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Registered: May 19, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 5,715 |
| Posted: | | | | Hi!
I'd like a function to remove all existing birth years from the database.
-- The correct ones could be easily reestablished by updating all profiles...
Regards, AA | | | Complete list of Common Names • A good point for starting with Headshots (and v11.1) |
| Registered: May 19, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 5,918 |
| | Registered: March 14, 2007 | Posts: 1,339 |
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| Posted: | | | | Agreed on that. | | | 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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| | T!M | Profiling since Dec. 2000 |
Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 8,739 |
| Posted: | | | | Expanding a little bit: I'd especially like a feature that shows me a list of cast/crew entries that have a birth year attached. That way I wouldn't lose all the work on birth years I did myself, yet I'd be able to spot "questionable" entries right away and delete those manually. That would be a huge improvement over having to scroll through thousands and thousands of cast entries to check for unneeded birth years (I've done so a few times after importing headshot databases, and trust me: it gets really old really soon).
Additionally - and I have asked for this before - I would like a central point on the site where we keep track of accepted/documented/needed birth years. That could be in the form of a pinned forum thread, but preferably something from Invelos' side, maybe somewhere near the "credit lookup" tool. Some kind of semi-automatically updated list for approved updates, maybe with links to the contribution notes of the contribution which first got the birth year accepted in the database. |
| Registered: March 14, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 1,029 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting T!M: Quote: I'd especially like a feature that shows me a list of cast/crew entries that have a birth year attached. For a quick & dirty solution, see the XSLT script in this thread. | | | Matthias |
| | T!M | Profiling since Dec. 2000 |
Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 8,739 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting goodguy: Quote: Quoting T!M:
Quote: I'd especially like a feature that shows me a list of cast/crew entries that have a birth year attached. For a quick & dirty solution, see the XSLT script in this thread. That'll be very useful - thanks!! |
| Registered: May 19, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 5,918 |
| Posted: | | | | I'm still all for this but there'll need to be restrictions if added.
Removing BY's when you have multiple people with the same name (ie: Harrison Ford) means that one of the records has to be deleted and all profiles that the now-deleted record would need to be updated to reflect the surviving record.
But if the name in question has a headshot attached to it, this would mean that the profiles with the now deleted record would have the headshot of the surviving record.
So my recomendation is to not purge any BY's for cast/crew with like names and one or more have headshots. |
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