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No actor/director/writer for ranked titles

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Not a bug as such, but I've noticed that it no longer says whether the credits for ranked titles are actor/writer/director. Can this be restored?

See example:

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Re: No actor/director/writer for ranked titles

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Yeah, we simplified this page quite a lot, and thought this might be a little-used feature which nobody would miss.

We've still got the code, and will look into working it back in.

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mpowell wrote:Yeah, we simplified this page quite a lot, and thought this might be a little-used feature which nobody would miss.

We've still got the code, and will look into working it back in.


Actually, now that I start looking into it, it looks like we already had added this back in. I know you included a screenshot, but can you make sure? The three films you've seen from Bob Gale are all screenwriter credits. If there aren't at least two types (actor/director/screenwriter) we don't distinguish between the averages.

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mpowell wrote:If there aren't at least two types (actor/director/screenwriter) we don't distinguish between the averages.

But because some actors write/direct, some writers direct, some directors act... if I'd only seen one thing with them in it, it wouldn't necessarily be instantly obvious what their role on the film had been, whereas it was before.

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Maaxwell wrote:
mpowell wrote:If there aren't at least two types (actor/director/screenwriter) we don't distinguish between the averages.

But because some actors write/direct, some writers direct, some directors act... if I'd only seen one thing with them in it, it wouldn't necessarily be instantly obvious what their role on the film had been, whereas it was before.


We'll definitely look into it. It will be a balance between making it more cluttered, versus more clear. The idea was that if you've just seen films in which Filmmaker X was an actor, there's no need to distinguish between anything. But I see what you mean... you might not know that these films are just his acting credits.

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We've added this information back into the page. Thanks again for pointing it out!

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Re: No actor/director/writer for ranked titles

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This appears to be happening again/still

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Thanks for alerting us to this! We'll take another look.

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Still frequently getting pages where there is no indication what role the filmmaker had with the productions:

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Re: No actor/director/writer for ranked titles

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Is this now expected behaviour? I really can't see how these last few examples can be defended on de-cluttering grounds

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