Quoting cvermeylen:

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v4 added much more invalid birth years as the 2 you mentioned. Krista Allen and Bruce Willis are 2 I remember. It took a while to clean them out again, but hey, I got a whole lot of improved images.

I'm still busy cleaning up again as well - for the umpteenth time, that is. Since the last time, I've actually started maintaining a simple TXT-file with the birth years that I've personally verified, so the cleaning up process is a bit easier this time around. I still don't understand why these unnecessary birth years keep turning up time and time again. Another unnecessary birth year I've just spotted is director Stephen Frears.

I've corrected the 3 errors in my addendum. Version 2 can be found here.

Regards,
Chris

Quoting Dr. Killpatient:

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Please note that with the exception of multiple cast/crew with the same exact name but different birth years, I validated every BY against Invelos's database.  They are valid.

Are you sure? After the database import, I had a birthyear for Bruce Willis. I removed the birthyear, and refreshed a profile of one of the Die Hard movies. If the birthyear was accepted, it should have returned, but it didn't.

Other than that, a big thank you, because I got a lot of good quality images     

Still busy cleaning up: after the previously reported Krista Allen, Bruce Willis, John Cleese and Stephen Frears I can now also report invalid/unnecessary birth years for Liz May Brice, Steve Buscemi, Nick Chinlund, Robert De Niro and Tom Everett.

Another one seems to be Kathy Bates. IMDb does show a second Kathy Bates (link), which MIGHT create a need for a birth year if it is accurate, but while there is indeed a 'Kwoon' profile in the database, it does not include a Kathy Bates. So as of yet, all 796 'Kathy Bates' entries in our database refer to one and the same actress, so there's no need for a birth year.

For the record: I came across a few valid, but as of yet undocumented, birth years as well - I've added these to the pinned birth years thread.

yeah, that's what I've been doing too

@posted addendum

It seems to me this does have a lot more alternative shots than have been mentioned and unfortunately quite a few of them are of lower standard than the existing ones. Overall though it was a very nice addition to my headshot database and has improved yet another bunch of shots

Quoting T!M:

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More invalid birth years: Laurence Fishburne, Stephen Fry, Tom Hanks, Lance Henriksen, Charlton Heston and Samuel L. Jackson.

Also, in of these updates (not sure which one, sorry!), the actor Ian Fleming with birth year 1888 has a picture of James Bond writer Ian Fleming (born in 1908). The Ian Fleming with 1908 birth year DOES have the correct one, of course.

The Ian Fleming error doesn't come from Dr. Killpatients v4 or my addendum. I only have 1 Ian Fleming without BY and correct image, and I applied v4 as well.

Quoting Dr. Killpatient:

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What would be the best way to go about getting the BY's cleaned up in Invelos's database?  If Invelos says they are good, I accept them as being good.

I wish Ken would tell us, 'cause I really don't know. I just know that the people I mentioned in my previous posts, including the likes of John Cleese and Robert De Niro, definitely do not need birth years. Unfortunately, there's one or two users who succeed in somehow getting them into the database - maybe Invelos doesn't really check the birth years in new contributions, but only in updates to existing profiles? That's the only possible explanation I can think of that would explain how all these "big names" got their birth years in...

Again: you're obviously not to blame - you've checked which ones were accepted and which ones were not, and you've left in all birth years that have been accepted by Invelos. That's perfectly understandable - doing that check is already tedious enough, I imagine - but unfortunately it doesn't make them right...    Worse: by including them in the Headshot Master Database, you're even spreading these incorrect birth years further. I'm just pointing this out because I want my contributions to follow the rules, and the rules just don't allow me to contribute a Robert De Niro entry with a birth year, since there is absolutely no need for it. I do understand that it's not so much your problem - Ken needs to look at the way birth years are accepted himself. Going by what has slipped through, the current system just doesn't work. I don't know how he should fix this, but it's definitely something he has to look into.

Purely for the purposes of this Headshot Master Database, my suggestion would be to ONLY include birth years that have been documented in the forum's pinned "List of Accepted Birth Years with Documentation"-thread, and not a single other one. Again: there were a few valid birth years in here, too, and I've been adding those to that thread. But any others, especially this list of "big names" that somehow slipped through, really should be removed.

Edit: I've made a post in the "feature request" forum to outline these problems to Ken.

Quoting karlpov:

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Is anybody ever going to get a picture of Kent Smith?

Here you go:

http://www.aveleyman.com/ActorCredit.aspx?ActorID=16134

There's two to choose from. Scroll down for the second one.

KM