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| Registered: May 19, 2007 |  Posts: 6 |
| | Posted: | | | | First:
In my local database, i want to have the birthyears!
Problem:
Sometimes when i make a contribution, there are actors witch are not listed at the end (mark if he birthyear shoud be added).
So the birthyear of this actors will be added (without be order) |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 3,436 |
| | Posted: | | | | The actors listed at the end are those where a brthyear is not yet in the online database. Therefore you can select if you want to contribute without the birthyear or if you want to actively add the birthyear (with documentation).
If the actor is not listed at the end, then a birthyear has previously been contributed for another profile and it will now be contributed without the need to document it. This way the birthyears can propagate through the database.
If this is not clear, I can explain in German too. | | | Achim [諾亞信； Ya-Shin//Nuo], a German in Taiwan.
Registered: May 29, 2000 (at InterVocative) |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | | Posts: 6 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting ya_shin: Quote:
The actors listed at the end are those where a brthyear is not yet in the online database. Therefore you can select if you want to contribute without the birthyear or if you want to actively add the birthyear (with documentation). That's clear! So i make it, when i want to add a birthyear! Quote:
If the actor is not listed at the end, then a birthyear has previously been contributed for another profile and it will now be contributed without the need to document it. This way the birthyears can propagate through the database.
If this is not clear, I can explain in German too. That's no good! The actor is not listed at the end! The actor don't have a birthyear in this profile! => a lot of people vote 'no' because there is a change. In the new profile is the birthyear, without documentation (because i don't want add the birthyear and don't have a dokumentation) |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 6,730 |
| | Posted: | | | | I think you've found a good workaround for this problem by letting Deacon78 contribute your changes. And it's nice of Deacon78 to mention that it's originally your contribution, so that the rest of us knows that we don't necessarily have to recheck the given information. | | | It all seems so stupid, it makes me want to give up!
But why should I give up, when it all seems so stupid?
Registrant since 05/22/2003 | | | | Last edited: by Lewis_Prothero |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | | Posts: 6 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting goblinsdoitall: Quote:
I think you've found a good workaround for this problem by letting Deacon78 contribute your changes. And it's nice of Deacon78 to mention that it's originally your contribution, so that the rest of us knows that we don't necessarily have to recheck the given information. Well it's good, the Deacon78 makes the changed for me :-). But i don't like it, when i see so many no votes by my first contributions, because there is a birthyear to much. There are so many other things to do. And the time for this is lost time for other things. Sometimes i think, that i should only update my local database. (There are 1000 profiles to check and update) |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 1,242 |
| | Posted: | | | | At the same time if you made a contribution that didn't require you to provide documentation for the Birth Year (BY) therefore evidence already provide to assertain two or more actors with the same name, surely the other members who are arguing against the BY would want their local to reflect the Correct actor has been assigned to the DVD/Film/TV Series in question?
I came across one recently when adding actor pictures to my local an actress for a modern TV program that was also listed as being in films made in the mid 60's, considering the actress for the modern TV series wasn't born until the late 80's bit hard for her to be in a 60's film...and not a case of the older actress being in the TV series either as the actress is only late teens to mid 20's ish anyway.
Steve |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 2,692 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting sflato: Quote:
First:
In my local database, i want to have the birthyears!
Problem:
Sometimes when i make a contribution, there are actors witch are not listed at the end (mark if he birthyear shoud be added).
So the birthyear of this actors will be added (without be order) Note, a new birth year should only be added to the main database for an actor if there is another actor who has the same name. | | | | Paul |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 6,730 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting pauls42: Quote:
Note, a new birth year should only be added to the main database for an actor if there is another actor who has the same name. The problem he has is that he is not adding new BY's (latest example John Cleese who is in the DB twice with BY and without) since all his actors in the database are saved with BY he normally unchecks the "submit BY" while contributing. But as Achim already explained that only works if the actor in question is NOT in the DB with BY (used or not) So that leaves sflato only two opportunities: 1: Use the workaround he found and contribute via Deacon78 2: Stop contributing. This would be a real shame because his contributions usually are well investigated, and if it wasn't for the birthyears could be nodded of blindly. | | | It all seems so stupid, it makes me want to give up!
But why should I give up, when it all seems so stupid?
Registrant since 05/22/2003 | | | | Last edited: by Lewis_Prothero |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 2,692 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting goblinsdoitall: Quote:
Quoting pauls42:
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Note, a new birth year should only be added to the main database for an actor if there is another actor who has the same name.
The problem he has is that he is not adding new BY's (latest example John Cleese who is in the DB twice with BY and without) since all his actors in the database are saved with BY he normally unchecks the "submit BY" while contributing.
But as Achim already explained that only works if the actor in question is NOT in the DB with BY (used or not)
So that leaves sflato only two opportunities:
1: Use the workaround he found and contribute via Deacon78
2: Stop contributing. This would be a real shame because his contributions usually are well investigated, and if it wasn't for the birthyears could be nodded of blindly. my bad. I just wasn't clear exactly what he was wanting to do since he had mentioned that he wanted all the actors in his local database to have Birth years.  | | | | Paul |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 6,730 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting pauls42: Quote:
my bad. I just wasn't clear exactly what he was wanting to do since he had mentioned that he wanted all the actors in his local database to have Birth years.
I knew what he meant because I was one of the constant "No-voters" and always with a bleeding heart. | | | It all seems so stupid, it makes me want to give up!
But why should I give up, when it all seems so stupid?
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | | Posts: 6 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting goblinsdoitall: Quote:
This would be a real shame because his contributions usually are well investigated, and if it wasn't for the birthyears could be nodded of blindly. Thanks, i try my best. |
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