Thanks for opening this thread, Zzzins – I voted No on that edit and left a detailed comment, so I’m glad to see the issues get a proper home here.
To add to what you’ve raised:
3. Sub-studio identification
The community scraper doesn’t currently return the sub-studio. However, as @Maista noted on Discord, the sub-studio can be decoded from the URL structure – for example, Fd in the scene URL indicates FlexiDolls, Bl indicates BossLesson. It seems like the scraper could implement this mapping, but until it does, editors doing full site rips have no reliable automated way to assign the correct sub-studio.
4. Title capitalization
The scraper returns titles as-is from the EMP site, which is often non-capitalized. This is actually correct per the StashDB “Correcting Scene Titles” guideline, which requires titles to be preserved exactly as they appear from the original studio source. Editors should be aware that “fixing” the capitalization would be a guideline violation, not an improvement.
The thing that concerns me most about the current situation isn’t that bad submissions will get rejected – realistically, most submissions get approved regardless. It’s the opposite problem: submissions made now, before these questions are resolved, are likely to get accepted and then just sit there. Incorrect sub-studios, unreliable dates, wrong cover images – once those are in and approved, they tend to stay in, because fixing them requires someone to notice, care, and do the work.
So my suggestion would be to treat this thread as the foundation for a proper site-specific guideline post – similar to what was done for JesseLoadsMonsterFacials – that codifies the answers to these four issues once consensus is reached here. In the meantime, editors tackling EMP or its sub-studios should at minimum document their sourcing decisions thoroughly in edit comments, so that whatever gets accepted is at least traceable.
Happy to help draft that guideline post once we’ve landed on answers.