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Admin just introduced a day or two ago the ability to comment on the inaccuracy reports. There is a link above the text of the report "Add Comment" and that is where you can add info. Brand new!

I just want to say thanks to all who fix the inaccuracies, I had reported quite a few yesterday and a combo of dcdeacon , scrubeenie , & Billy Kingsley had them cleared up in a couple hours.  Great work!

It's time to bring out a couple points (and review one).

First the review: Please take the time to be descriptive and precise in your inaccuracy reporting. This is the actual content of a report we received earlier this week:

numbered out of /35 patch level 2

Again, not calling out who wrote this (as I actually don't know who, and it doesn't matter who), but this is confusing as the set is not he Level 2 patch set or anything. No one apparently has even touched it, and no one has even added a comment. Please, be more precise. Please tell us what should be done. "Please add SN35 to Note". 

New stuff:

Deleting Cards from Checklists: Please submit a request on each card that needs to be deleted. The "IR Tools" are set up by Admin in such a way, that depending on what "level" (card, set, overview) the submitter makes their request, various tools display (not all requests are created equal!). So if the card deletion request comes in at the set level, the tools to delete a card are not present - and a new request has to be made by the resolver to carry out the original request. This is the same when requesting several cards be deleted from a set. You may think it's saving us all time by entering "Please delete cards 3, 7, 18, 67, and 344, as they do not exist", when in reality, now whoever tries to resolve this has to open individual requests for the 5 cards, and do the appropriate actions in the tools.

Removal of Faulty Images: Same as Card Deletion. We need one request per card, done on that card's page. If you don't do that, someone else does.

Moving Images to Correct Cards: Again, same as the others, one request per card and if you want to REALLY help us expedite the process, give the link of the destination card in the request. That helps us start the process in seconds. Most times we can get an image moved within an hour when all goes well (when we have multiple Level 8s looking in there at the same time).

Generally speaking, the requests coming in have been really, really well-written and helpful. There are still some overly complicated ones that need attention that will take a while to resolve. Most of the time, I, personally, have limited time to handle these things (5 minutes here and there, usually). Taking on a monster request is not usually something I can do, and not something I think most prefer to do. The smaller the task is in each request, the more likely you are to see progress being made. Thankfully, I had some more continuous time the past couple days so I was able to work on the removal of 22-25 cards per set - in 16 sets - that was written into only one report. (I started it yesterday morning and I finished it this morning!) Had the member who submitted this request understood the process (as I explained above), there could have been several people working on the various requests simultaneously.

Please keep these items in mind as you write your error reports. The less time we have to spend attempting to figure out what is meant, the more we can resolve. Thanks!

What is the best way to submit IRs for sets with partial checklists?  Example: https://www.tradingcarddb.com/Checklist.cfm/sid/58015/1970-Dayton-Daily-News-M137

I have access to the complete checklist (mentioned in an IR I already submitted) that includes all variations and dates of the newspaper they were released in.  If I submit as a single IR, I'm sure that's a ton of work and likely wouldn't get done for a long time.  Should I submit a few cards at a time so it's more digestable chunks that are likely to get worked fairly quickly?  If so, how many (2, 5, 10) is ideal?

Is there a standard way to input a Release Date for a specific 'card' (Note2?)?  I'm not sure if this is being done for things like Topps Now or the Living sets.

I can sum it up with one word, depends.

I guess that isn't helpful, so I'll explain. If all you're doing is adding the missing cards, it's just as easy to upload an "update" to the end, and then re-sort into numerical order (provided the cards have pure numbers). If they are NNO, then it's even easier, as we sort it all by last name anyway, so that's a quick re-sort as well.

If you're adding info to the cards already in the database, and adding missing cards and doing all sorts of other stuff, I'd ask that those kinds of tasks be broken into smaller pieces, simply because I'm still seeing the ones that are going to take some serious time are still sitting there. I happened to have lot of down time today at work, and took on one that has already taken 2.5 hours of my time, and will probably take another hour. That's rough to do in one sitting (and I didn't even do it in one sitting). So, it really depends. Feel free to send me a message before a submission to see the best approach. Sometimes, there are even workarounds that can be used.

OK, I'll do all the missing entries in one batch once I get that ready.

I just submitted IRs for missing variations of the first two existing cards.  IR #s 43636, 43637 if you want to take a look and see if those are good.

Just a reminder...

Keep up the good work! Seriously! The reports coming in (for the most part) are very clear, and even more important - have been helpful in uncovering other issues. We have cleaned up SO much stuff over the course of the last 3 or 4 months, it's staggering.

What this has done is allowed Admin to focus on other areas of improvemnt for the site. When so few of these items are on the radar, the focus can be on the bigger things, the things that we'll need for the site to last for years to come.

Now, for a real reminder - Admin added a feature to the IR process where those who are attempting to work on them can write notes. Sometimes we use them as further explanation (if we do a little research but can't do anything more yet) or we ask questions. If you submitted a request and it seems like it isn't getting resolved, please go to the IR page, find your request, and see if there are any notes. If there are, please answer any questions posed, or add any info you feel might help us move things along. I know we have some in the queue now that have been there for quite some time (a couple from late August, about 40-50 from September). Many of them have been deemed "Admin Needed" (and you won't be able to click on it), but there are still quite a few that can be worked on (or need more info). Let's utilize the tools we have to fix the issues we see. Remember, Admin is the ONLY member here who can see who submitted the reports (and each memebr can see their own labeled as such). So if you put something in, and we have a question, our only methods for asking is to close it and ask, and then have to follow up, or to pose the question in the comments on the IR. That's definitely better than closing them as resolved.

Again, help us help you. :) Thanks!

I am unable to add this to the Inaccuracies Listing as there is no option to add this at the set listing level and if you go into a set that does not have a checklist, you cannot click on Report Inaccuracies.  Furthermore, if I go into the Inaccuracies Manager, I cannot add a new listing from there either.  So the best I could come up with is to put it in the Forum, but still nobody replied or solved the inaccuracy, so now I am adding it to this thread,.

Please Remove 1995 White Wolf Rage Limited from Non-Sports

It is only the title, I did not import the checklist.  I did not realize Gaming is now it's own section and no longer in Non-Sports.  I guess I could have figured it out when I placed it into Oddball as Collectible Card Games was no longer available as a category heading in Non-Sports.

I just figured out how to get this into the Inaccuracies Listing, so now it is there for "high level" members to fix.

Glad you figured it out, gb24.