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dormcat
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PostPosted: Wed May 28, 2008 12:30 pm Reply with quote
Wonder if anyone has noticed... we probably need another language option as well.
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ManSlayer07



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PostPosted: Wed May 28, 2008 4:14 pm Reply with quote
I assume you're referring to the 10,000th title/entry. Razz
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PantsGoblin
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PostPosted: Wed May 28, 2008 9:21 pm Reply with quote
ManSlayer07 wrote:
I assume you're referring to the 10,000th title/entry. Razz


I thought that was what it was, but then I looked and the encyclopedia said it only had 9807 titles. I guess that number doesn't include deleted titles.
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ManSlayer07



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PostPosted: Thu May 29, 2008 1:54 pm Reply with quote
I was going off the title ID numbers and I didn't know that titles could be deleted. I actually would love see the tokusatsu titles deleted in favor of actual anime-related titles. Razz
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PostPosted: Fri May 30, 2008 9:21 am Reply with quote
No titles are really "deleted," we tend to weed out the improper ones during the approval process, before they get assigned a number. Although originally we did delete a few.

The more common contributor to the differing numbers is that titles are merged, We occasionally realize, often moments after approving it, that a recently added title is a duplicate, so we merge it with the pre-existing entry.

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dormcat
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PostPosted: Fri May 30, 2008 10:52 am Reply with quote
Like tempest said, most skipped numbers are redirected instead of removed. There are, however, ~20 nonexistent/incorrect titles that can't be either merged or deleted due to some technical reasons, and all we can do is hiding them away. Anime catgrin + sweatdrop

A related note is that ANN Encyclopedia normally does not recycle entry numbers so links from other websites wouldn't point to something else. However I do remember a specific case of recycling... Rolling Eyes


ADDENDUM on 6/1: Dang, we've just got another one. Mad Time to write down an SOP for title approval.
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