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Introduction

Thank you for considering contributing data to My Movies' WebService. Since we believe in quality over quantity, it is important that all data contributed to the service follows this contribution guide. We ask that you read this guide closely before starting to contribute TV Series data. Notice that if you locate any data on our service that does not follow this guide, you can also gain points by reporting the issue to our moderators. Please see the bottom of this page for details.

If you have any questions regarding data contributions, and how to ensure that you are contributing data correctly, please use the Data Contribution area of our forums to seek support. Our moderators will gladly help you. Should you contribute incorrect data to the service, you will likely receive a warning from our moderators, and if these warnings are ignored, it can lead to your account being temporary closed until we have ensured that you will follow the contribution guide when contributing. Because of this, it is important that you use an account with an e-mail address that you check frequently.

The TV Series data in the My Movies WebService originally origins from TheTVDB.com, which does not have the exact same structure and rule set of My Movies. Due to this, there can be data in the system that does not follow this contribution guide - this fact however does not make it acceptable to contribute data that does not follow the guide.

TV Series

The data on a TV Series consists of three sections, a section containing global data, one containing country specific data and a third containing language specific data. While you contribute series data though one option, these sections are stored individually. This means that a contribution to a series where only country specific or language specific data is changed will only update data in the "Country Specific" or "Language Specific" section on the WebService.

Global

Release Country

Running Time

Disc Runtime

Genre(s)

First Aired

Network

Actors

Banner

Backdrop

Poster

Country Specific

Running Time

Parental Rating

First Aired

Air Time

Air Day

Network

Status

Language Specific

Title

Sort Title

Description

TV Seasons

TV Seasons contains only images and child episodes, which means that there for TV Series is no data to contribute. You can contribute season banner and poster images through the image selectors.

Global

Banner Image

Poster Image

TV Episodes

As with TV Series, the data for a TV Episode also consists of three sections. The functionality of is the same as for TV Series. Similar, data in the "Personal Data" section is not contributed to the WebService.

TODO! Describe the usage of Release Country.

Global

Season

Episode

Absolute Number

Production Code

Guest Actors

Crew

Episode Image

Country Specific

Country

First Aired

Language Specific

Language

Title

Sort Title

Description

Images - Banners, Backdrops, Posters and Episode Images

There are some general rules to consider when contributing images to the WebService.

Overall

  • Images may never contain nudity, weather it is cartoonish or photographic.
  • Images must be uploaded in high quality.
  • Images must not be upscaled, except in situations where it is specifically written to be allowed.
  • Images must not be stretched aspect ratio wise.

Banners

Backdrops

Contribution rules for backdrops are covered by the page "Movie and TV Serie Backdrops". Notice! The rules for backdrops contributed to the My Movies WebService are more strict than rules for backdrops contributed to TheTVDB.com where the TV Series data origins from. This means that there may be backdrops in the WebService that does not follow these rules - that does not make it acceptable to contribute backdrops that does not follow the guidelines. Backdrops originally loaded from TheTVDB.com is for now allowed in the system, even thought they do not follow the guidelines.

Posters

Contribution rules for posters are covered by the page "Movie and TV Serie Posters". Notice! The rules for posters contributed to the My Movies WebService are more strict than rules for posters contributed to TheTVDB.com where the TV Series data origins from. This means that there may be posters in the WebService that does not follow these rules - that does not make it acceptable to contribute posters that does not follow the guidelines. Posters originally loaded from TheTVDB.com is for now allowed in the system, even thought they do not follow the guidelines.

Episode Images

Incorrect Data

If you locate a title on the WebService that holds incorrect data, please use the "Report Incorrect Data" to inform moderators of the issue, which helps us warn and guide the users contributing incorrect data. You may also use the report function to report a mistake you have made yourself, and cannot correct - by doing this, a moderator can correct the issue, and you will not receive warnings on the matter if other users report the issue.

By reporting incorrect data, you also gain contribution points:

  • 0 points if you are reporting your own mistake, or if the report cannot be confirmed by our moderators to be an actual issue on incorrect data.
  • 5 points if you are reporting an issue that helps a moderator correct any incorrect data.
  • 10 points if you are reporting an issue that you have already corrected yourself.
  • 15 points if you report a series that should be deleted from the service, such as a series that have been created as a duplicate.