To date over 250 animes additions have been removed from AniDB (or 9% for a more insightful number). While I'm most certainly not at the forefront in this fight against non anime / duplicate entries apparently someone is out there fighting the baka^2 who add the stuff. It's also my impression from discussions that the same non-anime tends to be added several times.
So, my suggestion to solve this is as follows:
- Add a new anime called "Not an anime".
- Add ALL known non-anime additions as synonyms. Aka, if someone stupidly added "The Lion King" as an anime delete the anime then add "The Lion King" as a synonym to the "Not an anime" entry.
- Give the anime a nice image with white text on black background with text explaining the anime entry, something along the lines of: "THIS IS NOT AN ANIME!"
- Add a description for the entry where we explain what is and what isn't an anime in a efficient manner.
- Add a link in the description to one of your "What is an anime?" threads.
- If possible link to a forum post with animations that isn't anime.
- Exp could add special code for this anime entry that removes all information but image, name, synonyms and description plus disallows modifying the content including posting files. (Synonyms excepted obviously,)
I believe this would reduce the number of non-anime added.
RFC: "Not an anime" anime entry
Moderator: AniDB
hmm... well yeah, that'd be an idea...
Yet, I think a bigger problem lies in the fact, that many titles get added twice, especially when it comes to hentai titles, hell, even I have added a hentai title that was already added. And there's no way to regulate that, unless all anime entries will be added only after a mod has checked them, which would kill 2 flies at the same time, perhaps too much work for mods, though... or maybe not
Yet, I think a bigger problem lies in the fact, that many titles get added twice, especially when it comes to hentai titles, hell, even I have added a hentai title that was already added. And there's no way to regulate that, unless all anime entries will be added only after a mod has checked them, which would kill 2 flies at the same time, perhaps too much work for mods, though... or maybe not