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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 3,480 |
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Enter birth years only when necessary to differentate between two actors with the same name. When submitting a contribution that adds a birth year to one or more credits, list justification in the contribution notes. Ooh, "justification". A new word for the rules.  | | | ...James
"People fake a lot of human interactions, but I feel like I fake them all, and I fake them very well. That’s my burden, I guess." ~ Dexter Morgan |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 17,334 |
| | Posted: | | | | glad to see this addition to the rules!  | | | | Pete |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 13,203 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting m.cellophane: Quote:
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Enter birth years only when necessary to differentate between two actors with the same name. When submitting a contribution that adds a birth year to one or more credits, list justification in the contribution notes.
Ooh, "justification". A new word for the rules. Is that the same as 'documentation'?  | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 3,480 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Unicus69: Quote:
Is that the same as 'documentation'? My take on it is: Justification "a reason, fact, circumstance, or explanation that justifies or defends" And based on that, if you say something like "I'm adding a birth year of 1970 to Joe Smith because there is another actor with this same name...", that would be justification. Saying "I'm adding a birth year of 1970 to Joe Smith because he's my favorite actor" is not justification. IMO. | | | ...James
"People fake a lot of human interactions, but I feel like I fake them all, and I fake them very well. That’s my burden, I guess." ~ Dexter Morgan | | | | Last edited: by m.cellophane |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,635 |
| | Posted: | | | | Yeah, but is that justice? | | | If it wasn't for bad taste, I wouldn't have no taste at all.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 1,796 |
| | Posted: | | | | Anybody older than me. | | | We don't need stinkin' IMDB's errors, we make our own.
Ineptocracy, You got to love it.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 940 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting m.cellophane: Quote:
Quoting Unicus69:
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Is that the same as 'documentation'?
My take on it is:
Justification "a reason, fact, circumstance, or explanation that justifies or defends"
James, you defined a word by using the word in the definition.  But I agree with your premise and add another example: "Added birth year to Joe Smith (1970) because I found out his birth date." would NOT be justification. | | | | Kevin |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 4,596 |
| | Posted: | | | | Or..."Added birth year to Joe Smith (1970) because he has the same birthdate as mine." would NOT be justification. | | | | My WebGenDVD online Collection |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | 8Ball: <SLAP> Skip | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
CBE, MBE, MoA and proud of it.
Outta here
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 940 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting 8ballMax: Quote:
Or..."Added birth year to Joe Smith (1970) because he has the same birthdate as mine." would NOT be justification. LOL, I was thinking that also when I was posting the other. | | | | Kevin |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 793 |
| | Posted: | | | | I'll just be inserting this into my contribution notes.  |
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| Registered: March 24, 2007 |  Posts: 240 |
| | Posted: | | | | justification...
Left. | | | | Tom. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 3,480 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting antolod: Quote:
James, you defined a word by using the word in the definition.
I just repeated the first definition from the Dictionary.com page that I linked.   | | | ...James
"People fake a lot of human interactions, but I feel like I fake them all, and I fake them very well. That’s my burden, I guess." ~ Dexter Morgan | | | | Last edited: by m.cellophane |
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| Registered: March 16, 2007 | | Posts: 31 |
| | Posted: | | | | How do we handle a situation where there is already a birthdate attached to a person in the database? I submitted cast/crew information for "Son of Frankenstein / Ghost of Frankenstein" where the birth date was already there. I have received a no vote asking for justification for adding the birth year. Since I did not place the birth dates there, I have no idea whether they were justified by whomever submitted them with another title. In some cases, I have no other titles in my collection with these people credited. Removing them may be an error.
I have personally only added the birth year to one actress -- Diana Lewis (1915), credited in a Marx Brothers film. I justified this in the contribution, mentioning that there is another Diana Lewis credited in the 1976 film "Rocky". That Diana Lewis is an African-American woman who's been working as a TV news anchor at WXYZ-TV in Detroit for the past 30 years. Now, if another person tries to contribute a different film with Diana Lewis (1915) and is asked to remove the birth year because he/she cannot provide justification (and has no way of knowing about my justification), that can mess up the profiles for the Marx Brothers film I submitted. | | | | Scott | | | | Last edited: by smerryfield |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 3,436 |
| | Posted: | | | | smerryfield, I assume you downloaded the Birth Year with another profile and it is now about to get spread in the main database... While currently that is a tough call, the new rule calls for "justification". Not sure I would keep trace of that (I probably won't  ), but the first place to look should be the Contribution Notes of the profile where the Birth Year came from... As I indicated though, we may not remember when and with which profile the Birth Year came to our local database, so it is indeed a legit question. The more and more birth years get added, when contributing to other profiles we'll have to follow the trace and note all the justifications....?  | | | Achim [諾亞信； Ya-Shin//Nuo], a German in Taiwan.
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