[bug]producers disappeared

SinsI · Post by **SinsI** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 11:43 am

After I've made a creq to change anime description and it was approved, the producers field somehow became clear. Might be a mistake by the mod, but it can also be a bug connected to the new year system of AniDB, because that field has also been marked as changed.
http://anidb.info/perl-bin/animedb.pl?s ... .id=573865

Post by **epoximator** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 12:30 pm

that was the old producer field which is not in use anymore. use the "producers" link at the bottom of the anime page to add them again (if they exists, if not; ask nwa)

SinsI · Post by **SinsI** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 4:18 pm

Thanks for clarifying.
Does that happen automatically with any edit?
I think it's not right to just destroy that information, some of it is very old and rare, and not easily recoverable.
Maybe you can add some notification to the mod to convert the old format data, and not just purge it into oblivion with any little typo correction?
As for the creq I mentioned, those companies and original creator are not in the anidb producers list, so I can't add them(at least not in the easy way).

Post by **Der Idiot** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 5:29 pm

all useful data was already converted to the new system months ago. exp is just too lazy to remove the row from the table and rather lets it get removed by manual labour

SinsI · Post by **SinsI** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 10:45 am

When why did that info disappear, instead of being transformed into the new form?
Is list of producers not considered useful?
Or it wasn't converted, and that row's preservation serves a purpose - to enter the info manually(and not erase it)?

Post by **Der Idiot** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 12:48 pm

the old producerfield was just an inputbox where you could type in that it was in fact your mom that produced this. now it's real db entries which cna get linked. just belive it that it was old unused and not shown data. the real data is in a different table now

Post by **PetriW** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 5:12 pm

I think the problem he's trying to point out is that the referenced anime no longer has any producers at all and thus he wonders why we've erased old useful information. (Aka, not migrated it.)

Post by **epoximator** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 5:19 pm

... and deridiot has answered that twice

Post by **PetriW** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 5:22 pm

epoximator wrote:... and deridiot has answered that twice

Not for this specific anime he hasn't.

Post by **Der Idiot** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 5:26 pm

PetriW wrote:I think the problem he's trying to point out is that the referenced anime no longer has any producers at all and thus he wonders why we've erased old useful information. (Aka, not migrated it.)

because the data in the old field is manually entered and could contain hell knows what. it's generally not trsutworthy. anyway i migrated most of the useful data long ago

Post by **PetriW** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 5:47 pm

Clearer explanation this time so I hope that answers all questions.