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Mushoku Tensei - vandlism (?)




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KutovoiAnton



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PostPosted: Sun Jun 30, 2024 1:47 pm Reply with quote
OK, I'm not sure what happened here. It's either a some site problem or someone did it for some reason, but most of the cast members for Mushoku Tensei series has been moved to the minor roles. In some cases even main characters got moved.

anime#22589
anime#24164
anime#25412
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I fixed what I could (returned those that were added by me in the first place). But there's still work needs to be done on the rest of the cast.
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ChirashiD



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PostPosted: Sun Jun 30, 2024 9:53 pm Reply with quote
Is there a backup feature? So when people mess with the encyclopedia, rather than manually make corrections, the site manager can reset a specific page back to a previous backup point.
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Aerdra



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PostPosted: Sun Jun 30, 2024 10:15 pm Reply with quote
KutovoiAnton wrote:
I fixed what I could (returned those that were added by me in the first place).

Are you saying that info that you yourself added has been edited by someone else? I think only encyclopedia editors (or even higher privileges) can do that.

I wonder if there might've been a good reason for these changes. The secondary cast list of most shows is bloated; most of them really are minor characters. This is a problem in many anime entries in the encyclopedia, not just this show.
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KutovoiAnton



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PostPosted: Sun Jun 30, 2024 11:38 pm Reply with quote
Aerdra wrote:
KutovoiAnton wrote:
I fixed what I could (returned those that were added by me in the first place).

Are you saying that info that you yourself added has been edited by someone else? I think only encyclopedia editors (or even higher privileges) can do that.

I wonder if there might've been a good reason for these changes. The secondary cast list of most shows is bloated; most of them really are minor characters. This is a problem in many anime entries in the encyclopedia, not just this show.


Yeah. And that’s what I don’t understand and suspect that maybe it’s something to do with the site itself. It is always possible, of course, that someone with higher privilege thought that supporting cast is too bloated and moved it to the minor, but in this case they moved even main cast members like Roxy and Eris to the minor ones (admittedly, the fact that Sylphy has remained a main character kinda gave me a laugh and made me to joke that it was an inside job of some heartbroken Sylphy fan after the last episode). So… I have absolutely no idea what on Earth happened.
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KutovoiAnton



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PostPosted: Fri Jul 05, 2024 12:13 pm Reply with quote
I reported errors on each of the seasons. So should be easier to fix now.
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KutovoiAnton



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PostPosted: Sat Sep 07, 2024 4:59 am Reply with quote
Bumping this up.
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Aerdra



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PostPosted: Sat Sep 14, 2024 12:10 am Reply with quote
I've noticed more instances of characters having their importance changed without explanation.

Quality Assurance in Another World (TV)
The character "Tesla" was originally listed as secondary, was moved down to minor for a couple weeks, now moved all the way up to primary.

Why Does Nobody Remember Me in This World? (TV)
At the suggestion of another user, I moved the characters "Vanessa", "Rath=IE", and "Rikugen Kyoko" from minor to secondary, but only "Vanessa" was moved back down to minor, despite being the main antagonist of her arc.

If this is some weird bug, I'd like to investigate.
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BalmungHHQ



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PostPosted: Fri Sep 20, 2024 8:08 pm Reply with quote
This also happened to Utawarerumono: Mask of Truth (TV) a while ago. Both Japanese and English casts. I'm pretty sure they don't even have anyone listed in Primary Characters anymore because almost everyone got bumped down to minor...

Can someone explain what happened?
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