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| Registered: May 29, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 3,475 |
| | Posted: | | | | I am slowly going through my collection, contributing adding/changing data as needed. I would like clarification on the issue of Birth Year.
For example, Robert De Niro's birth year is listed in most, if not all, of my profiles. There was no tick box on the lower left side of the screen so submitted his BY. I have since found out that his BY should not be in the database. I resubmitted the profile but...
My question: How do I remove an unacceptable birth year from all my profiles. | | | | Last edited: by Kathy |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 17,334 |
| | Posted: | | | | Birth Year is part of the actual Cast/Crew Member's name. The way I do it (don't know if there is an easier way) is..
1. go to a profile with Robert De Niro
2. edit profile... go to cast
3. right click on Robert De Nero and select Edit Cast Member.
There you can take the Birth Year off and it will be removed from all the profiles.
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Take note that if you didn't get a check box when submitting your profile then somewhere online there is the birth year... so you need to keep an eye on any profiles you download with De Niro as if it has the birth year you will have to remove it locally again. | | | | Pete | | | | Last edited: by Addicted2DVD |
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| Registered: May 9, 2007 |  Posts: 1,536 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Addicted2DVD: Quote:
Birth Year is part of the actual Cast/Crew Member's name. The way I do it (don't know if there is an easier way) is..
1. go to a profile with Robert De Niro
2. edit profile... go to cast
3. right click on Robert De Nero and select Edit Cast Member.
There you can take the Birth Year off and it will be removed from all the profiles.
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Take note that if you didn't get a check box when submitting your profile then somewhere online there is the birth year... so you need to keep an eye on any profiles you download with De Niro as if it has the birth year you will have to remove it locally again. This only works if all your entries have the BY, otherwise you get a warning about creating a double entry. | | | | Hans |
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| Registered: May 29, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 3,475 |
| | Posted: | | | | I can't believe I couldn't figure out how to it by myself  Thank you everyone. All of my profiles must have had his BY because I did not get a creating double entry message. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 17,334 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Staid S Barr: Quote:
Quoting Addicted2DVD:
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Birth Year is part of the actual Cast/Crew Member's name. The way I do it (don't know if there is an easier way) is..
1. go to a profile with Robert De Niro
2. edit profile... go to cast
3. right click on Robert De Nero and select Edit Cast Member.
There you can take the Birth Year off and it will be removed from all the profiles.
EDIT:
Take note that if you didn't get a check box when submitting your profile then somewhere online there is the birth year... so you need to keep an eye on any profiles you download with De Niro as if it has the birth year you will have to remove it locally again.
This only works if all your entries have the BY, otherwise you get a warning about creating a double entry. As far as I can tell the only way all your entries wouldn't have the BY is if you created one yourself with to separate them. I know everytime a profile comes into my database with a BY it effects all the profiles with that name until I change that myself. | | | | Pete |
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| Registered: May 29, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 3,475 |
| | Posted: | | | | Since I had originally downloaded this data from the database - how do get rid of this BY from the invelos database? The database did not recognize that I changed the profile because the "changes made" did not highlight. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 13,202 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Kathy: Quote:
Since I had originally downloaded this data from the database - how do get rid of this BY from the invelos database? The database did not recognize that I changed the profile because the "changes made" did not highlight. Unfortunately, you can't. That is, yet another, problem with this system. Once in, only Ken can remove them.  | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
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  | T!M | | Profiling since Dec. 2000 |
| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 8,736 |
| | Posted: | | | | I'm very curious as to how the Robert De Niro birth year was accepted into the database. Theoretically, someone would have had to document the need for it - I'd be interested to see that bit of documentation... |
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| Registered: July 31, 2008 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 2,506 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting T!M: Quote:
I'm very curious as to how the Robert De Niro birth year was accepted into the database. Theoretically, someone would have had to document the need for it - I'd be interested to see that bit of documentation... I don't know if they're still there since Ken did a purge a little while ago but two other well known problem names were Bruce Willis & Steve Buscemi. I doubt that they had valid documentation either. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 17,334 |
| | Posted: | | | | I was actually wondering the same thing Tim... but then I figured there is possibilities...
Maybe...
- Screener just missed it when he was looking at the contribution so didn't send to the next level?
- It is one that Ken just missed when he cleaned it out this time
- If I am not mistaken Ken said he deleted all with only one name in the database... is it possible that there is 2 (wrong) years in the database so it looked like there could be 2?
Who knows if any of those are right. But I imagine all is possible. | | | | Pete |
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| T!M | | Profiling since Dec. 2000 |
| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 8,736 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Forget_the_Rest: Quote:
I don't know if they're still there I did check on that before I posted: while lots of unneeded birth years have indeed been cleaned out by Ken, Robert De Niro's BY really is still there, or back in. I've checked on Bruce Willis (1955) and Steve Buscemi (1957) now as well, and I'm glad to report that their birth years haven't crept back in yet. Quoting Addicted2DVD: Quote:
- If I am not mistaken Ken said he deleted all with only one name in the database... is it possible that there is 2 (wrong) years in the database so it looked like there could be 2? That would be my guess. So, Ken, now you know: please remove any birth years for Robert De Niro. | | | | Last edited: by T!M |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 1,022 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting T!M: Quote:
Quoting Forget_the_Rest:
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I don't know if they're still there
I did check on that before I posted: while lots of unneeded birth years have indeed been cleaned out by Ken, Robert De Niro's BY really is still there, or back in. I've checked on Bruce Willis (1955) and Steve Buscemi (1957) now as well, and I'm glad to report that their birth years haven't crept back in yet.
Quoting Addicted2DVD:
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- If I am not mistaken Ken said he deleted all with only one name in the database... is it possible that there is 2 (wrong) years in the database so it looked like there could be 2?
That would be my guess. So, Ken, now you know: please remove any birth years for Robert De Niro. Could these somehow be reintroduced by a pre-release submission? Or perhaps you are right it was missed in Kens purge  | | |  | | | | Last edited: by hayley taylor |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 5,494 |
| | Posted: | | | | I find that a lot of BY on cast I never included but it is in there when I try and submit some 'other' information on cast., If I remove the BY I then get someone who wants to know why I removed it., If I leave it in I then get someone who wants documentation on the BY in question, one that I never placed..  | | | In the 60's, People took Acid to make the world Weird. Now the World is weird and People take Prozac to make it Normal.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | It is certainly possible of all the voters involved in the Robert DeNiro issue, I, and I think one other user picked up on it. Everyone else was asleep at the switch...it happens, probably even to me sometimes, I try hard to avoid it, but i am human...if you tell anybody I'll deny it.  Skip | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
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| Registered: May 29, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 3,475 |
| | Posted: | | | | Just for clarification:
I had submitted Analyze This and Analyze That recently. It was my understanding that since no tick box was located in the lower left corner the addition of Robert De Niro's BY was correct (which, of course, I now realize was incorrect).
My notes went something like Cast: Robert De Niro BY was added by invelos database - no tick box was located in the lower left corner of the contribution screen. I also checked numerous profiles I own, including Awakenings, Born to Win, Brazil, The Bridge to San Luis Rey, Godsend etc. These titles all include his BY.
The votes for Analyze This: Yes 8, No 4 and Analyze That: Yes 3, No 3. | | | | Last edited: by Kathy |
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