Test driving the new system

Immy · **Posted:** Wed May 25, 2011 9:29 am

Ok, after a few trial additions since the changeover, here's a few observations:

- I added the Fred Olen Ray film The Shooter (1997). Love the new options that allow adding director, running time and MPAA rating.

- Fantastic how the new title is immediately aligned in proper chronological order in the actress bios.

- Once I added the new film, I encountered my first minor problem in the next step - adding actresses. I went to the actress's page and chose the "Add Movie to Celebrity" option. Trouble is, there were two movies by the same title - "Shooter, The" and my recently-added "The Shooter" - with no way to tell which was which. Might be helpful if the release year was included at this step to help differentiate.

- The Captcha box has an annoying habit of disappearing when the cursor is passed over it or near it.

All in all not too bad. It'll take some getting used to but I think we've got a pretty successful transition.

Now a question - Once in awhile I come across artwork on a movie page that incorrectly corresponds with the film. My recently-added The Shooter (1997) is an example. The box art for it is mistakenly on the other "Shooter, The" page, which is an entirely different film from 1995.

Are editorial fixes like this a high prioroty at the moment? I'm sure I can find plenty more.

CNDB_Steve · **Posted:** Wed May 25, 2011 11:46 am

Immy wrote:

Ok, after a few trial additions since the changeover, here's a few observations:

- I added the Fred Olen Ray film The Shooter (1997). Love the new options that allow adding director, running time and MPAA rating.

- Fantastic how the new title is immediately aligned in proper chronological order in the actress bios.

Thank you

Immy wrote:

- Once I added the new film, I encountered my first minor problem in the next step - adding actresses. I went to the actress's page and chose the "Add Movie to Celebrity" option. Trouble is, there were two movies by the same title - "Shooter, The" and my recently-added "The Shooter" - with no way to tell which was which. Might be helpful if the release year was included at this step to help differentiate.

Excellent note, I'll see what we can do about helping out in this area. A way to avoid this in the meantime is to view the movie -- and add the celebrity to the movie. (Names are much more unique) -- nevertheless, will see what we can do

Immy wrote:

- The Captcha box has an annoying habit of disappearing when the cursor is passed over it or near it.

Hmm, I'll have to look into it more. We tested on a lot of browsers, and all seemed ok. This widget is actually google's -- so to the wiki I go!

Immy wrote:

All in all not too bad. It'll take some getting used to but I think we've got a pretty successful transition.

Now a question - Once in awhile I come across artwork on a movie page that incorrectly corresponds with the film. My recently-added The Shooter (1997) is an example. The box art for it is mistakenly on the other "Shooter, The" page, which is an entirely different film from 1995.

Are editorial fixes like this a high prioroty at the moment? I'm sure I can find plenty more.

Yes they are important to us. We have been working behind the scenes with updating all the information / box covers / headshots / the works. Even down to fixing the year. Sometimes people put the wrong release year (ie: released in Dec 2007 US) but they put 2008 because their country received in Jan 2008. Very understandable, but we are wanting to place the earliest release date as a general.

You can submit info to us via the forum for fixes, but we're in the process of making a 'request fix' button. This will allow anyone to submit a correction to us -- where we will do the updating. We've toyed with the idea of allowing users to do the updating, but that may end up dangerous.... lol.