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This page is the comprehensive guide to adding new data to AniDB. It is very important that our users provide as complete data as possible when adding new data. If incomplete data is added additional workload on other users and our staff is generated, to prevent that there are some very easy ways which are listed below. Some of the adding functions mentioned below actually generate so called 'Change Requests' (short: CReq) when used by regular users. This means that your additions will have to be reviewed by the AniDB moderators or users who have special access rights.


=Sources=
'''Valid sources include'''
* [http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A1%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%83%9A%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8 Jap Wiki]
* [http://anison.info/data/ Anison (Anime Song Database)]
* Official Pages (almost every Anime has a link to its Official Page on the Anime page)
* [http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/ CD Japan]

'''Bad bad sources are'''
* Anime News Network (ANN)
* english or other non-official/non-japanese pages
* AnimeNFO
* AllCinema

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=Adding Data=
==New Anime==

==Anime-related Data==
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===Anime-Anime Relations===
===Anime Categories===
===Anime Tags===

==Episodes==

==Files==
===File-Episode Relations===
===Usage of AVdump===

==Groups==

==Characters==
===Character-Character Relations===
===Character-Anime Relations===
===Character Tags===

==Creators==
===Creator-Creator Relations===
===Creator-Anime Relations===
===Creator-Character-Anime Relations===

==Collections==
===Collection-Song Relations===

{{:How-to:_Songs}}
===Song Staff===
Adding Song Staff is very important and we'd really appreciate it, if you took the time to add it as well.
====Where do I find information on Staff?====
You can find information in the Opening and Ending video of an Anime the song's played in, you can find information on Jap Wiki or you take the Staff - the recommended way - from Anison.<br>
I will use the Song [http://anison.info/data/song/32333.html Lilium] as a reference.
====Adding Staff====
Clicking on the link above will lead you to the song's Anison Page. There you find 7 different people who worked and/or participated on this song. The list is as follows:<br>

歌手	野間久美子<br>
作詞	小西香葉<br>
作詞	近藤由紀夫<br>
作曲	小西香葉<br>
作曲	近藤由紀夫<br>
編曲	小西香葉<br>
編曲	近藤由紀夫

To add Staff you need to be on the song's AniDB Page and click on the tab 'Add Staff'. This will lead you to a new page with new tabs "Add Credit" and "Massadd Credits". <br>
Add Credit will have you add each credit by its own and won't work when the "Creator" is not known to the DB. To go around that, you simply use Massadd Credits.<br>
For this you just copy the Credits from Anison and add a ":" as separator between function and creator. In this case your input would be looking like this:<br>

歌手:	野間久美子<br>
作詞:	小西香葉<br>
作詞:	近藤由紀夫<br>
作曲:	小西香葉<br>
作曲:	近藤由紀夫<br>
編曲:	小西香葉<br>
編曲:	近藤由紀夫
[[Image:Parsed Staff Credits for Song Lilium.png|thumb]]
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After having added this information, click on send and wait until the Staff credits appear. This would look like on the picture.

In this case all Staff has already been set, thus the 'yes' in the 'already set?' row. Given the case, none would've been set, you mark all the boxes on the left, add your valid source in the box and click ADD selected. Now all your added Staff should appear on the Song's Staff page. If you get an error that a creator couldn't be added, then there's most likely a creq pending for this "Creator".

Given the case your Data results in yellow like shown on the picture to the right, then it simply is a name clash. 

Just check on the people it resulted in and chose the correct person.<br>
Given the rare case neither of the creators is the one you need, you need to add him/her this time. Information on how to add a Creator can be found HERE.


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