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We've noted a large number of unecessary birth years in the accepted birth year database and have made some changes to prevent their propagation going forward:

- All existing accepted birth years for cast crew with only one accepted birth year have been removed.  This was the majority.
- Going forward, birth years will not automatically submit as part of cast/crew unless there is an exact previously accepted match by name and year.  Previously, the year was not considered, so once one year was accepted for an actor, all years were automatically submitted
- Going forward, all submissions which include a completely new birth year will automatically be promoted to 2nd level Invelos review.

To clarify the above, no profiles have been changed - only the list of previously accepted birth years has been changed.  The net result is you will see more birth years being listed in the contribution submission form, awaiting selection. 

If you don't have specific justification for submitting the birth year (to differentiate between two known credited persons with otherwise identical names), then simply leave the birth years unselected.

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Quoting Ken Cole:

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We've noted a large number of unecessary birth years in the accepted birth year database and have made some changes to prevent their propagation going forward:

- All existing accepted birth years for cast crew with only one accepted birth year have been removed.  This was the majority.
- Going forward, birth years will not automatically submit as part of cast/crew unless there is an exact previously accepted match by name and year.  Previously, the year was not considered, so once one year was accepted for an actor, all years were automatically submitted
- Going forward, all submissions which include a completely new birth year will automatically be promoted to 2nd level Invelos review.

To clarify the above, no profiles have been changed - only the list of previously accepted birth years has been changed.  The net result is you will see more birth years being listed in the contribution submission form, awaiting selection. 

If you don't have specific justification for submitting the birth year (to differentiate between two known credited persons with otherwise identical names), then simply leave the birth years unselected.

Not sure, Ken. I may have an issue with what I bolded. There ARE going to be instances where we can obtain a BY for one John Smith but not for the other. If I am reading you correctly this possibility is a differntiator in and of itself becuaes we have ONE that has a BY. So aren't you removing the differentiator.

But conceptually at least, i agree.

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Quoting CubbyUps:

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Is it possible to have a checkbox and be able to add either a letter or a number to do the same thing as the BY attempts to do?

For example:
Chris Rock (a)
Chris Rock (b)
or
Chris Rock (1)
Chris Rock (2)

I don't see how we can document which letter or number appears in which movie. You would have to create a forum topic to add all movie titles to the correct letter. I fear this topic will become a few miles long very fast