Quoting Boykin:

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I submitted a contribution for Hannibal Rising and I have gotten 3 no votes because Dominic West has a birth year.  I did not add a birth year to Dominic West.  Someone else did on another DVD and I downloaded the update and now everytime I add Dominic West to a profile, he has a birth year. 

When we find an actor that already has a birth year, are we to remove it?  I have no idea if there are more than one actor with that name or not.

Same thing happened to me.

I contributed the Harrison Ford 1942 for all the ones in my collection, and also the Harrison Ford 1884 for all the ones where he's credited in my collection.  I don't what more you think I ought to contribute, Skip, when you say only "half the job" is being done.  Not a lot of people will have Harrison Ford 1884 in their collection since he was a silent film actor primarily, and none of his sound work is on DVD, but he is on DVD and properly in the database.  He shows up on the Outside the Law/Shadows DVD credited; he is also uncredited in Foolish Wives and Sally of the Sawdust, but he's not in those profiles yet.  Obviously, the current Ford wasn't born in 1884.  His 1942 birth year is confirmed in my copy of Halliwell's Filmgoer's Companion 12th edition.

Quoting skipnet50:

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Sounds like you did it right, Gard. What most users seem to do is supply the BY for whatever it is striking their fancy say Harrison Ford (1942) AND ignore Harrison Ford (1884). That is only half the job, they have to do BOTH.

Skip

Wrong - having the birth year in one will differentiate the 2.

Quoting skipnet50:

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Sounds like you did it right, Gard. What most users seem to do is supply the BY for whatever it is striking their fancy say Harrison Ford (1942) AND ignore Harrison Ford (1884). That is only half the job, they have to do BOTH.

Skip

Technically, maybe so.  But allow me to raise a point of order here.  Ford (1942) was in his early 30's when he made it to the show.  The 1884 guy would've been around nearly 60 at that point.  By the time 1942 was an A List star, the 1884 would've been nearly 90.  The chances of those two EVER being in a name conflict is near nigh impossible.  So why put a date on either one of them?  Waste of time.

Quoting gardibolt:

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I don't think so....if you have the BY in one, it will propagate into all the profiles of the actor without a BY (though not if there is a BY).  Maybe I don't understand how this is working, but I think that's right.

You have it correct.

FWIW, I just contributed an update on Foolish Wives, with Harrison Ford (1884) as an uncredited cast member.  Here's the relevant portion of the Contribution Note I submitted:

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Harrison Ford (Birth Year 1884 to distinguish from the Indiana Jones Harrison Ford 1942, per Robert Klepper's book Silent Film 1877-1996) appears as the armless soldier first seen at 31m:14s and later in the elevator at 39m:00s, though he's not revealed to be armless until 01h:46m:51s.  Compare photos of Ford at www.goldensilents.com/stars/harrisonford.html and http://silentgents.com/OGFord.html though he's made up to look older and battle-scarred here.  Halliwell's Filmgoer's Companion 12th edition confirms his presence in the film.

This would happen anyway irrespective of whether the two Harrison Fords had BYs or not.
Because as soon as you download one profile with one Harrison Ford in it, all your Harrison Fords will be given that BY. So it makes no difference if the other one has a BY or not.

Quoting skipnet50:

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Hmmmm, come to think of it that would be correct. It seems BY has some kinks in it.

Skip

That kink is what comes with the way it's handled and there is user interaction required.

I explained elsewhere before. The program has two options:
Create one new entry, breaking the linking and needing you to adjust all the others.
Change the existing entry and needing you to adjust those that don't belong into the link chain.

Either way, the user will have to do something about it.