Because it becomes a mess just like your signature. Never heared of less is more?

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Quoting Martin_Zuidervliet:

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Because it becomes a mess just like your signature. Never heared of less is more?

Since when is less information better than more, especially in this database?

From the Rules pages Here

Plus 'Kens instructions'.

Steve

Quoting snarbo:

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From the Rules pages Here

Plus 'Kens instructions'.

I know it's in the rules and I won't break them but we can discuss to change them, can't we?

I simply ask for reasons why we shouldn't add them. We have cast pictures, cast common names, but cast birth year should be a no-go?

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Hi,

why isn't it allowed to add a birth year to any actor if it can be verified?

It can't hurt, can it? And it would be I nica addition to the actor's information.

Karsten;

Is the Rule,  unclear as to the function of the BY as far as the Online is concerned, THAT is your answer. The BY has a specific purpose, before any Rule can be discused one must at least try and understand what the function is for, this is not IMDb we are I suspect will never try and capture every useless datapoint. From my perspective, why do I care, except for its specific function, what someone's BY is, am I going to send out birthday cards, what does it tell me...not very much. We had to come up with a different form than was used elsewhere to define multiple people / one name and that was the method selected. I will say in retrospect, partially because of discussions like this but largely because there is not always a BY available or locatable, we perhaps should have used an alph-numeric system, but that brought with it a totally different set of problems.

Skip

Skip

Some people just don't seem to get it .

The Birth Year wasn't introduced to the program so that we can have more trivia about the actors, it was introduced for a very specific purpose. That being to distinguish between two actors with the same name. That is the only instance when it is justified.

But, anyone can do whatever their little heart desires with their local database, that's what it's for. Give every actor a Birth Year if you want...just don't contribute them if they're unjustified .

Fact is: the birthyear field exist. In my opinion it's a very useful enhancement to the profiler. Due to the very restrictive rules I keep those informations local and therefore I'm not allowed to contribute cast and crew with birthyears.

@ Martin: you say "less is more". In this case we could keep profiler 2.4 

@ Skip: this is a forum, which means we are allowed to discuss several items. This is definitely not a board for bulletin or issue of orders 

So keep on flaming...    

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because

Quoting kahless:

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Fact is: the birthyear field exist. In my opinion it's a very useful enhancement to the profiler. Due to the very restrictive rules I keep those informations local and therefore I'm not allowed to contribute cast and crew with birthyears.

That's not true.
You can have all the BYs you want in your DB and still contribute, because you have to explicitly click a checkbox for each BY you want to submit. By default all BY are stripped when you contribute.