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@Travis What are the rules regarding Homepages?
posted by AdiSTAFFMOD on July 5, 2018 at 12:11 PM
There are over 36,000 films with homepages.
Over 1820 are Facebook links.
Over 780 are Vimeo links.
Over 680 are YouTube links.
Over 470 are Wikipedia pages.
Over 440 are BBC iPlayer links.
Over 420 are IMDB pages. Amusingly, 18 of those do not have IMDB_IDs.
Over 350 are British Film Institute links.
84 of which are Amazon URLs.
Around 20 of them are Google search URLs either linking the Google Images page, or where someone has right click copied the link and thus got the Google tracking URL instead.
Anyway, you get the idea.
It is like the wild west with some of them. e.g. it is impossible to know what has been linked without visiting the page for Facebook. Some are proper, some are to pages, some of to events, some are to groups, some are just the Facebook page for the production company.
The IMDB ones are just amusing.
Things like BFI, Wikipedia, BBC iPlayer etc. suggests a need for external sites fields like we have with People on the site.
Not sure YouTube/Vimeo should be on there at all. Again, you have to check each one to see if it is a publicly available short, or a trail, or a music video or a dodgy copy of the entire film etc.
There may be a few issues with people using Amazon referral IDs to generate revenue etc.
The above constitutes 13% of all homepage URLs.
Reply by Adi
on July 5, 2018 at 12:30 PM
I think my favourite is an IMDB link which is a redirect to a Facebook redirect which lands you on a Facebook page.
Reply by Travis Bell
on July 5, 2018 at 12:31 PM
The rules for homepages can be found here: https://www.themoviedb.org/bible/movie#59f73b759251416e71000008
Like everything, validation was only added later and in this case, I think most of the homepage validation was added late last year sometime. I probably don't have some of those URLs on our blacklist but I know Wikipedia, IMDb, Facebook and many more are. Our current blacklist contains 80 domains.
Reply by Adi
on July 5, 2018 at 4:20 PM
Makes me wonder how many of the valid Homepages are now dead links.
e.g. a site for a film often doesn't last that long with domain/hosting costs. They just dump them after they have served their purpose for theatrical and DVD release.
There should be a competition to go through them all and mark them valid/dead :P
Reply by Banana
on July 5, 2018 at 6:21 PM
@Travis Any chance you could try to move them all to the proper field?
@Tokubetsu Could you could please share the IDs of those 18 films?
YouTube/Amazon/Vimeo links are okay for original content. But I'm guessing most of them are incorrectly added or link to incorrect content.
Reply by Adi
on July 5, 2018 at 9:21 PM
Of the IMDB links, 4 highlight duplicate films. I have posted about these individually on here.
One linked the play to IMDB for the film, which was already used by the film on here. I have removed that one.
12 I believe are new and correct and I have removed the homepage links and added the IMDB IDs.
The rest I believe are identical between IMDB ID and Homepage IMDB URL. So the homepage really ought to be removed.
Reply by Banana
on July 5, 2018 at 9:24 PM
Oh, awesome. Thanks Adi!
Reply by lineker
on July 31, 2018 at 5:09 AM
I've come across some Adult store Homepage links on older entries lately. Would it be possible to check for Cduniverse (found 3 lately) or adultdvdempire (found 0 lately) links added to the Homepage field? I guess it's more a coincidence that I've come across them, but thought I should check anyhow.
Reply by Adi
on July 31, 2018 at 11:31 AM
Film - CDUniverse:
47995
47996
47997
73763
73767
219858
Film - adultdvdempire:
0
Neither appear for people.
Reply by lineker
on July 31, 2018 at 11:32 AM
Thanks Adi. Luckily not that common!
Reply by lineker
on August 5, 2018 at 1:21 PM
Adi, can you check those two for adult:true entries? I just came across one of those.
Reply by Adi
on August 5, 2018 at 2:31 PM
What do you mean?
Ones where homepage = CDUniverse and Adult flag = true?
Reply by lineker
on August 5, 2018 at 2:39 PM
Yes, that's it. I just came across an old entry with a cduniverse homepage so that's why I got curious.
Reply by Adi
on August 5, 2018 at 4:42 PM
Sadly I cannot, as I don't download anything with the adult tag.
Reply by 梦华录
on January 19, 2024 at 6:49 AM
https://engsubtv.com Can this website i be blacklisted
I don't know why he wants to modify the website of some Chinese dramas to this.
Although I edited the official website!
https://www.themoviedb.org/u/murvion/activity
Reply by lineker
on January 19, 2024 at 6:57 AM
Yes, now fixed.
User has been banned. Thanks! For future reports it's better to create a new report for such a topic...