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Quoting skipnet50:

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The big problem here is that people are ONLY doing half the job, they aren't thinking. For example Harrison Ford (1942) to separate him from another Harrison Ford. They oinly do the ONE Harrison Ford, so now ALL Harrison Ford's will be 1942, have we accomplished the goal of separating actors...of course not. We are creating a MESS.

Never saw it like that. In general you're right, although in this particular case, if and when you add an actor already in the database that already has the BY, i'm possibly messing other profiles by changing an actor and removing its BY...

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I do not see teh problem all that big.

If I add a BY locally, I have to make sure that all occurences of that name are for the dsame person. If I don't have profiles for "that other person", then obviously I cannot add a BY there.

Uploading is not a problem, as this is done on a per-profile basis and gets voted upon. If I set a wrong BY or accidentally upload Harrison Ford (1942) for a profile with that "old dude", it should get voted down.

Only thing we now realize is, that after accepting profiles with BY to our local database we should try to make sure that it applies to all occurences of that name. If not, we have to add the same name again (no BY necessary) and assign it to the relevant profiles.

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Right.  Except that if you have to go along behind a feature and corrects mistakes, it isn't a feature, it's a BUG!

There is only two choices for the software:
- add a new actor at the time of downloading the profile, with BY
- change the actor entry and add the BY

In both situation manual intervention is required to correct some entries to restore linking between the same persons.

As Lopek pointed out, having the actor entry changed is actually the better solution (therefore not a bug), as the linking you have at the time of the update is kept in tact; previously all entries of that same name without BY were wrongly connected. It should, however, prompt the user to edit the actor list.

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You do - you get to choose whether to accept any updates - including those that include additional birth years.

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You do - you get to choose whether to accept any updates - including those that include additional birth years.

This would be true when downloading from the updates by Invelos. However, most of us who downloaded the Headshots Import Utility, by default 'inherited' tons of cast profiles with a birth year. This is why it becomes a problem, and now I have to manually edit those to have the correct cross linking.

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Unless you get the BY from a new addition to your db.

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This would be true when downloading from the updates by Invelos. However, most of us who downloaded the Headshots Import Utility, by default 'inherited' tons of cast profiles with a birth year. This is why it becomes a problem, and now I have to manually edit those to have the correct cross linking.