Every once in awhile things need to be reviewed and updated to better suit the times. What worked for the site several years ago clearly no longer works the same way today so the admins, other mods, and myself have agreed it was probably time to evaluate our rules involving sources. The agreement was unanimous that we need to prioritize certain sources over others and in rare cases allow non-standard sources to be used when no others exist. From today onward sources will be prioritized as follows:
Preferred SourcesOfficial Websites - The official listing for a series in its country of origin. Unless the listing is a god awful mess or conflicts with an existing site rule such as splitting of multipart episodes in animated series or aired ordering actually differs,
the official listing will be considered gospel. No matter what the scene thinks.TvRage.com - Aside from a few oddball series, in my personal experience TvRage has over the years been a pristine and trusted source of information.
TvGuide.com - TvGuide's entire business depends on accurate television listings and foreign listings aside they're usually dead on.
AnimeNewsNetwork.com - When it comes to anime info ANN is generally your best bet, the listings are almost always complete and damn accurate even for the most obscure or old titles.
MyAnimeList.net - Second only to ANN, MAL features some of the most up-to-date and accurate anime info.
BFI.org.uk - British Film Institute database is particular good for British/UK shows. There is little addition of "current" shows but the archive is usually good.
Acceptable SourcesTv.com - While generally accurate to a degree tv.com is often missing required details such as airdates to backup their listings which limits reliability. Good for comparison to other listings and often to fill in blanks, but a preferred source it is not.
Imdb.com - A great database for movie info, but often lackluster when it comes to television series. Some of you may have seen me mention that I'd rather not use it as a main source for info and this is for good reasons. Try and find a better source for info if possible.
Anidb.net - An acceptable but often incomplete anime source. Series often lack season info and listings include non-episodes such as OP, ED, dvd extras, etc. A decent supplementary source for episode titles or release dates, but not much else.
Last Resort (Do NOT abuse this)Fan Sites - Alright I'm going to do my best to make this very very clear. In rare cases if you can show us that either no other approved source exists or that said sources are completely inaccurate or incomplete we will consider the use of fan sites for listings. In these cases you MUST link us to any incomplete/inaccurate trusted sources as well as the fan site source you intend to have us review along with any further information you have on the topic. At this point the decision will require the complete agreement of atleast 2 moderators or 1 administrator. And said decision will be final.
Wikis/Wikipedia - Generally the same requirements as with the above mentioned fan sites, however I want to stress this further. This is to be an absolutely last resort request. DO NOT link us to wikipedia or any other wiki if a trusted and seemingly valid source exists. In fact consider wikis to be even a rank below Fan Sites. I'm also going to go a step further and say that requests that link to a wiki when other sources exist or list wikipedia as well as other sources will simply be locked and ignored. If you aren't going to bother reading the rules we're not going to bother reading your threads. It's that simple.
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