Ok, so I submit a contribution for Dana Carvey's stand-up special, Squatting Monkeys Tell No Lies. When I submitted the profile, it added his Birth Year in the contribution, but I didn't add this, but since I was submitting other things I added it.

Now I get a no vote telling me that it's not listed in the BY thread, which I have used and submitted to in the past. Anyways after talking to the user, he has Wayne's World DVD (097363-270645), without BY and mine does. I also have it on the BD version (097361-429847) and This Is Spinal Tap BD (883904-132585). How did this happen? I have looked over the contribution notes for titles listed above and none of them, list a BY. Is this something the profiler program is doing on its own?

That would be my guess also.  I ended up cleaning ut a lot of BY's after the installation. 

I won't do it again...

Quoting Jubal:

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Sorry, Mike, BY has a specific purpose at Profiler, not just so you can send Dana a birthday card. And this simply doesn't meet the requirements, if you wish to list such BY fior yourself, that is fine and you keep it local oNLY, that is why there is acheckbox for the BY data, so that you can Contribute data that is per the Rules and keep data which is not where it belongs.

"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."

Now if someone has managed to get such bad data into the database, then why would you propagate it, making the problem even worse, the correct thing to do would be to REMOVE it.

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Did you even read my post? I said I didn't add it, it just appeared in the program.

In regards to headshots, the v4 database only has BY's that were in the Invelos database when it was released.  Note that this doesn't mean they're valid, just that at the time Invelos said they were.

v5 will only have BY's that are in the BY thread.  So if you like headshots, you can wait until I release a purified DB or if you take other submissions, restore them into a temp DB, strip out the BY's, and then backup/restore it into your main DB.

Quoting Dr. Killpatient:

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In regards to headshots, the v4 database only has BY's that were in the Invelos database when it was released.  Note that this doesn't mean they're valid, just that at the time Invelos said they were.

Not to sound stupid, so is this the reason why some users have BY's, while others do not?

Of course i read your post Mike, which was I added the last sentence, the correct procedure is to REMOVE the errant data. But it should not be multiplied at any rate.

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