Duplicate database entries

crap. i added a dupe by mistake. I was wondering why i couldn’t find it in the database and it’s cause of the accented characters. Sorry! I’m usually quite careful to avoid this!

is there perhaps a way to be able to find a title with an accented character like this just by searching with unaccented characters? (searching for 'silent mobius" will yield any matching result for " Silent Möbius")

instazome · January 1, 2022, 8:44pm

Done Tho that is a good question about accent characters, etc.

peter · January 3, 2022, 1:39am

Yes. I can add aliases to games. They normally get added over on Giant Bomb pretty well, but this one didn’t get done correctly. I’ve added one to this game so you don’t need to type the accent.

Roach · January 15, 2022, 12:10am

Appears there’s two entries for Rainy Season.

instazome · January 15, 2022, 4:35am

Not sure if this has always been the norm, but Imma start “Liking” comments to signify that they are being done. (Like the game page edit thread, this is to avoid a bunch of “done” comments) Cheers <3

Arkalliant · January 17, 2022, 3:14am

mmuffins · January 22, 2022, 8:09pm

One of these two has not yet been approved by the grouvee curator team, and maybe it shouldn’t.

SIGINT · January 27, 2022, 3:53am

Babble Royale has a couple entries, with the second one not being in anyone’s collection but having some details on it that would be good to have on the first one.

SIGINT · January 27, 2022, 4:07am

Disc Jam also has two entries:

Roach · January 29, 2022, 1:57am

Huniepop 2 has two entries.

mmuffins · February 1, 2022, 1:24pm

We have another game where one of the entries has not been approved by the grouvee curator team yet:

WerqKween · February 10, 2022, 11:39pm

@peter I have a couple of related questions. What’s up w/ stuff like 1989 Movie Batmobile Pack (2015) | Grouvee and 1989 Movie Batmobile Pack (2015) | Grouvee ? Should these be merged? Do purchasable goods count as DLC? There’s a number of things like gem packs for any given game throughout the database.

Another observation - in my library, when we catalog something that is or could be a dupe, we get a pop up message that says, basically, “this looks an awful lot like ____, are you sure you want to add it?” and then you can review if you’re importing a duplicate or not. Is tech like that available for users who go to add stuff that already exists?

Also, it’s too bad libraries (well, specifically LC) aren’t better about cataloging (and standardizing) video games, so Grouvee or Giant Bomb can pull data from those records and get consistent info and formatting for titles and what not.

WerqKween · February 16, 2022, 4:29pm

Long story short, these are basically the same IP:

The first one is like a 3DS remake of the other, which I think was a mobile F2P?
Anyone have input? Merge or no?

peter · February 17, 2022, 6:06pm

So this is a result of the terrible way that Giant Bomb’s DLC is exposed on their API. Each platform that a DLC comes out on is exposed as a new separate entry. I could theoretically program something that looks at the names of the DLC, and tries to merge the entries automatically, but they also don’t name them the same all the time. They probably should be merged, and then just add whatever platform was merged to the other one. There’s so many of them though.

I know this isn’t exactly what you’re asking, but I am working on some more automated ways for people to suggest merges. Maybe it could be used in a scenario like you’re suggesting.

I would love to have a more standardized database. I’ve said it for years. I should either move to IGDB, or finish building my own.