has occurred, you can end up with big numbers and that is what I was checking for. If it is just the effects of people hand vetting data, that is all good. In a perfect work, the old ID would pass back some JSON containing the new replacement ID, but again, for so few occurrences, it isn't worth the effort of implementing.

I gave up on the adult tag. Most of the time, people use it because they think the content of the program is aimed at adults. So you end up with lots of every day documentaries etc. tagged as adult. You get the feeling the interface should say: "Is this porn?" and "Is this a porn actor?" as the term Adult seems to be too subtle for some and not entirely understood by by non-native English speakers.

Keep up the good work on fixing actor data!

I gave up on the adult tag. Most of the time, people use it because they think the content of the program is aimed at adults.

This is the first I've ever really heard about this. I was under the impression it was really only being used for porn. This is a very heavily used feature, it echoes it's way all the way down to change logs and is very important to "get right". In the last few years I've probably only seen 5-10 items incorrectly marked as adult.

There's no toggle on people, it's auto set if their credit list has over 10% adult items, so it's a movie only option.