I see that this thread needs some boosting.

Last weekend I finished comparing my (old) huge list of Dutch EAN's versus other localities. The last locality I checked was the UK, obviously because it's the biggest list with the most errors. I came up with almost 1000 incorrect UK entries that I painstakingly checked against the Dutch profile. Sometimes the images on the wrong locality were better than the Dutch one!

I mailed Gerri the entire list, and hopefully she'll take action and delete them from the database. In the next few weeks, I'll monitor if any profile is re-entered because someone forgot to check their localities.

In the meantime, I've got a newer list that I need to check. That should go a lot faster, since a lot has been cleaned up already.

Of the few I checked, they have been actioned. The way Ken did it was to hide the wrong profiles in the download lists, but they are still online (and it seems still in the count).

Not the way I would have done it, but hey...

Also, we haven't finished, so I expect there are plenty of bad profiles. I'm guessing that everyone else had cleanup burnout about the same time I did (which was about half way through H for me). I think that there are also some people continuing to add new bad profiles.

Stuart

It was the obvious ones getting through that got me - a UK locality with an overview in Norwegian?

Quoting Behemot:

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Just a thought: Since these incorrect profiles seem to get hidden instead of deleted, it would probably be a good idea to remove cast and crew info before contributing them for deletion; this way, the cast and crew of these profiles won't be counted when using the Credit Lookup Tool, which will again improve this tool's accuracy.

Is Ken still doing that? I already pointed out the problems with this approach three months ago in this same thread (link). On one hand, we're told that the "credit lookup" tool results are to be our one and only source for determining common "names", and yet, this method of "hiding" profiles that should be deleted keeps influencing those results. Since a lot of these are ill-maintained profiles, often never updated since they were automatically ported over from Intervocative to Invelos, they often contain highly questionable data which should not not be allowed to influence the "credit lookup" tool results. I haven't recently tested whether this is still happening (I'd have to mark a profile for deletion, wait until it gets approved, and then check whether I can still find it in the "credit lookup" tool), but if it does, it's really something Ken should address a.s.a.p.

5035673005897: The Edge of the World (BFI) is two times in the database (Netherlands and UK). They were both in DVDP 2.5 already.

Again, it would be a good idea to delete cast and crew for these profiles when submitting them for deletion, otherwise they will affect the credit lookup tool. Most of these incorrect locality profiles will have IMDB data in them, I suspect.

Quoting Behemot:

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Again, it would be a good idea to delete cast and crew for these profiles when submitting them for deletion, otherwise they will affect the credit lookup tool. Most of these incorrect locality profiles will have IMDB data in them, I suspect.

Did that with The Edge of the World.

bad UK profile please remove this profile
8-711983-452367 Feb 10, 2008 Feb 13, 2008 Yes: 3  No: 0 Released

and it is still there fore download with this contribution note:

This is a Dutch profile and should be removed from the database

thank you verry much

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