So far I got 7 new profiles, declined because of a birth year. Well, as I took the whole cast & crew from the parrent profile without any change (and there is now newer version available), those birth years are part of the parent profile.
So I don't understand and am barely able to accept that the child profiles are declined.
What I am talking about is "Star Trek Enterprise: Season 1" disc 1 - 7
So I'd like to say: Before the profiles could be declined there has to be a change in the parent profile!

Did you have to check any boxes for these birth years at the bottom of the contribution page?

Because if you did, then they aren't in the database and if you just checked the boxes without noting why they are needed, then the contributions will get declined.

Quoting Magmadrag:

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This idea might me stop contributing! Profile like the declined ones have 3 - 4 episodes each. Creating them means spending time. But checking each profile for cast & crew with birth year (altough the data is part of an official profile) and then checking the database if the birth year is neccessary means spending simply too much time.

I can check for you. German locality? Blu-ray or DVD?

Quoting Magmadrag:

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Before the profiles could be declined there has to be a change in the parent profile!

The problem is most likely not in the parent profile online. The problem is the flawed birth year system. Let me explain with a made up example:

You have a number of profiles that contain the actor Joe Blow. There is only one Joe Blow, so no birth year is needed. You download a profile that (for whatever reason) contains a faulty birth year of 1947 for Joe Blow. This updates your local actor table so that Joe Blow has that birth year. This means that all profiles with Joe Blow will now show a birth year of 1947.

So, someone realizes that the profile that you downloaded is incorrect, they remove the birth year, contribute the profile, and you download the updated profile. This fixes the problem, right? Wrong! Downloading a profile without birth year does not remove the incorrect birth year from your local database.

And if this is not bad enough, it also means that any new profile with Joe Blow that you add will also become contaminated locally with the incorrect birth year. The only way to get rid of the incorrect birth year is by editing the local actor information manually.

So, you probably had the incorrect birth years in your local database before you downloaded the parent profile in question. And even if the fault actually is in that profile online, fixing it online will not fix it for you in your local database. Ain't birth years fun?

I don't know which ones, only can see this expalanation:
Please use birth years only to distinguish between otherwise identical cast and crew. New birth year submissions must be documented.

Quoting Kluge:

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Maybe you should write in the notes that you are submitting approved BYs.

My "standard"-text is: cast & crew are from the parent profile

and allways entering the UPC of this profile. That's the reason why I still got my problems with being declined

Quoting Magmadrag:

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I don't know which ones, only can see this expalanation:
Please use birth years only to distinguish between otherwise identical cast and crew. New birth year submissions must be documented.

Do you have more BYs in your parent profile, than the four mentioned by huskersports? - This can easily be checked by the "Preview Changes" function:

Composer David Bell does not have a birth year in the online profile, but has an accepted birth year.