Ok the reason of "no one wants to do it" is valid enough. The tool we have to do this is cumbersome to use. And another issue is that we may not know which is the things that should be deleted or merged. For example, I know that Aklaim and Akklaim are invalid and should be Acclaim... and the reason they were there in the first place is because of how their logo looks.
But then there are entries like
Acclaim
Acclaim Entertainment
Acclaim Entertainment Inc.
Are these the same thing? Should it only be Acclaim or Acclaim and Acclaim Entertainment?
So those are just examples.
I think that going through the list by one admin manually would not be a good idea because of these issues and how the tool we have works. HOWEVER, I think that users can request that specific developers and publishers can be fixed as they come across them.
We cannot remove these entries per-se, we can only merge them. So if you find a developer or publisher that needs to be fixed, post it as
Incorrect Name -> Correct Name
This will change all entries using Incorrect Name to the Correct Name, and remove the Incorrect Name from the list.
Please put those type of requests into this thread:
https://vgcollect.com/forum/index.php/topic,5820.0.html