I have since Ken made us that tick box at the bottom of the contribution field assumed that no BY that is not already in the Base could get tru if you dont tick any.

Now I getting comments on BY that I have not contributed by purpus, do I still have to clean out all BY before contributions? With the risk of removing an neccesary one and doing the wrong thing the other way?  Is the accepted BY forum post the official Invelos BY base?

Ole

personally, what i do is this

if there is a birth year attached which the contribution is adding, i check the birth year thread to see if it has been already accepted. if it has then i mention this in the contribution and post a link to the relevant page. if it doesn't appear in the thread then i'll check to see if a birth year is needed, if so then i'll find my own documentation and then add it to the birth year thread if it is accepted.

fortunately, virtually all the birth years i add already appear in that thread.

i also, before i contribute, preview any changes to the profile as this shows exactly what i'm changing.


as for the tick box that appears on the contribution, i think that only appears when you are adding (by accident or not) a birth year to a cast/crew member that hasn't been approved. unfortunately there are a number of unneeded birth years that have been approved and it is probably these that the comments you are getting are about.

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OK!

Is the BY thread up to date?  and can can we use that as base for removing the not neccesary BY before contributing then? 

So we now have multiple cast and crew that are doubled, this would make the linking between profiles easier, NOT...

The BY thread is not up to date.  I had asked that the editing restrictions be removed, but my PM was never opened...that was more than a month ago.

As to removing BYs, I don't know if it is even possible to do.  You can remove the BY from a particular profile, but it does not remove it from the main db.

Our BY's are unfortunately by design a virus, which I sometimes spread myself unknowingly. 

Just a quick remark: The BY checkbox at the bottom of the contribution page, as not allways showing. So don't trust blindly in this.

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Just a quick remark: The BY checkbox at the bottom of the contribution page, as not allways showing. So don't trust blindly in this.

If there is a BY for that actor in the main DB, the check box will not show.  It only shows when there is no BY attached to the name.  That is why removing the BY from a single profile won't fix anything.

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I ask some more.

The BY post can be used to confirm wich BY should stay in the profile YES?
It has only been down under for a moth, and is updated prior to that?

I have some NO woters on my back asking me to remove one or two birtyears from a couple of contributed profiles, and as I am not going to search out if those are to stay or not as I dont know where to search for a second person with the same name that I dont know if exist at all...

I would suggest to keep it as it allready is. If BY is used for that profile, keep them, if not, don't add them or contribute profiles with BY. So if you're unsure, or don't want to check, just don't change any BY, compared to the profile you're contributing for.

Many times when I've contributed profiles, Jackie Chan has been added with BY in my contribution, even though I did not add it. It is not added in the online profile either, so I removed his BY from my Jackie Chan listing, and it's all sorted.

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The BY thread is not up to date.  I had asked that the editing restrictions be removed, but my PM was never opened...that was more than a month ago.

Have you tried using the Contact Us link(s) at the bottom of the web pages instead of a PM?  They get a quicker response.

Would be a shame to have the BY thread die, it is quite useful.

I have not done that, but will give it a try.