Hi!
While working on stats for GBI I've ran into several problems with show names. Here's a list of them. I know that there's still work being done on assigning videos to shows and breaking out existing videos into their own shows, but some of the issues listed here have been around for some time now.
Visual Issues and Ambiguity:
- Ranking of Fighters - episode number and the show name are smashed together, affects all episodes. Example: "Ranking of Fighters0025: Dragon Ball Z: Hyper Dimension & Sailor Moon S" https://www.giantbomb.com/shows/ranking-of-fighters-0025-dragon-ball-z-hyper-dimen/2970-11138/
- Extra Life - affects all videos in the show, space is not included after the show's name. Example: "Extra Life:24-Hour Halo Marathon For The Kids! - Part 12" https://www.giantbomb.com/shows/24-hour-halo-marathon-for-the-kids-part-12/2970-14184
- GBE Megadate and GBW Playdate videos have had "Playdate" added to their titles, while all GBE Playdates had the "GBE" part removed, creating ambiguity - the GBE part should be restored or all playdates's titles should be shortened in this way (I think the former option is the one preferred here). Example: https://www.giantbomb.com/shows/gbw-playdate-fighting-ex-layer-062818/2970-11360/free-video VS https://www.giantbomb.com/shows/gbe-playdate-mass-effect-andromeda-03312017/2970-12112/free-video
Repeated Show Names:
- "Mario Party Party: Mario Party Party" (the first one) - guid 2300-9281
- "Unfinished: Unfinished: Ruction: The Golden Tablet 02/08/2017" - guid 2300-11863
- "Game of the Year: Game of the Year 20XX: <The Title>" - All GOTY videos assigned to the GOTY show (note that not all videos have been assigned) from before 2016
- "Spelunkin' With Scoops: Spelunkin' With Scoops: XX/XX/201X" - All "spelunkin' with..." videos
- "Mailbag: Mailbag: <Mailbag title>" - all mailbag videos have had 'mailbag' added at the start of the title. Examples: "Mailbag: Mailbag: Custom Job" : guid 2300-13460, "Mailbag: Giant Bomb Mailbag: Dark Knight Fizzes Edition" : 2300-6236, "Mailbag: GBE Mailbag: Whoopie Pies, Tamagotchi's That Won't Die, and a Big Alex Surprise" : 2300-12473
- "Bombin' the A.M. With Scoops and the Wolf!: Bombin' the A.M. With Scoops and the Wolf: <the date>" - affects all episodes which did not contain an exclamation point in the title (example: guid 2300-9691)
- "Blue Bombin': Blue Bombin’: Mega Man ..." - affects specific episodes: Mega Man 2 (guid: 2300-11793), Mega Man 3 parts 1, 2, and 3 (guid: 2300-11831, 2300-11845, 2300-11855), Mega Man 4 part 3 (guid: 2300-11913)
- "Quick Look: Quick Looks: The Three Video Games Advertised During The Super Bowl" - guid 2300-9964
- "Quick Look: Quick Look: NXE Update!" - guid 2300-1129 NOTE: I'm fairly sure that this is because the video's original name started with a space, which was interpreted as a custom name in your conversion process
- "Giant Bombcast: Giant Bombcast 559" - guid 2300-8635
- "Kerbal: Project B.E.A.S.T: Project B.E.A.S.T Watches Project B.E.A.S.T - Scott Manley Edition" - guid 2300-11101 - to be honest, this one kinda fits
- "Quick Look: GBNYCQLS:FTL:AE" - guid 2300-8766 - at least shorten it to QL, lol
- "This Ain't No Game: Wonderful Universe of TANG: <movie name>" and "This Ain't No Game: TANG: <movie name>" - affects all videos in the series after FEB 26 2009
Other Issues
- ALT+F1 Track walk videos are now bombcasts (???). Example: "Giant Bombcast: Alt+F1 Track Walk: Hungaroring" https://www.giantbomb.com/videos/altf1-track-walk-hungaroring/2300-11444/
- The "Not Like This" Matrix Online videos are now part of endurance runs, example: https://www.giantbomb.com/shows/the-matrix-online-not-like-this-finale/2970-15527/free-video This might be intended, in which case it's a weird decision - it's really not an endurance run
- Leading and trailing whitespace - there are a couple videos on the site, whose titles either start or end with whitespace. Here are the ones I have encountered: " Giant Bomb at E3 2009: Day 00" : 2300-780, "If Your Fancy TVii Software Doesn't Support Roseanne, What's the Point? " : 2300-6899, "Members Only SNES Party: Part 01 " : 2300-4747
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